9th Parliament of Upper Canada
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The 9th Parliament of Upper Canada was opened 11 January 1825. Elections in Upper Canada
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution...

 had been held in July 1824. All sessions were held at York, Upper Canada
York, Upper Canada
York was the name of Old Toronto between 1793 and 1834. It was the second capital of Upper Canada.- History :The town was established in 1793 by Governor John Graves Simcoe, with a new 'Fort York' on the site of the last French 'Fort Toronto'...

. This parliament was dissolved
Dissolution of parliament
In parliamentary systems, a dissolution of parliament is the dispersal of a legislature at the call of an election.Usually there is a maximum length of a legislature, and a dissolution must happen before the maximum time...

 24 June 1828.

The House of Assembly
House of Assembly
House of Assembly is a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral parliament. In some countries this may be at a subnational level....

 of the 9th Parliament of Upper Canada had four sessions 13 January 1825 to 25 March 1828:

Both the House of Assembly and the Parliament sat at York General Hospital.
Sessions Start End
1st 13 January 1825 13 April 1825
2nd 7 November 1825 30 January 1826
3rd 5 December 1826 17 February 1827
4th 15 January 1828 25 March 1828

Riding Member
Carleton
Carleton County, Ontario
Carleton County is the name of a historic county in Ontario, Canada. In 1969 it was superseded by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. In 2001 the Regional Municipality and the eleven local municipalities within it were replaced by the current City of Ottawa.-History:Carleton County was...

George Thew Burke
George Thew Burke
George Thew Burke was a soldier, merchant and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Ballyartella, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1776. He was a captain in the British Army serving in Canada from 1811 to 1818; he fought under Major General Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights...

Dundas
Dundas County, Ontario
Dundas County is a county in the Canadian province of Ontario.Dundas was created in 1792 by the area's first settlers: German Loyalists who had fought with Sir John Johnson in the American Revolutionary War. The settlers, descendants of the Palatine immigrants to America in 1710, had immigrated to...

John Crysler
John Crysler
John Crysler was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Schoharie, New York in 1770, the son of German immigrants; the family name was originally spelled Krausler or Kruessler. His father served in the British Army during the American Revolution under Sir John Johnson;...

Durham
Durham County, Ontario
Durham County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was named from the English County and city.Durham County was created in 1792. It was composed of the townships of Cartwright, Manvers, Cavan, Darlington, Clarke and Hope, and portions of what is now Peterborough County,...

George Strange Boulton
George Strange Boulton
George Strange Boulton was a lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born near Albany, New York, in 1797, the son of D’Arcy Boulton, and came to Upper Canada with his family around 1800. He studied at John Strachan's school in Cornwall. He served during the War of 1812...

 
Charles Fothergill
Charles Fothergill
Charles Fothergill was a businessman, journalist and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in York, England in 1782, a member of a Quaker family. He developed an interest in natural history at an early age and he published the Ornithologia Britannica at the age of 17...

 (Nov 1825)
Essex
Essex County, Ontario
Essex County is a county and census division located in Southwestern Ontario and covers an area at the southernmost tip of Canada. The administrative seat is Essex...

John Alexander Wilkinson
John Alexander Wilkinson
John Alexander Wilkinson was a judge and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1789. He came to Canada as a member of the British Army in 1814 and later settled at Sandwich . He was named judge in the Surrogate Court for the Western District in 1836...

Essex François Baby
Frontenac
Frontenac County, Ontario
Frontenac County, as defined by Statistics Canada, is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario. The City of Kingston is included in the census division, but is politically separated from the County of Frontenac. It has a land...

Hugh Christopher Thomson
Hugh Christopher Thomson
Hugh Christopher Thomson was a businessman, newspaper publisher and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Kingston in Upper Canada in 1791, the son of a Scottish immigrant who served with Joseph Brant during the American Revolution...

Frontenac James Atkinson
Glengarry
Glengarry County, Ontario
thumb|right|Glengarry located within OntarioGlengarry County , an area covering , is a county in the Canadian province of Ontario, and is historically known for its settlement of Scottish Highlanders due to the Highland Clearances.Glengarry was founded in 1792 by Scottish loyalists, mainly from...

