8th Quebec Legislature

The 8th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from March 8, 1892, to March 6, 1897. The Quebec Conservative Party was the governing party for the last time in Quebec. Charles Boucher de Boucherville was the Premier for much of 1892; Louis-Olivier Taillon ran the province for most of the mandate until he was replaced by Edmund James Flynn during the final year. The Conservatives would remain the opposition party until 1935, when they merged with the Union Nationale which won the elections held the following year.

Seats per political party

• After the 1892 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Conservative	51
	Liberal	21
	Conservative Independent	1
Total		73
Government Majority		30

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1892 election:

	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
	William John Simpson	Conservative	Argenteuil	1892
	Joseph-Éna Girouard	Liberal	Arthabaska	1886
	Milton McDonald	Conservative	Bagot	1890
	Joseph Poirier	Conservative	Beauce	1878, 1892
	Moïse Plante	Conservative	Beauharnois	1892
	Élie-Hercule Bisson (1892)	Liberal		1873, 1886, 1892
	Adélard Turgeon	Liberal	Bellechasse	1890
	Victor Allard	Conservative	Berthier	1892
	Honoré Mercier	Liberal	Bonaventure	1879
	François-Xavier Lemieux (1894)	Liberal	1878, 1883,[a] 1894
	Rufus Nelson England	Conservative	Brome	1889
	Louis-Olivier Taillon	Conservative	Chambly	1875,[b] 1886,[c] 1892
	Pierre Grenier	Conservative	Champlain	1890
	Joseph Morin	Liberal	Charlevoix	1886
	William Greig	Conservative	Châteauguay	1892
	Honoré Petit	Conservative	Chicoutimi et Saguenay	1892
	John McIntosh	Conservative	Compton	1886
	Charles McClary (1894)	Conservative		1894
	Benjamin Beauchamp	Conservative Independent	Deux-Montagnes	1882
	Louis-Philippe Pelletier	Conservative	Dorchester	1888
	Joseph Peter Cooke	Conservative	Drummond	1892
	Edmund James Flynn	Conservative[d]	Gaspé	1875, 1892
	Joseph-Octave Villeneuve	Conservative	Hochelaga	1886, 1890
	George Washington Stephens Sr.	Liberal	Huntingdon	1881,[e] 1892
	François Gosselin	Liberal	Iberville	1890
	François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne	Liberal	Islet	1886
	Joseph-Adélard Descarries	Conservative	Jacques Cartier	1892
	Joseph-Mathias Tellier	Conservative	Joliette	1892
	Charles-Alfred Desjardins	Conservative	Kamouraska	1890
	Joseph Girard	Conservative	Lac St-Jean	1892
	Cyrille Doyon	Conservative	Laprairie	1892
	Joseph Marion	Conservative	L'Assomption	1880, 1890
	Pierre-Évariste Leblanc	Conservative	Laval	1882
	Angus Baker	Conservative	Lévis	1892
	Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté	Liberal	Lotbinière	1886
	Hector Caron	Liberal	Maskinongé	1892
	Edmund James Flynn	Conservative	Matane	1875,[f] 1892
	Louis-Félix Pinault (1892)	Liberal		1890, 1892
	James King	Conservative	Mégantic	1892
	Elijah Edmund Spencer	Conservative	Missisquoi	1881
	Octave Magnan	Conservative	Montcalm	1878, 1892
	Nazaire Bernatchez	Liberal	Montmagny	1883
	Thomas Chase Casgrain	Conservative	Montmorency	1886,[g] 1892
	Édouard Bouffard (1896)	Conservative		1896
	François Martineau	Conservative	Montréal division no. 1	1892
	Olivier-Maurice Augé	Conservative	Montréal division no. 2	1892
	Damase Parizeau	Conservative	Montréal division no. 3	1892
	Alexander Webb Morris	Conservative	Montréal division no. 4	1892
	Albert William Atwater (1896)	Conservative		1896
	John Smythe Hall	Conservative	Montréal division no. 5	1886
	Patrick Kennedy	Conservative	Montréal division no. 6	1892
	James John Edmund Guerin (1895)	Liberal		1895
	Louis Sainte-Marie	Conservative	Napierville	1890
	Louis Beaubien	Conservative	Nicolet	1867,[h] 1892
	Nérée Tétreau	Conservative	Ottawa	1892
	David Gillies	Liberal	Pontiac	1892
	Jules Tessier	Liberal	Portneuf	1886
	Charles Fitzpatrick	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1890
	Victor Châteauvert	Conservative	Québec-Centre	1892
	Joseph Shehyn	Liberal	Québec-Est	1875
	Félix Carbray	Conservative	Québec-Ouest	1881, 1892
	Louis Lacouture	Conservative	Richelieu	1892
	Joseph Bédard	Conservative	Richmond	1890
	Auguste Tessier	Liberal	Rimouski	1889
	Alfred Girard	Liberal	Rouville	1890
	Antoine-Paul Cartier	Conservative	St. Hyacinthe	1892
	Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Liberal	St. Jean	1867
	Nérée Duplessis	Conservative	St. Maurice	1886
	Simon-Napoléon Parent	Liberal	St. Sauveur	1890
	Adolphe-François Savaria	Conservative	Shefford	1892
	Louis-Edmond Panneton	Conservative	Sherbrooke	1892
	Avila-Gonzague Bourbonnais	Liberal	Soulanges	1886
	Michael Felix Hackett	Conservative	Stanstead	1892
	Napoléon Rioux	Conservative	Témiscouata	1892
	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel	Conservative	Terrebonne	1882
	Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand	Conservative	Trois-Rivières	1890
	Hilaire Cholette	Conservative	Vaudreuil	1892
	Albert-Alexandre Lussier	Liberal	Verchères	1886
	Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne	Conservative	Wolfe	1892
	Victor Gladu	Liberal	Yamaska	1886

