20th Parliament of Canada | |||
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Minority parliament | |||
6 September 1945 – 30 April 1949 | |||
Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | William Lyon Mackenzie King 23 Oct 1935 – 15 Nov 1948 | ||
Louis St. Laurent 15 Nov 1948 – 21 Jun 1957 | |||
Cabinets | 16th Canadian Ministry 17th Canadian Ministry | ||
Leader of the Opposition | John Bracken 11 June 1945 – 20 July 1948 | ||
George A. Drew 2 October 1948 – 1 November 1954 | |||
Party caucuses | |||
Government | Liberal Party | ||
Opposition | Progressive Conservative Party | ||
Crossbench | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | ||
Social Credit Party | |||
Bloc populaire | |||
Labor-Progressive Party | |||
House of Commons | |||
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
Speaker of the Commons | Gaspard Fauteux 6 September 1945 – 14 September 1949 | ||
Government House Leader | Ian Alistair Mackenzie 14 October 1944 – 30 April 1948 | ||
Alphonse Fournier 1 May 1948 – 9 May 1953 | |||
Members | 245 MP seats List of members | ||
Senate | |||
Speaker of the Senate | James Horace King 24 August 1945 – 2 August 1949 | ||
Government Senate Leader | Wishart McLea Robertson 24 August 1945 – 14 October 1953 | ||
Opposition Senate Leader | Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne 16 January 1942 – 11 September 1945 | ||
John Thomas Haig 12 September 1945 – 20 June 1957 | |||
Sovereign | |||
Monarch | George VI 11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952 | ||
Governor General | Alexander Cambridge 21 June 1940 – 12 April 1946 | ||
Harold Alexander 12 April 1946 – 28 January 1952 | |||
Sessions | |||
1st session 6 September 1945 – 18 December 1945 | |||
2nd session 14 March 1946 – 31 August 1946 | |||
3rd session 30 January 1947 – 17 July 1947 | |||
4th session 5 December 1947 – 30 June 1948 | |||
5th session 29 January 1949 – 30 April 1949 | |||
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The 20th Canadian Parliament was in session from 6 September 1945, until 30 April 1949. The membership was set by the 1945 federal election on 11 June 1945, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1949 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party minority first under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry, and later a majority under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and the 17th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the newly named Progressive Conservative Party, led first by John Bracken and later by George Drew.
The Speaker was Gaspard Fauteux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
In this parliament, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, led by M. J. Coldwell, overtook the Social Credit as third largest party.
There were five sessions of the 20th Parliament.
Following is a full list of members of the twentieth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district. Party leaders are italicized. Parliamentary assistants is indicated by "‡". 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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Acadia | Victor Quelch | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Athabaska | Joseph Miville Dechene | Liberal | 1940 | |
Battle River | Robert Fair | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Bow River | Charles Edward Johnston | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Calgary East | Douglas Harkness | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
Calgary West | Arthur LeRoy Smith | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
Camrose | James Alexander Marshall | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Edmonton East | Patrick Harvey Ashby | Social Credit | 1945 | |
Edmonton West | James Angus MacKinnon | Liberal | 1935 | |
Jasper—Edson | Walter Frederick Kuhl | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Lethbridge | John Horne Blackmore | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Macleod | Ernest George Hansell | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Medicine Hat | William Duncan Wylie | Social Credit | 1945 | |
Peace River | Solon Earl Low | Social Credit | 1945 | |
Red Deer | Frederick Davis Shaw | Social Credit | 1940 | |
Vegreville | Anthony Hlynka | Social Credit | 1940 | |
Wetaskiwin | Norman Jaques | Social Credit | 1935 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Charlotte | A. Wesley Stuart | Liberal | 1945 | |
Gloucester | Clovis-Thomas Richard | Liberal | 1945 | |
Kent | Aurel Léger | Liberal | 1940 | |
Northumberland | John William Maloney | Liberal | 1945 | |
Restigouche—Madawaska | Benoît Michaud | Liberal | 1945 | |
Royal | Alfred Johnson Brooks | Progressive Conservative | 1935 | |
St. John—Albert | King Hazen | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
Victoria—Carleton | Heber Harold Hatfield | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
Westmorland | Henry Read Emmerson | Liberal | 1935 | |
York—Sunbury | Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges (died in office) | Liberal | 1945 | |
Milton Fowler Gregg (by-election of 20 October 1947) | Liberal | 1947 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Antigonish—Guysborough | J. Ralph Kirk | Liberal | 1936 | |
Cape Breton North and Victoria | Matthew MacLean | Liberal | 1937 | |
Cape Breton South | Clarence Gillis | CCF | 1940 | |
Colchester—Hants | Frank Thomas Stanfield | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
Cumberland | Percy Chapman Black | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
Digby—Annapolis—Kings | James Lorimer Ilsley (resigned 27 October 1948) | Liberal | 1926 | |
George Nowlan (by-election of 13 December 1948) | Progressive Conservative | 1948 | ||
Halifax* | Gordon Benjamin Isnor | Liberal | 1935 | |
William Chisholm Macdonald ‡ (died 19 November 1946) | Liberal | 1940 | ||
John Dickey (by-election of 14 July 1947, replaces Macdonald) | Liberal | 1947 | ||
Inverness—Richmond | Moses Elijah McGarry | Liberal | 1940 | |
Pictou | Henry Byron McCulloch | Liberal | 1935 | |
Queens—Lunenburg | Robert Winters ‡ | Liberal | 1945 | |
Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare | Loran Ellis Baker ‡ | Liberal | 1945 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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King's | Thomas Vincent Grant | Liberal | 1935 | |
Prince | John Watson MacNaught ‡ | Liberal | 1945 | |
Queen's* | James Lester Douglas | Liberal | 1940 | |
Chester McLure | Progressive Conservative | 1930, 1945 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Assiniboia | Edward McCullough | CCF | 1945 | |
Humboldt | Joseph William Burton | CCF | 1935 | |
Kindersley | Frank Jaenicke | CCF | 1945 | |
Lake Centre | John Diefenbaker | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
Mackenzie | Alexander Malcolm Nicholson | CCF | 1940 | |
Maple Creek | Duncan John McCuaig | CCF | 1945 | |
Melfort | Percy Wright | CCF | 1940 | |
Melville | James Garfield Gardiner | Liberal | 1936 | |
Moose Jaw | Ross Thatcher | CCF | 1945 | |
North Battleford | Frederick Townley-Smith | CCF | 1945 | |
Prince Albert | Edward LeRoy Bowerman | CCF | 1945 | |
Qu'Appelle | Gladys Strum | CCF | 1945 | |
Regina City | John Probe | CCF | 1945 | |
Rosetown—Biggar | Major James Coldwell | CCF | 1935 | |
Rosthern | Walter Tucker ‡ (resigned 8 June 1948) | Liberal | 1935 | |
William Albert Boucher (by-election of 25 October 1948) | Liberal | 1948 | ||
Saskatoon City | Roy Knight | CCF | 1945 | |
Swift Current | Thomas John Bentley | CCF | 1945 | |
The Battlefords | Max Campbell | CCF | 1945 | |
Weyburn | Eric McKay | CCF | 1945 | |
Wood Mountain | Hazen Argue | CCF | 1945 | |
Yorkton | George Hugh Castleden | CCF | 1940 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Yukon | George Black | Progressive Conservative | 1921, 1940 |
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