Ottawa County (Province of Canada electoral district - Canada East)
# Ottawa County (Province of Canada electoral district - Canada East)

Ottawa was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada East, in the Outaouais region across the Ottawa River from the city of Ottawa. It was created in 1841 and was based on the previous electoral district of the same name for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. It was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.

The electoral district was abolished in 1867, upon the creation of Canada and the province of Quebec.

## Boundaries

The Union Act, 1840 merged the two provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the Province of Canada, with a single Parliament. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished.

The Union Act 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 Union Act itself. The Ottawa 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:

The Ottawa electoral district was located in the Outaouais region in the western part of Canada East. The Ottawa River formed the western boundary of the electoral district, and also the boundary with Canada West.

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

Ottawa was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly. The following were the members of the Legislative Assembly from Ottawa.

| Parliament | Years | Members | Members | Party |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1st Parliament 1841–1844 | 1841–1842 | Charles Dewey Day | | Unionist and Tory |
| 1st Parliament 1841–1844 | 1842–1844 by-election | Denis-Benjamin Papineau | Denis-Benjamin Papineau | Groupe canadien-français |
