21st Parliament of Canada | |||
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Majority parliament | |||
15 September 1949 – 14 May 1953 | |||
Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | Louis St. Laurent 15 Nov 1948 – 21 Jun 1957 | ||
Cabinet | 17th Canadian Ministry | ||
Leader of the Opposition | George A. Drew | ||
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 | ||
Members | 262 MP seats List of members | ||
Senators | 102 senator seats List of senators | ||
Sovereign | |||
Monarch | George VI 6 December 1936 – 6 February 1952 | ||
Elizabeth II 6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022 | |||
Sessions | |||
1st session 1949-09-15 – 1949-12-10 | |||
2nd session 1950-02-16 – 1950-06-30 | |||
3rd session 1950-08-29 – 1951-01-29 | |||
4th session 1951-01-30 – 1951-10-09 | |||
5th session 1951-10-09 – 1951-12-29 | |||
6th session 1952-02-28 – 1952-11-20 | |||
7th session 1952-11-20 – 1953-05-14 | |||
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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.
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Brandon | James Ewen Matthews (died 24 November 1950) | Liberal | |
Walter Dinsdale (by-election of 1951-06-25) | Progressive Conservative | ||
Churchill | George Dyer Weaver | Liberal | |
Dauphin | William John Ward | Liberal | |
Lisgar | Howard Winkler | Liberal | |
Marquette | Stuart Garson | Liberal | |
Norquay | Robert James Wood | Liberal | |
Portage—Neepawa | William Gilbert Weir | Liberal-Progressive | |
Provencher | René Jutras | Liberal | |
Selkirk | William Bryce | C.C.F. | |
Souris | James Arthur Ross | Progressive Conservative | |
Springfield | John Sylvester Aloysius Sinnott | Liberal | |
St. Boniface | Fernand Viau | Liberal | |
Winnipeg North | Alistair McLeod Stewart | C.C.F. | |
Winnipeg North Centre | Stanley Knowles | C.C.F. | |
Winnipeg South | Leslie Alexander Mutch | Liberal | |
Winnipeg South Centre | Ralph Maybank (resigned 30 April 1951) | Liberal | |
Gordon Churchill (by-election of 1951-06-25) | Progressive Conservative |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Charlotte | Andrew Wesley Stuart | Liberal | |
Gloucester | Clovis-Thomas Richard (until 5 March 1952 emoulment appointment) | Liberal | |
Albany M. Robichaud (by-election of 1952-05-26) | Progressive Conservative | ||
Kent | Aurel D. Léger | Liberal | |
Northumberland | George Roy McWilliam | Liberal | |
Restigouche—Madawaska | Benoît Michaud | Liberal | |
Paul-Léon Dubé (by-election of 1949-10-24) | Independent Liberal | ||
Royal | Alfred Johnson Brooks | Progressive Conservative | |
St. John—Albert | Daniel Aloysius Riley | Liberal | |
Victoria—Carleton | Heber Harold Hatfield | Progressive Conservative | |
Gage Montgomery (by-election of 26 May 1952) | Progressive Conservative | ||
Westmorland | Edmund William George | Liberal | |
York—Sunbury | Milton Fowler Gregg | Liberal |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Yukon—Mackenzie River | James Aubrey Simmons | Liberal |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Annapolis—Kings | Angus Alexander Elderkin (until election voided 6 March 1950) | Liberal | |
George Nowlan (by-election of 1950-06-19) | Progressive Conservative | ||
Antigonish—Guysborough | J. Ralph Kirk | Liberal | |
Cape Breton North and Victoria | Matthew MacLean | Liberal | |
Cape Breton South | Clarence Gillis | C.C.F. | |
Colchester—Hants | Frank Thomas Stanfield | Progressive Conservative | |
Cumberland | Percy Chapman Black | Progressive Conservative | |
Digby—Yarmouth | Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk | Liberal | |
Halifax* | John Horace Dickey (until 2 May 1950 Senate appointment) | Liberal | |
Gordon Benjamin Isnor | Liberal | ||
Samuel Rosborough Balcom (by-election of 1950-06-19, replaces Dickey) | Liberal | ||
Inverness—Richmond | William F. Carroll | Liberal | |
Lunenburg | Robert Winters | Liberal | |
Pictou | Henry Byron McCulloch | Liberal | |
Queens—Shelburne | Donald Smith | Liberal |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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King's | Thomas Joseph Kickham | Liberal | |
Prince | John Watson Macnaught | Liberal | |
Queen's* | James Lester Douglas (died 30 September 1950) | Liberal | |
Winfield Chester Scott McLure | Progressive Conservative | ||
John Angus Maclean (by-election of 1951-06-25, replaces Douglas) | Progressive Conservative |
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