DCHP-2

legislative council DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 — Hist.

  in colonial times, a body of persons, usually appointed by the governor to act as his advisors, first acting as a unicameral legislature and later as the upper house of a bicameral body, the lower house being an elective assembly.

  See also: Upper House (def. 1a)  

• 2

  in Quebec, the upper house of the bicameral legislature, the 24 members of which are appointed for life by the government in power.

  See also: L.C.  legislative assembly  Upper House (def. 1b)