17th Quebec Legislature

The 17th Quebec Legislature was the provincial legislature that existed in Quebec, Canada from May 16, 1927, to July 30, 1931. The Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau as Premier of Quebec had a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and was the governing party.

Seats per political party

After the 1927 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	75
	Conservative	9
	Labour	1
Total		85
Government Majority		66

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1927 election:

Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
Hector Authier	Liberal	Abitibi	1923
Georges-Étienne Dansereau	Liberal	Argenteuil	1927
Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska	1925
Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot	1916
Joseph-Hugues Fortier	Liberal	Beauce	1921
Joseph-Édouard Fortin (1929)	Liberal	Beauce	1929
Louis-Joseph Papineau	Liberal	Beauharnois	1927
Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse	1909
Robert Taschereau (1930)	Liberal	Bellechasse	1930
Cléophas Bastien	Liberal	Berthier	1927
Pierre-Émile Côté	Liberal	Bonaventure	1924
Carlton James Oliver	Liberal	Brome	1923
Alexandre Thurber	Liberal	Chambly	1923
William-Pierre Grant	Liberal	Champlain	1925
Edgar Rochette	Liberal	Charlevoix et Saguenay	1927
Honoré Mercier Jr.	Liberal	Châteauguay	1907, 1908
Gustave Delisle	Liberal	Chicoutimi	1923
Jacob Nicol	Liberal	Compton	1921
Andrew Ross McMaster (1929)	Liberal	Compton	1929
Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1908
Paul Sauvé (1930)	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1930
Ernest Ouellet	Liberal	Dorchester	1917
Hector Laferté	Liberal	Drummond	1916
Cyrille Baillargeon	Liberal	Frontenac	1923
Gustave Lemieux	Liberal	Gaspé	1912
Aimé Guertin	Conservative	Hull	1927
Andrew Philps	Liberal	Huntingdon	1913
Martin Bettie Fisher (1930)	Conservative	Huntingdon	1930
Lucien Lamoureux	Liberal	Iberville	1923
Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1902
Amédée Caron (1928)	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1928
Victor Marchand	Liberal	Jacques-Cartier	1925
Lucien Dugas	Liberal	Joliette	1927
Nérée Morin	Liberal	Kamouraska	1920
Pierre Gagnon (1927)	Liberal	Kamouraska	1927
Pierre Lortie	Liberal	Labelle	1923
Émile Moreau	Liberal	Lac-Saint-Jean	1919
Walter Reed	Liberal	L'Assomption	1908
Joseph-Olier Renaud Sr.	Conservative	Laval	1919
Alfred-Valère Roy	Liberal	Lévis	1916
Élisée Thériault	Liberal	L'Islet	1916
Adélard Godbout (1929)	Liberal	L'Islet	1929
Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière	1908
William Tremblay	Labour	Maisonneuve	1927
Joseph-William Gagnon	Liberal	Maskinongé	1927
Louis-Joseph Thisdel (1930)	Liberal	Maskinongé	1930
Joseph-Arthur Bergeron	Liberal	Matane	1923
Joseph Dufour	Liberal	Matapédia	1919
Lauréat Lapierre	Liberal	Mégantic	1916
Alexandre Saurette	Liberal	Missisquoi	1919
Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel	Liberal	Montcalm	1917
Joseph-Léonide Perron (1929)	Liberal	Montcalm	1910,^[a] 1912,^[b] 1929
Charles-Abraham Paquet	Liberal	Montmagny	1919
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency	1900
Aldéric Blain	Conservative	Montréal-Dorion	1927
Ernest Poulin	Liberal	Montréal-Laurier	1919, 1927
Anatole Plante	Liberal	Montréal-Mercier	1927
Joseph Henry Dillon	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1924
Joseph Gauthier	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1921, 1927
Camillien Houde (1928)	Conservative	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1923, 1928
Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges	1907
Alfred Leduc	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Henri	1927
Irénée Vautrin	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Jacques	1919, 1927
Joseph Cohen	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Laurent	1927
Peter Bercovitch	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Louis	1916
Pierre-Auguste Lafleur	Conservative	Montréal-Verdun	1923
Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau	Liberal	Napierville-Laprairie	1923
Joseph-Alcide Savoie	Liberal	Nicolet	1923
Désiré Lahaie	Liberal	Papineau	1922
Wallace McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac	1919
Édouard Hamel	Liberal	Portneuf	1920
Pierre Gauthier (1927)	Liberal	Portneuf	1927
Joseph-Ephraim Bédard	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1927
Joseph Samson	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1927
Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Liberal	Québec-Est	1908
Oscar Drouin (1928)	Liberal	Québec-Est	1928
Joseph Ignatius Power	Liberal	Québec-Ouest	1927
Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière	Liberal	Richelieu	1923
Avila Turcotte (1929)	Liberal	Richelieu	1929
Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais	Liberal	Richmond	1923
Louis-Joseph Moreault	Liberal	Rimouski	1923
Cyril-Améric Bernard	Liberal	Rouville	1923
Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe	1912, 1923
Alexis Bouthillier	Liberal	Saint-Jean	1919
Joseph-Auguste Frigon	Liberal^[1]	Saint-Maurice	1927
Charles-Édouard Cantin	Liberal	Saint-Sauveur	1927
William Stephen Bullock	Liberal	Shefford	1912
Armand-Charles Crépeau	Conservative	Sherbrooke	1924
Avila Ferland	Liberal	Soulanges	1916, 1927
Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead	1913
Joseph-Édouard Piché	Liberal	Témiscamingue	1927
Léon Casgrain	Liberal	Témiscouata	1927
Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne	1916
Maurice Duplessis	Conservative	Trois-Rivières	1927
Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil	1901
Félix Messier	Liberal	Verchères	1927
Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount	1912
Cyrénus Lemieux	Liberal	Wolfe	1921
David Lapperrière	Liberal	Yamaska	1923

