5th Quebec Legislature

The 5th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from December 2, 1881, to October 14, 1886. The Quebec Conservative Party led Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Joseph-Alfred Mousseau and John Jones Ross was the governing party. Chapleau was succeeded by Mousseau in 1882 while Ross succeeded Mousseau in 1884. It was the Conservatives last majority government.

The sixty-five members were each elected in a single-member district through First past the post.

Seats per political party

• After the 1881 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Conservative	50
	Liberal/Parti national	14
	Conservative Independent	1
Total		65
Government Majority		36

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1881 election:

	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
	William Owens	Conservative	Argenteuil	1881
	Antoine Casavant	Conservative	Bagot	1881
	Jean Blanchet	Conservative	Beauce	1881
	Célestin Bergevin	Conservative	Beauharnois	1867, 1878
	Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice	Conservative	Bellechasse	1881
	Joseph Robillard	Conservative	Berthier	1878
	Louis-Joseph Riopel	Conservative	Bonaventure	1881
	Henri-Josué Martin (1882)	Conservative		1882
	William Warren Lynch	Conservative	Brome	1871
	Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel	Conservative	Chambly	1878, 1881
	Robert Trudel	Conservative	Champlain	1881
	Onésime Gauthier	Conservative	Charlevoix	1875
	Édouard Laberge	Liberal	Châteauguay	1867
	Joseph-Émery Robidoux (1884)	Liberal		1884
	Élie Saint-Hilaire	Conservative Independent	Chicoutimi et Saguenay	1881
	William Sawyer	Conservative	Compton	1871
	Charles Champagne	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1876
	Benjamin Beauchamp (1882)	Conservative		1882
	Nicodème Audet	Conservative	Dorchester	1878
	William John Watts	Liberal	Drummond et Arthabaska	1874
	Joseph-Éna Girouard (1886)	Liberal		1886
	Edmund James Flynn	Conservative	Gaspé	1878
	Louis Beaubien	Conservative	Hochelaga	1867
	Alexander Cameron	Liberal	Huntingdon	1874
	Alexis-Louis Demers	Liberal	Iberville	1881
	Charles Marcotte	Conservative	Islet	1881
	Narcisse Lecavalier	Conservative	Jacques Cartier	1867
	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (1882)	Conservative		1882
	Arthur Boyer (1884)	Liberal	1884
	Vincent-Paul Lavallée	Conservative	Joliette	1867
	Alfred McConville (1885)	Conservative	1885
	Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon	Liberal	Kamouraska	1878
	Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois	Conservative	Laprairie	1875
	Joseph Marion	Conservative	L'Assomption	1880
	Louis-Onésime Loranger	Conservative	Laval	1875
	Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (1882)	Conservative		1882
	Amédée Gaboury (1883)	Liberal	1883
	Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (1884)	Conservative	1882, 1884
	Étienne-Théodore Pâquet	Conservative[a]	Lévis	1875
	François-Xavier Lemieux (1883)	Liberal	1883
	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Liberal	Lotbinière	1867
	Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté (1886)	Liberal	1886
	Édouard Caron	Conservative	Maskinongé	1878
	George Irvine	Liberal	Mégantic	1867, 1878
	John Whyte (1884)	Liberal	1884
	Elijah Edmund Spencer	Conservative	Missisquoi	1881
	Jean-Baptiste-Trefflé Richard	Conservative	Montcalm	1881
	Louis-Napoléon Fortin	Liberal	Montmagny	1876
	Nazaire Bernatchez (1883)	Independent Liberal	1883
	Louis-Georges Desjardins	Conservative	Montmorency	1881
	George Washington Stephens Sr.	Liberal	Montréal Centre	1881
	Louis-Olivier Taillon	Conservative	Montréal Est	1875
	James McShane	Liberal	Montreal Ouest	1878
	François-Xavier Paradis	Conservative	Napierville	1881
	Charles-Édouard Houde	Conservative	Nicolet	1876
	Louis-Trefflé Dorais (1883)	Independent Conservative	1883
	Louis Duhamel	Conservative	Ottawa (Outaouais)	1875
	Thomas Bryson	Conservative	Pontiac	1881
	William Joseph Poupore (1882)	Conservative		1882
	Jean-Docile Brousseau	Conservative	Portneuf	1881
	Pierre Garneau	Conservative	Québec-Comté	1873, 1881
	Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1874
	Joseph Shehyn	Liberal	Québec-Est	1875
	Félix Carbray	Conservative	Québec-Ouest	1881
	Léon Leduc	Conservative	Richelieu	1881
	Jacques Picard	Conservative	Richmond et Wolfe	1867
	Louis-Napoléon Asselin	Conservative	Rimouski	1881
	Étienne Poulin	Conservative	Rouville	1881
	Honoré Mercier	Liberal	St. Hyacinthe	1879
	Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Liberal	St. Jean	1867
	François-Sévère Desaulniers	Conservative	St. Maurice	1878
	Isidore Frégeau	Conservative	Shefford	1881
	Joseph Gibb Robertson	Conservative	Sherbrooke	1867
	William Duckett	Conservative	Soulanges	1878
	John Thornton	Conservative	Stanstead	1875, 1881
	Georges-Honoré Deschênes	Conservative	Témiscouata	1875
	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	Conservative	Terrebonne	1867
	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1882)	Conservative	1882
	Sévère Dumoulin	Conservative	Trois-Rivières	1868, 1881
	Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte (1886)	Independent Conservative	1876, 1886
	Émery Lalonde, Sr.	Conservative	Vaudreuil	1871
	François-Xavier Archambault (1882)	Conservative		1882
	Alfred Lapointe (1884)	Conservative	1884
	Abraham Bernard	Liberal	Verchères	1881
	Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele	Conservative	Yamaska	1875

