16th Quebec Legislature

The 16th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from February 5, 1923, to May 16, 1927. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the governing party.

Seats per political party

• After the 1923 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	63
	Conservative	20
	Parti ouvrier	1
	Liberal Independent	1
Total		85
Government Majority		43

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1923 election:

	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
	Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Abitibi	1916
	Hector Authier (1923)	Liberal	1923
	John Hay	Liberal	Argenteuil	1910, 1916
	Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques (1925)	Conservative	1925
	Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska	1916
	Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot	1913
	Joseph-Hugues Fortier	Liberal	Beauce	1921
	Arthur Plante	Conservative	Beauharnois	1898, 1908, 1923
	Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse	1909
	Siméon Lafrenière	Liberal	Berthier	1919
	Amédée Sylvestre (1925)	Liberal	1925
	Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud	Liberal	Bonaventure	1914
	Pierre-Émile Côté (1924)	Liberal	1924
	William Robert Oliver	Liberal	Brome	1917
	Carlton James Oliver (1923)	Liberal	1923
	Alexandre Thurber	Liberal	Chambly	1923
	Bruno Bordeleau	Liberal	Champlain	1916
	William-Pierre Grant (1925)	Liberal	1925
	Philippe Dufour	Liberal	Charlevoix et Saguenay	1919
	Honoré Mercier Jr.	Liberal	Châteauguay	1907, 1908
	Gustave Delisle	Liberal	Chicoutimi	1923
	Jacob Nicol	Liberal	Compton	1921
	Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1908
	Ernest Ouellet	Liberal	Dorchester	1917
	Hector Laferté	Liberal	Drummond	1916
	Cyrille Baillargeon	Liberal	Frontenac	1923
	Gustave Lemieux	Liberal	Gaspé	1912
	Joseph-Roméo Lafond	Liberal	Hull	1923
	Andrew Philps	Liberal	Huntingdon	1913
	Lucien Lamoureux	Liberal	Iberville	1923
	Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1902
	Ésioff-Léon Patenaude	Conservative	Jacques-Cartier	1908,[a] 1923
	Victor Marchand (1925)	Liberal	1925
	Pierre-Joseph Dufresne	Conservative	Joliette	1919
	Nérée Morin	Liberal	Kamouraska	1920
	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
	Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière	1908
	Jean-Marie Pellerin	Conservative	Maisonneuve	1923
	Rodolphe Tourville	Liberal	Maskinongé	1912
	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
	Charles-Abraham Paquet	Liberal	Montmagny	1919
	Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency	1900
	Ernest Tétreau	Liberal Independent	Montréal-Dorion	1923
	Alfred Duranleau	Conservative	Montréal-Laurier	1923
	Adolphe L'Archevêque	Conservative	Montréal-Mercier	1923
	William James Hushion	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1923
	Joseph Henry Dillon (1924)	Liberal	1924
	Camillien Houde	Conservative	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1923
	Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges	1907
	Joseph Allan Bray	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Henri	1923
	Eusèbe Beaudoin	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Jacques	1923
	Ernest Walter Sayer	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Laurent	1923
	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	1917
	Désiré Lahaie	Liberal	Papineau	1922
	Wallace McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac	1919
	Édouard Hamel	Liberal	Portneuf	1920
	Aurèle Leclerc	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1916
	Ludger Bastien (1924)	Liberal	1924
	Pierre-Vincent Faucher	Conservative	Québec-Centre	1923
	Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Liberal	Québec-Est	1908
	Martin Madden	Liberal	Québec-Ouest	1916
	Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière	Liberal	Richelieu	1923
	Georges-Ervé Denault	Liberal	Richmond	1923
	Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais (1923)	Liberal	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
	Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard	Liberal	Saint-Maurice	1920
	Alphonse-Edgar Guillemette (1924)	Liberal	1924
	Pierre Bertrand	Parti ouvrier	Saint-Sauveur	1923
	William Stephen Bullock	Liberal	Shefford	1912
	Moïse O'Bready	Conservative	Sherbrooke	1923
	Armand-Charles Crépeau (1924)	Conservative	1924
	Joseph-Arthur Lortie	Conservative	Soulanges	1923
	Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead	1913
	Télésphore Simard	Liberal	Témiscamingue	1916
	Joseph Miljours (1924)	Liberal	1924
	Jules Langlais	Conservative	Témiscouata	1923
	Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne	1916
	Louis-Philippe Mercier	Liberal	Trois-Rivières	1921
	Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil	1901
	Jean-Marie Richard	Liberal	Verchères	1921
	Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount	1912
	Cyrénus Lemieux	Liberal	Wolfe	1921
	Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette	Liberal	Yamaska	1905
	David Laperrière (1923)	Liberal	1923

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during the term in by-elections

• Hector Authier, Quebec Liberal Party, Abitibi, October 22, 1923
• Carlton James Oliver, Quebec Liberal Party, Brome, October 22, 1923
• Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais, Quebec Liberal Party, Richmond, October 22, 1923
• David Laperrière, Quebec Liberal Party, Yamaska, October 22, 1923
• Pierre-Émile Côté, Quebec Liberal Party, Bonaventure, November 5, 1924
• Ludger Bastien, Quebec Conservative Party, Québec, November 5, 1924
• Alphonse-Edgar Guillemette, Quebec Liberal Party, Saint-Maurice, November 5, 1924
• Armand-Charles Crépeau, Quebec Conservative Party, Sherbrooke, November 5, 1924
• Joseph Miljours, Quebec Liberal Party, Témiscamingue, November 28, 1924
• Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques, Quebec Conservative Party, Argenteuil, November 30, 1925
• Amédée Sylvestre, Quebec Liberal Party, Berthier, November 30, 1925
• William-Pierre Grant, Quebec Liberal Party, Champlain, November 30, 1925
• Victor Marchand, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques-Cartier, November 30, 1925

Cabinet Ministers

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron
• Colonisation, Mines and Fishing: Joseph-Édouard Perrault
• Public Works and Labor: Antonin Galipeault
• Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
• Roads: Joseph-Léonide Perron
• Municipal Affairs: Jacob Nicol (1923-1924), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1924-1927)
• Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Provincial secretary: Athanase David
• Treasurer: Jacob Nicol
• Members without portfolios: Martin Madden, Laureat Lapierre (1924-1927), Joseph Henry Dillon (1927), Alfred Leduc (1927)

Notes

1. Laprairie