Speakers
The role of speaker began a tradition of alternating between English and French Canada. This tradition carried onto the role of the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
| Speaker | Term | Parliament | Affiliation | Residency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Cuvillier | 1841–1843 | 1st | Parti canadien | Canada East |
| Sir Allan Napier MacNab | 1844–1847 | 2nd | Reformer | Canada West |
| Augustin-Norbert Morin | 1848–1851 | 3rd | Parti patriote | Canada East |
| John Sandfield Macdonald | 1852–1853 | 4th | Liberal-Conservative | Canada West |
| Louis-Victor Sicotte | 1854–1857 | 5th | N/A | Canada East |
| Sir Henry Smith | 1858–1861 | 6th | Tory | Canada West |
| Joseph-Édouard Turcotte | 1862–1863 | 7th | Reformer | Canada East |
| Lewis Wallbridge | 1863–1866 | 8th | N/A | Canada West |
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Famous quotes containing the word speakers:
“What’s this, Aurora Leigh,
You write so of the poets and not laugh?
Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark,
Exaggerators of the sun and moon,
And soothsayers in a tea-cup? I write so
Of the only truth-tellers, now left to God,—
The only speakers of essential truth,
Opposed to relative, comparative,
And temporal truths;...
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From just a shadow on a charnel-wall.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater. Stumping it through New England for twice seven trained Wendell Phillips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the ‘creativity of language,’ that is, the speaker’s ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately understood by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are ‘familiar.’”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)