21st Quebec Legislature

The 21st Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from October 25, 1939, to August 8, 1944. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Adélard Godbout was the governing party. It was the last term for the Liberals in power until 1960. The Union Nationale were in power for the following four terms.

Seats per political party

After the 1939 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	70
	Union Nationale	15
	Independent	1
Total		86
Government Majority		55

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1939 election:

Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
Félix Allard	Liberal	Abitibi	1939
Georges-Étienne Dansereau	Liberal	Argenteuil	1935
Wilfrid Girouard	Liberal	Arthabaska	1939
Cyrille Dumaine	Liberal	Bagot	1935, 1939
Henri-René Renault	Liberal	Beauce	1939
Delpha Sauvé	Union Nationale	Beauharnois	1935
Valmore Bienvenue	Liberal	Bellechasse	1939
Cléophas Bastien	Liberal	Berthier	1927
Pierre-Émile Côté	Liberal	Bonaventure	1924, 1939
Jonathan Robinson	Union Nationale	Brome	1936
Dowina-Évariste Joyal	Liberal	Chambly	1939
Joseph-Philias Morin	Union Nationale	Champlain	1939
Edgar Rochette	Liberal	Charlevoix—Saguenay	1927, 1939
Roméo Fortin	Liberal	Châteauguay-Laprairie	1939
Antonio Talbot	Union Nationale	Chicoutimi	1938
William James Duffy	Liberal	Compton	1931, 1939
Paul Sauvé	Union Nationale	Deux-Montagnes	1930, 1936
Joseph-Damase Bégin	Union Nationale	Dorchester	1935
Arthur Rajotte	Liberal	Drummond	1935, 1939
Henri-Louis Gagnon	Liberal	Frontenac	1931, 1939
Perreault Casgrain	Liberal	Gaspé-Nord	1939
Camille-Eugène Pouliot	Union Nationale	Gaspé-Sud	1936
Joseph-Célestin Nadon	Liberal	Gatineau	1939
Alexis Caron	Liberal	Hull	1935, 1939
James Walker Ross	Liberal	Huntingdon	1939
Dennis James O'Connor (1941)	Liberal	Huntingdon	1941
Émile Bonvouloir	Liberal	Iberville	1939
Hormisdas Langlais	Union Nationale	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1936
Charles-Aimé Kirkland	Liberal	Jacques-Cartier	1939
Antonio Barrette	Union Nationale	Joliette	1936
Léon Casgrain	Liberal	Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup	1927
Albiny Paquette	Union Nationale	Labelle	1935
Joseph-Ludger Fillion	Liberal	Lac-Saint-Jean	1931, 1939
Bernard Bissonnette	Liberal	L'Assomption	1939
François Leduc	Liberal	Laval	1935
Edmond Guibord	Liberal	Laviolette	1939
Joseph-Georges Francoeur	Liberal	Lévis	1939
Adélard Godbout	Liberal	L'Islet	1929, 1939
René Chaloult	Liberal^[a]	Lotbinière	1936
	Bloc populaire canadien
	Independent
Joseph-Georges Caron	Liberal	Maisonneuve	1939
Louis-Joseph Thisdel	Liberal	Maskinongé	1930, 1939
Onésime Gagnon	Union Nationale	Matane	1936
Joseph Dufour	Liberal	Matapédia	1919, 1939
Louis Houde	Liberal	Mégantic	1939
Tancrède Labbé (1940)	Union Nationale	Mégantic	1935, 1940
Henri A. Gosselin	Liberal	Missisquoi	1939
Joseph-Odilon Duval	Liberal	Montcalm	1939
Fernand Choquette	Liberal	Montmagny	1939
Jacques Dumoulin	Liberal	Montmorency	1939
Joseph-Émile Dubreuil	Liberal	Montréal–Jeanne-Mance	1939
Paul Gauthier	Liberal	Montréal-Laurier	1939
Joseph-Achille Francoeur	Liberal	Montréal-Mercier	1931, 1939
James Arthur Mathewson	Liberal	Montréal–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	1939
Henri Groulx	Liberal	Montréal-Outremont	1939
Francis Lawrence Connors	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1935
Thomas Guérin (1942)	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1942
Camillien Houde	Independent^[b]	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1923, 1928, 1939
Émile Boucher	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Henri	1939
Joseph-Roméo Toupin	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Jacques	1939
Maurice Hartt	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Louis	1939
Léopold Comeau	Liberal	Montréal-Verdun	1939
Henri-Napoléon Biron	Liberal	Nicolet	1939
Roméo Lorrain	Union Nationale	Papineau	1935
Edward Charles Lawn	Liberal	Pontiac	1935
Lucien Plamondon	Liberal	Portneuf	1939
Joseph-William Morin	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1939
François-Xavier Bouchard	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1939
Oscar Drouin	Liberal	Québec-Est	1928
Charles Delagrave	Liberal	Québec-Ouest	1935
Félix Messier	Liberal	Richelieu-Verchères	1927
Joseph-Willie Robidoux (1942)	Liberal	Richelieu-Verchères	1942
Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais	Liberal	Richmond	1923, 1939
Louis-Joseph Moreault	Liberal	Rimouski	1923, 1939
Georges Potvin	Liberal	Roberval	1939
Henri-Pascal Panet	Liberal	Rouville	1939
Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe	1912, 1923
Alexis Bouthillier	Liberal	Saint-Jean–Napierville	1919
Jean-Paul Beaulieu (1941)	Union Nationale	Saint-Jean–Napierville	1941
Polydore Beaulac	Liberal	Saint-Maurice	1939
Wilfrid Hamel	Liberal	Saint-Sauveur	1939
Charles Munson Bullock	Liberal	Shefford	1939
John Samuel Bourque	Union Nationale	Sherbrooke	1935
Raymond-François Frégeau	Liberal	Stanstead	1939
Paul-Oliva Goulet	Liberal	Témiscamingue	1939
Joseph-Alphonse Beaulieu	Liberal	Témiscouata	1935, 1939
Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne	1916, 1939
Damase Perrier (1940)	Liberal	Terrebonne	1940
Maurice Duplessis	Union Nationale	Trois-Rivières	1927
Alphide Sabourin	Liberal	Vaudreuil-Soulanges	1939
Georges Gordon Hyde	Liberal	Westmount–Saint-Georges	1939
George Carlyle Marler (1942)	Liberal	Westmount–Saint-Georges	1942
Thomas Hercule Lapointe	Liberal	Wolfe	1933, 1939
Antonio Élie	Union Nationale	Yamaska	1931