Alexander Macdonell
Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield (politician)
Alexander MacDonell of Greenfield was from a prominent family in Upper Canada. He was the sixth son of Alexander MacDonell of Greenfield and Janet Macdonell of Aberchalder...

Glengarry Duncan Cameron
Duncan Cameron (fur trader)
Duncan Cameron was a Canadian fur trader and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Glenmoriston, Scotland around 1764. He came to Tryon County, New York with his parents in 1773. His father served with a loyalist regiment during the American Revolution and the family came to Upper Canada...

Grenville
Grenville County, Ontario
Grenville County area is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The county was created in 1792, and named in honour of William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Secretary of State in 1790. The First settlers were Loyalist from the United States...

Jonas Jones
Jonas Jones
Jonas Jones was a lawyer, judge, farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Augusta Township, Upper Canada in 1791, the son of Ephraim Jones. He was educated at John Strachan's school in Cornwall and studied law with Levius Peters Sherwood in Elizabethtown...

Grenville Hamilton Walker
Hamilton Walker
Hamilton Walker was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.He lived in Prescott in Upper Canada and married Abigail Jessup, the daughter of Edward Jessup. He served in the local militia, serving during the War of 1812 and became colonel in 1828. He was appointed judge in the Bathurst...

Halton
Halton County, Ontario
Halton County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is also one of the oldest counties in Canada.-History:Halton County is named after Major William Mathew Halton who was appointed in 1805 as Secretary to the Upper Canada provincial Lieutenant-Governor Sir Francis...

Richard Beasley
Richard Beasley
Richard Beasley was a soldier, political figure, farmer and businessman in Upper Canada.He was born in New York in 1761 and moved to Quebec in 1777. In 1783, he formed a partnership with Peter Smith in the fur trade. In 1788, he settled in Barton Township on Lake Ontario near the current city of...

Halton William Scollick
Hastings
Hastings County, Ontario
Hastings County is located in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is The Cheese Capital of Canada. Geographically, it is located on the border of Eastern Ontario and Central Ontario. The population was 125,915 in 2001 and grew to 130,474 in the 2006 Canada Census...

Rueben White
Kent
Kent County, Ontario
Kent County, area 2,458 sq km is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario. Population in 2006 was 108,589.The county was created in 1792 and named by John Graves Simcoe in honour of the English County. The county is in an alluvial plain between Lake St...

James Gordon
Kingston
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

John Cumming
Lanark
Lanark County, Ontario
Lanark County is a county located in the Canadian province of Ontario. As of 2006, the population is 63,785. Its county seat is Perth.The county took its name from the town of Lanark in Scotland.-Geography:...

William Morris
William Morris (Canadian businessman)
William Morris was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Paisley, Scotland in 1786, the son of a Scottish manufacturer. His family came to Upper Canada in 1801, where his father set up an import-export business. The business failed and his father retired to a farm near...

Leeds
Leeds County, Ontario
Leeds County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The county was created in 1792, and merged with Grenville County in 1850 to create Leeds and Grenville County....

Charles Jones
Charles Jones (Upper Canada politician)
Charles Jones was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Montreal in 1781, the son of Ephraim Jones, and came to Augusta Township, then known as Township No. 7, in Upper Canada with his family in 1784...

Leeds David Jones
David Jones (Upper Canada politician)
David Jones was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented Leeds from 1824 to 1828 and Brockville from 1834 to 1836 in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada as a Conservative member....

Lennox
Lennox County, Ontario
Lennox County is a historic county in what is now the Canadian province of Ontario.As an upper-tier municipality, the county of Lennox was created on paper in 1792, but has never existed as a discrete municipal entity. From 1792 until 1864, it was part of the United Counties of Frontenac, Lennox...

 & Addington
Addington County, Ontario
Addington County is a historic county in what is now the Canadian province of Ontario.It was named after Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth. As an upper-tier municipality, the county of Addington was created on paper in 1792, but has never existed as a discrete municipal entity. From 1792...

Marshall Spring Bidwell
Marshall Spring Bidwell
Marshall Spring Bidwell was a lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1799, the son of Barnabas Bidwell. His family settled in Bath in Upper Canada before the War of 1812. He studied with a law firm in Kingston and was called to the Ontario Bar in...

