15th Canadian Parliament

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15th Canadian Parliament
Minority parliament
Jan. 7, 1926 – Jul. 2, 1926
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Parliament leaders
Prime
minister 		William Lyon Mackenzie King
Dec. 29, 1921 – Jun. 28, 1926
Arthur Meighen
Jun. 29, 1926 – Sep. 25, 1926
Cabinets 12th Canadian Ministry
13th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the
Opposition 		Arthur Meighen
Dec. 29, 1921 – Jun. 28, 1926
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Jun. 29, 1926 – Sep. 25, 1926
Party caucuses
Government Liberal Party [a] (until June 1926)
Conservative Party (after June 1926)
Opposition Conservative Party (until June 1926)
Liberal Party (after June 1926)
Crossbench Progressive Party
Labour
United Farmers of Alberta
House of Commons
Chambre des Communes 1925.png
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the
Commons 		Rodolphe Lemieux
8 March 1922 – 2 June 1930
Members245 MP seats
List of members
Senate
Speaker of the
Senate 		Hewitt Bostock
7 February 1922 – 12 May 1930
Government
Senate leader 		Raoul Dandurand
29 December 1921 – 28 June 1926
William Benjamin Ross
28 June 1926 – 24 September 1926
Opposition
Senate leader 		William Benjamin Ross
1 January 1926 – 28 June 1926
Raoul Dandurand
29 June 1926 – 31 December 1926
Senators96 senator seats
List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch George V
6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
Governor
general 		Viscount Byng of Vimy
11 August 1921 – 2 October 1926
Sessions
1st session
January 7, 1926 (1926-01-07) – July 2, 1926 (1926-07-02)
←  14th →  16th
William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister during most of the 15th Canadian Parliament. WilliamLyonMackenzieKing.jpg
William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister during most of the 15th Canadian Parliament.

The 15th Canadian Parliament was in session from 7 January 1926, until 2 July 1926. The membership was set by the 1925 federal election on 29 October 1925, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1926 election.

Contents

Initially, it was controlled by a Liberal Party House minority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 12th Canadian Ministry. The Liberal caucus did not have a majority of seats in the House - it only had the second most seats - and was propped up by the Progressive Party of Canada MPs. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led by Arthur Meighen. When the Liberal government fell, Meighen's Conservatives were allowed to form government (the 13th Canadian Ministry), triggering the "King-Byng Affair". Quickly the 13th Ministry fell as well.

The Speaker was Rodolphe Lemieux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1924-1933 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

The unusual case of a new party taking control of the government between elections has only happened twice in Canadian history; the other occasion was in the 2nd Canadian parliament.

There was only one session of the 15th Parliament:

SessionStartEnd
1st7 January 19262 July 1926

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fifteenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.

Key:

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

Alberta

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Acadia Robert Gardiner Progressive 19213rd term
Athabaska Charles Wilson Cross Liberal 19251st term
Battle River Henry Elvins Spencer Progressive 19212nd term
Bow River Edward Joseph Garland Progressive 19212nd term
Calgary East Fred Davis Conservative 19251st term
Calgary West Richard Bedford Bennett Conservative 1911, 19252nd term*
Camrose William Thomas Lucas United Farmers of Alberta 19212nd term
Edmonton East Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury Conservative 19251st term
Edmonton West Charles Stewart Liberal 19251st term
Lethbridge Lincoln Henry Jelliff Progressive 19212nd term
Macleod George Gibson Coote Progressive 19212nd term
Medicine Hat Frederick William Gershaw Liberal 19251st term
Peace River Donald MacBeth Kennedy Progressive 19212nd term
Red Deer Alfred Speakman United Farmers of Alberta 19212nd term
Vegreville Arthur Moren Boutillier Progressive 19251st term
Wetaskiwin Stanley Gilbert Tobin Liberal 19251st term

