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The County of Saint
Maurice shall be bounded on the north east by the County of Champlain, on the south west by the north east boundary of the fief du Sablé or York, to the depth of the said fief, and from thence on a line on the same course prolonged to the northern boundary of the Province, and on
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The following were the members of the
Legislative Assembly for Saint Maurice. The party affiliations are based on the biographies of individual members given by the National Assembly of Quebec, as well as votes in the Legislative Assembly. "Party" was a fluid concept, especially during the early
240:, together with all the islands in the said River Saint Lawrence nearest to the said County, and in whole or in part fronting the same; which County so bounded comprises the Seigniories of Sainte Marguerite,
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The Saint
Maurice electoral district of Lower Canada was not altered by the Act, and therefore continued with the same boundaries which had been set by a statute of Lower Canada in 1829:
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An Act to make a new and more convenient subdivision of the
Province into Counties, for the purpose of effecting a more equal Representation thereof in the Assembly than heretofore
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An Act to make a new and more convenient subdivision of the
Province into Counties, for the purpose of effecting a more equal Representation thereof in the Assembly than heretofore
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provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Lower Canada and Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new
Parliament, unless altered by the
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This article is about the pre-Confederation electoral district. For the successor federal electoral district, see
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was created, in part out of Saint
Maurice. The district was abolished in 1867 upon the creation of
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707:(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962; reprinted in paperback 2015), pp. 93–111.
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Maurice electoral district lost some of its original territory in the
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Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860
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Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860
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Québec Dictionary of Parliamentary Biography, from 1764 to the present
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The electoral district of Saint Maurice roughly covered the current
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came into force, splitting the Province of Canada into Quebec and
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153:. It was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.
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Turcotte resigned his seat on December 6, 1841, on accepting an
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188:. The original boundaries were partially reduced in the 1853
38:. For the predecessor Lower Canada electoral district, see
34:. For the successor provincial electoral district, see
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The district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the
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704:Alignment of Political Groups in Canada, 1841–67
268:Saint Maurice was a single-member constituency.
264:Members of the Legislative Assembly (1841–1867)
40:Saint-Maurice (Lower Canada electoral district)
27:Electoral district in former Province of Canada
79:Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
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36:Saint-Maurice (provincial electoral district)
8:
70:Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district
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601:List of elections in the Province of Canada
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196:from part of the Saint Maurice district.
184:region of Quebec, except for the city of
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806:Parliaments of the Province of Canada
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393:French-Canadian Group, then Liberal
151:Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
909:Electoral districts of Canada East
650:, SLC 1829, c. 73, s. 1, para. 34.
32:Saint Maurice (electoral district)
25:
18:Saint-Maurice (Province of Canada)
272:years of the Province of Canada.
260:, Carufel and part of Lanaudière.
121:was an electoral district of the
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841:5th Parliament (1854–1857)
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408:Joseph-Édouard Turcotte
300:Joseph-Édouard Turcotte
750:Constitution Act, 1867
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364:French-Canadian Group
335:French-Canadian Group
256:and its augmentation,
250:Grosbois or Yamachiche
236:the south east by the
162:district of Maskinongé
890:47.551833; -73.418861
379:Louis-Joseph Papineau
316:French-Canadian Group
508:Anti-Confederation;
494:Charles GĂ©rin-Lajoie
238:River Saint Lawrence
168:and the province of
139:Saint Lawrence River
123:Legislative Assembly
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773:, SLC 1829, c. 73.
550:, p. 59, note (45).
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813:Parliaments
674:J.O. Côté,
542:by-election
330:by-election
278:Parliament
258:Masquinongé
147:Quebec City
135:Canada East
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607:References
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176:Boundaries
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720:(now the
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223:Union Act
213:into the
903:Category
752:, s. 80.
724:), s. 6.
664:, s. 18.
637:, s. 18.
595:See also
587:and the
281:Members
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182:Mauricie
143:Montreal
625:, s. 2.
581:Ontario
129:of the
125:of the
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170:Quebec
166:Canada
524:Notes
511:Rouge
311:1841
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