Executive Council of Lower Canada
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The Executive Council of Lower Canada was an appointive body created by the Constitutional Act of 1791
Constitutional Act of 1791
The Constitutional Act of 1791, formally The Clergy Endowments Act, 1791 , is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain...

. Its function was to advise the Governor or his representative on the administration of the colony's public affairs. It was replaced by the Executive Council of the Province of Canada
Executive Council of the Province of Canada
The Executive Council of the Province of Canada had a similar function to the Cabinet in England but was not responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from its inception in 1841 to 1848....

 in 1841.

List of Members

Member Start Stop Authority
James McGill
James McGill
James McGill was a Scottish-Canadian businessman, military commander and philanthropist known for being the founder of McGill University...

November 22, 1793 December 19, 1813 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, KB , known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Irish-British soldier and administrator...

William Osgood September 19, 1794 1801 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
James Monk
James Monk
Sir James Monk was Chief Justice of Lower Canada. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia where his father had settled in 1749....

November 29, 1794 June 1820 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
John Lees
John Lees
John Lees may refer to:*John Lees , American contemporary artist*John Lees , English bodybuilder*John Lees , English textile machinery inventor...

December 29, 1794 March 4, 1807 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay
Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay
Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay was a seigneur, soldier and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Quebec City in 1765, the son of Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He served as lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment from 1798 to 1802...

December 29, 1794 December 15, 1806 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
John Young
John Young (seigneur)
John Young was a seigneur, businessman, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He may have been born in Scotland around 1759. Young became a merchant in London and came to Quebec City in 1783 to collect debts from a bankrupt firm there on behalf of firms from London and Glasgow. He entered...

December 29, 1794 September 14, 1819 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Reverend Jacob Mountain
Jacob Mountain
Jacob Mountain was an English churchman who became the first Anglican Bishop of Quebec.-Biography:The third son of Jacob Mountain of Thwaite Hall, Norfolk, by Ann, daughter of Jehoshaphat Postle of Wymondham, he was born at Thwaite Hall on 30 December 1749, and educated at Caius College,...

 Lord bishop of Quebec
November 19, 1795 June 16, 1825 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Adam Lymburner September 16, 1791 1799? Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Jenkin Williams May 25, 1801 October, 30 1819 Robert Shore Milnes
John Craigie
John Craigie
John Craigie was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Scotland, probably in 1757, and came to Quebec in 1781 as deputy commissary general for the British Army there. Craigie was named commissary general in 1784. The following year, he became private secretary to...

May 25, 1801 November 26, 1813 Robert Shore Milnes
Pierre-Louis Panet
Pierre-Louis Panet
Pierre-Louis Panet was a lawyer, notary, seigneur, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Montreal in 1761, the son of Pierre Panet. Panet qualified to practice as a lawyer in 1779 and as a notary in 1780. He practiced as a notary at Montreal from 1781 to 1783 and at Quebec City...

May 25, 1801 December 2, 1812 Robert Shore Milnes
Chief Justice John Elmsley, Sr. October 29, 1802 April 29, 1805 Robert Shore Milnes
S. Richardson November 25, 1805 Thomas Dunn
Chief Justice Henry Allcock
Henry Allcock
Henry Allcock was a judge and political figure in Upper and Lower Canada.His family was from Edgbaston and he was born in Birmingham, England in 1759 and studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London. He was called to the bar in 1791. In 1798, he was appointed judge in the Court of King's Bench of Upper...

August 12, 1806 February 22 1808 Thomas Dunn
Justice Jonathan Sewell
Jonathan Sewell
Jonathan Sewell was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.-Early life:He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of the last British attorney general of Massachusetts...

September 8, 1808 March 27, 1838 James Henry Craig
James Henry Craig
General Sir James Henry Craig KB was a British military officer and colonial administrator.-Early life and military service:...

James Irvine
James Irvine (Quebec businessman)
Lt.-Colonel The Hon. James Irvine J.P., M.P. was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.James Irvine was born in England in 1766, the son of Adam Irvine and Elizabeth , daughter of John Johnston , 4th laird of Outbrecks, Orkney...

