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legislative councillor
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Hist.
a member of a legislative council (def. 1).
See: legislative council(def. 1)
Quotations
1811
Entreat your legislative councillors not to withhold from it their sanction.
1885
Legislative Councillors in the Provinces not in future to have that title; but gentlemen who were Legislative Councillors at the time of the Union (1st July, 1867) to retain their title of Honourable for life.
1922
The legislative councillors had to take their pay in the honour of their position, but the members of the Legislative Assembly were not so particular.
2
in Quebec, a member of the legislative council (def. 2).
See: legislative council(def. 2)
Quotations
1963
Charges of defrauding the province of Quebec were laid today against two former Union Nationale cabinet ministers, one legislative councillor and a former high-ranking civil servant.