Saint-Maurice (Lower Canada electoral district)

Provincial electoral district in Lower Canada, Canada

Saint-Maurice Lower Canada electoral district

Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district
Legislature| Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
District created| 1792
District abolished| 1838
First contested| 1792
Last contested| 1836

Under the Constitutional Act of 1791, the district of Saint-Maurice was established. Its boundaries, which roughly covered the current Mauricie area except for the city of Trois-Rivières, were reduced when the district of Champlain was created in 1829.[1]

Saint-Maurice was represented simultaneously by two Members at the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.

## Members for Saint-Maurice (1792-1838)

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| Name  | Party  | Election [2]

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| Thomas Coffin| Tory Party| 1792
| Thomas Coffin| Tory Party| 1796
| Thomas Coffin| Tory Party| 1800
| David Monro| Tory Party| 1804
| Thomas Coffin[3]| Tory Party| 1808
| Louis Gugy| Tory Party| 1809
| François Caron| Parti Canadien| 1810
| Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal[4]| Parti Canadien| 1814
| Louis Gugy[5]| Tory Party| 1816
| Pierre Bureau| Parti Canadien| 1819
| Pierre Bureau| Parti Canadien| Spring 1820
| Pierre Bureau| Parti Canadien| Summer 1820
| Pierre Bureau| Parti Canadien| 1824
| Pierre Bureau| Parti Canadien| 1827
| Pierre Bureau| Parti Canadien| 1830
| Pierre Bureau| Parti Patriote| 1834
| Alexis Bareil, dit Lajoie| Parti Patriote| 1836
| Name| Party| Election
| Augustin Rivard-Dufresne| Parti Canadien| 1792
| Nicholas Montour| Tory Party| 1796
| Mathew Bell| Tory Party| 1800
| Michel Caron| Parti Canadien| 1804
| Michel Caron| Parti Canadien| 1808
| Michel Caron| Parti Canadien| 1809
| Michel Caron| Parti Canadien| 1810
| Étienne Le Blanc| Parti Canadien| 1814
| Étienne Mayrand| Tory Party| 1816
| Louis Picotte| Parti Canadien| Spring 1820
| Louis Picotte| Parti Canadien| Summer 1820
| Charles Caron| Parti Canadien| 1824
| Charles Caron[6]| Parti Canadien| 1827
| Valère Guillet| Parti Canadien| 1830
| Valère Guillet| Parti Patriote| 1834
| François Lesieur Desaulniers| Parti Patriote| 1836

## Footnotes

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1. ^ History of the electoral map of Québec, Chief Electoral Officer of Québec.
2. ^ By-elections are indicated with Italic font.
3. ^ Coffin dropped from the 1809 election.
4. ^ Vallières lost the 1816 election.
5. ^ Gugy resigned in 1818 to become a Legislative Councillor.
6. ^ Caron lost the 1830 election.

## See also

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* History of Canada
* History of Quebec
* Mauricie
* Politics of Canada
* Politics of Quebec
* Saint-Maurice—Champlain Federal Electoral District
* Saint-Maurice (Quebec provincial electoral district)
* Saint-Maurice (electoral district in Canada East)
* Shawinigan

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