Montmorency (Province of Canada electoral district)
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 Province of Canada electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct pre-Confederation electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada |
| District created | 1841 |
| District abolished | 1867 |
| First contested | 1841 |
| Last contested | 1863 |
Montmorency was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada East, near Quebec City. It was created in 1841 by the merger of two electoral districts from the former Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, Montmorency and Orleans. It was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.
The electoral district was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of Canada and the province of Quebec.
The Union Act, 1840 merged the two provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with a single Parliament. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished.[1]
The Union Act provided that while many of the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Lower Canada and Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new Parliament, some electoral districts would be defined directly by the Union Act itself.[2] Montmorency was one of those new electoral districts. The Union Act merged the previous electoral districts of the Montmorency and Orleans, to create a new district, also called Montmorency.[3]
The former district of Montmorency had been defined by the 1829 boundaries as follows:
The former district of Orleans had been defined as follows:
The merger of the two districts resulted in the new electoral district of Montmorency stretching from the island of Orleans in the Saint Lawrence to the north-east of Quebec City (now in the Capitale-Nationale région).
