17th Parliament of Canada | |||
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Majority parliament | |||
8 September 1930 – 14 August 1935 | |||
Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | R. B. Bennett 7 Aug 1930 – 23 Oct 1935 | ||
Cabinet | 15th Canadian Ministry | ||
Party caucuses | |||
Government | Conservative Party | ||
Opposition | Liberal Party | ||
Crossbench | United Farmers of Alberta | ||
Progressive Party | |||
Labour | |||
House of Commons | |||
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
Speaker of the Commons | George Black 8 September 1930 – 16 January 1935 | ||
James Langstaff Bowman 17 January 1935 – 5 February 1936 | |||
Members | 245 MP seats List of members | ||
Senate | |||
Speaker of the Senate | Pierre-Édouard Blondin 3 September 1930 – 10 January 1936 | ||
Government Senate Leader | Wellington Bartley Willoughby 7 August 1930 – 3 February 1932 | ||
Arthur Meighen 3 February 1932 – 22 October 1935 | |||
Opposition Senate Leader | Raoul Dandurand 7 August 1930 – 22 October 1935 | ||
Sovereign | |||
Monarch | George V 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936 | ||
Governor General | Vere Ponsonby 4 April 1931 – 2 November 1935 | ||
Sessions | |||
1st session 8 September 1930 – 22 September 1930 | |||
2nd session 12 March 1931 – 3 August 1931 | |||
3rd session 4 February 1932 – 26 May 1932 | |||
4th session 6 October 1932 – 27 May 1933 | |||
5th session 25 January 1934 – 3 July 1934 | |||
6th session 17 January 1935 – 5 July 1935 | |||
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The 17th Canadian Parliament was in session from 8 September 1930, until 14 August 1935. The membership was set by the 1930 federal election on 28 July 1930, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1935 election.
It was controlled by a Conservative Party majority under Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett and the 15th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led by William Lyon Mackenzie King.
The Speaker was first George Black, and later James Langstaff Bowman. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1924-1933 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
It was the third longest parliament in Canadian history.
There were six sessions of the 17th Parliament:
Session | Start | End |
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1st | 8 September 1930 | 22 September 1930 |
2nd | 12 March 1931 | 3 August 1931 |
3rd | 4 February 1932 | 26 May 1932 |
4th | 6 October 1932 | 27 May 1933 |
5th | 25 January 1934 | 3 July 1934 |
6th | 17 January 1935 | 5 July 1935 |
Following is a full list of members of the seventeenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district. Party leaders are italicized. Cabinet ministers are in boldface. The Prime Minister is both. The Speaker is indicated by "(†)".
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Cariboo | John Fraser | Conservative | 1925 | |
Comox—Alberni | Alan Webster Neill | Independent | 1921 | |
Fraser Valley | Harry James Barber | Conservative | 1925 | |
Kootenay East | Michael Dalton McLean (until 7 August 1930 emoulment appointment) | Conservative | 1930 | |
Henry Herbert Stevens (by-election of 1930-08-25) | Conservative | 1911 | ||
Kootenay West | William Esling | Conservative | 1925 | |
Nanaimo | Charles Dickie | Conservative | 1921 | |
New Westminster | Thomas Reid | Liberal | 1930 | |
Skeena | Olof Hanson | Liberal | 1930 | |
Vancouver—Burrard | Wilfred Hanbury | Liberal | 1930 | |
Vancouver Centre | Ian Alistair Mackenzie | Liberal | 1930 | |
Vancouver North | Albert Edward Munn | Liberal | 1930 | |
Vancouver South | Angus MacInnis | Independent Labour | 1930 | |
Victoria | D'Arcy Plunkett | Conservative | 1928 | |
Yale | Grote Stirling | Conservative | 1924 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Charlotte | Arthur D. Ganong | Conservative | 1930 | |
Gloucester | Peter Veniot | Liberal | 1926 | |
Kent | Télésphore Arsenault | Conservative | 1930 | |
Northumberland | George Manning McDade | Conservative | 1930 | |
Restigouche—Madawaska | Maxime Cormier | Conservative | 1930 | |
Joseph-Enoil Michaud (by-election of 1933-10-23) | Liberal | 1933 | ||
Royal | George Burpee Jones | Conservative | 1921 | |
George Burpee Jones (by-election of 1932-06-27) | Conservative | |||
St. John—Albert* | Thomas Bell | Conservative | 1925 | |
Murray MacLaren | Conservative | 1921 | ||
Murray MacLaren (by-election of 1930-08-25) | Conservative | |||
Victoria—Carleton | Benjamin Franklin Smith | Conservative | 1930 | |
Westmorland | Otto Baird Price | Conservative | 1925 | |
York—Sunbury | Richard Hanson | Conservative | 1921 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Antigonish—Guysborough | William Duff | Liberal | 1917, [lower-alpha 4] 1927 | |
Cape Breton North—Victoria | Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone | Conservative | 1925 | |
Cape Breton South | Finlay MacDonald | Conservative | 1925 | |
Colchester | Martin Luther Urquhart | Liberal | 1930 | |
Cumberland | Robert Knowlton Smith | Conservative | 1925 | |
Digby—Annapolis | Harry Short | Conservative | 1925 | |
Halifax* | William Anderson Black | Conservative | 1923 | |
Felix Patrick Quinn | Conservative | 1925 | ||
Hants—Kings | James Lorimer Ilsley | Liberal | 1926 | |
Inverness | Isaac Duncan MacDougall | Conservative | 1925 | |
Pictou | Thomas Cantley | Conservative | 1925 | |
Queens—Lunenburg | William Gordon Ernst | Conservative | 1926 | |
Richmond—West Cape Breton | John Alexander Macdonald (until 22 August 1930 emoulment appointment) | Conservative | 1925 | |
Edgar Nelson Rhodes (by-election of 1930-09-02) | Conservative | 1908, [lower-alpha 5] 1930 | ||
Shelburne—Yarmouth | James Ralston | Liberal | 1926 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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King's | John Alexander Macdonald | Conservative | 1925 | |
Prince | Alfred Edgar MacLean | Liberal | 1921 | |
Queen's* | Chester McLure | Conservative | 1930 | |
John Howard Myers | Conservative | 1930 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Yukon | George Black (†) | Conservative | 1921 |
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