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The
Beauharnois electoral district of Lower Canada was not altered by the Act, and therefore continued with the same boundaries which had been set by a statute of Lower Canada in 1829:
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An Act to make a new and more convenient subdivision of the
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The following were the members of the
Legislative Assembly for Beauharnois. The party affiliations are based on the biographies of individual members given by the
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provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Lower Canada and Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new
Parliament, unless altered by the
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The County of
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Beauharnois was a single-member constituency, represented by one member in the
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and splitting the Province of Canada into Quebec and
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The district was abolished on July 1, 1867, when the
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244:Members of the Legislative Assembly (1841–1867)
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