38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between June 25, 1925, through September 5, 1928. The first session of this assembly was convened on February 9, 1926. There were three sessions of the assembly during this period.

The election of 1925 represented a shift in Nova Scotia politics as the 37th General Assembly would mark the return of the Conservatives to government after a forty-three year absence.

One of the most significant pieces of legislation to come out of this General Assembly is that of An Act Abolishing the Legislative Council and Amending the Constitution of the Province, in 1928. This act abolished the Legislative Council of the Nova Scotia Legislature, the legislature's upper house. When Rhodes came into office in 1926, it had only one Conservative member and 17 Liberal members, with three vacancies; Rhodes would ultimately appoint 15 new Councillors in order to pack the Council for means of abolition, while dismissing all but a handful of Liberal Councillors.

Division of seats

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There were 42 members of this General Assembly, elected in the 1925 Nova Scotia general election.

Leader Party # of Seats
  Edgar Nelson Rhodes Liberal-Conservative 38
  Ernest Howard Armstrong Liberal 3
  Archibald Terris Labour-Conservative 1
Total 42

List of members

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Riding Name Party First elected / previously elected Position
  Annapolis County Obediah Parker Goucher Conservative 1925
  Harry Thompson MacKenzie Conservative 1925
  Antigonish County William Chisholm Liberal 1916
  John Laughlin McIsaac Liberal 1925
  Cape Breton Centre Gordon Sidney Harrington Conservative 1925 Minister of Public Works & Mines
  Joseph Macdonald Conservative 1925
  Cape Breton East John Carey Douglas Conservative 1911, 1925 Attorney General (1925-6)
  Alexander O'Handley Conservative 1925
  Colchester County William Boardman Armstrong Conservative 1925
  Frank Stanfield Conservative 1911, 1925
  Cumberland County Percy Chapman Black Conservative 1925 Minister of Highways
  Daniel George McKenzie Conservative 1920 Speaker (1925-6)
  Archibald Terris Labour 1920
  Digby County William Hudson Farnham Conservative 1925
  John Louis Philip Robicheau Conservative 1925
  Guysborough County Simon Osborn Giffin Conservative 1925
  Howard Amos Rice Conservative 1925
  Halifax County Josiah Frederick Fraser Conservative 1925
  Alexander Montgomerie Conservative 1925
  John Francis Mahoney Conservative 1925
  John Archibald Walker Conservative 1925 Minister of Natural Resources
& Provincial Development
  William Drysdale Piercey Conservative 1925
  Hants County Albert E. Parsons Conservative 1909, 1925 Speaker (1926-8)
  Edgar Nelson Rhodes Conservative 1925 Provincial Secretary & Premier
  Inverness County Hubert Meen Aucoin Conservative 1925
  Malcolm McKay Conservative 1925
  Kings County George Clyde Nowlan Conservative 1925
  Reginald Tucker Caldwell Conservative 1925
  Lunenburg County Wallace Norman Rehfuss Conservative 1925
  William Haslam Smith Conservative 1925
  Pictou County John Doull Conservative 1925
  Robert Albert Douglas Conservative 1925
  Hugh Allan MacQuarrie Conservative 1925
  Queens County Frank J.D. Barnjum Conservative 1925
  William Lorimer Hall Conservative 1910, 1925 Attorney General (1926–1928)
  Richmond County & Cape Breton West Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc Conservative 1916
  John Alexander MacDonald Conservative 1916
  John Angus Stewart (1926) Conservative 1926
  Shelburne County Norman Emmons Smith Conservative 1925
  Ernest Reginald Nickerson Conservative 1925
  Victoria County Donald Buchanan McLeod Liberal 1925
  Philip McLeod Conservative 1914, 1925
  Yarmouth County John Flint Cahan Conservative 1925
  Raymond Neri d'Entremont Conservative 1925

Former members of the 37th General Assembly

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Name Party Electoral District Cause of departure Succeeded by Elected
  John Alexander MacDonald Conservatives Cape Breton West resigned to run federally John Angus Stewart, Con. February 24, 1926
  Frank J.D. Barnjum Conservatives Queens County resigned March 16, 1926 N/A N/A
  John Carey Douglas Conservatives Cape Breton East resigned to run federally N/A N/A
  • Barnjum resigned due to a failed election promise. Upon being nominated Barnjum promised a mill project for Queens County. By 1928 this had not happened and Barnjum resigned due to the failed promise.

References

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  • "Incidents of the 1927 Session of the Legislature" in "The Province of Nova Scotia". The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs. p 366. Google.
Preceded by General Assemblies of Nova Scotia
1925–1928
Succeeded by