British Columbia

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Cariboo John Anderson Fraser Conservative 19251st term
Comox—Alberni Alan Webster Neill Independent19212nd term
Fraser Valley Harry James Barber Conservative 19251st term
Kootenay East James Horace King Liberal 19222nd term
Kootenay West William Kemble Esling Conservative 19251st term
Nanaimo Charles Herbert Dickie Conservative 19212nd term
New Westminster William Garland McQuarrie Conservative 19173rd term
Skeena Alfred Stork Liberal 19212nd term
Vancouver—Burrard John Arthur Clark Conservative 19212nd term
Vancouver Centre Henry Herbert Stevens Conservative 19114th term
Vancouver North Dugald Donaghy Liberal 19251st term
Vancouver South Leon Johnson Ladner Conservative 19212nd term
Victoria Simon Fraser Tolmie Conservative 19173rd term
Yale Grote Stirling Conservative 19242nd term

Manitoba

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Brandon Robert Forke Progressive 19212nd term
Dauphin William John Ward Progressive 19212nd term
Lisgar John Livingstone Brown Progressive 19212nd term
Macdonald William James Lovie Progressive 19212nd term
Marquette Henry Alfred Mullins Conservative 19251st term
Neepawa Thomas Gerow Murphy Conservative 19251st term
Nelson Thomas William Bird Progressive 19212nd term
Portage la Prairie Arthur Meighen Conservative 1908, 19225th term*
Provencher Arthur-Lucien Beaubien Progressive 19212nd term
Selkirk Hannes Marino Hannesson Conservative 19251st term
Souris James Steedsman Progressive 19212nd term
Springfield Thomas Hay Conservative 1917, [b] 19252nd term*
St. Boniface John Power Howden Liberal 19251st term
Winnipeg North Abraham Albert Heaps Labour 19251st term
Winnipeg North Centre James Shaver Woodsworth Labour 19212nd term
Winnipeg South Robert Rogers Conservative 1911, 19252nd term*
Winnipeg South Centre William Walker Kennedy Conservative 19251st term

New Brunswick

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Charlotte Robert Watson Grimmer Conservative 19212nd term
Gloucester Jean George Robichaud Liberal 19222nd term
Kent Alexandre-Joseph Doucet Conservative 19232nd term
Northumberland Charles Elijah Fish Conservative 19251st term
Restigouche—Madawaska Arthur Culligan Conservative 19251st term
Royal George Burpee Jones Conservative 19212nd term
St. John—Albert* Thomas Bell Conservative 19251st term
Murray Maclaren Conservative 19212nd term
Victoria—Carleton James Kidd Flemming Conservative 19251st term
Westmorland Otto Baird Price Conservative 19251st term
York—Sunbury Richard Hanson Conservative 19213rd term

Nova Scotia

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Antigonish—Guysborough Edward Mortimer Macdonald Liberal 1904, [c] 19215th term*
Cape Breton North—Victoria Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone Conservative 19251st term
Cape Breton South Finlay MacDonald Conservative 19251st term
Colchester George Taylor Macnutt Conservative 19251st term
Cumberland Robert Knowlton Smith Conservative 19251st term
Digby—Annapolis Harry Bernard Short Conservative 19251st term
Halifax* William Anderson Black Conservative 19232nd term
Felix Patrick Quinn Conservative 19251st term
Hants—Kings Arthur de Witt Foster Conservative 1911, 19252nd term*
Inverness Isaac Duncan MacDougall Conservative 19251st term
Pictou Thomas Cantley Conservative 19251st term
Queens—Lunenburg William Duff Liberal 19173rd term
Richmond—West Cape Breton John Alexander MacDonald Conservative 19251st term
Shelburne—Yarmouth Paul Lacombe Hatfield Liberal 19212nd term

