Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia

The Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia (French: Assemblée législative d'Assiniboine) was a short-lived legislature established to pass laws for the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land under the provisional government led by Louis Riel from 1869 to 1870. The Legislative Assembly was named after the Council of Assiniboia that previously managed the territories before the Hudson's Bay Company sold the land to Canada in 1869.^[1]^[2]

The guidelines for the creation of the elected assembly had been established during the Convention of Forty in January and February 1870 and elections followed shortly afterwards. The number of representatives of constituencies considered to be English-speaking and those considered to be French-speaking were made equal. The assembly operated from March 9, 1870, to June 24, 1870. Its final act was to accept the agreement negotiated with Canada for the new province of Manitoba to enter Confederation and to ratify the Manitoba Act.^[1]

Executive officers of the provisional government

Position	Officer^[1]
President	Louis Riel
Vice-president	François-Xavier Dauphinais
Secretary of State	Thomas Bunn
Under-secretary of State	Louis Schmidt
Treasurer	William Bernard O'Donoghue
Chief Justice	James Ross
Adjutant General	Ambroise-Dydime Lépine
Postmaster-General	A.G.B. Bannatyne
Coroner	C.J. Bird
Commissioner of Indian Affairs	James McKay
Superintendent of Public Works	John Bruce

Legislative Council

Member	District^[1]
Pierre Poitras	Baie Saint-Paul
William Auld Tait	Headingley
William Fraser	Kildonan
Pierre Delorme	Pointe Coupée
Louis Schmidt	Pointe Coupée
E.H.G.G Hay	St. Andrew's
Thomas Sinclair Jr.	St. Andrew's
George Gunn	Sainte-Anne
A.G.B. Bannatyne	St. Anne's
John Bruce	Saint-Boniface
William Bernard O'Donoghue
Louis Lacerte
Jean-Baptiste Beauchemin	Saint-Charles
François Dauphinais	Saint-Charles
Thomas Bunn	St. Clement's
François-Xavier Pagé	Saint-François-Xavier
James McKay	St. James'
A.G.B. Bannatyne	St. John's
John Lazarus Norquay	St. Margaret's
William Garrioch Jr.	St. Mary's Laprairie
Pierre Parenteau	Saint-Norbert
Baptiste Tourond	Saint-Norbert
C.J. Bird	St. Paul
John Sinclair	St. Peter's
André Beauchemin	Saint-Vital
Ambroise-Dydime Lépine	Saint-Vital
Hugh F. O'Lone	Town of Winnipeg
Alfred H. Scott	Town of Winnipeg

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hall, Norma; Hall, Clifford P; Verrier, Erin. "A History of the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia / le Conseil du Gouvernement Provisoire" (PDF). Government of Manitoba. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
^ Schofield, Frank Howard (1913). The Story of Manitoba. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company.

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[assem-1] Hall, Norma; Hall, Clifford P; Verrier, Erin. "A History of the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia / le Conseil du Gouvernement Provisoire" (PDF). Government of Manitoba. Retrieved 2013-12-20.

[2] Schofield, Frank Howard (1913). The Story of Manitoba. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company.

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