Lennox & Addington Peter Perry
Peter Perry
Peter Perry was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Ernestown, Ontario in 1792, the son of Robert Perry and Jemima Gary Washburn. His father was a United Empire Loyalist from Vermont who had served with the Queen's Rangers and Edward Jessup's Loyal Rangers during the...

1st Lincoln County
Lincoln County, Ontario
Lincoln County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The county was formed in 1792. In 1845, the southern portion of Lincoln County was separated to form Welland County....

John Clarke
John Clarke (Upper Canada)
John Clarke was a merchant, farmer and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented 1st Lincoln in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1820 to 1828 and from 1830 to 1834 as a Conservative...

2nd & 3rd Lincoln
Lincoln County, Ontario
Lincoln County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The county was formed in 1792. In 1845, the southern portion of Lincoln County was separated to form Welland County....

Bartholomew Crannell Beardsley
Bartholomew Crannell Beardsley
Bartholomew Crannell Beardsley was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada and New Brunswick....

2nd & 3rd Lincoln John Johnston Lefferty
John Johnston Lefferty
John Johnston Lefferty was a doctor and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in New Jersey around 1777 and settled in the Niagara region of Upper Canada in 1797. He served as a surgeon for the militia during the War of 1812; his home was burned by American troops. He opened an apothecary...

4th Lincoln
Lincoln County, Ontario
Lincoln County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The county was formed in 1792. In 1845, the southern portion of Lincoln County was separated to form Welland County....

Robert Randal
Robert Randal
Robert Randal was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born Robert Randall in Maryland around 1766; after 1809, he spelled his surname Randal. In 1795, he was part of a partnership which wished to buy the lower Michigan peninsula from the United States government...

Middlesex
Middlesex County, Ontario
Middlesex County is a primarily rural county in Southwestern Ontario. Landlocked, the county is bordered by Huron and Perth counties on the north, Oxford County on the east, Elgin County on the south, and Chatham-Kent and Lambton County on the west.The seat is the city of London, although the city...

John Rolph
Middlesex John Matthews
John Matthews (politician)
For the English doctor , see John Matthews .John Matthews was born in England, the date of birth being unknown...

Niagara (town)
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a Canadian town located in Southern Ontario where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario in the Niagara Region of the southern part of the province of Ontario. It is located across the Niagara river from Youngstown, New York, USA...

Edward William McBride
Edward William McBride
Edward William McBride was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Newark around 1791, the son of a United Empire Loyalist. He served in the local militia during the War of 1812...

Norfolk
Norfolk County, Ontario
Norfolk County is a rural city-status single-tier municipality on the north shore of Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Bloomsburg is a small town located in Norfolk County and is the hometown of David Slater. The county seat and largest community is Simcoe...

Francis Leigh Walsh
Francis Leigh Walsh
Francis Leigh Walsh was a political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Harford County, Maryland in 1789, the son of Thomas Welch, a United Empire Loyalist. He came to Norfolk County with his family in 1793. In 1810, he became registrar for Norfolk County, succeeding his father...

Norfolk Duncan McCall
Duncan McCall
Duncan McCall was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 1769, the son of a private in the British Army, and came to New Brunswick with his family after the American Revolution. In 1796, his family settled in Charlotteville Township in Upper...

Northumberland
Northumberland County, Ontario
Northumberland County is situated on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in central Ontario, Canada. It is located east of Durham County , west of Hastings, southeast of Kawartha Lakes and south of Peterborough County. The county seat is Cobourg...

Zacheus Burnham
Zacheus Burnham
Zacheus Burnham was a farmer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in 1777. He arrived in Upper Canada in 1797 and settled in Hamilton Township near the current site of Cobourg. He was able to acquire large land holdings, thousands of acres, in the region, some as compensation...

Northumberland James Lyons
James Lyons (Upper Canada politician)
James Lyons was a merchant and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented Northumberland in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1824 to 1834 as a Reformer....

 
Benjamin Ewing
Benjamin Ewing
Benjamin Ewing was a farmer, businessman and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented Northumberland in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada in 1825 and from 1828 to 1830....

Oxford
Oxford County, Ontario
Oxford County is a regional municipality and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Southern portion of the province. The regional seat is in Woodstock...

