1st Parliament of Upper Canada

1792–1796 term of the Parliament for Upper Canada August 2021 February 2023 1st Parliament of Upper Canada Challener First Legislative Assembly Upper Canada.jpg The First Legislature of Upper Canada, by Frederick Challener Legislative Assembly British North America Upper Canada Navy Hall 1792 Election September 17, 1792 3 June 1796 inaugural 2nd Legislative Council 9 Chief Justice of Upper Canada William Osgoode House of Assembly 16 Speaker John McDonell The 1st Parliament of Upper Canada was the inaugural legislature of the province of Upper Canada, instituted upon the province's establishment as a separate colony from the province of Quebec in December 1791. The new province was created by the enactment of the Constitutional Act 1791, which prescribed the governance structure and rules of engagement for the government of the new province. The Parliament of Upper Canada was modeled after the Parliament of the United Kingdom, consisting of three components:UK 1791 s. II, III & IV The Crown of the United Kingdom – represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada who was advise by a council of ministers, the Executive Council of Upper Canada The Legislative Council of Upper Canada – the upper chamber with members who were appointed for life The House of Assembly of Upper Canada – the lower chamber with no less than sixteen members to be elected from electoral division determined by the Lieutenant Governor With election held in August 1792, the 1st Parliament convened on 17 September 1792.Assembly 1792 2 From 1792 to 1796, the provincial capital was in Newark (modern day Niagara-on-the-Lake). Various meeting locations were identified by record from that period as having host the gathering of the assembly, including: the Anchorage the Freemanson's Hall the Navy Hall (official residence of Lieutenant Governor Simcoe) The 1st Parliament convened five sessions during its duration:Archives of Ontario https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/about/library_l12.aspx#tablea Library 2009-12-07 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110611113645/http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/about/library_l12.aspx 11 June 2011 It was dissolved 1 July 1796. No copies of the journal of the House of Assembly for the third, fourth and fifth sessions (1794, 1795, 1796) of the 1st Parliament are known to have survived the plundering by American troops following the Battle of York in 1814, during which the buildings of the Legislative Assembly, and Government House were set on fire. Limited records of the assembly proceedings from the 3rd session had been assembled from fragments of documented recovered in the Crown Land Departments.Assembly 1792 45 SessionsStartEnd1st17 September 179215 October 17922nd31 May 17939 July 17933rd2 June 17949 July 17944th6 July 179510 August 17955th16 May 17963 June 1796 The Crown The 1st Parliament was in office during the thirty-second to the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King George III of the United Kingdom. The King was represented by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe for the entire duration of the 1st Parliament. Legislative Council The Legislative Council of Upper Canada consisted of the following members during the 1st Parliament. #DDD Departure occurred during later parliament Member Town Entered Exited Notes James BabySandwich1792-07-121833-02-19 Richard Cartwright Kingston1792-07-121815-07-27 Richard DuncanWilliamsburgh1792-07-121805 Alexander Grant Sr.York1792-07-12May 1813 Robert HamiltonNiagara1792-07-121809-03-08 John MunroEastern District1792-07-12October 1800 William OsgoodeYork1792-07-121794-02-24Appointed Chief Justice of Lower Canada William RobertsonSandwich1792-07-121792-11-04 Resignation Peter RussellYork1792-07-121808-09-30 Æneas ShawYork1794-06-191814-02-06 Jacob MountainQuebec City1794-07-011825-06-25Anglican Bishop of Quebec Members of the House of Assembly RidingMemberCampbell 1910First Elected First elected to the Legislative AssemblyNo. of termsNoteON Independent row DundasAlexander Campbell Upper Canada politician17921st termON Independent row Durham, York & 1st LincolnYork County covered modern day Peel, Halton and the northern half of Wentworth, while Lincoln cover the southern half.Nathaniel Pettit17921st termON Independent row 1st GlengarryHugh McDonell17921st term ON Independent row 2nd GlengarryJohn McDonell Upper Canada politician, died 1809 17921st termSpeaker 1792–1796ON Independent row GrenvilleEphraim Jones17921st termON Independent row KentKent county at this time covered area north of the Thames River, area that would in modern days be in Lambton county and northern portion of Kent and Middlesex counties. Most of modern day Kent county were in Suffolk county at this time KentWilliam Macomb merchant17921st termON Independent row KentFrançois Baby 1768-185217921st termON Independent row Leeds & FrontenacJohn White d. 180017921st termON Independent row Lennox, Hastings & NorthumberlandHazelton Spencer17921st termON Independent row 2nd LincolnBenjamin Pawling17921st termON Independent row 3rd LincolnIsaac Swayze17921st termON Independent row 4th Lincoln & NorfolkNorfolk county spanned from Six Nations to London at this timeParshall Terry17921st termON Independent row OntarioOntario County 1792–1800 is entirely different from the Ontario County that existed ifrom 1850s to the 1970s. It consisted of Amherst island, Gage island; Wolfe island, Howe island; and the other small islands between Gananoque and Prince Edward County & AddingtonJoshua Booth17921st termON Independent row Prince Edward and District of the Township of AdolphustownPhilip Dorland17921st termDid not take seatRefused to oath of office in the prescribed form on religious grounds (him being a Quaker); seat vacated with new election calledON Independent row Peter Van Alstine (1793)17931st termTook seat on June 1, 1793Assembly 1792 23ON Independent row StormontJeremiah French17921st termON Independent row SuffolkKent & EssexDavid William Smith 1764-183717921st term See also Legislative Council of Upper Canada Executive Council of Upper Canada Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada, 1791–1841 Historical federal electoral districts of Canada List of Ontario provincial electoral districts Notes References Sources y Statutes of the United Kingdom Constitution Act, 1791 31 George III 1791 c. 31 UK 1791 Campbell Wilfred A List of the Members of the House of Assembly for Upper Canada from 1792, to the Union in 1841 Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 3rd 4 September 1910 Meeting of Sept 1910, Transactions of Section II. Read in part 27th May, 1909. Royal Society of Canada 169–190 Froman Debra Legislators and Legislatures of Ontario: A Reference Guide 1984 Legislative Library, Legislative Assembly of Ontario 1 v Parliament Buildings none Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology Frederick H. Armstrong Toronto Dundurn Press 1985 0-919670-92-X none 1909 Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada, 1792 Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, 1792–1804 1 1792 Ontario Archives Assembly 1792 01 Category:1792 establishments in Upper Canada Category:1796 disestablishments in Upper Canada