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Maskinongé

Province of Canada electoral district
Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
District created	1853
District abolished	1867
First contested	1854
Last contested	1863

Maskinongé was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in Canada East. It was located in the current Mauricie area, on the north shore of the River Saint Lawrence, southwest of the electoral district of Saint-Maurice. Maskinongé was created in a redistribution in 1853, and was first used in the general elections of 1854.

Maskinongé was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.

The electoral district was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of Canada and the province of Quebec.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (1854–1867)

Maskinongé was a single-member constituency.

The following were the members of the Legislative Assembly for Maskinongé. 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 years of the Province of Canada.

Parliament	Members		Years in Office	Party
5th Parliament 1854–1857	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte		1854–1857	Ministerialist
6th Parliament 1858–1861	Louis-Honoré Gauvreau		1858	Bleu
	George Caron		1858–1861 (by-election)	Bleu
7th Parliament 1861–1863			1861–1863
8th Parliament 1863–1867	Moïse Houde		1863–1867	Anti-Confederation; Rouge

Notes

1. Gauvreau died in office, October 30, 1858: Côté, Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860, p. 63, note (218).
2. Caron was elected in a by-election, December 14, 1858: Côté, Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860, p. 63, note (219).

Abolition

The district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act, 1867 came into force, creating Canada and splitting the Province of Canada into Quebec and Ontario. It was succeeded by electoral districts of the same name in the House of Commons of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

See also

• List of elections in the Province of Canada

References

1. History of the electoral map of Québec, Chief Electoral Officer of Québec.
2. J.O. Côté, Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860 (Quebec: St. Michel and Darveau, 1860), pp. 43–58.
3. Québec Dictionary of Parliamentary Biography, from 1764 to the present.
4. Paul G. Cornell, Alignment of Political Groups in Canada, 1841–67 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962; reprinted in paperback 2015), pp. 93–111.
5. British North America Act, 1867 (now the Constitution Act, 1867), s. 6.
6. Constitution Act, 1867, s. 40, para. 2
7. Constitution Act, 1867, s. 80.

• Electoral districts of Canada East