| 21st Canadian Parliament | |||
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| Majority parliament | |||
| Sep. 15, 1949 – May. 14, 1953 | |||
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| Parliament leaders | |||
| Prime minister | Louis St. Laurent Nov. 15, 1948 – Jun. 21, 1957 | ||
| Cabinet | 17th Canadian Ministry | ||
| Leader of the Opposition | George A. Drew October 2, 1948 – November 1, 1954 | ||
| Party caucuses | |||
| Government | Liberal Party | ||
| Opposition | Progressive Conservative Party | ||
| Crossbench | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | ||
| Social Credit Party | |||
| Liberal-Labour | |||
| Liberal-Progressive | |||
| House of Commons | |||
| Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
| Speaker of the Commons | William Ross Macdonald September 15, 1949 – June 11, 1953 | ||
| Opposition House leader | Alphonse Fournier May 1, 1948 – May 8, 1953 | ||
| Members | 262 MP seats List of members | ||
| Senate | |||
| Speaker of the Senate | Élie Beauregard August 3, 1949 – October 13, 1953 | ||
| Government Senate leader | Wishart McLea Robertson August 24, 1945 – October 14, 1953 | ||
| Opposition Senate leader | John Thomas Haig September 12, 1945 – June 20, 1957 | ||
| Senators | 102 senator seats List of senators | ||
| Sovereign | |||
| Monarch | George VI December 6, 1936 – February 6, 1952 | ||
| Elizabeth II February 6, 1952 – September 8, 2022 | |||
| Governor general | Harold Alexander 12 April 1946 – 28 January 1952 | ||
| Vincent Massey 28 February 1952 – 15 September 1959 | |||
| Sessions | |||
| 1st session September 15, 1949 – December 10, 1949 | |||
| 2nd session February 16, 1950 – June 30, 1950 | |||
| 3rd session August 29, 1950 – January 29, 1951 | |||
| 4th session January 30, 1951 – October 9, 1951 | |||
| 5th session October 9, 1951 – December 29, 1951 | |||
| 6th session February 28, 1952 – November 20, 1952 | |||
| 7th session November 20, 1952 – May 14, 1953 | |||
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The 21st Canadian Parliament was in session from September 15, 1949, until June 13, 1953. The membership was set by the 1949 federal election on June 27, 1949, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1953 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and the 17th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Progressive Conservative Party, led by George Drew.
The Speaker was William Ross Macdonald. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1947-1952 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
Following is a full list of members of the twenty-first Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.
Key:
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (resigned 5 July 1951) | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
| Carl Nickle (by-election of 1951-12-10) | Progressive Conservative | 1951 | ||
| Camrose | Hilliard Beyerstein | Social Credit | 1949 | |
| Edmonton East | Albert Frederick Macdonald | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Edmonton West | George Prudham ‡ | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Jasper—Edson | John William Welbourn | Liberal | 1949 | |
| 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 | John Decore | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Wetaskiwin | Ray Thomas | Social Credit | 1949 |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | James Ewen Matthews (died 24 November 1950) | Liberal | 1938 | |
| Walter Dinsdale (by-election of 1951-06-25) | Progressive Conservative | 1951 | ||
| Churchill | George Weaver | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Dauphin | William John Ward | Liberal | 1921, [a] 1935, 1949 | |
| Lisgar | Howard Winkler | Liberal | 1935 | |
| Marquette | Stuart Garson | Liberal | 1948 | |
| Norquay | Robert James Wood | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Portage—Neepawa | William Gilbert Weir | Liberal-Progressive | 1930 | |
| Provencher | René Jutras | Liberal | 1940 | |
| Selkirk | William Bryce | C.C.F. | 1943 | |
| Souris | J. Arthur Ross | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
| Springfield | John Sinnott | Liberal | 1945 | |
| St. Boniface | Fernand Viau | Liberal | 1945 | |
| Winnipeg North | Alistair Stewart | C.C.F. | 1940 | |
| Winnipeg North Centre | Stanley Knowles | C.C.F. | 1942 | |
| Winnipeg South | Leslie Mutch ‡ | Liberal | 1935 | |
| Winnipeg South Centre | Ralph Maybank ‡ (resigned 30 April 1951) | Liberal | 1935 | |
| Gordon Churchill (by-election of 1951-06-25) | Progressive Conservative | 1951 |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | A. Wesley Stuart | Liberal | 1945 | |