August 22, 1809 1822 James Henry Craig
James Kerr June 26, 1812 November, 20 1831 George Prevost
George Prevost
Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the eldest son of Swiss French Augustine Prévost, he joined the British Army as a youth and became a captain in 1784. Prévost served in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary...

Ross Cuthbert
Ross Cuthbert
Ross Cuthbert was a Canadian writer, lawyer and politician.Born at Berthier and baptised at Montreal, as the son of James Cuthbert, he was heir to the seigneuries of Lanoraie and Dautray...

June 26, 1812 until 1824, or 1838, or 1841, depending on sources George Prevost
M. H. Perceval June 26, 1812 October, 12 1829 George Prevost
John Mure
John Mure
John Mure was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Scotland around 1776, probably in Kilmarnock parish, and had arrived in Montreal by 1782. In 1778, he was hired by James Tod as a clerk at Quebec City. He later went into business on his own, involved in the fur trade...

June 26, 1812 January 17, 1823 George Prevost
Olivier Perrault
Olivier Perrault
Olivier Perrault was a seigneur, lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada. He was also sometimes known as Jean-Baptiste-Olivier Perrault....

June 26, 1812 March 19, 1827 George Prevost
William Bacheler Coltman July 5, 1815 1825? George Prevost
William Smith
William Smith (chief justice)
William Smith was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1763 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec, later Lower Canada, from 1786 until his death...

September 16, 1791 December 6, 1793 John Coape Sherbrooke
John Coape Sherbrooke
Sir John Coape Sherbrooke was a British soldier and colonial administrator. After serving in the British army in Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, India, the Mediterranean , and Spain, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1811.His active defense of the colony during the War of 1812...

Mr. Hale
Hale
-Surname:Possible Meanings:From the Old English halh — nook, hollow or recess.Old Saxon; Haelaeh - hero. Later connotations: strong, courageous, healthy, robust, etc....

December 28, 1820 December, 24 1838 George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
General George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie GCB , styled Lord Ramsay until 1787, was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator...

Mr. Speaker Louis-Joseph Papineau
Louis-Joseph Papineau
Louis-Joseph Papineau , born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–1838. His father was Joseph Papineau, also a famous politician in Quebec...

December 28, 1820 January 25, 1823 George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Mr. Secretary John Ready
John Ready
Major General The Honourable John Ready was a British army officer, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1824 to 1831 and also as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1832 to 1845.-Career:...

December 28, 1820 January 29, 1822 George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Charles J. Stewart
Charles J. Stewart
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, D.D. Bishop
November 22, 1826 July 13, 1837 George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Charles-Étienne Chaussegros de Léry
Charles-Étienne Chaussegros de Léry
Charles-Étienne Chaussegros de Léry was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in the town of Quebec in 1774, the son of seigneur Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry and Louise Martel de Brouague, the daughter of François Martel de Brouague...

, esq.
January 4, 1826 October 22, 1835 or in 1837, depending on sources George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
John Stewart
John Stewart
- Academia and literature :*John Stewart of Baldynneis , Scottish courtier and writer*John "Walking" Stewart , English traveller and philosopher*John Alexander Stewart , Scottish scholar of Burmese...

, esq.
January 4, 1826 February 10, 1841 George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Andrew William Cochran, esq. May 15 1827 ? George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Philippe Panet
Philippe Panet
Philippe Panet was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Quebec City in 1791, the son of Jean-Antoine Panet, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec...

, esq.
May 26 1831 November 2, 1838 or February 10, 1841 Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer
‎Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer was a British military officer and colonial administrator.- Napoleonic Wars :...

Dominique Mondelet, esq. November 16, 1832 February 10, 1841 Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer
Hughes Heney, esq. January 28, 1833 February 10, 1841 Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer

See also

  • Legislative Council of Lower Canada
    Legislative Council of Lower Canada
    The Legislative Council of Lower Canada was the upper house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The upper house consisted of appointed councillors who voted on bills passed up by the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. The legislative council was...

  • Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
    Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
    The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The legislative assembly was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791...

  • National Assembly of Quebec
    National Assembly of Quebec
    The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the...

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