9th Quebec Legislature

The 9th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from May 11, 1897, to December 7, 1900. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Félix-Gabriel Marchand was the governing party. The Liberals would hold on to power until 1936.

Seats per political party

• After the 1897 elections

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Affiliation		Members
51
23
Total		74
Government Majority		28

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1897 election:

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	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
William Alexander Weir	Liberal	Argenteuil	1897
Joseph-Éna Girouard	Liberal	Arthabaska	1886
Milton McDonald	Conservative	Bagot	1890
Henri-Séverin Béland	Liberal	Beauce	1897
Élie-Hercule Bisson	Liberal	Beauharnois	1873, 1886, 1892	Arthur Plante (1898)	Conservative	1898
Adélard Turgeon	Liberal		Bellechasse	1890
Cuthbert-Alphonse Chênevert	Liberal	Berthier	1890, 1897
François-Xavier Lemieux	Liberal	Bonaventure	1878, 1883,Template:Efn 1894	William Henry Clapperton (1897)	Liberal	1897
Henry Thomas Duffy	Liberal		Brome	1897
Antoine Rocheleau	Liberal	Chambly	1886, 1897
Pierre Grenier	Conservative	Champlain	1890
Pierre D'Auteuil	Conservative	Charlevoix	1897
Joseph-Émery Robidoux	Liberal	Châteauguay	1884, 1897
Honoré Petit	Conservative	Chicoutimi et Saguenay	1892
James Hunt	Liberal	Compton	1897
Hector Champagne	Liberal	Deux-Montagnes	1897
Louis-Philippe Pelletier	Conservative	Dorchester	1888
William John Watts	Liberal	Drummond	1874, 1890, 1897
Edmund James Flynn	ConservativeTemplate:Efn	Gaspé	1875, 1892
Daniel-Jérémie Décarie	Liberal	Hochelaga	1897
George Washington Stephens Sr.	Liberal	Huntingdon	1881,Template:Efn 1892
François Gosselin	Liberal	Iberville	1890
Patrick Peter Delaney	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1897
Joseph-Adolphe Chauret	Liberal	Jacques Cartier	1897
Joseph-Mathias Tellier	Conservative	Joliette	1892
Louis-Rodolphe Roy	Liberal	Kamouraska	1897
Joseph Girard	Conservative	Lac St-Jean	1892
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier	Liberal	Laprairie	1897
Joseph Marion	Conservative	L'Assomption	1880, 1890
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc	Conservative	Laval	1882
François-Xavier Lemieux	Liberal	Lévis	1878, 1883, 1894
Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier (1897)	Liberal		1897
Charles Langelier (1898)	Liberal		1898
François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne	Liberal	L'Islet	1886
Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté	Liberal	Lotbinière	1886
Hector Caron	Liberal	Maskinongé	1892
Louis-Félix Pinault	Liberal	Matane	1890, 1892
Donat Caron (1899)	Liberal		1899
George Robert Smith	Liberal	Mégantic	1897
James Sarsfield McCorkill	Liberal	Missisquoi	1897	Cedric Lemoine Cotton (1898)	Liberal	1898
Pierre-Julien-Léonidas Bissonnette	Liberal		Montcalm	1897
Joseph-Couillard Lislois	Liberal	Montmagny	1897
Édouard Bouffard	Conservative	Montmorency	1896
Georges-Albini Lacombe	Liberal	Montréal division no. 1	1897
Lomer Gouin	Liberal	Montréal division no. 2	1897
Henri-Benjamin Ranville	Liberal	Montréal division no. 3	1890, 1897
Albert William Atwater	Conservative	Montréal division no. 4	1896
Robert Bickerdike	Liberal	Montréal division no. 5	1897
James John Edmond Guérin	Liberal	Montréal division no. 6	1895
Dominique Monet	Liberal	Napierville	1897
Georges Ball	Conservative	Nicolet	1897
Charles Beautron Major	Liberal	Ottawa	1897
David Gillies	Liberal	Pontiac	1892
Jules Tessier	Liberal	Portneuf	1886
Némèse Garneau	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1897
Amédée Robitaille	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1897
Joseph Shehyn	Liberal	Québec-Est	1875
Félix Carbray	Conservative	Québec-Ouest	1881, 1892
Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin	Liberal	Richelieu	1886, 1897
Joseph Bédard	Conservative	Richmond	1890
Auguste Tessier	Liberal	Rimouski	1889
Alexandre-Napoléon Dufresne	Conservative	Rouville	1897
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles	Liberal	St. Hyacinthe	1897
Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Liberal	St. Jean	1867
Nérée Duplessis	Conservative	St. Maurice	1886
Simon-Napoléon Parent	Liberal	St. Sauveur	1890
Tancrède Boucher de Grandbois	Liberal	Shefford	1881, 1897
Louis-Edmond Panneton	Conservative	Sherbrooke	1892
Avila-Gonzague Bourbonnais	Liberal	Soulanges	1886
Michael Felix Hackett	Conservative	Stanstead	1892
Félix-Alonzo Talbot	Liberal	Témiscouata	1897
Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel	Conservative	Terrebonne	1882
Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand	Conservative	Trois-Rivières	1890
Émery Lalonde, Jr.	Liberal	Vaudreuil	1890, 1897
Étienne Blanchard	Liberal	Verchères	1897
Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne	Conservative	Wolfe	1892
Albéric-Archie Mondou	Conservative	Yamaska	1897
Victor Gladu (1897)	Liberal		1897
Jules Allard (1897)	Liberal		1897

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during this term in by-elections.

• Victor Gladu, Quebec Liberal Party, Yamaska, November 16, 1897 [1]
• William Henry Clapperton, Quebec Liberal Party, Bonaventure, December 22, 1897 [2]
• Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, December 22, 1897 [3]
• Cedric Lemoine Cotton, Quebec Liberal Party, Missisquoi, December 19, 1898 [4]
• Donat Caron, Quebec Liberal Party, Matane, January 11, 1899 [5]

Cabinet Ministers

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Félix-Gabriel Marchand
• Agriculture: François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne
• Colonization and Mines: Adélard Turgeon
• Public Works: Henri Thomas Duffy
• Crown Lands: Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1896-1897)
• Lands, Forests and Fishing: Simon-Napoléon Parent
• Attorney General:Horace Archambault
• Provincial secretary: Felix-Gabriel Marchand (1897), Joseph-Émery Robidoux (1897-1900)
• Treasurer: Félix-Gabriel Marchand
• Members without portfolios, George Washington Stephens, Joseph Shehyn, James John Guerin

External links

• 1897 election results
• List of historical Cabinet ministers