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term

• William Joseph Poupore, Quebec Conservative Party, Pontiac, March 6, 1882^[1]
• Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel, Quebec Conservative Party, Terrebonne, August 19, 1882^[2]
• Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Quebec Conservative Party, Jacques Cartier, August 26, 1882^[3]
• Benjamin Beauchamp, Quebec Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, October 21, 1882 ^[4]
• Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, Quebec Conservative Party, Laval, October 30, 1882 ^[5] & July 14, 1884 ^[6]
• François-Xavier Archambault, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, October 30, 1882 ^[7]
• Henri-Josué Martin, Quebec Conservative Party, Bonaventure, October 31, 1882 ^[8]
• Louis-Trefflé Dorais, Conservative Independent, Nicolet, February 5, 1883 ^[9]
• Amédée Gaboury, Quebec Liberal Party, Laval, June 13, 1883 ^[10]
• François-Xavier Lemieux, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, November 16, 1883 ^[11]
• Joseph-Émery Robidoux, Quebec Liberal Party, Châteauguay, March 26, 1884 ^[12]
• Arthur Boyer, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques Cartier, March 26, 1884 ^[13]
• Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte, Conservative Independent, Trois-Rivières, March 26, 1884 ^[14]
• Alfred Lapointe, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, June 19, 1884 ^[15]
• John Whyte, Quebec Liberal Party, Mégantic, October 29, 1884 ^[16]
• Alfred McConville, Quebec Conservative Party, Joliette, September 25, 1885 ^[17]
• Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté, Quebec Liberal Party, Lotbinière, January 30, 1886 ^[18]
• Joseph-Éna Girouard, Quebec Liberal Party, Drummond et Arthabaska, March 24, 1886 ^[19]

Cabinet Ministers

Chapleau Cabinet (1881–1882)

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
• Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross (1881–1882), Elisée Dionne (1882)
• Crown Lands: Edmund James Flynn
• Railroad: John Jones Ross (1881–1882), William Warren Lych (1882)
• Attorney General: Louis-Onésime Loranger
• Secretary and Registry: Etienne-Théodore Pâquet
• Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson (1881–1882), Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele (1882)
• Solicitor General: William Warren Lynch
• Legislative Council President: John Jones Ross

Mousseau Cabinet (1882–1884)

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
• Agriculture and public works: Elisée Dionne
• Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
• Railroad: Henry Starnes
• Attorney General: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
• Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
• Treasurer: Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele

Ross Cabinet (1884–1886)

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: John Jones Ross
• Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross
• Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
• Railroad: Edmund James Flynn
• Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
• Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
• Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
• Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn (1885–1886)

Notes

1. First Elected as a Liberal