It was created in 1841, based on the previous electoral district of the same name for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.

[2] The Lower Canada electoral district of Yamaska was not altered by the Act.

Those boundaries had been set by a statute of Lower Canada in 1829: Yamaska was a single-member constituency.

[7] It was succeeded by electoral districts of the same name in the House of Commons of Canada[8] and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

[9] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Statutes of Lower Canada, 13th Provincial Parliament, 2nd Session (1829), c. 74