Legislative Council of Upper Canada
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Unlike the other three provinces that would initially make up the Dominion of Canada, a provincial Legislative Council was not re-established for Ontario when the province entered Confederation in 1867.
List of Members of the Legislative Council
Notes:
- Jacob Mountain was the Anglican Bishop of Quebec; he never attended a session but was not dropped.
- Angus McIntosh never attended a session but was not dropped; he returned to Scotland in 1831.
- James Gordon was re-appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in October 1845.
- Alexander Grant, Jr. and Abraham Nelles did not attend after 1832.
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Speakers
The Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench was usually the Speaker of the Council:
- William Osgoode 1792–1794
- Peter Russell 1795–1796
- John Elmsley 1796–1802
- Henry Allcock 1803–1806
- Thomas Scott 1806–1816
- William Dummer Powell 1816–1825
- William Campbell (jurist) 1825–1829
- Sir John Beverley Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto 1829–1840
- Jonas Jones April 1839–June 1840 (interim)
Buildings housing the Legislative Council
The Legislative Council sat in the same building as the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada:
- Navy Hall at Newark (1792)
- first (1793–1813) and second (1820–1824) Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada at York
- residence of the Chief Justice of Upper Canada (1813–1820)
- old York County Court House on King between Toronto and Church Streets (1829–1832)
- ballroom of York Hotel at York - one session 1813
- York General Hospital (1824–1829)
- third Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada (1832–1840)
Meeting Places
- St. George's Church, Kingston - July 1792; Church demolished 1825 (replaced with St. George's Cathedral), site now Kingston Market Square across from Kingston Custom House (294 King Street East)
- In a tent and later at Navy Hall or Freemasons Hall in Newark - September 1792 – 1796
- Various buildings that housed Parliament at York - 1797-1841
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