Legislative council of Low-Canada

The Legislative council of Low-Canada was, of 1792 to 1838, the Upper House, not elected, of the bicameral structure of the legislative power of the British colony of the Low-Canada.

The Legislative council and the legislative assembled of Low-Canada were created by the constitutional Acte of 1791. The provisions which concern the legislative council find in articles II to XII of the constitutional Act:

the Loi S of Low-Canada were to be adopted by the legislative council and the legislative assembly, then sanctioned by the representative of the royal capacity (Article II).
the legislative council was made up legislative advisers named by the Gouverneur. The governor had discretion to name at the legislative council “a sufficient number careful and qualified men”, but it was to name a minimum of fifteen members there (Article III).
Once named, the members of the legislative council preserved their seat at life (Article V).
the constitutional Act provided moreover the possibility that the British sovereign can grant to certain people a transmissible right hereditarily to sit at the legislative council (Article VI), but this possibility was never put in practice at Low-Canada.

The two legislative rooms of Low-Canada were dissolved the March 27th 1838, following the Rébellion of the Patriots and Low-Canada was then managed by a special council (of 1838 to 1840). After the Act of union of 1840, the Legislative council of the province of Canada was created in 1841.

List members

Presidency

It is to the governor that the capacity was allotted to name and to relieve the President of the legislative council (Article XII of the constitutional Act). A practice is established according to which the presidency of the legislative council was almost always entrusted to the Juge as a chief of the colony. At that time, the imperial capacity did not consider the incompatibility of the political activities and legal S. However, the judge as a chief in front of sometimes going away from the council to discharge its functions with the Tribunal, the legislative council named then among his members of the presidents to replace it.

List presidents of 1792 to 1838

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