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during this term

Joseph-Tancrède Labbé, Union Nationale, Mégantic, November 19, 1940 [1]
Damase Perrier, Quebec Liberal Party, Terrebonne, November 19, 1940 [2]
Dennis James O'Connor, Quebec Liberal Party, Huntingdon, October 6, 1941 [3]
Jean-Paul Beaulieu, Union Nationale, Saint-Jean-Napierville, October 6, 1941 [4]
Thomas Guérin, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal-Sainte-Anne, March 23, 1942 [5]
Claude Jodoin, Quebec Liberal Party, Montréal-Saint-Jacques, March 23, 1942 [6]
Joseph-Willie Robidoux, Quebec Liberal Party, Richelieu-Verchères, March 23, 1942 [7]
George Carlyle Marler, Quebec Liberal Party, Westmount-Saint-Georges, March 23, 1942 [8]

Cabinet Ministers

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Adélard Godbout
Agriculture: Adélard Godbout
Colonization: Adélard Godbout (1939-1942), Cléophas Bastien (1942-1944)
Labour: Edgar Rochette
Public Works: Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (1939-1942), Georges-Étienne Dansereau (1942-1944)
Health: Henri Groulx (1939-1941)
Social Welfare: Henri Groulx (1940-1941)
- Health and Social Welfare:Henri Groulx (1941-1944)
Lands, Forests, Hunting and Fishing: Pierre-Émile Côté (1939-1941)
- Lands and Forests: Pierre-Émile Côté (1941-1942), Wilfrid Hamel (1942-1944)
- Hunting and Fishing: Pierre-Émile Côté (1941-1942), Valmore Bienvenue (1942-1944)
Mines and Fisheries: Edgar Rochette (1939-1941)
- Mines and coastal fisheries: Edgar Rochette (1941-1942)
  - Mines: Edgar Rochette (1942-1944)
Roads: Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (1939-1944), Georges-Étienne Dansereau (1944)
Municipal Affairs, Industry and Commerce: Oscar Drouin (1939-1944), Henri-René Renault (1944)
Attorney General: Wilfrid Girouard (1939-1942), Léon Casgrain (1942-1944)
Provincial Secretary: Henri Groulx (1939-1940), Hector Perrier (1940-1944)
Treasurer: James Arthur Matthewson
Members without portfolios: Frank Lawrence Connors, Georges-Étienne Dansereau (1939-1942), Léon Casgrain (1939-1942), Louis-Joseph Thisdel, Cléophas Bastien (1939-1942), Wilfrid Hamel (1939-1942), Francois-Philippe Brais (1940-1944), Perrault Casgrain (1942-1944), Henri-René Renault (1942-1944), Joseph-Achille Francoeur (1944), Maurice Gingues (1944)

New electoral districts

The electoral map was reformed in 1944 which was used in the upcoming election later that year. Some of the changes included de-mergers of ridings that were created in the previous reform in 1939. [9]

Abitibi was split into two ned ridings: Abitibi-Ouest and Abitibi-Est.
Rouyn-Noranda was formed from parts of Témiscamingue.
The riding of Napierville-Laprairie was recreated after Châteauguay and Laprairie were de-merged as well as Saint-Jean and Napierville which formed Saint-Jean-Napierville in 1939. Châteauguay and Saint-Jean were reformed as individual ridings.
Richelieu and Verchères, which formed Richelieu-Verchères returned as individual ridings.
Kamouraska and Rivière-du-Loup which formed Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup returned as individual ridings.

Notes

^ First elected as a Union Nationale candidate
^ 1923 and 1928 elected as a Conservative

References

External links

List of Historical Cabinet Ministers

[1] First elected as a Union Nationale candidate

[2] 1923 and 1928 elected as a Conservative

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