92 CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT 8.—Members of the Senate, by Province, as at Oct. 1,1966—concluded Province and Name of Senator P.O. Address Province and Name of Senator P.O. Address New Brunswick—concluded Ontario—concluded BURCHILL, GEORGE PERCIVAL FERGUSSON, MURIEL MCQUEEN. MCGRAND, FRED A SAVOIE, CALIXTE F BROOKS, ALFRED JOHNSON FOURNIER, EDGAR Iroquois RATTENBURY, NELSON MCELMAN, CHARLES ROBERT Sudbury Quebec— (24 Senators) BENIDICKSON, WILLIAM MOORE Kenora HUOESSEN, ADRIAN K GOUIN, LEON MERCIER Montreal VIEN, THOMAS Outremont Manitoba— VAILLANCOURT, CYRLLLE Levis (5 Senators—1 vacancy) DUPUIS, VINCENT St. Jean Baptiste DESSUREAULT, JEAN-MARIE FOURNIER, SARTO Winnipeg MOLSON, HARTLAND DE Winnipeg MONTARVILLE Winnipeg POWER, CHARLES GAVAN St. Pacome POULIOT, JEAN-FRANCOIS Riviere du Loup Saskatch ew a n- - LEFRAX ;OIS, J. EUGENE Montreal (6 Senators) METHOT, LEON MONETTE, GUSTAVE QUART, JOSIE ALICE DINAN Quebec BEAUBIEN. LOUIS PHILIPPE Montreal HNATYSHYN, JOHN Saskatoon FLYNN, JACQUES Quebec MCDONALD, ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Regina BOURGET, MAURICE GELINAS, LOUIS P Montreal BOURQUE, ROMUALD Outremont Alberta— DENIS, AZELLUS Montreal (6 Senators) DESCHATELETS, JEAN-PAUL MACNAUGHTON, ALAN AYLESWORTH LANQLOIS, J. G. LEOPOLD Quebec DESRUISSEAUX, PAUL Ontario— (21 Senators—3 vacancies) HAYDEN, SALTER ADRIAN Toronto British Columbia— PATERSON, NORMAN MCLEOD Fort William (6 Senators) DA VIES, WILLIAM RUPERT Toronto Vancouver ROEBUCK, ARTHUR WENTWORTH. Toronto Vancouver MACDONALD, WILLIAM Ross CONNOLLY, JOHN J CROLL, DAVID A Toronto MACKENZIE, NORMAN ARCHIBALD LEONARD, THOMAS D'ARCY WHITE, GEORGE STANLEY Madoc Vancouver The House of Commons.—The British North America Act, 1867 provided that in respect of representation in the House of Commons the Province of Quebec should have the fixed number of sixty-five members and that there should be assigned to each of the other provinces such a number of members as would bear the same proportion to the number of its population as the number sixty-five bears to the number of the population of Quebec. This Act also provided that on the completion of a census in 1871 and of each subsequent decennial census the representation of the several provinces should be re­ adjusted provided the proportionate representation of the provinces as prescribed by the Act were not thereby disturbed. In the session of 1946 the House of Commons adopted a resolution stating that the effect of the provisions of the British North America Act relating to representation had not been satisfactory in that proportionate representation of the provinces according to population had not been maintained and that a more equitable apportionment of members to the various provinces could be effected if readjustments were made on the basis of the population of all the provinces taken as a whole. The Act was amended accordingly in .