Executive Council of Lower Canada - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Executive Council of Lower Canada was an appointive body created by the Constitutional Act of 1791

Constitutional Act of 1791

The Constitutional Act of 1791, formally The Clergy Endowments Act, 1791 , is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain...

. Its function was to advise the Governor or his representative on the administration of the colony's public affairs. It was replaced by the Executive Council of the Province of Canada

Executive Council of the Province of Canada

The Executive Council of the Province of Canada had a similar function to the Cabinet in England but was not responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from its inception in 1841 to 1848....

in 1841.

List of Members

Member	Start	Stop	Authority
James McGill James McGill James McGill was a Scottish-Canadian businessman, military commander and philanthropist known for being the founder of McGill University...	November 22, 1793	December 19, 1813	Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, KB , known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Irish-British soldier and administrator...
William Osgood	September 19, 1794	1801	Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
James Monk James Monk Sir James Monk was Chief Justice of Lower Canada. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia where his father had settled in 1749....	November 29, 1794	June 1820	Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
John Lees John Lees John Lees may refer to:John Lees , American contemporary artistJohn Lees , English bodybuilder*John Lees , English textile machinery inventor...	December 29, 1794	March 4, 1807	Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay was a seigneur, soldier and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Quebec City in 1765, the son of Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He served as lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment from 1798 to 1802...	December 29, 1794	December 15, 1806	Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
John Young John Young (seigneur) John Young was a seigneur, businessman, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He may have been born in Scotland around 1759. Young became a merchant in London and came to Quebec City in 1783 to collect debts from a bankrupt firm there on behalf of firms from London and Glasgow. He entered...	December 29, 1794	September 14, 1819	Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Reverend Jacob Mountain Jacob Mountain Jacob Mountain was an English churchman who became the first Anglican Bishop of Quebec.-Biography:The third son of Jacob Mountain of Thwaite Hall, Norfolk, by Ann, daughter of Jehoshaphat Postle of Wymondham, he was born at Thwaite Hall on 30 December 1749, and educated at Caius College,... Lord bishop of Quebec	November 19, 1795	June 16, 1825	Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Adam Lymburner	September 16, 1791	1799?	Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Jenkin Williams	May 25, 1801	October, 30 1819	Robert Shore Milnes
John Craigie John Craigie John Craigie was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Scotland, probably in 1757, and came to Quebec in 1781 as deputy commissary general for the British Army there. Craigie was named commissary general in 1784. The following year, he became private secretary to...	May 25, 1801	November 26, 1813	Robert Shore Milnes
Pierre-Louis Panet Pierre-Louis Panet Pierre-Louis Panet was a lawyer, notary, seigneur, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Montreal in 1761, the son of Pierre Panet. Panet qualified to practice as a lawyer in 1779 and as a notary in 1780. He practiced as a notary at Montreal from 1781 to 1783 and at Quebec City...	May 25, 1801	December 2, 1812	Robert Shore Milnes
Chief Justice John Elmsley, Sr.	October 29, 1802	April 29, 1805	Robert Shore Milnes
S. Richardson	November 25, 1805		Thomas Dunn
Chief Justice Henry Allcock Henry Allcock Henry Allcock was a judge and political figure in Upper and Lower Canada.His family was from Edgbaston and he was born in Birmingham, England in 1759 and studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London. He was called to the bar in 1791. In 1798, he was appointed judge in the Court of King's Bench of Upper...	August 12, 1806	February 22 1808	Thomas Dunn
Justice Jonathan Sewell Jonathan Sewell Jonathan Sewell was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.-Early life:He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of the last British attorney general of Massachusetts...	September 8, 1808	March 27, 1838	James Henry Craig James Henry Craig General Sir James Henry Craig KB was a British military officer and colonial administrator.-Early life and military service:...
James Irvine James Irvine (Quebec businessman) Lt.-Colonel The Hon. James Irvine J.P., M.P. was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.James Irvine was born in England in 1766, the son of Adam Irvine and Elizabeth , daughter of John Johnston , 4th laird of Outbrecks, Orkney...	August 22, 1809	1822	James Henry Craig
