Grenville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the

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of the

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, in

Canada West The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, in the Report on the ...

. Based on Grenville County, it was located on the north shore of the

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, east of

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. It was created in 1841, upon the establishment of the Province of Canada by the union of

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and

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. Grenville was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly. It was later split into two ridings, in a redistribution.

Boundaries

Grenville electoral district was located on the north shore of the

in the eastern area of

, east of Kingston. It was based on Grenville County (now the

United Counties of Leeds and Grenville The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, commonly known as Leeds and Grenville, is a county in Ontario, Canada, in the Eastern Ontario subregion of Southern Ontario. It fronts on the Saint Lawrence River and the international boundary between ...

). The '' Union Act, 1840'' had merged the two provinces of

and

into the

, with a single

. The separate parliaments of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were abolished.''Union Act, 1840'', 3 & 4 Vict., c. 35, s. 2.
/ref> The ''Union Act'' provided that the pre-existing electoral boundaries of Upper Canada would continue to be used in the new Parliament, unless altered by the ''Union Act'' itself.
/ref> Grenville County had been an electoral district in the

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,''Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, from the eighth day of November, 1836, to the fourth day of March, 1837'', p. 15 (November 8, 1836).
/ref> and its boundaries were not altered by the ''Union Act''. Those boundaries had originally been set by a proclamation of the first

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, in 1792: The boundaries had been further defined by a statute of Upper Canada in 1798: Since Grenville electoral district was not changed by the ''Union Act'', those boundaries continued to be used for the new electoral district. Grenville was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Grenville was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly. The following were the members for Grenville.

Abolition

The district was later split into two different ridings, in a redistribution.

References

. {{coord missing, Ontario Electoral districts of Canada West