Thomas Hornor
Thomas Hornor
Thomas Hornor was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey in 1767 and studied at the College of New Jersey. In 1794, he led a group of settlers to Watsons Township, later Blenheim Township, and built a sawmill there the...

Oxford Charles Fortescue Ingersoll
Prescott
Prescott County, Ontario
Prescott County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.It was created in 1800 from a portion of Glengarry County. It was named in honor of Major General Robert Prescott, Governor of Canada at that time. First settlers were Americans, but not all were Loyalists...

 & Russell
Russell County, Ontario
Russell County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.It was created in 1800 from a portion of Stormont County. It later merged with Prescott County to form Prescott and Russell United Counties....

Donald Macdonell
Prince Edward
Prince Edward County, Ontario
Prince Edward County is a single-tier municipality and a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario.-Geography:Prince Edward County is located in Southern Ontario on a large irregular headland or littoral at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, just west of the head of the St. Lawrence River...

James Wilson
James Wilson (Upper Canada politician)
James Wilson was an English-born farmer and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented Prince Edward in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1808 to 1810, from 1820 to 1830 and from 1834 to 1836 as a Reformer....

Prince Edward Paul Peterson
Stormont
Stormont County, Ontario
Stormont County area is a county in the Canadian province of Ontario.Stormont was created in 1792, however, it was settled seven years earlier in 1785. Veterans of Loyalist regiments were among the first settlers...

Archibald McLean
Archibald McLean (judge)
Chief Justice The Hon. Archibald McLean was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.-Early life:...

Stormont Philip VanKoughnet
Philip VanKoughnet
Colonel The Hon. Philip VanKoughnet M.P. landowner, businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.- History of the name :...

Wentworth
Wentworth County, Ontario
Wentworth County, area , is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.It was created in 1816 as part of the Gore District in what was then Upper Canada and later Canada West...

George Hamilton
George Hamilton (politician)
George Hamilton was a Canadian merchant and politician, who founded the city of Hamilton, Ontario.Hamiliton was born on October 1788 in Queenston Heights...

Wentworth John Willson
John Willson
John Willson was a judge and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in New Jersey in 1776. He arrived in the Niagara District around 1789 and settled in Saltfleet Township, where he became a farmer, in 1797. In 1809, he was elected to the 5th Parliament of Upper Canada in a by-election in...

 - Speaker 1825-1828
York (town)
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto
Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto
Sir John Beverley Robinson, 1st Baronet CB, was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.Robinson was born in 1791 at Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Christopher Robinson, a United Empire Loyalist of one of the First Families of Virginia, whose grandfather came there in 1641 as...

York
York County, Ontario
York County is a historic county in Upper Canada, Canada West, and the Canadian province of Ontario.York County was created in 1792 and was part of the jurisdiction of Home District of Upper Canada...

 & Simcoe
Simcoe County, Ontario
Simcoe County is located in central portion of Southern Ontario. The County is situated just north of the Greater Toronto Area stretching from the shores of Lake Simcoe in the east to Georgian Bay in the west...

William Thompson
William Thompson (Upper Canada)
William Thompson was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in New Brunswick in 1786, the son of a United Empire Loyalist, and came to Grantham Township with his family in 1809. He served as captain in the local militia during the War of 1812 and fought at the Battle of...

York & Simcoe Ely Playter


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See also

  • Legislative Council of Upper Canada
    Legislative Council of Upper Canada
    The Legislative Council of Upper Canada was the upper house governing the province of Upper Canada. Modelled after the British House of Lords, it was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791. It was specified that the council should consist of at least seven members. Members were appointed for...

  • Executive Council of Upper Canada
    Executive Council of Upper Canada
    The Executive Council of Upper Canada had a similar function to the Cabinet in England but was not responsible to the Legislative Assembly. Members of the Executive Council were not necessarily members of the Legislative Assembly but were usually members of the Legislative Council. Members were...

  • Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
    Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
    The Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791. It was the elected legislature for the province of Upper Canada and functioned as the province's lower house in the Parliament of Upper Canada...

  • Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada, 1791-1841
  • Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
    Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
    This is a list of past arrangements of Canada's electoral districts. Each district sends one member to the Canadian House of Commons. In 1999 and 2003, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario was elected using the same districts within that province...

  • List of Ontario provincial electoral districts
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