Ontario

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Algoma East George Brecken Nicholson Conservative 19251st term
Algoma West Thomas Edward Simpson Conservative 19173rd term
Brantford City Robert Edwy Ryerson Conservative 19251st term
Brant Franklin Smoke Conservative 19251st term
Bruce North James Malcolm Liberal 19212nd term
Bruce South Walter Allan Hall Liberal 19251st term
Carleton William Foster Garland Conservative 1912, 19213rd term*
Dufferin—Simcoe William Earl Rowe Conservative 19251st term
Durham Fred Wellington Bowen Conservative 19212nd term
Elgin West Hugh Cummings McKillop Conservative 19212nd term
Essex East Raymond Ducharme Morand Conservative 19251st term
Essex South Eccles James Gott Conservative 19251st term
Essex West Sidney Cecil Robinson Conservative 19251st term
Fort William Robert James Manion Conservative 19173rd term
Frontenac—Addington John Wesley Edwards Conservative 1908, 19254th term*
Glengarry Archibald John Macdonald Liberal 19251st term
Grenville—Dundas Arza Clair Casselman Conservative 1921, 19252nd term*
Grey North Matthew Robert Duncan Conservative 19212nd term
Grey Southeast Agnes Campbell Macphail Progressive 19212nd term
Haldimand Mark Cecil Senn Conservative 19212nd term
Halton Robert King Anderson Conservative 19173rd term
Hamilton East Sydney Chilton Mewburn Conservative 19173rd term
Hamilton West Charles William Bell Conservative 19251st term
Hastings—Peterborough Alexander Thomas Embury Conservative 19251st term
Hastings South William Ernest Tummon Conservative 19251st term
Huron North John Warwick King Progressive 19212nd term
Huron South Thomas McMillan Liberal 19251st term
Kenora—Rainy River Peter Heenan Liberal 19251st term
Kent Alexander Dew Chaplin Conservative 19251st term
Kingston City Arthur Edward Ross Conservative 19212nd term
Lambton East Joseph Elijah Armstrong Conservative 1904, 19256th term*
Lambton West William Thomas Goodison Liberal 19251st term
Lanark Richard Franklin Preston Conservative 19222nd term
Leeds Hugh Alexander Stewart Conservative 19212nd term
Lincoln James Dew Chaplin Conservative 19173rd term
London John Franklin White Conservative 19212nd term
Middlesex East Adam King Hodgins Conservative 19251st term
Middlesex West John Campbell Elliott (until 8 March 1926 ministerial appointment) Liberal 19251st term
John Campbell Elliott (by-election of 1926-03-29) Liberal
Muskoka—Ontario Peter McGibbon Conservative 19251st term
Nipissing Edmond Lapierre Liberal 19212nd term
Norfolk—Elgin John Lawrence Stansell Conservative 19212nd term
Northumberland Milton Edgar Maybee Conservative 19212nd term
Ontario Thomas Erlin Kaiser Conservative 19251st term
Ottawa (City of)* John Léo Chabot Conservative 1911, 19253rd term*
Stewart McClenaghan Conservative 19251st term
Oxford North Donald Matheson Sutherland Conservative 19251st term
Oxford South Donald Sutherland Conservative 19114th term
Parkdale David Spence Conservative 19212nd term
Parry Sound James Arthurs Conservative 19085th term
Peel Samuel Charters Conservative 19173rd term
Perth North David McKenzie Wright Conservative 19251st term
Perth South Frederick George Sanderson Liberal 19251st term
Peterborough West Edward Armour Peck Conservative 19251st term
Port Arthur—Thunder Bay William Fitzgerald Langworthy Conservative 19251st term
Prescott Gustave Evanturel Liberal 19251st term
Prince Edward—Lennox John Hubbs Conservative 19212nd term
Renfrew North Ira Delbert Cotnam Conservative 19251st term
Renfrew South Martin James Maloney Conservative 19251st term
Russell Alfred Goulet Liberal 19251st term
Simcoe East Alfred Burke Thompson Conservative 19251st term
Simcoe North William Alves Boys Conservative 19212nd term
Stormont Charles James Hamilton Conservative 19251st term
Timiskaming North John Raymond O'Neill Conservative 19251st term
Timiskaming South Ernest Frederick Armstrong Conservative 19251st term
Toronto East Edmond Baird Ryckman Conservative 19212nd term
Toronto East Centre Edmund James Bristol Conservative 19056th term
Toronto—High Park Alexander James Anderson Conservative 19251st term
Toronto Northeast Richard Langton Baker Conservative 19251st term
Toronto Northwest Thomas Langton Church Conservative 19212nd term
Toronto—Scarborough Joseph Henry Harris Conservative 19212nd term
Toronto South George Reginald Geary Conservative 19251st term
Toronto West Centre Horatio Clarence Hocken Conservative 19173rd term
Victoria Thomas Hubert Stinson Conservative 19251st term
Waterloo North William Daum Euler Liberal 19173rd term
Waterloo South Alexander McKay Edwards Conservative 19251st term
Welland George Hamilton Pettit Conservative 19251st term
Wellington North Duncan Sinclair Conservative 19251st term
Wellington South Hugh Guthrie Conservative 19007th term
Wentworth Gordon Crooks Wilson Conservative 19114th term
York North Thomas Herbert Lennox Conservative 19251st term
York South William Findlay Maclean Independent Conservative 18929th term
York West Henry Lumley Drayton Conservative 19193rd term

