Sunbury—Queen's was a federal
electoral district
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in
New Brunswick
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, Canada, that was represented in the
House of Commons of Canada
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from 1896 to 1917.
This
riding was created in 1892 from the ridings of
Queen's and
Sunbury. It consisted of the counties of Sunbury and Queen's. It was abolished in 1914 when it was redistributed into
Royal
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and
York—Sunbury ridings.
In the
1911 Canadian federal election
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The central issue was Liberal support for a prop ...
, Dow Grass of Deer Island was arrested for tampering with
ballot boxes leading to the Sunbury—Queen's riding's invalidation of results.
["Found Some Queer Things: The Sunbury-Queen's Election was apparently very crooked, The Montreal Gazette · Sep 27, 1911]
Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following
members of Parliament:
Election results
By-election: Mr. King resigned, summoned to the Senate, 18 December 1896
See also
*
List of Canadian electoral districts
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*
Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
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References
External links
Riding history from theLibrary of Parliament
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Former federal electoral districts of New Brunswick