SECTION II., 1910. [ 169 ] Trans. R. S. C. 
VII.—A List of the Members of the House of Assembly for Upper Canada 
from 1792, to the Union in 1841. 
By WILFRED CAMPBELL, LL.D. 
(Read in part 27th May, 1909.) 
The following list of the members of the House of Assembly for 
Upper Canada from the foundation of the Province by Simcoe in 1792, 
to the Union of the two Canadas in 1841, is, so far as the compiler is 
aware, the first complete list of the members of that House which 
has ever been made. 
This list has been gathered, not from any previously printed lists 
of any of the Parliaments, but solely from the manuscript and other 
Journals of the House, and from other documentary sources, available 
in the Archives and elsewhere. 
As the Journals of the House of Assembly for the years 1794, 1795, 
1796, 1797, 1809, the 2nd Session of 1812, 1813, and 1815 are missing, it 
has been very difficult to secure a correct list of the members of the 
Parliaments opening during those years. This, however, has been 
accomplished; though, in one or two cases, there is some doubt as to 
what particular member represented a certain riding. But throughout 
the whole of the thirteen Parliaments the names of all the members 
elected at the general and bye-elections are established. 
It would be interesting in connection with such a list, to procure 
political maps of the Province, showing the birth and gradual growth 
of the different ridings . 
The original division of the Province in 1792 gave sixteen members 
representing nineteen counties. A new Act was passed in 1800, increas- 
ing the representation to nineteen members; and in 1808 another Act 
increased it to twenty-five. 
In 1820 a further Act made a great increase in the representation. 
It provided that every county of one thousand souls should have 
one member, and every county having four thousand souls, two mem- 
bers; also that every town of one thousand souls, where quarter sessions 
were held, should have one member. 
This gave, in the next Parliament, which met on the 31st of Jan- 
uary, 1821, forty members, representing twenty-five counties or ridings 
and two towns. 
This Act of 1820, also provided for a member to represent the 
University and the tract of land containing it, which was formed for 
that purpose into a separate riding. The member for this special riding 
was to be elected by the members of the Convocation when the Univer- 
sity should be organized and performing its work. 
