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	1929
	Louis-Joseph Papineau	Liberal	Beauharnois	1927
	Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse	1909
	Robert Taschereau (1930)	Liberal	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	1929
	Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1908
	Paul Sauvé (1930)	Conservative	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	1930
	Lucien Lamoureux	Liberal	Iberville	1923
	Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1902
	Amédée Caron (1928)	Liberal	1928
	Victor Marchand	Liberal	Jacques-Cartier	1925
	Lucien Dugas	Liberal	Joliette	1927
	Nérée Morin	Liberal	Kamouraska	1920
	Pierre Gagnon (1927)	Liberal	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	1929
	Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière	1908
	William Tremblay	Labour	Maisonneuve	1927
	Joseph-William Gagnon	Liberal	Maskinongé	1927
	Louis-Joseph Thisdel (1930)	Liberal	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	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	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	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	1928
	Joseph Ignatius Power	Liberal	Québec-Ouest	1927
	Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière	Liberal	Richelieu	1923
	Avila Turcotte (1929)	Liberal	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

1. Gaspé
2. Verchères