18th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 18th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between the 1847 and 1851, its membership being set in the August 5th, 1847 Nova Scotia general election.

The Assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Nova Scotia, Sir John Harvey.

This Assembly is noteworthy for many reasons. It was the first Assembly elected after the adoption of the Simultaneous Polling Bill, which resulted in an election in days, rather than three to four weeks. It was the first election after the establishment of responsible government. The government of James W. Johnstone was the first to be defeated in the polls in Nova Scotia, resulting in a want of confidence resolution passing in the House, and the first resignation of a government in the province. Finally, the Governor asked James B. Uniacke to submit an outline of a new administration, and form the first elected, responsible government in the Province of Nova Scotia.

Division of Seats

Counties

• Halifax - Joseph Howe, Henry Y. Mott
• Colchester - Samuel Creelman
• Pictou - G.R. Young, Andrew Robertson
• Cumberland - Stephen Fulton, R. McGowan Dickie
• Hants - William Card, John McDougall
• Kings - John C. Hall, Daniel Moore
• Annapolis - James W. Johnston
• Digby - Francis Bourneuf
• Yarmouth - Herbert Huntington
• Shelburne - Gilbert McKenna
• Queen's - S.P. Freeman and John Campbell
• Lunenburg - George Ernst, Henry Mignowitz
• Sydney - William A.Henry, James McLeod
• Guysborough - W. F. DesBarres, A. McDonald
• Cape Breton - James B. Uniacke
• Richmond - Chas. F. Harrington
• Inverness - William Young, Peter Smyth

Townships

• Halifax - James McNab, Lawrence O'C. Doyle
• Truro - William Fleming
  • Fleming's election was overturned and Alexander Lackie Archibald was declared elected in 1848
• Onslow - John Crowe
• Londonderry - John Wier
• Pictou - Henry Blackadar
• Amherst - W. W. Bent
• Windsor - James D. Fraser
• Newport - Ichabod Dimock
• Falmouth - James Sangster
• Cornwallis - Mayhew Beckwith
• Horton - Edward L. Brown, MD
• Granville - Stephen S. Thorne
• Annapolis - Alfred Whitman
• Digby - Charles Budd
• Clare - Anselm F. Comeau
• Yarmouth - Thomas Killam
• Argyle - John Ryder
• Shelburne - Joshua Snow
• Barrington - John Homer
• Liverpool - William B. Taylor
• Lunenburg - John Kedy
• Sydney (C.B.) - Edmund M. Dodd
• Arichat (C.B.) - Henry Martell

References

• David Allison; "History of Nova Scotia", Bowen, Halifax, 1916.

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