23rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 23rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1864 and 1867.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Hastings Doyle. Richard Graves MacDonnell was governor for Nova Scotia from May 1864 to October 1865. William Fenwick Williams served as governor from 1865 to 1867.

John C. Wade was chosen as speaker for the house.

The assembly was dissolved on June 10, 1867.

List of Members

Electoral District		Name
Annapolis County		J.W. Johnston^[a] William Hallett Ray (1864)
		Avard Longley
		George Whitman
Antigonish County		W. A. Henry
Antigonish County		John McKinnon
Cape Breton County		Thomas Caldwell
Cape Breton County		John George Bourinot
Colchester County	North Division	A.W. McLellan
	North Division	William Blackwood
	South Division	Adams G. Archibald
	South Division	Francis R. Parker
Cumberland County		Charles Tupper
		Alexander McFarlane
		Robert Donkin
Digby County		John C. Wade
		Mathurin Robicheau
		Colin Campbell
Guysborough County		William O. Heffernan
Guysborough County		Stewart Campbell
Halifax County	Western Division	John Tobin
		Samuel Leonard Shannon
		Henry Pryor
	Eastern Division	William Annand
	Eastern Division	Henry Balcom
Hants County	North Division	Ezra Churchill
	North Division	William Dawson Lawrence
	South Division	James W. King
	South Division	Lewis W. Hill
Inverness County		Hiram Blanchard
		Peter Smyth
		Samuel McDonnell
Kings County	North Division	Charles C. Hamilton
	North Division	Caleb R. Bill
	South Division	Daniel Moore
	South Division	Edward L. Brown
Lunenburg County		Henry S. Jost
		Henry A.N. Kaulback
		William Slocumb^[b] Abraham Hebb (1865)
Pictou County	East Division	James Fraser
	East Division	James McDonald
	West Division	Donald Fraser
	West Division	Alexander MacKay
Queens County		John Campbell
Queens County	South District	Andrew Cowie
Queens County	North District	Charles Allison
Richmond County		Isaac LeVesconte
Richmond County		William Miller
Shelburne County		Thomas Coffin
	Township of Shelburne	John Locke
	Township of Barrington	Robert Robertson
Victoria County		William Ross
Victoria County		Charles James Campbell
Yarmouth County		Thomas Killam
	Township of Yarmouth	George Stayley Brown
	Township of Argyle	Isaac Hatfield

Notes

^ named judge
^ died in 1865

References

Journal and proceedings of the House of Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia, Session 1864 (1864)

Preceded by 22nd General Assembly of Nova Scotia	General Assemblies of Nova Scotia 1864–1867	Succeeded by 24th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

[1] udge

[2] 1865

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