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, the General Assembly's upper house. When Edgar Rhodes became premier in 1925, the Legislative Council had only one Conservative member and 17 Liberal members, with three vacancies; Rhodes ultimately had 15 new councillors appointed 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	Party	First elected / previously elected	Position
	Annapolis County	Obediah Parker Goucher	Conservative	1925
		Harry Thompson MacKenzie	Conservative	1925
	Antigonish County	William Chisholm	Liberal	1916
		John Laughlin McIsaac	Liberal	1925
	Cape Breton Centre	Gordon Sidney Harrington	Conservative	1925	Minister of Public Works & Mines
		Joseph Macdonald	Conservative	1925
	Cape Breton East	John Carey Douglas	Conservative	1911, 1925	Attorney General (1925-6)
		Alexander O'Handley	Conservative	1925
	Colchester County	William Boardman Armstrong	Conservative	1925
		Frank Stanfield	Conservative	1911, 1925
	Cumberland County	Percy Chapman Black	Conservative	1925	Minister of Highways
		Daniel George McKenzie	Conservative	1920	Speaker (1925-6)
		Archibald Terris	Labour	1920
	Digby County	William Hudson Farnham	Conservative	1925
		John Louis Philip Robicheau	Conservative	1925
	Guysborough County	Simon Osborn Giffin	Conservative	1925
		Howard Amos Rice	Conservative	1925
	Halifax County	Josiah Frederick Fraser	Conservative	1925
		Alexander Montgomerie	Conservative	1925
		John Francis Mahoney	Conservative	1925
		John Archibald Walker	Conservative	1925	Minister of Natural Resources & Provincial Development
		William Drysdale Piercey	Conservative	1925
	Hants County	Albert E. Parsons	Conservative	1909, 1925	Speaker (1926-8)
		Edgar Nelson Rhodes	Conservative	1925	Provincial Secretary & Premier
	Inverness County	Hubert Meen Aucoin	Conservative	1925
		Malcolm McKay	Conservative	1925
	Kings County	George Clyde Nowlan	Conservative	1925
		Reginald Tucker Caldwell	Conservative	1925
	Lunenburg County	Wallace Norman Rehfuss	Conservative	1925
		William Haslam Smith	Conservative	1925
	Pictou County	John Doull	Conservative	1925
		Robert Albert Douglas	Conservative	1925
		Hugh Allan MacQuarrie	Conservative	1925
	Queens County	Frank J.D. Barnjum	Conservative	1925
		William Lorimer Hall	Conservative	1910, 1925	Attorney General (1926–1928)
	Richmond County & Cape Breton West	Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc	Conservative	1916
		John Alexander MacDonald	Conservative	1916
		John Angus Stewart (1926)	Conservative	1926
	Shelburne County	Norman Emmons Smith	Conservative	1925
		Ernest Reginald Nickerson	Conservative	1925
	Victoria County	Donald Buchanan McLeod	Liberal	1925
		Philip McLeod	Conservative	1914, 1925
	Yarmouth County	John Flint Cahan	Conservative	1925
		Raymond Neri d'Entremont	Conservative	1925

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[a]	N/A	N/A
	John Carey Douglas	Conservatives	Cape Breton East	resigned to run federally	N/A	N/A

Notes

1. 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.