Edward Blake

Riding

Location Dot IconBruce South

Dates of service

(by-election(STAT.))
(general election)
(general election)

Riding representation

Bruce South

2nd Parliament

2nd Parliament

1st Parliament

Durham West

2nd Parliament

Career details

2nd Parliament ( December 7, 1871 – December 23, 1874 )

Member, Select Committee to Inquire and Report Upon the Condition of Hospitals, Poor-houses and Houses of Correction and Refuge

Member, Standing Committee on Private Bills

Member, Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections

Member, Standing Committee on Public Accounts

Member, Standing Committee on Railways

Premier

Member, Striking Committee to appoint members to standing committees

1st Parliament ( December 27, 1867 – February 25, 1871 )

Member, Select Committee to be referred the resolution of this House touching estate bills

Member, Standing Committee on Public Accounts

Member, Striking Committee to appoint members to standing committees

Member, Select Committee to enquire into the circumstances connected with the printing, distribution and posting of Bills 43 and 44

Member, Select Committee to inquire into and report upon the endowment and utility of Upper Canada College and its relationship to the educational system

Member, Standing Committee on Public Accounts

Member, Standing Committee on Public Accounts

Member, Standing Committee on Private Bills

Member, Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections

Member, Striking Committee to appoint members to standing committees

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 138 (To Amend the Common Law Procedure Act)

Member, Select Committee to consider the correspondence that has taken place between the Dominion and Ontario Governments re: the order of official precedence, and the saluting of the Lieutenant Governor

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 22 (An Act respecting the Conveyance of Real Estate by Married Women)

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 29 (To Provide for the more satisfactory disposal of chambers applications in the court of the chancery)

Member, Select Committee to consider and report as to the expediency of ammending the rules of the this House to provide for a larger interval of time b/w stages of public bills

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 37 (To Amend the Jury law)

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 54 (The Jurors and Witnesses Affirmation Act)

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 9 (To make provision for the realization of the debts of deceased persons out of their lands)

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 22 (An Act respecting the conveyance of real estate by married women"

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Law as to Bills of Lading)

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 14 (registration of births and deaths and marriages)

Member, Select Committee appointed to examine in to the working of the common and grammar school system of Ontario

Member, Select Committee to consider how far it would be expedient to amend rules 85 and 102 of this House

Member, Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections

Member, Standing Committee on Private Bills

Member, Striking Committee to appoint members to standing committees

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 70, An Act respecting Dentistry

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 62, An Act to remove doubts as to the authority of certain Commissioners to take Affidavits and Bail

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 9 (Respecting Voluntary Conveyances)

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 7 (Respecting Election of Members)

Member, Select Committee to consider Bill 16 (To Amend Chapter 35, Constitution Statute of Upper Canada)

Member, Select Committee to Frame Regulations for the Government of this House

Member, Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections

Member, Standing Committee on Private Bills

Member, Striking Committee to appoint members to standing committees

Party affiliation(s)

Ontario Liberal Party