15th Quebec Legislature

The 15th Legislative Assembly of Quebec is the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from June 23, 1919, to February 5, 1923. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Lomer Gouin and Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the governing party. Taschereau succeeded Gouin in 1920 as Premier of Quebec.

Seats per political party[edit]

After the 1919 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	74
	Conservative	5
	Parti ouvrier	2
Total		81
Government Majority		69

Member list[edit]

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1919 election:

Name	Party	Riding
John Hay	Liberal	Argenteuil
Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska
Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot
Arthur Godbout	Liberal	Beauce
Achille Bergevin	Liberal	Beauharnois
Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse
Siméon Lafrenière	Liberal	Berthier
Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud	Liberal	Bonaventure
William Robert Oliver	Liberal	Brome
Eugène Merril Lesieur Desaulniers	Liberal	Chambly
Bruno Bordeleau	Liberal	Champlain
Philippe Dufour	Liberal	Charlevoix et Saguenay
Honoré Mercier Jr.	Liberal	Châteauguay
Joseph-Arthur Gaudreault	Liberal	Chicoutimi
Camille-Émile Desjarlais	Liberal	Compton
Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes
Ernest Ouellet	Liberal	Dorchester
Hector Laferté	Liberal	Drummond
Georges-Stanislas Grégoire	Liberal	Frontenac
Gustave Lemieux	Liberal	Gaspé
Joseph Caron	Liberal	Hull
Andrew Philps	Liberal	Huntingdon
Adélard Forget	Liberal	Iberville
Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Aimé Ashby	Liberal	Jacques-Cartier
Pierre-Joseph Dufresne	Conservative	Joliette
Charles-Adolphe Stein	Liberal	Kamouraska
Honoré Achim	Liberal	Labelle
Émile Moreau	Liberal	Lac-Saint-Jean
Wilfrid Cédilot	Liberal	Laprairie
Walter Reed	Liberal	L'Assomption
Joseph-Olier Renaud Sr.	Conservative	Laval
Alfred-Valère Roy	Liberal	Lévis
Élisée Thériault	Liberal	L'Islet
Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière
Adélard Laurendeau	Parti ouvrier	Maisonneuve
Rodolphe Tourville	Liberal	Maskinongé
Joseph Dufour	Liberal	Matane
Lauréat Lapierre	Liberal	Mégantic
Alexandre Saurette	Liberal	Missisquoi
Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel	Liberal	Montcalm
Charles-Abraham Paquet	Liberal	Montmagny
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency
Aurèle Lacombe	Parti ouvrier	Montréal-Dorion
Joseph-Hercule Bedard	Liberal	Montréal-Hochelaga
Ernest Poulin	Liberal	Montréal-Laurier
Bernard-Augustin Conroy	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne
Napoleon Séguin	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Marie
Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges
Irénée Vautrin	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Jacques
Henry Miles	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Laurent
Peter Bercovitch	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Louis
Amédée Monet	Liberal	Napierville
Joseph-Alcide Savoie	Liberal	Nicolet
Wallace McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac
Lomer Gouin	Liberal	Portneuf
Aurèle Leclerc	Liberal	Québec-Comté
Lawrence Arthur Cannon	Liberal	Québec-Centre
Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Liberal	Québec-Est
Martin Madden	Liberal	Québec-Ouest
Maurice-Louis Péloquin	Liberal	Richelieu
Walter George Mitchell	Liberal	Richmond
Auguste-Maurice Tessier	Liberal	Rimouski
Joseph-Edmond Robert	Liberal	Rouville
Armand Boisseau	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe
Alexis Bouthillier	Liberal	Saint-Jean
Georges-Isidore Delisle	Liberal	Saint-Maurice
Arthur Paquet	Liberal	Saint-Sauveur
William Stephen Bullock	Liberal	Shefford
Joseph-Henri Lemay	Liberal	Sherbrooke
Avila Farand	Liberal	Soulanges
Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead
Télésphore Simard	Liberal	Témiscaming
Louis-Eugène-Aduire Parrot	Liberal	Témiscouata
Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne
Joseph-Adolphe Tessier	Liberal	Trois-Rivières
Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil
Adrien Beaudry	Liberal	Verchères
Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount
Joseph-Eugène Rhéault	Liberal	Wolfe
Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette	Liberal	Yamaska

Other elected MLAs[edit]

Other MLAs were elected during the mandate

Édouard Hamel, Quebec Liberal Party, Portneuf, October 11, 1920 [1]
Nérée Morin, Quebec Liberal Party, Kamouraska, October 19, 1920 [2]
Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard, Quebec Liberal Party, Saint-Maurice, October 19, 1920 [3]
Joseph-Hughes Fortier, Quebec Liberal Party, Beauce, December 15, 1921 [4]
Jacob Nicol, Quebec Liberal Party, Richmond, December 15, 1921 [5]
Louis-Philippe Mercier, Quebec Liberal Party, Trois-Rivières, December 15, 1921 [6]
Cyrinus Lemieux, Quebec Liberal Party, Wolfe, December 15, 1921 [7]
Joseph Gauthier, Parti ouvrier, Montreal-Ste-Marie, December 22, 1921 [8]
Eugène Godbout, Quebec Liberal Party, Témiscouata, December 22, 1921 [9]
Jean-Marie Richard, Quebec Liberal Party, Verchères, December 22, 1921 [10]
Désiré Lahaie, Quebec Liberal Party, Labelle, August 17, 1922 [11]
Ludger Forest, Quebec Liberal Party, Sherbrooke, September 7, 1922 [12]

New or renamed electoral districts[edit]

The electoral map was reformed in 1922 prior to the elections that were held in the following year. [13]

Abitibi was formed from parts of Témiscamingue
The Ottawa district was renamed Hull in 1919.
Matapédia was formed from parts of Matane
Montréal-Mercier was formed from parts of Montréal-Laurier and Montréal-Dorion.
Montréal-Hochelaga was renamed Montréal-Saint-Henri.
Montréal-Verdun was created from parts of Jacques-Cartier.
Napierville and Laprairie merged to form Napierville-Laprairie.
Papineau was formed from parts of Labelle.

Cabinet Ministers[edit]

Gouin Cabinet (1919-1920)[edit]

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Lomer Gouin
Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron
Colonisation, Mines and Fishing: Honoré Mercier (1919), Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1919–1920)
Public Works and Labor: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1919), Antonin Galipeault (1919–1920)
Lands and Forests: Jules Allard (1919), Honoré Mercier Jr (1919–1920)
Roads: Joseph-Adolphe Tessier (1914–1916)
Municipal Affairs: Walter Georges Mitchell
Attorney General:Lomer Gouin (1919), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1919–1920)
Provincial secretary: Louis-Jérémie Décarie (1919), Athanase David (1919–1920)
Treasurer: Walter Georges Mitchell

Taschereau Cabinet (1920-1923)[edit]

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron
Colonisation, Mines and Fishing: Joseph-Édouard Perrault
Public Works and Labor: Antonin Galipeault
Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
Roads: Joseph-Adolphe Tessier (1920–1921), Joseph-Léonide Perron (1921–1923)
Municipal Affairs: Walter Georges Mitchell (1920–1921), Jacob Nichol (1921–1923)
Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Provincial secretary: Athanase David
Treasurer: Walter Georges Mitchell (1920–1921), Jacob Nichol (1921–1923)
Members without portfolios: John Charles Kaine, Narcisse Pérodeau, Joseph-Léonide Perron (1920–1921), Napoléon Seguin, Émile Moreau (1921–1923), Aurèle Lacombe (1921–1923)