Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia

Former legislature of Manitoba

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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

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Position  | Officer[1]

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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

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Member  | District[1]

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Pierre Poitras | Baie Saint-Paul
William Auld Tait | Headingley
William Fraser | Kildonan
Pierre Delorme | Pointe Coupée
Louis Schmidt
E.H.G.G. Hay | St. Andrew's
Thomas Sinclair Jr.
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
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
C.J. Bird | St. Paul
John Sinclair | St. Peter's
André Beauchemin | Saint-Vital
Ambroise-Dydime Lépine
Hugh F. O'Lone | Town of Winnipeg
Alfred H. Scott

## References

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Schofield, Frank Howard (1913). The Story of Manitoba. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company.

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Louis Riel

* Secretary of the National Committee of the Métis (1869)
* President of the Provisional Government/Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia (1869–1870)
* Member of Parliament for Provencher (1873–1875)

Life and politics|

* Red River Rebellion
* Manitoba Act, 1870
* Execution of Thomas Scott
* North-West Rebellion
* Provisional Government of Saskatchewan
* Battle of Batoche
* Trial of Louis Riel

Family|

* Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière (grandfather)
* Marie-Anne Gaboury (grandmother)
* Louis Riel Sr. (father)
* Sara Riel (sister)
* Roger Teillet (grand-nephew)
* Yolande Teillet (grand-neice)

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