16th Quebec Legislature

The 16th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from February 5, 1923, to May 16, 1927. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the governing party.

Seats per political party

• After the 1923 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	63
	Conservative	20
	Parti ouvrier	1
	Liberal Independent	1
Total		85
Government Majority		43

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1923 election:

	Name	Party	Riding
	Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Abitibi
	John Hay	Liberal	Argenteuil
	Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska
	Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot
	Joseph-Hugues Fortier	Liberal	Beauce
	Arthur Plante	Conservative	Beauharnois
	Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse
	Siméon Lafrenière	Liberal	Berthier
	Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud	Liberal	Bonaventure
	William Robert Oliver	Liberal	Brome
	Alexandre Thurber	Liberal	Chambly
	Bruno Bordeleau	Liberal	Champlain
	Philippe Dufour	Liberal	Charlevoix et Saguenay
	Honoré Mercier Jr.	Liberal	Châteauguay
	Gustave Delisle	Liberal	Chicoutimi
	Jacob Nicol	Liberal	Compton
	Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes
	Ernest Ouellet	Liberal	Dorchester
	Hector Laferté	Liberal	Drummond
	Cyrille Baillargeon	Liberal	Frontenac
	Gustave Lemieux	Liberal	Gaspé
	Joseph-Roméo Lafond	Liberal	Hull
	Andrew Philps	Liberal	Huntingdon
	Lucien Lamoureux	Liberal	Iberville
	Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine
	Ésioff-Léon Patenaude	Conservative	Jacques-Cartier
	Pierre-Joseph Dufresne	Conservative	Joliette
	Nérée Morin	Liberal	Kamouraska
	Pierre Lortie	Liberal	Labelle
	Émile Moreau	Liberal	Lac-Saint-Jean
	Walter Reed	Liberal	L'Assomption
	Joseph-Olier Renaud Sr.	Conservative	Laval
	Alfred-Valère Roy	Liberal	Lévis
	Élisée Thériault	Liberal	L'Islet
	Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière
	Jean-Marie Pellerin	Conservative	Maisonneuve
	Rodolphe Tourville	Liberal	Maskinongé
	Joseph-Arthur Bergeron	Liberal	Matane
	Joseph Dufour	Liberal	Matapédia
	Lauréat Lapierre	Liberal	Mégantic
	Alexandre Saurette	Liberal	Missisquoi
	Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel	Liberal	Montcalm
	Charles-Abraham Paquet	Liberal	Montmagny
	Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency
	Ernest Tétreau	Liberal Independent	Montréal-Dorion
	Alfred Duranleau	Conservative	Montréal-Laurier
	Adolphe L'Archevêque	Conservative	Montréal-Mercier
	William James Hushion	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne
	Camillien Houde	Conservative	Montréal–Sainte-Marie
	Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges
	Joseph Allan Bray	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Henri
	Eusèbe Beaudoin	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Jacques
	Ernest Walter Sayer	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Laurent
	Peter Bercovitch	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Louis
	Pierre-Auguste Lafleur	Conservative	Montréal-Verdun
	Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau	Liberal	Napierville-Laprairie
	Joseph-Alcide Savoie	Liberal	Nicolet
	Désiré Lahaie	Liberal	Papineau
	Wallace McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac
	Édouard Hamel	Liberal	Portneuf
	Aurèle Leclerc	Liberal	Québec-Comté
	Pierre-Vincent Faucher	Conservative	Québec-Centre
	Louis-Alfred Létourneau	Liberal	Québec-Est
	Martin Madden	Liberal	Québec-Ouest
	Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière	Liberal	Richelieu
	Georges-Ervé Denault	Liberal	Richmond
	Louis-Joseph Moreault	Liberal	Rimouski
	Cyril-Améric Bernard	Liberal	Rouville
	Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe
	Alexis Bouthillier	Liberal	Saint-Jean
	Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard	Liberal	Saint-Maurice
	Pierre Bertrand	Parti ouvrier	Saint-Sauveur
	William Stephen Bullock	Liberal	Shefford
	Moïse O'Bready	Conservative	Sherbrooke
	Joseph-Arthur Lortie	Conservative	Soulanges
	Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead
	Télésphore Simard	Liberal	Témiscamingue
	Jules Langlais	Conservative	Témiscouata
	Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne
	Louis-Philippe Mercier	Liberal	Trois-Rivières
	Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil
	Jean-Marie Richard	Liberal	Verchères
	Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount
	Cyrénus Lemieux	Liberal	Wolfe
	Guillaume-Édouard Ouellette	Liberal	Yamaska

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during the term in by-elections

• Hector Authier, Quebec Liberal Party, Abitibi, October 22, 1923
• Carlton James Oliver, Quebec Liberal Party, Brome, October 22, 1923
• Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais, Quebec Liberal Party, Richmond, October 22, 1923
• David Laperrière, Quebec Liberal Party, Yamaska, October 22, 1923
• Pierre-Émile Côté, Quebec Liberal Party, Bonaventure, November 5, 1924
• Ludger Bastien, Quebec Conservative Party, Québec, November 5, 1924
• Alphonse-Edgar Guillemette, Quebec Liberal Party, Saint-Maurice, November 5, 1924
• Armand-Charles Crépeau, Quebec Conservative Party, Sherbrooke, November 5, 1924
• Joseph Miljours, Quebec Liberal Party, Témiscamingue, November 28, 1924
• Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques, Quebec Conservative Party, Argenteuil, November 30, 1925
• Amédée Sylvestre, Quebec Liberal Party, Berthier, November 30, 1925
• William-Pierre Grant, Quebec Liberal Party, Champlain, November 30, 1925
• Victor Marchand, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques-Cartier, November 30, 1925

Cabinet Ministers

• 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-Léonide Perron
• Municipal Affairs: Jacob Nicol (1923-1924), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1924-1927)
• Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Provincial secretary: Athanase David
• Treasurer: Jacob Nicol
• Members without portfolios: Martin Madden, Laureat Lapierre (1924-1927), Joseph Henry Dillon (1927), Alfred Leduc (1927)

References

• 1923 election results
• List of Historical Cabinet Ministers