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

• After the 1919 elections

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

Member list

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

	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
	John Hay	Liberal	Argenteuil	1910, 1916
	Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska	1916
	Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot	1913
	Arthur Godbout	Liberal	Beauce	1902
	Joseph-Hughes Fortier (1921)	Liberal		1921
	Achille Bergevin	Liberal	Beauharnois	1900, 1919
	Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse	1909
	Siméon Lafrenière	Liberal	Berthier	1919
	Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud	Liberal	Bonaventure	1914
	William Robert Oliver	Liberal	Brome	1917
	Eugène Merril Lesieur Desaulniers	Liberal	Chambly	1909
	Bruno Bordeleau	Liberal	Champlain	1916
	Philippe Dufour	Liberal	Charlevoix et Saguenay	1919
	Honoré Mercier Jr.	Liberal	Châteauguay	1907, 1908
	Joseph-Arthur Gaudreault	Liberal	Chicoutimi	1919
	Camille-Émile Desjarlais	Liberal	Compton	1919
	Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1908
	Ernest Ouellet	Liberal	Dorchester	1917
	Hector Laferté	Liberal	Drummond	1916
	Georges-Stanislas Grégoire	Liberal	Frontenac	1912
	Gustave Lemieux	Liberal	Gaspé	1912
	Joseph Caron	Liberal	Hull	1917
	Andrew Philps	Liberal	Huntingdon	1913
	Adélard Forget	Liberal	Iberville	1919
	Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1902
	Aimé Ashby	Liberal	Jacques-Cartier	1916
	Pierre-Joseph Dufresne	Conservative	Joliette	1919
	Charles-Adolphe Stein	Liberal	Kamouraska	1912
	Nérée Morin (1920)	Liberal		1920
	Honoré Achim	Liberal	Labelle	1917
	Désiré Lahaie (1922)	Liberal		1922
	Émile Moreau	Liberal	Lac-Saint-Jean	1919
	Wilfrid Cédilot	Liberal	Laprairie	1916
	Walter Reed	Liberal	L'Assomption	1908
	Joseph-Olier Renaud Sr.	Conservative	Laval	1919
	Alfred-Valère Roy	Liberal	Lévis	1916
	Élisée Thériault	Liberal	L'Islet	1916
	Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière	1908
	Adélard Laurendeau	Parti ouvrier	Maisonneuve	1919
	Rodolphe Tourville	Liberal	Maskinongé	1912
	Joseph Dufour	Liberal	Matane	1919
	Lauréat Lapierre	Liberal	Mégantic	1916
	Alexandre Saurette	Liberal	Missisquoi	1919
	Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel	Liberal	Montcalm	1917
	Charles-Abraham Paquet	Liberal	Montmagny	1919
	Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency	1900
	Aurèle Lacombe	Parti ouvrier	Montréal-Dorion	1919
	Joseph-Hercule Bedard	Liberal	Montréal-Hochelaga	1919
	Ernest Poulin	Liberal	Montréal-Laurier	1919
	Bernard-Augustin Conroy	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1919
	Napoleon Séguin	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1908
	Joseph Gauthier (1921)	Parti ouvrier		1921
	Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges	1907
	Irénée Vautrin	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Jacques	1919
	Henry Miles	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Laurent	1918
	Peter Bercovitch	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Louis	1916
	Amédée Monet	Liberal	Napierville	1918
	Joseph-Alcide Savoie	Liberal	Nicolet	1917
	Wallace McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac	1919
	Lomer Gouin	Liberal	Portneuf	1897
	Édouard Hamel (1920)	Liberal		1920
	Aurèle Leclerc	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1916
	Lawrence Arthur Cannon	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1916
	Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Liberal	Québec-Est	1908
	Martin Madden	Liberal	Québec-Ouest	1916
	Maurice-Louis Péloquin	Liberal	Richelieu	1912
	Walter George Mitchell	Liberal	Richmond	1914
	Jacob Nicol (1921)	Liberal		1921
	Auguste-Maurice Tessier	Liberal	Rimouski	1912
	Joseph-Edmond Robert	Liberal	Rouville	1908
	Armand Boisseau	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe	1919
	Alexis Bouthillier	Liberal	Saint-Jean	1919
	Georges-Isidore Delisle	Liberal	Saint-Maurice	1908
	Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard (1920)	Liberal		1920
	Arthur Paquet	Liberal	Saint-Sauveur	1916
	William Stephen Bullock	Liberal	Shefford	1912
	Joseph-Henri Lemay	Liberal	Sherbrooke	1919
	Ludger Forest (1922)	Liberal		1922
	Avila Farand	Liberal	Soulanges	1916
	Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead	1913
	Télésphore Simard	Liberal	Témiscaming	1916
	Louis-Eugène-Aduire Parrot	Liberal	Témiscouata	1916
	Eugène Godbout (1921)	Liberal		1921
	Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne	1916
	Joseph-Adolphe Tessier	Liberal	Trois-Rivières	1904
	Louis-Philippe Mercier (1921)	Liberal		1921
	Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil	1901
	Adrien Beaudry	Liberal	Verchères	1916
	Jean-Marie Richard (1921)	Liberal		1921
	Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount	1912
	Joseph-Eugène Rhéault	Liberal	Wolfe	1919
	Cyrinus Lemieux (1921)	Liberal		1921
	Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette	Liberal	Yamaska	1905

Other elected MLAs

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

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

Gouin Cabinet (1919-1920)

• 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)

• 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)

External links

• 1919 election results
• List of Historical Cabinet Ministers (Page 1)
• List of Historical Cabinet Ministers (Page 2)