9th Quebec Legislature

The 9th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from May 11, 1897, to December 7, 1900. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Félix-Gabriel Marchand was the governing party. The Liberals would hold on to power until 1936.

Seats per political party

• After the 1897 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	51
	Conservative	23
Total		74
Government Majority		28

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1897 election:

	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
	William Alexander Weir	Liberal	Argenteuil	1897
	Joseph-Éna Girouard	Liberal	Arthabaska	1886
	Milton McDonald	Conservative	Bagot	1890
	Henri-Séverin Béland	Liberal	Beauce	1897
	Élie-Hercule Bisson	Liberal	Beauharnois	1873, 1886, 1892
	Arthur Plante (1898)	Conservative		1898
	Adélard Turgeon	Liberal	Bellechasse	1890
	Cuthbert-Alphonse Chênevert	Liberal	Berthier	1890, 1897
	François-Xavier Lemieux	Liberal	Bonaventure	1878, 1883,[a] 1894
	William Henry Clapperton (1897)	Liberal		1897
	Henry Thomas Duffy	Liberal	Brome	1897
	Antoine Rocheleau	Liberal	Chambly	1886, 1897
	Pierre Grenier	Conservative	Champlain	1890
	Pierre D'Auteuil	Conservative	Charlevoix	1897
	Joseph-Émery Robidoux	Liberal	Châteauguay	1884, 1897
	Honoré Petit	Conservative	Chicoutimi et Saguenay	1892
	James Hunt	Liberal	Compton	1897
	Hector Champagne	Liberal	Deux-Montagnes	1897
	Louis-Philippe Pelletier	Conservative	Dorchester	1888
	William John Watts	Liberal	Drummond	1874, 1890, 1897
	Edmund James Flynn	Conservative[b]	Gaspé	1875, 1892
	Daniel-Jérémie Décarie	Liberal	Hochelaga	1897
	George Washington Stephens Sr.	Liberal	Huntingdon	1881,[c] 1892
	François Gosselin	Liberal	Iberville	1890
	Patrick Peter Delaney	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1897
	Joseph-Adolphe Chauret	Liberal	Jacques Cartier	1897
	Joseph-Mathias Tellier	Conservative	Joliette	1892
	Louis-Rodolphe Roy	Liberal	Kamouraska	1897
	Joseph Girard	Conservative	Lac St-Jean	1892
	Côme-Séraphin Cherrier	Liberal	Laprairie	1897
	Joseph Marion	Conservative	L'Assomption	1880, 1890
	Pierre-Évariste Leblanc	Conservative	Laval	1882
	François-Xavier Lemieux	Liberal	Lévis	1878, 1883, 1894
	Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier (1897)	Liberal		1897
	Charles Langelier (1898)	Liberal	1898
	François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne	Liberal	L'Islet	1886
	Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté	Liberal	Lotbinière	1886
	Hector Caron	Liberal	Maskinongé	1892
	Louis-Félix Pinault	Liberal	Matane	1890, 1892
	Donat Caron (1899)	Liberal	1899
	George Robert Smith	Liberal	Mégantic	1897
	James Sarsfield McCorkill	Liberal	Missisquoi	1897
	Cedric Lemoine Cotton (1898)	Liberal		1898
	Pierre-Julien-Léonidas Bissonnette	Liberal	Montcalm	1897
	Joseph-Couillard Lislois	Liberal	Montmagny	1897
	Édouard Bouffard	Conservative	Montmorency	1896
	Georges-Albini Lacombe	Liberal	Montréal division no. 1	1897
	Lomer Gouin	Liberal	Montréal division no. 2	1897
	Henri-Benjamin Ranville	Liberal	Montréal division no. 3	1890, 1897
	Albert William Atwater	Conservative	Montréal division no. 4	1896
	Robert Bickerdike	Liberal	Montréal division no. 5	1897
	James John Edmond Guérin	Liberal	Montréal division no. 6	1895
	Dominique Monet	Liberal	Napierville	1897
	Georges Ball	Conservative	Nicolet	1897
	Charles Beautron Major	Liberal	Ottawa	1897
	David Gillies	Liberal	Pontiac	1892
	Jules Tessier	Liberal	Portneuf	1886
	Némèse Garneau	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1897
	Amédée Robitaille	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1897
	Joseph Shehyn	Liberal	Québec-Est	1875
	Félix Carbray	Conservative	Québec-Ouest	1881, 1892
	Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin	Liberal	Richelieu	1886, 1897
	Joseph Bédard	Conservative	Richmond	1890
	Auguste Tessier	Liberal	Rimouski	1889
	Alexandre-Napoléon Dufresne	Conservative	Rouville	1897
	Georges-Casimir Dessaulles	Liberal	St. Hyacinthe	1897
	Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Liberal	St. Jean	1867
	Nérée Duplessis	Conservative	St. Maurice	1886
	Simon-Napoléon Parent	Liberal	St. Sauveur	1890
	Tancrède Boucher de Grandbois	Liberal	Shefford	1881, 1897
	Louis-Edmond Panneton	Conservative	Sherbrooke	1892
	Avila-Gonzague Bourbonnais	Liberal	Soulanges	1886
	Michael Felix Hackett	Conservative	Stanstead	1892
	Félix-Alonzo Talbot	Liberal	Témiscouata	1897
	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel	Conservative	Terrebonne	1882
	Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand	Conservative	Trois-Rivières	1890
	Émery Lalonde, Jr.	Liberal	Vaudreuil	1890, 1897
	Étienne Blanchard	Liberal	Verchères	1897
	Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne	Conservative	Wolfe	1892
	Albéric-Archie Mondou	Conservative	Yamaska	1897
	Victor Gladu (1897)	Liberal		1897
	Jules Allard (1897)	Liberal	1897

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during this term in by-elections.

• Victor Gladu, Quebec Liberal Party, Yamaska, November 16, 1897
• William Henry Clapperton, Quebec Liberal Party, Bonaventure, December 22, 1897
• Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, December 22, 1897
• Cedric Lemoine Cotton, Quebec Liberal Party, Missisquoi, December 19, 1898
• Donat Caron, Quebec Liberal Party, Matane, January 11, 1899

Cabinet Ministers

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Félix-Gabriel Marchand
• Agriculture: François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne
• Colonization and Mines: Adélard Turgeon
• Public Works: Henri Thomas Duffy
• Crown Lands: Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1896-1897)
• Lands, Forests and Fishing: Simon-Napoléon Parent
• Attorney General:Horace Archambault
• Provincial secretary: Felix-Gabriel Marchand (1897), Joseph-Émery Robidoux (1897-1900)
• Treasurer: Félix-Gabriel Marchand
• Members without portfolios, George Washington Stephens, Joseph Shehyn, James John Guerin

External links

• 1897 election results
• List of historical Cabinet ministers

Notes

1. Lévis
2. First elected as Liberal
3. Montréal-Centre