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An Act for better defining the limits of the
Counties and Districts in Upper Canada, for erecting certain new Townships, for detaching Townships from some Counties and attaching them to others, and for other purposes relative to the division of Upper Canada into Townships, Counties and
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That the County of Halton in the
Province of Upper Canada shall be divided into Two Ridings, to be called respectively the East Riding and the West Riding; and that the East Riding of the said county shall consist of the following Townships, namely, Trafalgar, Nelson,
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provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new
Parliament, unless altered by the
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An Act to erect and form a new district out of certain parts of the Home and
Niagara Districts, to be called the District of Gore
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An Act to erect and form a new district out of certain parts of the Home and
Niagara Districts, to be called the District of Gore
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Halton East was represented by one member in the
Legislative Assembly. The following were the members for Halton East.
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Halton East was represented by one member in the
Legislative Assembly. It was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of
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Halton County had been an electoral district in the Upper Canada
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An Act to make certain alterations in the
Territorial Divisions of Upper Canada
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Halton East electoral district was located in the eastern portions of
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In 1845, when the West Riding was withdrawn to form part of the new
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and splitting the Province of Canada into Quebec and
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The district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the
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60:Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
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239:Block number one on the Grand River was the
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746:Parliaments of the Province of Canada
23:Province of Canada electoral district
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291:Members of the Legislative Assembly
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819:Electoral districts of Canada West
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241:Township of Dumfries
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753:Parliaments
440:John White
384:Clear Grits
301:Parliament
273:Nassagawega
230:Grand river
222:Flamborough
207:York County
130:, termed a
116:Canada West
100:Halton East
56:Legislature
31:Canada West
29:Halton East
500:References
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188:Parliament
149:Boundaries
108:Parliament
645:(now the
589:Districts
470:Abolition
443:Reformer
405:Reformer
370:Reformer
269:Esquesing
260:Union Act
214:Trafalgar
203:Union Act
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576:, s. 13.
560:, s. 10.
546:, s. 12.
530:, s. 16.
492:and the
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141:and the
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307:Member
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