| Party | Colour | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Tory/Château Clique | Deep Blue | Blue was traditional in Canada and Britain for Tories |
| Government Party / Parti bureaucrates | Light blue | Blue was traditional in Canada and Britain for Tories |
| Parti Patriote / Parti Canadien | Medium Green | Taken from the party's tricolour flag |
| Groupe-canadien français | Light Green | Similar to Patriots/Canadiens, but lighter green to show distinction from that group |
| Tory/Château Clique | Deep Blue | Traditional Tory colour |
| British Tories | Light Blue | Ditto |
| Reform | Buff | Traditional Whig colour; shouldn't use red or blue, because after responsible gov't achieved, Reformers split into conservative and radical groups |
| Bleus | Medium Blue | That was their name |
| Rouges | Bright red | More radical than successor Liberals, so brighter Red seems appropriate |
| Tory/Compact Tory | Deep blue | Same as in Lower Canada |
| Reform | Buff | Same as in Lower Canada |
| Tory/Compact Tory | Deep blue | Same as in Canada East |
| Reform | Buff | Same as in Canada East |
| Liberal-Conservatives / Conservatives | Light blue | Same as post-Confederation Libs-Cons |
| Clear Grit | Variant on buff | Traditional Whig colour |
| Liberals | Red | Same as post-Confederation Liberals |
Champlain
edit| Parliament | Years | Members[1] | Party[2] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Parliament 1841–1844 |
1841–1843 | René-Joseph Kimber[a] | Anti-unionist; Groupe canadien-français | ||
| 1842–1844 (by-election) |
Henry Judah[b] | Groupe canadien-français | |||
| 2nd Parliament 1844–1848 |
1844–1851 | Louis Guillet | Reformer | ||
| 3rd Parliament 1848–1851 | |||||
| 4th Parliament 1851–1854 |
1851–1857 | Thomas Marchildon | Reformer | ||
| 5th Parliament 1854–1857 |
Rouge | ||||
| 6th Parliament 1858–1861 |
1858–1861 | Joseph-Édouard Turcotte | 
|
Bleu | |
| 7th Parliament 1861–1863 |
1861–1867 | John Jones Ross | 
|
Bleu | |
| 8th Parliament 1863–1867 |
Bleu | ||||
Notes
edit- ^ Appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada on September 1843, automatically vacating his seat in the Assembly.[3]
- ^ Elected in by-election September 22, 1843.[4]
- ^ J.O. Côté, Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860 (Quebec: St. Michel and Darveau, 1860), pp. 43–58.
- ^ For party affiliations, see biographies of individual members: Québec Dictionary of Parliamentary Biography, from 1764 to the present. See also Paul G. Cornell, Alignment of Political Groups in Canada, 1841–67 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962; reprinted in paperback 2015), pp. 93–111.
- ^ Côté, Political Appointments and Elections, pp. 28, 59, note (7).
- ^ Côté, Political Appointments and Elections, p. 59, note (8).