Prince Edward Island

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
King's John Alexander Macdonald Conservative 19251st term
Prince Alfred Edgar MacLean Liberal 19212nd term
Queen's* Robert Harold Jenkins Liberal 19251st term
John Albert Messervy Conservative 19251st term

Quebec

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Argenteuil George Halsey Perley Conservative 1904, 19254th term*
Bagot Joseph Edmond Marcile (died in office) Liberal 18988th term
Georges Dorèze Morin (by-election of 1925-12-07) Liberal 19251st term
Beauce Édouard Lacroix Liberal 19251st term
Beauharnois Maxime Raymond Liberal 19251st term
Bellechasse Charles Alphonse Fournier Liberal 19173rd term
Berthier—Maskinongé Joseph-Charles-Théodore Gervais Liberal 19173rd term
Bonaventure Charles Marcil Liberal 19007th term
Brome—Missisquoi William Frederic Kay Liberal 19114th term
Cartier Samuel William Jacobs Liberal 19173rd term
Chambly—Verchères Aimé Langlois Liberal 19251st term
Champlain Arthur Lesieur Desaulniers Liberal 19173rd term
Charlevoix—Saguenay Pierre-François Casgrain Liberal 19173rd term
Châteauguay—Huntingdon James Alexander Robb Liberal 19085th term
Chicoutimi Julien-Édouard-Alfred Dubuc Independent Liberal 19251st term
Compton Joseph Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just Liberal 19251st term
Dorchester Lucien Cannon Liberal 19173rd term
Drummond—Arthabaska Wilfrid Girouard Liberal 19251st term
Gaspé Rodolphe Lemieux (†) Liberal 18968th term
Hochelaga Édouard-Charles St-Père Liberal 19212nd term
Hull Joseph-Éloi Fontaine Liberal 19173rd term
Jacques Cartier Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume Liberal 19222nd term
Joliette Jean-Joseph Denis Liberal 19173rd term
Kamouraska Joseph Georges Bouchard Liberal 19222nd term
Labelle Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa Independent1896, [d] 19254th term*
Lake St. John Armand Sylvestre Liberal 19251st term
Laprairie—Napierville Roch Lanctôt Liberal 19046th term
L'Assomption—Montcalm Paul-Arthur Séguin Liberal 19085th term
Laurier—Outremont Joseph-Alexandre Mercier Liberal 19251st term
Laval—Two Mountains Liguori Lacombe Liberal 19251st term
Lévis Joseph-Étienne Dussault Liberal 19251st term
L'Islet Joseph-Fernand Fafard Liberal 19173rd term
Lotbinière Joseph-Achille Verville Liberal 19251st term
Maisonneuve Clément Robitaille Liberal 19212nd term
Matane Georges-Léonidas Dionne Liberal 19251st term
Mégantic Eusèbe Roberge Liberal 19222nd term
Montmagny Léo Kemner Laflamme Liberal 19251st term
Mount Royal Robert Smeaton White Conservative 1888, [e] 19253rd term*
Nicolet Joseph-Félix Descoteaux Liberal 19232nd term
Pontiac Frank S. Cahill Liberal 19173rd term
Portneuf Michel-Siméon Delisle Liberal 19007th term
Québec—Montmorency Henri-Edgar Lavigueur Liberal 19173rd term
Quebec East Ernest Lapointe Liberal 19047th term
Quebec South Charles Gavan Power Liberal 19173rd term
Quebec West Georges Parent Liberal 1904, [f] 19175th term*
Richelieu Arthur Cardin Liberal 19114th term
Richmond—Wolfe Edmund William Tobin Liberal 19007th term
Rimouski Eugène Fiset Liberal 19242nd term
St. Ann James John Edmund Guérin Liberal 19251st term
St. Antoine Leslie Gordon Bell Conservative 19251st term
St. Denis Joseph-Arthur Denis Liberal 19212nd term
St. Henri Paul Mercier Liberal 19212nd term
St. Hyacinthe—Rouville René Morin Liberal 19212nd term
St. James Fernand Rinfret Liberal 19203rd term
St. Johns—Iberville Aldéric-Joseph Benoit Liberal 19222nd term
St. Lawrence—St. George Charles Cahan Conservative 19251st term
St. Mary Hermas Deslauriers Liberal 19173rd term
Shefford Georges Henri Boivin Liberal 19114th term
Sherbrooke Charles Benjamin Howard Liberal 19251st term
Stanstead Willis Keith Baldwin Liberal 19173rd term
Témiscouata Jean-François Pouliot Liberal 19242nd term
Terrebonne Jules-Édouard Prévost Liberal 19173rd term
Three Rivers—St. Maurice Arthur Bettez Liberal 19251st term
Vaudreuil—Soulanges Lawrence Alexander Wilson Liberal 19251st term
Wright Fizalam-William Perras Liberal 19251st term
Yamaska Aimé Boucher Liberal 19213rd term

