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Legislature
  
House of Commons

Last contested
  
1891

District created
  
Constitution Act, 1867

First contested
  
1867

District abolished
  
1892

County of Ottawa (French: Compté d'Ottawa) was a federal and provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, which was represented in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1830 to 1867, in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1892, and in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to at least 1919.

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The federal electoral district was created by the British North America Act, 1867, which preserved existing electoral districts in Lower Canada. It was redistributed into the new electoral districts of Wright and Labelle in 1892.

The provincial electoral district was restructured in 1919.

Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada:

  • Philemon Wright (1830–1834)
  • Theodore Davis (1832–1834) (second member added)
  • James Blackburn & Baxter Bowman (1834–1838)

    • Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

    This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada:

  • Charles Dewey Day, (1841–1842)
  • Denis-Benjamin Papineau, (1842–1848)
  • John Egan, {1848-1854)
  • Alanson Cooke, (1854–1858)
  • Denis-Émery Papineau, (1858–1861)
  • William McDonell Dawson, (1861-1863}
  • Alonzo Wright, (1863–1867)

    • Members of Parliament

    This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

    References

    County of Ottawa Wikipedia
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