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

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.