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during by-elections in this term

Pierre Gagnon, Liberal Party, Kamouraska, October 31, 1927^[2]
Pierre Gauthier, Liberal Party, Portneuf, October 31, 1927^[3]
Amédée Caron, Liberal Party, Iles-de-la-Madeleine, July 14, 1928^[4]
Oscar Drouin, Liberal Party, Québec-Est, October 24, 1928^[5]
Camillien Houde, Conservative Party, Montréal-Sainte-Marie, October 24, 1928^[6]
Adélard Godbout, Liberal Party, L'Islet, May 13, 1929^[7]
Andrew Ross McMaster, Liberal Party, Compton, September 30, 1929^[8]
Avila Turcotte, Liberal Party, Richelieu, October 28, 1929^[9]
Joseph-Léonide Perron, Liberal Party, Montcalm, November 16, 1929^[10]
Joseph-Édouard Fortin, Liberal Party, Beauce, December 9, 1929^[11]
Robert Taschereau, Liberal Party, Bellechasse, October 20, 1930^[12]
Paul Sauvé, Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, November 4, 1930^[13]
Martin Beattie Fisher, Conservative Party, Huntingdon, November 4, 1930^[14]
Louis-Joseph Thisdel, Liberal Party, Maskinongé, November 4, 1930^[15]

Cabinet Ministers

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron (1927-1929), Joseph-Léonide Perron (1929-1930), Adélard Godbout (1930-1931)
Colonization, Mines and Fishing: Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1927-1929), Hector Laferté (1929-1930)
- Colonization, Hunting and Fishing: Hector Laferté (1929-1930)
- Mines: Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1930-1931)
Public Works and Labour: Antonin Galipeault (1927-1930), Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1930-1931)
Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
Roads: Joseph-Léonide Perron (1927-1929), Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1929-1931)
Municipal Affairs: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Provincial secretary: Athanase David
Treasurer: Jacob Nicol (1927-1929), Andrew Ross McMaster (1929-1930), Gordon Wallace Scott (1930), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1930-1931)
Members without portfolios: Joseph-Charles-Ernest Ouellet (1929-1931), Narcisse Pérodeau (1929-1931), Gordon Wallace Scott (1930-1931)

New electoral districts

The electoral map was reformed in 1930 and the new map was first used in the general election of August 24, 1931.^[16]

Gaspé was split into two ridings: Gaspé-Nord and Gaspé-Sud.
Gatineau was created from parts of Hull.
Laviolette was created from parts of Champlain.
Roberval was created from parts of Lac-Saint-Jean
Rivière-du-Loup was created from parts of Témiscouata.

Notes

^ Gaspé
^ Verchères

References

^ Elected as Independent Liberal
^ "Élections dans Kamouraska". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.
^ "Élections dans Portneuf". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
^ "Élections dans Îles-de-la-Madeleine". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.
^ "Élections dans Jean-Lesage". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.
^ "Élections dans Sainte-Marie". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
^ "Élections dans L'Islet". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
^ "Élections dans Compton". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.
^ "Élections dans Richelieu". Archived from the original on 12 October 2007.
^ "Élections dans Montcalm". Archived from the original on 10 October 2007.
^ "Élections dans Beauce-Sud". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
^ "Élections dans Bellechasse". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
^ "Élections dans Deux-Montagnes". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
^ "Élections dans Huntingdon". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
^ "Élections dans Maskinongé". Archived from the original on 19 September 2007.
^ "Carte électorale 1930". Archived from the original on 5 February 2007.

External links

[1] Gaspé

[2] Verchères

[3] Elected as Independent Liberal

[4] "Élections dans Kamouraska". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.

[5] "Élections dans Portneuf". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.

[6] "Élections dans Îles-de-la-Madeleine". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.

[7] "Élections dans Jean-Lesage". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.

[8] "Élections dans Sainte-Marie". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.

[9] "Élections dans L'Islet". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.

[10] "Élections dans Compton". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.

[11] "Élections dans Richelieu". Archived from the original on 12 October 2007.

[12] "Élections dans Montcalm". Archived from the original on 10 October 2007.

[13] "Élections dans Beauce-Sud". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.

[14] "Élections dans Bellechasse". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.

[15] "Élections dans Deux-Montagnes". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.

[16] "Élections dans Huntingdon". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.

[17] "Élections dans Maskinongé". Archived from the original on 19 September 2007.

[18] "Carte électorale 1930". Archived from the original on 5 February 2007.

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