49th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

49th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
Majority parliament
1 December 1967 – 5 September 1970
Parliament leaders
Premier	Robert Stanfield November 20, 1956 – September 13, 1967
	George Isaac Smith September 13, 1967 – October 28, 1970
Leader of the Opposition	Gerald Regan May 30, 1967 – October 28, 1970
Party caucuses
Government	Progressive Conservative Party
Opposition	Liberal Party
House of Assembly
Speaker of the House	Harvey Veniot February 8, 1961 – April 11, 1968
	Gordon H. Fitzgerald February 13, 1969 – September 5, 1970
Members	46 MLA seats
Sovereign
Monarch	Elizabeth II February 6, 1952
Lieutenant Governor	Henry Poole MacKeen March 1, 1963 – July 22, 1968
	Victor de Bedia Oland July 22, 1968
Sessions
1st session December 1, 1967 – December 7, 1967
2nd session February 22, 1968 – April 11, 1968
3rd session February 13, 1969 – April 25, 1969
4th session February 19, 1970 – September 5, 1970
← 48th → 50th

The 49th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between December 1, 1967 and September 5, 1970.

Division of seats

There were 46 members of the General Assembly, elected in the 1967 Nova Scotia general election.

	Leader	Party	# of Seats
	Gerald Regan	Liberal	6
	Robert L. Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	40
Total			46

List of members

	Riding	Name	Party	First elected / previously elected	Position
	Annapolis East	John I. Marshall	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Annapolis West	Peter Murray Nicholson	Liberal	1956
	Antigonish	William F. MacKinnon	Progressive Conservative	1956
	Cape Breton South	Donald C. McNeil	Progressive Conservative	1956
	Cape Breton Centre	Mike Laffin	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Cape Breton North	Tom McKeough	Progressive Conservative	1960
	Cape Breton Nova	Percy Gaum	Progressive Conservative	1956
	Cape Breton East	Layton Fergusson	Progressive Conservative	1956
	Cape Breton West	Edward Manson	Progressive Conservative	1956
	Clare	Benoit Comeau	Liberal	1967
	Colchester	Robert L. Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	1949	Premier
		G. I. Smith	Progressive Conservative	1949	Premier (1967)
		Gerald Ritcey (1968)	Progressive Conservative	1968
	Cumberland East	James A. Langille	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Cumberland West	D. L. George Henley	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Cumberland Centre	Stephen T. Pyke	Progressive Conservative	1953	Minister of Highways
		Raymond M. Smith (1968)	Progressive Conservative	1968
	Dartmouth North	Gordon L. S. Hart	Liberal	1960, 1967
		Gerald G. Wambolt (1968)	Progressive Conservative	1968
	Dartmouth South	I. W. Akerley	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Digby	Robert Baden Powell	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Guysborough	Alex "Tando" MacIsaac	Progressive Conservative	1960
		Angus MacIsaac (1969)	Progressive Conservative	1969
	Halifax Atlantic	John Buchanan	Progressive Conservative	1967
	Halifax Cornwallis	Richard A. Donahoe	Progressive Conservative	1954
	Halifax Citadel	Donald M. Smith	Progressive Conservative	1960
	Halifax Chebucto	James H. Vaughan	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Halifax Cobequid	Gordon H. Fitzgerald	Progressive Conservative	1960	speaker (1969)
	Halifax Eastern Shore	Duncan MacMillan	Liberal	1956, 1967
		Alexander Garnet Brown (1969)	Liberal	1969
	Halifax Needham	Gerald Regan	Liberal	1967
	Halifax St. Margarets	D. C. McNeil	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Hants East	Albert J. Ettinger	Progressive Conservative	1962
	Hants West	Norman T. Spence	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Inverness	Norman J. MacLean	Progressive Conservative	1963
		William N. MacLean	Liberal	1962
	Kings North	Victor Thorpe	Progressive Conservative	1967
	Kings South	Edward Haliburton	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Kings West	Gordon Tidman	Progressive Conservative	1967
	Lunenburg Centre	George O. Lohnes	Progressive Conservative	1956
	Lunenburg East	Maurice L. Zinck	Progressive Conservative	1959
	Lunenburg West	Harley J. Spence	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Pictou East	Thomas MacQueen	Progressive Conservative	1967
	Pictou West	Harvey Veniot	Progressive Conservative	1956	speaker
	Pictou Centre	Donald R. MacLeod	Progressive Conservative	1956
	Queens	W. S. Kennedy Jones	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Richmond	Gerald Doucet	Progressive Conservative	1963
	Shelburne	James M. Harding	Progressive Conservative	1956
	Victoria	Fisher Hudson	Progressive Conservative	1967
	Yarmouth	George A. Snow	Progressive Conservative	1963
		Benoit Robichaud	Progressive Conservative	1967

Former members of the 49th General Assembly

	Name	Party	Electoral District	Cause of departure	Succeeded by	Elected
	Robert L. Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	Colchester	became federal party leader	Gerald Ritcey, PC	February 13, 1968
	Stephen T. Pyke	Progressive Conservative	Cumberland Centre		Raymond M. Smith, PC	November 26, 1968
	Gordon L. S. Hart	Liberal	Dartmouth North		Gerald G. Wambolt, PC	November 26, 1968
	Alex MacIsaac	Progressive Conservative	Guysborough	death	Angus MacIsaac, PC	February 11, 1969
	Duncan MacMillan	Liberal	Halifax Eastern Shore	death	Alexander Garnet Brown, Liberal	February 11, 1969

References

• "Summary Results from 1867 to 2011" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. 2011. Retrieved 2015-03-03.