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The Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia (French: Assemblée législative d'Assiniboine) was a short-lived legislature established to pass laws for the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land under the provisional government led by Louis Riel from 1869 to 1870. The Legislative Assembly was named after the Council of Assiniboia that previously managed the territories before the Hudson's Bay Company sold the land to Canada in 1869.[1][2]

The guidelines for the creation of the elected assembly had been established during the Convention of Forty in January and February 1870 and elections followed shortly afterwards. The number of representatives of constituencies considered to be English-speaking and those considered to be French-speaking were made equal. The assembly operated from March 9, 1870, to June 24, 1870. Its final act was to accept the agreement negotiated with Canada for the new province of Manitoba to enter Confederation and to ratify the Manitoba Act.[1]

Executive officers of the provisional government

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Position Officer[1] First Sworn in No. of terms
  President Louis Riel 1869 1st term
  Vice-president François-Xavier Dauphinais 1869 1st term
  Secretary of State Thomas Bunn 1869 1st term
  Under-secretary of State Louis Schmidt 1869 1st term
  Treasurer William Bernard O'Donoghue 1869 1st term
  Chief Justice James Ross 1869 1st term
  Adjutant General Ambroise-Dydime Lépine 1869 1st term
  Postmaster-General A.G.B. Bannatyne 1869 1st term
  Coroner C.J. Bird 1869 1st term
  Commissioner of Indian Affairs James McKay 1869 1st term
  Superintendent of Public Works John Bruce 1869 1st term

Legislative Council

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Member District[1] First elected No. of terms
  Pierre Poitras Baie Saint-Paul 1869 1st term
  William Auld Tait Headingley 1869 1st term
  William Fraser Kildonan 1869 1st term
  Pierre Delorme Pointe Coupée 1869 1st term
  Louis Schmidt 1869 1st term
  E.H.G.G. Hay St. Andrew's 1869 1st term
  Thomas Sinclair Jr. 1869 1st term
  George Gunn Sainte-Anne 1869 1st term
  A.G.B. Bannatyne St. Anne's 1869 1st term
  John Bruce Saint-Boniface 1869 1st term
  William Bernard O'Donoghue 1869 1st term
  Louis Lacerte 1869 1st term
  Jean-Baptiste Beauchemin Saint-Charles 1869 1st term
  François Dauphinais 1869 1st term
  Thomas Bunn St. Clement's 1869 1st term
  François-Xavier Pagé Saint-François-Xavier 1869 1st term
  James McKay St. James's 1869 1st term
  A.G.B. Bannatyne St. John's 1869 1st term
  John Lazarus Norquay St. Margaret's 1869 1st term
  William Garrioch Jr. St. Mary's Laprairie 1869 1st term
  Pierre Parenteau Saint-Norbert 1869 1st term
  Baptiste Tourond 1869 1st term
  C.J. Bird St. Paul 1869 1st term
  John Sinclair St. Peter's 1869 1st term
  André Beauchemin Saint-Vital 1869 1st term
  Ambroise-Dydime Lépine 1869 1st term
  Hugh F. O'Lone Town of Winnipeg 1869 1st term
  Alfred H. Scott 1869 1st term

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Hall, Norma; Hall, Clifford P; Verrier, Erin. "A History of the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia / le Conseil du Gouvernement Provisoire" (PDF). Government of Manitoba. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
  2. ↑ Schofield, Frank Howard (1913). The Story of Manitoba. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company.
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