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1st New Brunswick Legislature

The 1st New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between January 3, 1786, and 1792. The lower house was the Legislative Assembly and the upper house was named the Legislative Council.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick, Thomas Carleton. The first and second sessions were held at the Mallard House, an inn in Saint John. Subsequent sessions were held in Fredericton.

Amos Botsford was chosen as Speaker Of The House.

Composition

The lower house was the Legislative Assembly and the upper house was named the Legislative Council. The governor of New Brunswick was responsible for the appointment of the Legislative Council.

The General Assembly of New Brunswick had three distinct constitutional elements:

  • the Crown (in the person of the appointed Lieutenant-Governor,
  • the elected House of Assembly, and
  • the Legislative Council, which consisted of members appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor. In this period, the General Assembly met from two to ten weeks each year and it was then that the elected representatives of the voters could influence public policy. When New Brunswick had a bicameral General Assembly, new legislation had to be read three times and approved by the House of Assembly and then read three times and approved by the Legislative Council. Generally, legislation originated in the House of Assembly sometimes.

History

The Loyalist Migration to Canada (1783-1784) followed the American Revolutionary War brought about 12,000 settlers, chiefly from New York, to this region. Convinced that the government and people of Nova Scotia were alien to their interest, they sought the creation of a new province. Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester urged their claims at London and in 1784, their desire became reality. In 1785, an election was held and on 3rd of January 1786, the first legislature of New Brunswick met in the Mallard House, which at that time, Saint John, New Brunswick's leading hostelry once stood on this site.

Acts

Acts that were commonly passed in the 1st New Brunswick Legislative Assembly generally centered around the topics of law and money. As an example, "An Act For Regulating Pilots". https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-addition-act-intitled-act-regulating-pilots

Members

The following are the members for the 1st New Brunswick Legislative:

Electoral DistrictNameFirst elected
CharlotteWilliam Paine1786
James Campbell1786
Robert Pagan1786
Peter Clinch1786
Colin Campbell (1789)1789
KingsJohn Coffin1786
Ebenezer Foster1786
John Hamilton (1788)1788
David Fanning (1791)1791
NorthumberlandElias Hardy1786
William Davidson1786
Harris William Hailes (1791)1791
QueensSamuel Dickinson1786
John Yeamans1786
Saint JohnWilliam Pagan1786
Jonathan Bliss1786
Christopher Billop1786
Ward Chipman1786
John McGeorge1786
Stanton Hazard1786
Nehemiah Rogers (1791)1791
SunburyWilliam Hubbard1786
Richard Vandeburg1786
James Glenie (1789)1789
WestmorlandAmos Botsford1786
Charles Dixon1786
Samuel Gay1786
Andrew Kinnear1786
YorkDaniel Murray1786
Isaac Atwood1786
Daniel Lyman1786
Edward Stelle1786

Notes

References

References

  1. (2012). "New Brunswick's Legislative Assembly". Canadian Parliamentary Review.
  2. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/loyalists
  3. link. (2011-05-16)
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