Saskatchewan

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Assiniboia Robert McKenzie Liberal 19251st term
Humboldt Albert Frederick Totzke Liberal 19251st term
Kindersley Archibald M. Carmichael Progressive 19212nd term
Last Mountain William Russell Fansher Progressive 19251st term
Long Lake John Frederick Johnston Progressive 1917 [g] 3rd term
Liberal
Mackenzie Milton Neil Campbell Progressive 19212nd term
Maple Creek George Spence Liberal 19251st term
Melfort Malcolm McLean Liberal 19251st term
Melville William Richard Motherwell Liberal 19212nd term
Moose Jaw John Gordon Ross Liberal 19251st term
North Battleford Cameron Ross McIntosh Liberal 19251st term
Prince Albert Charles McDonald (until 15 January 1926 resignation to allow seat for Mackenzie King) Liberal 19251st term
William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1926-02-15) Liberal 1908, [h] 1919, [i] 19264th term*
Qu'Appelle John Millar Progressive 19212nd term
Regina Francis Nicholson Darke (resigned 20 February 1926 to allow seat for Dunning) Liberal 19251st term
Charles Avery Dunning (by-election of 1926-03-16) Liberal 19261st term
Rosetown John Evans Progressive 19212nd term
Saskatoon Alexander MacGillivray Young Liberal 19251st term
South Battleford John Vallance Liberal 19251st term
Swift Current Charles Edward Bothwell Liberal 19251st term
Weyburn Edward James Young Liberal 19251st term
Willow Bunch Thomas F. Donnelly Liberal 19251st term
Yorkton George Washington McPhee Liberal 19251st term

Yukon

RidingNamePartyFirst elected/previously electedNo. of terms
Yukon George Black Conservative 19212nd term

By-elections

By-electionDateIncumbentPartyWinnerPartyCauseRetained
Middlesex West March 29, 1926 John Campbell Elliott      Liberal John Campbell Elliott      Liberal Recontested upon appointment as Minister of LabourYes
Regina March 16, 1926 Francis Nicholson Darke      Liberal Charles Avery Dunning      Liberal Resignation to provide a seat for DunningYes
Prince Albert February 15, 1926 Charles McDonald      Liberal William Lyon Mackenzie King      Liberal Resignation to provide a seat for Mackenzie KingYes
Bagot December 7, 1925 Joseph Edmond Marcile      Liberal Georges Dorèze Morin      Liberal DeathYes

Notes

  1. ↑ The Conservative Party replaced the Liberal Party without an election on 29 June 1926 as a result of the King-Byng Affair.
  2. ↑ Selkirk
  3. ↑ Pictou
  4. ↑ First elected as a Liberal
  5. ↑ Cardwell (Ontario)
  6. ↑ Montmorency
  7. ↑ First elected as a Unionist
  8. ↑ Waterloo North (Ontario)
  9. ↑ Prince (PEI)/York North (Ontario)

References

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