| Gloucester | Clovis-Thomas Richard (until 5 March 1952 emoulment appointment) | Liberal | 1945 | |
| Albany Robichaud (by-election of 1952-05-26) | Progressive Conservative | 1952 | ||
| Kent | Aurel Léger | Liberal | 1940 | |
| Northumberland | George Roy McWilliam | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Restigouche—Madawaska | Benoît Michaud | Liberal | 1945 | |
| Paul Dubé (by-election of 1949-10-24) | Independent Liberal | 1949 | ||
| Royal | Alfred Johnson Brooks | Progressive Conservative | 1935 | |
| St. John—Albert | Daniel Aloysius Riley | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Victoria—Carleton | Heber Harold Hatfield | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
| Gage Montgomery (by-election of 26 May 1952) | Progressive Conservative | 1952 | ||
| Westmorland | Edmund William George | Liberal | 1949 | |
| York—Sunbury | Milton Fowler Gregg | Liberal | 1947 |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonavista—Twillingate | F. Gordon Bradley | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Burin—Burgeo | Chesley W. Carter | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Grand Falls—White Bay | Thomas G. W. Ashbourne | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Humber—St. George's | William Richard Kent | Liberal | 1949 | |
| St. John's East | Gordon Higgins | Progressive Conservative | 1949 | |
| St. John's West | William J. Browne | Progressive Conservative | 1949 | |
| Trinity—Conception | Leonard Stick | Liberal | 1949 |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yukon—Mackenzie River | James Aubrey Simmons | Liberal | 1949 |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annapolis—Kings | Angus Elderkin (until election voided 6 March 1950) | Liberal | 1949 | |
| George Nowlan (by-election of 1950-06-19) | Progressive Conservative | 1948, 1950 | ||
| Antigonish—Guysborough | J. Ralph Kirk | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Cape Breton North and Victoria | Matthew MacLean | Liberal | 1937 | |
| Cape Breton South | Clarence Gillis | C.C.F. | 1940 | |
| Colchester—Hants | Frank Thomas Stanfield | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
| Cumberland | Percy Chapman Black | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
| Digby—Yarmouth | Thomas Kirk | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Halifax* | John Dickey (until 2 May 1950 Senate appointment) | Liberal | 1947 | |
| Gordon B. Isnor | Liberal | 1935 | ||
| Sam Balcom (by-election of 1950-06-19, replaces Dickey) | Liberal | 1950 | ||
| Inverness—Richmond | William F. Carroll | Liberal | 1911, [b] 1921, [c] 1949 | |
| Lunenburg | Robert Winters | Liberal | 1945 | |
| Pictou | Henry B. McCulloch | Liberal | 1935 | |
| Queens—Shelburne | Donald Smith | Liberal | 1949 |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's | Thomas Joseph Kickham | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Prince | John Watson Macnaught ‡ | Liberal | 1945 | |
| Queen's* | James Lester Douglas (died 30 September 1950) | Liberal | 1940 | |
| Chester McLure | Progressive Conservative | 1930, 1945 | ||
| Angus MacLean (by-election of 1951-06-25, replaces Douglas) | Progressive Conservative | 1951 |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assiniboia | Hazen Argue | C.C.F. | 1945 | |
| Humboldt | Joseph Ingolph Hetland | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Kindersley | Fred Larson | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Lake Centre | John Diefenbaker | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
| Mackenzie | Gladstone Ferrie | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Maple Creek | Irvin Studer | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Meadow Lake | John Harrison | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Melfort | Percy Wright | C.C.F. | 1940 | |
| Melville | James Garfield Gardiner | Liberal | 1936 | |
| Moose Jaw | Ross Thatcher | C.C.F. | 1945 | |
| Moose Mountain | John James Smith | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Prince Albert | Francis Helme | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Qu'Appelle | Austin Edwin Dewar | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Regina City | Emmett McCusker | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Rosetown—Biggar | Major James Coldwell | C.C.F. | 1935 | |
| Rosthern | William Albert Boucher | Liberal | 1948 | |
| Saskatoon | Roy Knight | C.C.F. | 1945 | |
| Swift Current | Harry Whiteside | Liberal | 1949 | |
| The Battlefords | Arthur James Bater | Liberal | 1949 | |
| Yorkton | Alan Carl Stewart | Liberal | 1949 |