38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between June 25, 1925, through September 5, 1928. The first session of this assembly was convened on February 9, 1926. There were three sessions of the assembly during this period.

The election of 1925 represented a shift in Nova Scotia politics as the 37th General Assembly would mark the return of the Conservatives to government after a forty-three year absence.

One of the most significant pieces of legislation to come out of this General Assembly is that of An Act Abolishing the Legislative Council and Amending the Constitution of the Province, in 1928. This act abolished the Legislative Council of the Nova Scotia Legislature, the legislature's upper house. When Rhodes came into office in 1926, it had only one Conservative member and 17 Liberal members, with three vacancies; Rhodes would ultimately appoint 15 new Councillors in order to pack the Council for means of abolition, while dismissing all but a handful of Liberal Councillors.

Division of seats

There were 42 members of this General Assembly, elected in the 1925 Nova Scotia general election.

	Leader	Party	# of Seats
	Edgar Nelson Rhodes	Liberal-Conservative	38
	Ernest Howard Armstrong	Liberal	3
	Archibald Terris	Labour-Conservative	1
Total			42

List of members

	Riding	Name	Position
	Annapolis County	Obediah Parker Goucher
		Harry Thompson MacKenzie
	Antigonish County	William Chisholm
		John Laughlin McIsaac
	Cape Breton Centre	Gordon Sidney Harrington	Minister of Public Works & Mines
		Joseph Macdonald
	Cape Breton East	John Carey Douglas	Attorney General (1925-6)
		Alexander O'Handley
	Colchester County	William Boardman Armstrong
		Frank Stanfield
	Cumberland County	Percy Chapman Black	Minister of Highways
		Daniel George McKenzie	Speaker (1925-6)
		Archibald Terris
	Digby County	William Hudson Farnham
		John Louis Philip Robicheau
	Guysborough County	Simon Osborn Giffin
		Howard Amos Rice
	Halifax County	Josiah Frederick Fraser
		Alexander Montgomerie
		John Francis Mahoney
		John Archibald Walker	Minister of Natural Resources & Provincial Development
		William Drysdale Piercey
	Hants County	Albert E. Parsons	Speaker (1926-8)
		Edgar Nelson Rhodes	Provincial Secretary & Premier
	Inverness County	Hubert Meen Aucoin
		Malcolm McKay
	Kings County	George Clyde Nowlan
		Reginald Tucker Caldwell
	Lunenburg County	Wallace Norman Rehfuss
		William Haslam Smith
	Pictou County	John Doull
		Robert Albert Douglas
		Hugh Allan MacQuarrie
	Queens County	Frank J.D. Barnjum
		William Lorimer Hall	Attorney General (1926–1928)
	Richmond County & Cape Breton West	Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc
		John Alexander MacDonald
	Shelburne County	Norman Emmons Smith
		Ernest Reginald Nickerson
	Victoria County	Donald Buchanan McLeod
		Philip McLeod
	Yarmouth County	John Flint Cahan
		Raymond Neri d'Entremont

Former members of the 37th General Assembly

	Name	Party	Electoral District	Cause of departure	Succeeded by	Elected
	John Alexander MacDonald	Conservatives	Cape Breton West	resigned to run federally	John Angus Stewart, Con.	February 24, 1926
	Frank J.D. Barnjum	Conservatives	Queens County	resigned March 16, 1926	N/A	N/A
	John Carey Douglas	Conservatives	Cape Breton East	resigned to run federally	N/A	N/A

• Barnjum resigned due to a failed election promise. Upon being nominated Barnjum promised a mill project for Queens County. By 1928 this had not happened and Barnjum resigned due to the failed promise.