title: 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
text: # 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
  
  The 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between June 25, 1925, through September 5, 1928. The first session of this assembly was convened on February 9, 1926. There were three sessions of the assembly during this period.
  
  The election of 1925 represented a shift in Nova Scotia politics as the 37th General Assembly would mark the return of the Conservatives to government after a forty-three year absence.
  
  One of the most significant pieces of legislation to come out of this General Assembly is that of An Act Abolishing the Legislative Council and Amending the Constitution of the Province, in 1928. This act abolished the Legislative Council of the Nova Scotia Legislature, the legislature's upper house. When Rhodes came into office in 1926, it had only one Conservative member and 17 Liberal members, with three vacancies; Rhodes would ultimately appoint 15 new Councillors in order to pack the Council for means of abolition, while dismissing all but a handful of Liberal Councillors.
  
  ## Division of seats
  
  There were 42 members of this General Assembly, elected in the 1925 Nova Scotia general election.
  
  | | Leader | Party | # of Seats |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Edgar Nelson Rhodes | Liberal-Conservative | 38 |
  | | Ernest Howard Armstrong | Liberal | 3 |
  | | Archibald Terris | Labour-Conservative | 1 |
  | Total | Total | Total | 42 |
  
  ## List of members
  
  | Riding | Name | Position |
  | - | - | - |
  | Annapolis County | Obediah Parker Goucher | |
  | | Harry Thompson MacKenzie | |
  | Antigonish County | William Chisholm | |
  | | John Laughlin McIsaac | |
  | Cape Breton Centre | Gordon Sidney Harrington | Minister of Public Works & Mines |
  | | Joseph Macdonald | |
  | Cape Breton East | John Carey Douglas | Attorney General (1925-6) |
  | | Alexander O'Handley | |
  | Colchester County | William Boardman Armstrong | |
  | | Frank Stanfield | |
  | Cumberland County | Percy Chapman Black | Minister of Highways |
  | | Daniel George McKenzie | Speaker (1925-6) |
  | | Archibald Terris | |
  | Digby County | William Hudson Farnham | |
  | | John Louis Philip Robicheau | |
  | Guysborough County | Simon Osborn Giffin | |
  | | Howard Amos Rice | |
  | Halifax County | Josiah Frederick Fraser | |
  | | Alexander Montgomerie | |
  | | John Francis Mahoney | |
  | | John Archibald Walker | Minister of Natural Resources & Provincial Development |
  | | William Drysdale Piercey | |
  | Hants County | Albert E. Parsons | Speaker (1926-8) |
  | | Edgar Nelson Rhodes | Provincial Secretary & Premier |
  | Inverness County | Hubert Meen Aucoin | |
  | | Malcolm McKay | |
  | Kings County | George Clyde Nowlan | |
  | | Reginald Tucker Caldwell | |
  | Lunenburg County | Wallace Norman Rehfuss | |
  | | William Haslam Smith | |
  | Pictou County | John Doull | |
  | | Robert Albert Douglas | |
  | | Hugh Allan MacQuarrie | |
  | Queens County | Frank J.D. Barnjum | |
  | | William Lorimer Hall | Attorney General (1926–1928) |
  | Richmond County & Cape Breton West | Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc | |
  | | John Alexander MacDonald | |
  | Shelburne County | Norman Emmons Smith | |
  | | Ernest Reginald Nickerson | |
  | Victoria County | Donald Buchanan McLeod | |
  | | Philip McLeod | |
  | Yarmouth County | John Flint Cahan | |
  | | Raymond Neri d'Entremont | |
  
  ## Former members of the 37th General Assembly
  
  | Name | Party | Electoral District | Cause of departure | Succeeded by | Elected |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | John Alexander MacDonald | Conservatives | Cape Breton West | resigned to run federally | John Angus Stewart, Con. | February 24, 1926 |
  | Frank J.D. Barnjum | Conservatives | Queens County | resigned March 16, 1926 | N/A | N/A |
  | John Carey Douglas | Conservatives | Cape Breton East | resigned to run federally | N/A | N/A |
  
  * Barnjum resigned due to a failed election promise. Upon being nominated Barnjum promised a mill project for Queens County. By 1928 this had not happened and Barnjum resigned due to the failed promise.
  