James Kerr	June 26, 1812	November, 20 1831	George Prevost George Prevost Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the eldest son of Swiss French Augustine Prévost, he joined the British Army as a youth and became a captain in 1784. Prévost served in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary...
Ross Cuthbert Ross Cuthbert Ross Cuthbert was a Canadian writer, lawyer and politician.Born at Berthier and baptised at Montreal, as the son of James Cuthbert, he was heir to the seigneuries of Lanoraie and Dautray...	June 26, 1812	until 1824, or 1838, or 1841, depending on sources	George Prevost
M. H. Perceval	June 26, 1812	October, 12 1829	George Prevost
John Mure John Mure John Mure was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Scotland around 1776, probably in Kilmarnock parish, and had arrived in Montreal by 1782. In 1778, he was hired by James Tod as a clerk at Quebec City. He later went into business on his own, involved in the fur trade...	June 26, 1812	January 17, 1823	George Prevost
Olivier Perrault Olivier Perrault Olivier Perrault was a seigneur, lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada. He was also sometimes known as Jean-Baptiste-Olivier Perrault....	June 26, 1812	March 19, 1827	George Prevost
William Bacheler Coltman	July 5, 1815	1825?	George Prevost
William Smith William Smith (chief justice) William Smith was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1763 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec, later Lower Canada, from 1786 until his death...	September 16, 1791	December 6, 1793	John Coape Sherbrooke John Coape Sherbrooke Sir John Coape Sherbrooke was a British soldier and colonial administrator. After serving in the British army in Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, India, the Mediterranean , and Spain, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1811.His active defense of the colony during the War of 1812...
Mr. Hale Hale -Surname:Possible Meanings:From the Old English halh — nook, hollow or recess.Old Saxon; Haelaeh - hero. Later connotations: strong, courageous, healthy, robust, etc....	December 28, 1820	December, 24 1838	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie General George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie GCB , styled Lord Ramsay until 1787, was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator...
Mr. Speaker Louis-Joseph Papineau Louis-Joseph Papineau Louis-Joseph Papineau , born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–1838. His father was Joseph Papineau, also a famous politician in Quebec...	December 28, 1820	January 25, 1823	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Mr. Secretary John Ready John Ready Major General The Honourable John Ready was a British army officer, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1824 to 1831 and also as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1832 to 1845.-Career:...	December 28, 1820	January 29, 1822	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Charles J. Stewart Charles J. Stewart Charles J. Stewart is an actor who has appeared in film and television in such TV shows as Star Trek: The Original Series, Batman, Bewitched, The F.B.I., The Brady Bunch and Knots Landing, as well as films such as The War of the Worlds , The Lineup , The Hollywood Knights and Armageddon .-External... , D.D. Bishop	November 22, 1826	July 13, 1837	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Charles-Étienne Chaussegros de Léry Charles-Étienne Chaussegros de Léry Charles-Étienne Chaussegros de Léry was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in the town of Quebec in 1774, the son of seigneur Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry and Louise Martel de Brouague, the daughter of François Martel de Brouague... , esq.	January 4, 1826	October 22, 1835 or in 1837, depending on sources	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
John Stewart John Stewart - Academia and literature :John Stewart of Baldynneis , Scottish courtier and writerJohn "Walking" Stewart , English traveller and philosopher*John Alexander Stewart , Scottish scholar of Burmese... , esq.	January 4, 1826	February 10, 1841	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Andrew William Cochran, esq.	May 15 1827	?	George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
Philippe Panet Philippe Panet Philippe Panet was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Quebec City in 1791, the son of Jean-Antoine Panet, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec... , esq.	May 26 1831	November 2, 1838 or February 10, 1841	Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer ‎Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer was a British military officer and colonial administrator.- Napoleonic Wars :...
Dominique Mondelet, esq.	November 16, 1832	February 10, 1841	Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer
Hughes Heney, esq.	January 28, 1833	February 10, 1841	Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer

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