16th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 16th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1840 and 1843. The assembly was dissolved on October 26, 1843.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Nova Scotia, Lucius Bentinck Cary.

Joseph Howe was chosen as speaker for the house.

List of members

Electoral District Name First elected / previously elected
Township of Amherst Robert McGowan Dickie 1836
Annapolis County Samuel B. Chipman 1840
Township of Annapolis Henry Gates 1840
Township of Argyle John Ryder 1840
Township of Arichat Henry Martell 1840
Township of Barrington John W. Homer 1840
County of Cape Breton James Boyle Uniacke 1818
Township of Clare Anselme F. Comeau 1840
Colchester County Samuel G. W. Archibald[a] 1830
Thomas Dickson (1841) 1818,[b] 1838,[c], 1841
Township of Cornwallis Mayhew Beckwith 1840
Cumberland County Gaius Lewis 1836
Stephen Fulton 1840
Digby County James B. Holdsworth 1836
Township of Digby Charles Budd 1840
Township of Falmouth Lewis J. Payzant 1840
Township of Granville Stephen S. Thorne 1836
Guysborough County William F. DesBarres 1836
John J. Marshall 1840
Halifax County Joseph Howe 1836
William Annand 1836
Township of Halifax James McNab 1840
Thomas Forrester[d] 1836
William Stairs (1841) 1841
Hants County Benjamin Smith 1836
George McKay 1840
Township of Horton William Johnson 1840
Inverness County William Young 1840
James Turnbull 1840
Kings County Thomas Andrew Strange DeWolf 1836
Samuel Chipman 1830
Township of Liverpool William B. Taylor 1836
Township of Londonderry Gloud W. McLelan 1836
Lunenburg County John Creighton 1830, 1838
Edward Zwicker 1840
Township of Lunenburg John Heckman 1826
Township of Newport Ichabod Dimock 1840
Town of Onslow Alexander M. Upham[d] 1836
John Crowe (1841) 1835, 1841
Pictou County John Holmes 1836
Henry Blackadar 1840
Township of Pictou Henry Hatton 1836
Queens County James R. DeWolf 1830, 1840
Samuel P. Fairbanks 1836
Richmond County James McKeagney[e] 1840
William C. Delaney (1841) 1841
Shelburne County Gilbert McKenna 1840
Township of Shelburne Peter Spearwater, Jr. 1836
Sydney County Richard J. Forrestall 1837
William A. Henry 1840
Township of Sydney Edmund Murray Dodd 1832
Town of Truro Alexander L. Archibald 1830
Township of Windsor Henry Goudge[d] 1840
Henry Palmer (1841) 1841
Yarmouth County Herbert Huntington 1836
Township of Yarmouth Reuben Clements 1830, 1835

Notes

  1. ^ named master of the rolls
  2. ^ Sydney County
  3. ^ Pictou County
  4. ^ a b c died in 1841
  5. ^ election appealed

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