Talk:Beauharnois (federal electoral district)

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Early history

The article says that the electorate existed since 1867. When I check the sources, it appears that the Parliament of Canada website has the history of federal ridings from 1867 onwards online. When I look at the 1st and 2nd Parliament of the Province of Canada articles (covering 1841 to 1847), Beauharnois is listed as one of the electoral districts. So could it be that the article states something that isn't in fact true, simply because info from a particular year onwards is online? Schwede 66 21:53, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The first sentence of the article states that it is about an electoral district for the Canadian House of Commons, abody that was created in 1867. The previous Beauharnois was for a different assembly. Could we mention that there was an electoral district with the same name in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada? Sure. Ground Zero | t 22:28, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response. I think that is a good idea, because it may help ignorant people like me with not making mistakes with succession boxes. I note that the succession box links to this electorate, and if the intention is that the previous electorate gets its own article eventually, it might pay to set up a redirect that points here for the time being. Schwede 66 00:14, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I can't imagine that pre-Confederation electoral districts will get their own articles -- there would be darn few readily available sources for such information. Ground Zero | t 00:28, 4 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There now is an article on the pre-Confederation electoral district: Beauharnois (Province of Canada electoral district). Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]