6th Quebec Legislature

The 6th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from October 14, 1886, to June 17, 1890. During most of the term, the Quebec Liberal Party, also known as the Parti national as that period, was the governing party. However, the Quebec Conservative Party despite losing the election tried to form a minority government with John Jones Ross and Louis-Olivier Taillon as Premiers but only managed to last a few months before the Liberals led by Honoré Mercier, the founder of the Parti National, formed a narrow majority government with 33 of the 65 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

Seats per political party

• After the 1886 elections

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Affiliation		Members
Liberal/Parti national	33
27
Conservative Independent	3
	Nationalistes/Parti National	2
Total		65
Government Majority		6

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1886 election:

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	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
William Owens	Conservative	Argenteuil	1881
Joseph Pilon	Liberal	Bagot	1886
Jean Blanchet	Conservative	Beauce	1881
Élie-Hercule Bisson	Liberal	Beauharnois	1873, 1886
Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice	Conservative	Bellechasse	1881
Louis Sylvestre	Liberal	Berthier	1871, 1886
Omer Dostaler (1890)	Liberal		1890
Henri-Josué Martin	Conservative	Bonaventure	1882
William Warren Lynch	Conservative	Brome	1871
Rufus Nelson England (1889)	Conservative		1889
Antoine Rocheleau	Liberal	Chambly	1886
Ferdinand Trudel	Parti national	Champlain	1886
Joseph Morin	Liberal	Charlevoix	1886
Joseph-Émery Robidoux	Liberal	Châteauguay	1884
Élie Saint-Hilaire	Conservative Independent	Chicoutimi et Saguenay	1881
Séverin Dumais (1888)	Parti national		1888
John McIntosh	Conservative	Compton	1886
Benjamin Beauchamp	Conservative Independent	Deux-Montagnes	1882
Louis-Napoléon Larochelle	Conservative	Dorchester	1871, 1886
Louis-Philippe Pelletier (1888)	Nationalist Conservative		1888
Joseph-Éna Girouard	Liberal	Drummond et Arthabaska	1886
Edmund James Flynn	Conservative	Gaspé	1878
Joseph-Octave Villeneuve	Conservative	Hochelaga	1886
Charles Champagne (1888)	Liberal		1888
Alexander Cameron	Liberal	Huntingdon	1874
Alexis-Louis Demers	Liberal	Iberville	1881
Georges Duhamel (1886)	Parti national		1886
François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne	Liberal	Islet	1886
Arthur Boyer	Liberal	Jacques Cartier	1884
Louis Basinet	Liberal	Joliette	1886
Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon	Liberal	Kamouraska	1878
Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois	Conservative	Laprairie	1875
Ludger Forest	Liberal	L'Assomption	1886
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc	Conservative	Laval	1882
François-Xavier Lemieux	Liberal	Lévis	1883
Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté	Liberal	Lotbinière	1886
Édouard Caron	Conservative	Maskinongé	1878
Joseph-Hormisdas Legris (1888)	Parti national		1888
Andrew Stuart Johnson	Conservative	Mégantic	1886
William Rhodes (1888)	Liberal		1888
Elijah Edmund Spencer	Conservative	Missisquoi	1881
Jean-Baptiste-Trefflé Richard	Conservative	Montcalm	1881
Louis-Olivier Taillon (1886)	Conservative		1875,Template:Efn 1886
Nazaire Bernatchez	Liberal	Montmagny	1883
Louis-Georges Desjardins	Conservative	Montmorency	1881
James McShane	Liberal	Montréal Centre	1878
Laurent-Olivier David	Liberal	Montréal Est	1886
John Smythe Hall	Conservative	Montreal Ouest	1886
Eugène Lafontaine	Liberal	Napierville	1886
Louis-Trefflé Dorais	Conservative Independent	Nicolet	1883
Honoré Brunelle Tourigny (1888)	Conservative		1888
Narcisse-Édouard Cormier	Conservative	Ottawa (Outaouais)	1886
Alfred Rochon (1887)	Liberal		1887
William Joseph Poupore	Conservative	Pontiac	1882
Jules Tessier	Liberal	Portneuf	1886
Thomas Chase Casgrain	Conservative	Québec-Comté	1886
Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1874
Joseph Shehyn	Liberal	Québec-Est	1875
Owen Murphy	Liberal	Québec-Ouest	1886
Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin	Liberal	Richelieu	1886
Jacques Picard	Conservative	Richmond et Wolfe	1867
Édouard-Onésiphore Martin	Liberal	Rimouski	1886
Auguste Tessier (1889)	Liberal		1889
Edmond Lareau	Liberal	Rouville	1886
Honoré Mercier	Liberal	St. Hyacinthe	1879
Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Liberal	St. Jean	1867
Nérée Duplessis	Conservative	St. Maurice	1886
Thomas Brassard	Liberal	Shefford	1886
Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois (1888)	Liberal		1888
Joseph Gibb Robertson	Conservative	Sherbrooke	1867
Avila-Gonzague Bourbonnais	Parti national	Soulanges	1886
Ozro Baldwin	Conservative	Stanstead	1886
Georges-Honoré Deschênes	Conservative	Témiscouata	1875
Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel	Conservative	Terrebonne	1882
Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte	Liberal	Trois-Rivières	1876, 1886
Alfred Lapointe	Conservative	Vaudreuil	1884
Albert-Alexandre Lussier	Liberal	Verchères	1886
Victor Gladu	Liberal	Yamaska	1886