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in this mandate during by-elections

• Élie-Hercule Bisson, Quebec Liberal Party, Beauharnois, June 7, 1892
• Louis-Felix Pinault, Quebec Liberal Party, Matane, November 3, 1892
• Charles McClary, Quebec Conservative Party, Compton, October 19, 1894
• François-Xavier Lemieux, Quebec Liberal Party, Bonaventure, December 11, 1894
• James John Guerin, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal division no.6, October 22, 1895
• Albert William Atwater, Quebec Conservative Party, Montréal division no.4, June 4, 1896
• Édouard Bouffard, Quebec Conservative Party, Montmorency, June 23, 1896

Cabinet Ministers

De Boucherville Cabinet (1892)

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville
• Agriculture and Colonization: Louis Beaubien
• Public Works: Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
• Crown Lands: Edmund James Flynn
• Attorney General: Thomas Chase Casgrain (1892), Edmund Jamess Flynn (1892)
• Provincial secretary: Louis-Philippe Pelletier
• Treasurer: John Smythe Hall (1892), Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville (1892)
• Members without portfolios: Louis-Olivier Taillon, John McIntosh

Taillon Cabinet (1892-1896)

• Prime Minister: Louis-Olivier Taillon
• Executive Council President: Louis-Olivier Taillon (1892-1895), Michael Felix Hackett (1895-1896)
• Agriculture and Colonization: Louis Beaubien
• Public Works: Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
• Crown Lands: Edmund James Flynn
• Attorney General:Edmund Jamess Flynn (1892), Thomas Chase Casgrain (1892-1896)
• Provincial secretary: Louis-Philippe Pelletier
• Treasurer: Louis-Olivier Taillon (1892, 1894-1896), John Smythe Hall (1892-1894)
• Members without portfolios: Thomas Chapais (1893-1896), John McIntosh (1893-1896), Alexander Webb Morris (1895-1896)

Flynn Cabinet (1896-1897)

• Prime Minister: Edmund James Flynn
• Executive Council President: Thomas Chapais
• Agriculture and Colonization: Louis Beaubien (1896-1897)
  • Agriculture: Louis Beaubien (1897)
  • Colonization and Mines: Thomas Chapais (1897)
• Public Works: Edmund James Flynn
• Crown Lands: Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1896-1897)
  • Lands, Forests and Fishing: Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1897)
• Attorney General:Louis-Philippe Pelletier
• Provincial secretary: Michael Felix Hackett
• Treasurer: Albert William Atwater

New electoral districts

The electoral map was slightly modified in 1895 with the creation of the Îles-de-la-Madeleine district, which was formed from parts of Gaspé and includes the Magdalen Islands.

Notes

1. Lévis
2. Montréal-Est
3. Montcalm
4. First elected as Liberal
5. Montréal-Centre
6. First elected as Liberal in Gaspé
7. Québec-Comté
8. Hochelaga