Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia

The Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia (French: Assemblée législative d'Assiniboine) was a short-lived legislature established to pass laws for the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land under the provisional government led by Louis Riel from 1869 to 1870. The Legislative Assembly was named after the Council of Assiniboia that previously managed the territories before the Hudson's Bay Company sold the land to Canada in 1869.[1][2]

The guidelines for the creation of the elected assembly had been established during the Convention of Forty in January and February 1870 and elections followed shortly afterwards. The number of representatives of constituencies considered to be English-speaking and those considered to be French-speaking were made equal. The assembly operated from March 9, 1870, to June 24, 1870. Its final act was to accept the agreement negotiated with Canada for the new province of Manitoba to enter Confederation and to ratify the Manitoba Act.[1]

Executive officers of the provisional government

Position Officer[1] First Sworn in
President Louis Riel 1869
Vice-president François-Xavier Dauphinais 1869
Secretary of State Thomas Bunn 1869
Under-secretary of State Louis Schmidt 1869
Treasurer William Bernard O'Donoghue 1869
Chief Justice James Ross 1869
Adjutant General Ambroise-Dydime Lépine 1869
Postmaster-General A.G.B. Bannatyne 1869
Coroner C.J. Bird 1869
Commissioner of Indian Affairs James McKay 1869
Superintendent of Public Works John Bruce 1869

Legislative Council

Member District[1] First elected
Pierre Poitras Baie Saint-Paul 1869
William Auld Tait Headingley 1869
William Fraser Kildonan 1869
Pierre Delorme Pointe Coupée 1869
Louis Schmidt 1869
E.H.G.G. Hay St. Andrew's 1869
Thomas Sinclair Jr. 1869
George Gunn Sainte-Anne 1869
A.G.B. Bannatyne St. Anne's 1869
John Bruce Saint-Boniface 1869
William Bernard O'Donoghue 1869
Louis Lacerte 1869
Jean-Baptiste Beauchemin Saint-Charles 1869
François Dauphinais 1869
Thomas Bunn St. Clement's 1869
François-Xavier Pagé Saint-François-Xavier 1869
James McKay St. James's 1869
A.G.B. Bannatyne St. John's 1869
John Lazarus Norquay St. Margaret's 1869
William Garrioch Jr. St. Mary's Laprairie 1869
Pierre Parenteau Saint-Norbert 1869
Baptiste Tourond 1869
C.J. Bird St. Paul 1869
John Sinclair St. Peter's 1869
André Beauchemin Saint-Vital 1869
Ambroise-Dydime Lépine 1869
Hugh F. O'Lone Town of Winnipeg 1869
Alfred H. Scott 1869

References

  1. ^ a b c d Hall, Norma; Hall, Clifford P; Verrier, Erin. "A History of the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia / le Conseil du Gouvernement Provisoire" (PDF). Government of Manitoba. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
  2. ^ Schofield, Frank Howard (1913). The Story of Manitoba. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company.
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