4th Saskatchewan Legislature

The 4th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was elected in the Saskatchewan general election held in June 1917. The assembly sat from November 13, 1917, to May 16, 1921. ^[1] The Liberal Party led by William Melville Martin formed the government. ^[2] The Conservative Party of Saskatchewan led by Donald Maclean formed the official opposition. Wellington Willoughby had resigned from the assembly shortly after the election. ^[3]

Robert Menzies Mitchell served as speaker for the assembly until May 1919. George Adam Scott succeeded Mitchell as speaker. ^[4]

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1917: ^[5]

	Electoral district	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected
	Arm River	George Adam Scott	Liberal	1908
	Bengough	Thomas Evan Gamble	Liberal	1917
	Biggar	George Hamilton Harris	Liberal	1912
	Cannington	John Duncan Stewart	Liberal	1905
	Canora	H.P. Albert Hermanson	Liberal	1912
	Cumberland	Deakin Alexander Hall	Liberal	1913
	Cut Knife	William Hamilton Dodds	Liberal	1917
	Cypress	Isaac Stirling	Liberal	1917
	Elrose	Archibald Peter McNab	Liberal	1908
	Estevan	George Alexander Bell	Liberal	1908
		Robert Dunbar (1918)	Liberal	1918
	Francis	Walter George Robinson	Liberal	1912
	Hanley	Macbeth Malcolm	Liberal	1913
	Happyland	Stephen Morrey	Liberal	1917
	Humboldt	William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon	Liberal	1907
	Île-à-la-Crosse	Joseph Octave Nolin	Liberal	1908
	Jack Fish Lake	Donald M. Finlayson	Liberal	1908
	Kerrobert	John Albert Dowd	Liberal	1917
	Kindersley	William Richard Motherwell	Liberal	1905, [a] 1908
		Wesley Harper Harvey (1919)	Independent Farmer	1919
	Kinistino	John Richard Parish Taylor	Liberal	1917
	Last Mountain	Samuel John Latta	Liberal	1912
	Lloydminster	Robert James Gordon	Liberal	1917
	Lumsden	William John Vancise	Liberal	1917
	Maple Creek	Alexander John Colquhoun	Liberal	1917
	Melfort	George Balfour Johnston	Liberal	1908
	Milestone	Bernard Larson	Liberal	1912
	Moose Jaw City	Wellington Bartley Willoughby	Conservative	1912
		William Erskine Knowles (1918)	Liberal	1918
	Moose Jaw County	Charles Avery Dunning	Liberal	1916
	Moose Mountain	Robert Armstrong Magee	Liberal	1912
	Moosomin	John Louis Salkeld	Conservative	1917
	Morse	Malcolm L. Leitch	Liberal	1912
	North Qu'Appelle	James Garfield Gardiner	Liberal	1914
	Notukeu	George Spence	Liberal	1917
	Pelly	Magnus O. Ramsland	Liberal	1917
		Sarah Ramsland (1919)	Liberal	1919
	Pheasant Hills	James Arthur Smith	Liberal	1917
	Pipestone	Richard James Phin	Liberal	1912
	Prince Albert	Charles M. McDonald	Liberal	1917
	Redberry	George Langley	Liberal	1905
	Regina City	William Melville Martin	Liberal	1916
	Rosetown	William Thompson Badger	Conservative	1917
	Rosthern	William Benjamin Bashford	Liberal	1914
	Saltcoats	James Alexander Calder	Liberal	1905, [b] 1908
		George Sahlmark (1918)	Liberal	1918
	Saskatoon City	Donald Maclean	Conservative	1917
	Saskatoon County	Murdo Cameron	Liberal	1917
	Shellbrook	Edgar Sidney Clinch	Liberal	1915
	Souris	William Oliver Fraser	Conservative	1917
	South Qu'Appelle	Joseph Glenn	Conservative	1912
	Swift Current	David John Sykes	Independent	1917
	The Battlefords	Allan Demetrius Pickel	Liberal	1917
	Thunder Creek	Andrew Dunn Gallaugher	Conservative	1917
	Tisdale	Hugh Evan Jones	Liberal	1917
	Touchwood	John Mason Parker	Liberal	1917
	Turtleford	Archibald B. Gemmell	Liberal	1917
	Vonda	James Hogan	Liberal	1917
	Wadena	John Angus MacMillan	Liberal	1917
	Weyburn	Robert Menzies Mitchell	Liberal	1908
		Charles McGill Hamilton (1919)	Liberal	1919
	Wilkie	Reuben Martin	Liberal	1917
	Willow Bunch	Abel James Hindle	Liberal	1917
	Wynyard	Wilhelm Hans Paulson	Liberal	1912
	Yorkton	Thomas Henry Garry	Liberal	1905
	France [nb 1]	Private Harris Turner		1917
	Belgium [nb 1]	Captain Frederick Bagshaw		1917
	Great Britain [nb 1]	Lt. Col. James Albert Cross		1917

Notes:

1. Active service vote

Party Standings

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	51
	Conservative Party of Saskatchewan	7
	Independent	1
	Active service vote [nb 1]	3
Total		62
Government Majority		40

Notes:

1. Represented soldiers serving overseas in the province at large.

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons: ^[5]

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Last Mountain	Samuel John Latta	Liberal	November 6, 1917	Latta ran for reelection after being named to cabinet [6]
Moose Jaw City	William Erskine Knowles	Liberal	June 10, 1918	Knowles ran for reelection after being named to cabinet [6]
Saltcoats	George William Sahlmark	Liberal	July 11, 1918	James Alexander Calder ran for House of Commons seat [7]
Estevan	Robert Dunbar	Liberal	October 24, 1918	George Alexander Bell resigned seat [8]
Weyburn	Charles McGill Hamilton	Liberal	July 22, 1919	R M Mitchell named superintendent for provincial mental hospital [9]
Pelly	Sarah Katherine Ramsland [nb 1]	Liberal	July 29, 1919	Max Ramsland, her husband, died November 1918 [10]
Kindersley	Wesley Harper Harvey	Independent Farmer	November 15, 1919	William Richard Motherwell resigned to protest provincial Liberals support for conscription [11]
Weyburn	Charles McGill Hamilton	Liberal	June 15, 1920	Hamilton ran for reelection after being named to cabinet [6]

Notes:

1. First woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

1. North Qu'Appelle
2. South Regina

References

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