18th Parliament of Canada | |||
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Majority parliament | |||
6 February 1936 – 25 January 1940 | |||
Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | William Lyon Mackenzie King 23 Oct 1935 – 15 Nov 1948 | ||
Cabinet | 16th Canadian Ministry | ||
Leader of the Opposition | R. B. Bennett 23 Oct 1935 – 6 Jul 1938 | ||
Robert Manion 7 Jul 1938 – 13 May 1940 | |||
Party caucuses | |||
Government | Liberal Party | ||
Opposition | Conservative Party | ||
Crossbench | Social Credit Party | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | |||
Liberal-Progressive | |||
Reconstruction Party | |||
United Reform | |||
House of Commons | |||
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
Speaker of the Commons | Pierre-François Casgrain 6 February 1936 – 10 May 1940 | ||
Members | 245 MP seats List of members | ||
Senate | |||
Speaker of the Senate | Walter Edward Foster 11 January 1936 – 8 May 1940 | ||
Government Senate Leader | Raoul Dandurand 23 October 1935 – 11 March 1942 | ||
Opposition Senate Leader | Arthur Meighen 22 October 1935 – 16 January 1942 | ||
Senators | 96 senator seats List of senators | ||
Sovereign | |||
Monarch | Edward VIII 20 Jan 1936 – 11 Dec 1936 | ||
George VI 11 Dec 1936 – 6 Feb 1952 | |||
Governor General | John Buchan 2 Nov 1935 – 11 Feb 1940 | ||
Sessions | |||
1st session 6 February 1936 – 23 June 1936 | |||
2nd session 14 January 1937 – 10 April 1937 | |||
3rd session 27 January 1938 – 1 July 1938 | |||
4th session 12 January 1939 – 3 June 1939 | |||
5th session 7 September 1939 – 13 September 1939 | |||
6th session 25 January 1940 – 25 January 1940 | |||
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The 18th Canadian Parliament was in session from 6 February 1936, until 25 January 1940. The membership was set by the 1935 federal election on 14 October 1935, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1940 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led first by Richard Bedford Bennett, and later by Robert Manion.
The Speaker was Pierre-François Casgrain. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
The Social Credit Party led by J. H. Blackmore made their first federal appearance in this parliament. It would be an important third party until 1980. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by J.S. Woodsworth also made their first appearance. It, and its successor party, the New Democratic Party, would become a major source of policies that would change the fabric of Canada.
There were six sessions of the 18th Parliament, though the last two were extremely short:
Session | Start | End |
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1st | 6 February 1936 | 23 June 1936 |
2nd | 14 January 1937 | 10 April 1937 |
3rd | 27 January 1938 | 1 July 1938 |
4th | 12 January 1939 | 3 June 1939 |
5th | 7 September 1939 | 13 September 1939 |
6th | 25 January 1940 | 25 January 1940 |
Following is a full list of members of the eighteenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Acadia | Victor Quelch | Social Credit | |
Athabaska | Percy John Rowe | Social Credit | |
Battle River | Robert Fair | Social Credit | |
Bow River | Charles Edward Johnston | Social Credit | |
Calgary East | John Landeryou | Social Credit | |
Calgary West | Richard Bedford Bennett (resigned 28 January 1939) | Conservative | |
Douglas Cunnington (by-election of 18 September 1939) | Conservative | ||
Camrose | James Alexander Marshall | Social Credit | |
Edmonton East | William Samuel Hall (died 26 January 1938) | Social Credit | |
Orvis A. Kennedy (by-election of 21 March 1938) | Social Credit | ||
Edmonton West | James Angus MacKinnon | Liberal | |
Jasper—Edson | Walter Frederick Kuhl | Social Credit | |
Lethbridge | John Horne Blackmore | Social Credit | |
Macleod | Ernest George Hansell | Social Credit | |
Medicine Hat | Archibald Hugh Mitchell | Social Credit | |
Peace River | René-Antoine Pelletier | Social Credit | |
Red Deer | Eric Joseph Poole | Social Credit | |
Vegreville | William Hayhurst | Social Credit | |
Wetaskiwin | Norman Jaques | Social Credit |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Cariboo | James Gray Turgeon | Liberal | |
Comox—Alberni | Alan Webster Neill | Independent | |
Fraser Valley | Harry James Barber | Conservative | |
Kamloops | Thomas O'Neill | Liberal | |
Kootenay East | Henry Herbert Stevens | Reconstruction | |
Conservative | |||
Kootenay West | William Esling | Conservative | |
Nanaimo | James Samuel Taylor | C.C.F. | |
Independent | |||
New Westminster | Thomas Reid | Liberal | |
Skeena | Olof Hanson | Liberal | |
Vancouver—Burrard | Gerry McGeer | Liberal | |
Vancouver Centre | Ian Alistair Mackenzie | Liberal | |
Vancouver East | Angus MacInnis | C.C.F. | |
Vancouver North | Charles Grant MacNeil | C.C.F. | |
Vancouver South | Howard Charles Green | Conservative | |
Victoria | D'Arcy Plunkett (died 3 May 1936) | Conservative | |
Simon Fraser Tolmie (by-election of 8 June 1936, died 13 October 1937) | Conservative | ||
Robert Mayhew (by-election of 29 November 1937) | Liberal | ||
Yale | Grote Stirling | Conservative |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Charlotte | Burton Hill | Liberal | |
Gloucester | Peter Veniot (died 6 July 1936) | Liberal | |
Clarence Joseph Veniot (by-election of 17 August 1936) | Liberal | ||
Kent | Louis-Prudent-Alexandre Robichaud | Liberal | |
Northumberland | John Patrick Barry | Liberal | |
Restigouche—Madawaska | Joseph-Enoil Michaud | Liberal | |
Royal | Alfred Johnson Brooks | Conservative | |
St. John—Albert | William Ryan (died 1 April 1938) | Liberal | |
Allan McAvity (by-election of 21 February 1938) | Liberal | ||
Victoria—Carleton | Jack Patterson | Liberal | |
Westmorland | Henry Read Emmerson | Liberal | |
York—Sunbury | William George Clark | Liberal |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Antigonish—Guysborough | William Duff | Liberal | |
J. Ralph Kirk (by-election of 16 March 1936) | Liberal | ||
Cape Breton North and Victoria | Daniel Alexander Cameron (died 4 September 1937) | Liberal | |
Matthew MacLean (by-election of 18 October 1937) | Liberal | ||
Cape Breton South | David James Hartigan | Liberal | |
Colchester—Hants | Gordon Purdy | Liberal | |
Cumberland | Kenneth Judson Cochrane | Liberal | |
Digby—Annapolis—Kings | James Lorimer Ilsley | Liberal | |
Halifax* | Robert Emmett Finn | Liberal | |
Gordon Benjamin Isnor | Liberal | ||
Inverness—Richmond | Donald MacLennan | Liberal | |
Pictou | Henry Byron McCulloch | Liberal | |
Queens—Lunenburg | John James Kinley | Liberal | |
Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare | Vincent Pottier | Liberal |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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King's | Thomas Vincent Grant | Liberal | |
Prince | Alfred Edgar MacLean (died 28 October 1939) | Liberal | |
James Ralston (by-election of 2 January 1940) | Liberal | ||
Queen's* | James Larabee (until 18 December 1935 fisheries appointment) | Liberal | |
Peter Sinclair | Liberal | ||
Charles Avery Dunning (by-election of 30 December 1935) | Liberal |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Yukon | Martha Black | Independent Conservative |
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