User:Mr Serjeant Buzfuz/Chicoutimi and Saguenay (Province of Canada electoral district)

Chicoutimi and Saguenay was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada East, near XXX. It was created in 1854, based on the previous electoral district of the same name for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.

In form, the electoral district was composed of two different districts, Chicoutimi and Saguenay, but although defined separately, the two districts voted together, electing one member representing both districts in the Legislative Assembly.

The districts were created by a redistribution statute passed in 1853, which came into force in the general elections of 1854. In that election, the joint district was called "Chicoutimi and Tadousac", but in all subsequent elections it was called "Chicoutimi and Saguenay".

The joint district was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of Canada and the province of Quebec.

Boundaries
XXXX electoral district was located XXXX (now in XXX). XXX was the major centre.

The Union Act, 1840 merged the two provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with a single Parliament. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished. The Union Act provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Lower Canada and Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new Parliament, unless altered by the Union Act itself.

The Lower Canada electoral district of XXX was not altered by the Act. It was therefore continued with the same boundaries in the new Parliament. Those boundaries had been set by a statute of Lower Canada in 1829:

The County of XXX

Members of the Legislative Assembly
XXX was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly. The following were the members for XXX.

Abolition
The joint district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act, 1867 came into force, creating Canada and splitting the Province of Canada into Quebec and Ontario. It was succeeded by electoral districts of the same name in the House of Commons of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.