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during by-elections or in another district between the two general elections

• Georges Duhamel, Parti national, Iberville, December 11, 1886 [1]
• Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec Conservative Party, Montcalm, December 11, 1886 [2]
• Odilon Goyette, Parti national, St. Hyacinthe, July 30, 1887, [3]
• Alfred Rochon, Quebec Liberal Party, Ottawa (Outaouais), September 14, 1887 [4]
• Louis-Phillippe Pelletier, Nationalist Conservative, Dorchester, December 20, 1888 [5]
• Charles Champagne, Quebec Liberal Party, Hochelaga, April 28, 1888 [6]
• Joseph-Hormidas Legris, Parti national, Maskinongé, April 28, 1888 [7]
• Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, Quebec Liberal Party, Shefford, May 18, 1888 [8]
• Séverin Dumais, Parti national, Chicoutimi et Saguenay, June 18, 1888 [9]
• Honoré Brunelle Tourigny, Quebec Conservative Party, Nicolet, July 17, 1888 [10]
• William Rhodes, Quebec Liberal Party, Mégantic, December 27, 1888 [11]
• Rufus Nelson England, Quebec Conservative Party, Brome, November 28, 1889 [12]
• Auguste Tessier, Quebec Liberal Party, Rimouski, December 4, 1889, [13]
• Omer Dostaler, Quebec Liberal Party, Berthier, Janvier 15, 1890 [14]

New provincial ridings

The electoral map was reformed in 1890 just a few months prior to the elections later that year. [15]

• Drummond et Arthabaska was split into two ridings: Drummond and Arthabaska
• Lac-Saint-Jean was created from parts of Chicoutimi et Saguenay.
• Matane was created from parts of Rimouski.
• Montréal-Est was split into three districts called Montréal division no. 1, Montréal division no. 2 and Montréal division no. 3
• Montréal-Ouest was split into two districts called Montréal division no. 4 and Montréal division no. 5.
• Montréal-Centre was renamed Montréal division no. 6.
• Richmond et Wolfe was split into two new riding: Richmond and Wolfe
• Saint-Sauveur was created from parts of Québec-Est.

Cabinet Ministers

Ross Cabinet (1886-1887)

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: John Jones Ross
• Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross
• Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
• Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
• Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
• Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
• Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn

Taillon Cabinet (1887)

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Olivier Taillon
• Agriculture and public works: Henry Starnes
• Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
• Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
• Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
• Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
• Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn

Mercier Cabinet (1887-1890)

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Honoré Mercier
• Agriculture and public works: James McShane (1887-1888)
  • Agriculture and Colonization: Honoré Mercier (1888), William Rhodes (1888-1890)
  • Public Works: Pierre Garneau (1888-1890)
• Crown Lands: Pierre Garneau (1887-1888), Georges Duhamel (1888-1890)
• Attorney General: Honoré Mercier (1887-1888), Arthur Turcotte (1888-1890)
• Secretary and Registry: Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon (1887-1890), Joseph-Émery Robidoux (1890)
• Treasurer: Joseph Shehyn
• Solicitor General: Georges Duhamel (1887-1888)
• Members without portfolios: David Alexander Ross, Arthur Turcotte (1887-1888), Arthur Boyer (1890)

See also

• 1886 election results
• List of Historical Cabinet Ministers