Cape Breton was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1904. It was created as part of the British North America Act, 1867.
The district consisted of the county of Cape Breton and initially returned one member, but returned two members from 1872 until its dissolution. It was abolished when it was redistributed into Cape Breton South and North Cape Breton and Victoria ridings in 1903.
Geography
The Cape Breton riding was set by the British North America Act, 1867 to consist of Cape Breton County. The county was legally defined in 1852 as:
The boundaries were not changed during the 1872 electoral redistribution, but now the riding would return two members to Parliament. No changes occurred during the electoral redistributions of 1882 or 1892. This riding was dissolved and redistributed into the ridings of Cape Breton South and North Cape Breton and Victoria in the 1903 electoral redistribution.
Members of Parliament
{| class="wikitable"
! Parliament
! Years
! colspan="2" | Member
! Party
! colspan="2" | Member
! Party
|-
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="8" align="center" | Cape Breton
|-
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 1st
| 1867 – 1869
| |
| rowspan="2" | James Charles McKeagney
| Anti-Confederate
|-
| 1869 – 1872
| |
| Liberal–Conservative
|-
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 2nd
| 1872 – 1873
| |
| rowspan="3" | Newton LeGayet Mackay
| Conservative
| rowspan="6" |
| rowspan="6" | William McDonald
| rowspan="6" | Conservative
|-
| 1873 – 1874
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | Liberal
|-
| bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 3rd
| 1874 – 1878
|-
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 4th
| 1878 – 1879
| rowspan="2" |
| Hugh McLeod
| rowspan="2" | Liberal–Conservative
|-
| 1879 – 1882
| William Mackenzie McLeod
|-
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 5th
| 1882 – 1884
| rowspan="6" |
| rowspan="2" | Murray Dodd
| rowspan="6" | Conservative
|-
| 1884 – 1887
| rowspan="5" |
| rowspan="5" | Hector Francis McDougall
| rowspan="5" | Liberal–Conservative
|-
| bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 6th
| 1887 – 1891
| rowspan="2" | David MacKeen
|-
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 7th
| 1891 – 1895
|-
| 1896 – 1896
| rowspan="2" | Charles Tupper
|-
| bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 8th
| 1896 – 1900
|-
| bgcolor="whitesmoke" align="center" | 9th
| 1900 – 1904
| |
| Alexander Johnston
| Liberal
| |
| Arthur Samuel Kendall
| Liberal
|-
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="17" align="center" | Riding dissolved into Cape Breton South (1904–1917) and Cape Breton North and Victoria (1904–1925)
|}
Election results
1900
1896 by-election
1896
1891
1887
1884 by-election
1882
1879 by-election
1878
1874
1872
1867
See also
- List of Canadian electoral districts
- Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
Notes
References
External links
- Riding history for Cape Breton (1867–1903) from the Library of Parliament