| 5th Canadian Parliament | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Majority parliament | |||
| Feb. 8, 1883 – Jan. 15, 1887 | |||
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| Parliament leaders | |||
| Prime minister | Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald Oct. 17, 1878 – Jun. 6, 1891 | ||
| Cabinet | 3rd Canadian Ministry | ||
| Leader of the Opposition | Edward Blake 4 May 1880 – 2 June 1887 | ||
| Party caucuses | |||
| Government | Conservative Party & Liberal-Conservative | ||
| Opposition | Liberal Party | ||
| House of Commons | |||
| Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
| Speaker of the Commons | Joseph-Goderic Blanchet 13 February 1879 – 7 February 1883 | ||
| George Airey Kirkpatrick 8 February 1883 – 12 July 1887 | |||
| Members | 242 seats MP seats List of members | ||
| Senate | |||
| Speaker of the Senate | The Hon. Sir David Lewis Macpherson 19 April 1880 – 16 October 1883 | ||
| The Hon. William Miller 17 October 1883 – 3 April 1887 | |||
| Government Senate leader | Alexander Campbell 18 October 1878 – 26 January 1887 | ||
| Opposition Senate leader | Sir Richard William Scott 8 October 1878 – 27 April 1896 | ||
| Senators | 97 seats senator seats List of senators | ||
| Sovereign | |||
| Monarch | Victoria 1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901 | ||
| Governor general | The Duke of Argyll 25 Nov. 1878 – 23 Oct. 1883 | ||
| The Marquess of Lansdowne 23 Oct. 1883 – 11 June 1888 | |||
| Sessions | |||
| 1st session 8 February 1883 – 27 May 1883 | |||
| 2nd session 17 January 1884 – 19 April 1884 | |||
| 3rd session 29 January 1885 – 20 July 1885 | |||
| 4th session 25 February 1886 – 2 June 1886 | |||
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The 5th Canadian Parliament was in session from 8 February 1883, until 15 January 1887 (3 years and 341 days). The membership was set by the 1882 federal election on 20 June 1882. It was dissolved prior to the 1887 election. The 5th Canadian Parliament was controlled by a Conservative/Liberal-Conservative majority under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the 3rd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led by Edward Blake.
The Speaker was George Airey Kirkpatrick. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1882-1887 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were four sessions of the 5th Parliament:
| Session | Start | End |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | February 8, 1883 | May 27, 1883 |
| 2nd | January 17, 1884 | April 19, 1884 |
| 3rd | January 29, 1885 | July 20, 1885 |
| 4th | February 25, 1886 | June 2, 1886 |
This term was notable for passing the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 which imposed a head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada.
Following is a full list of members of the fifth 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 | No. of terms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cariboo | James Reid | Liberal-Conservative | 1881 | 2nd term | |
| New Westminster | Joshua Homer | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | 2nd term | |
| Vancouver | David William Gordon | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | |
| Victoria* | Edgar Crow Baker | Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | |
| Noah Shakespeare | Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | ||
| Yale | Francis Jones Barnard | Conservative | 1879 | 2nd term |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | No. of terms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisgar | Arthur Wellington Ross | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | |
| Marquette | Robert Watson | Liberal | 1882 | 1st term | |
| Provencher | Joseph Royal | Conservative | 1879 | 2nd term | |
| Selkirk | Hugh McKay Sutherland | Liberal | 1882 | 1st term | |
| Winnipeg | Thomas Scott | Conservative | 1880 | 2nd term |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | No. of terms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert | John Wallace (unseated 1883) | Liberal | 1867, 1882 | 4th term* | |
| John Wallace (by-election of 1883-07-10) | Liberal-Conservative | 1883 | 1st term | ||
| Carleton | David Irvine | Liberal | 1881 | 2nd term | |
| Charlotte | Arthur Hill Gillmor | Liberal | 1874 | 3rd term | |
| City and County of St. John* | Isaac Burpee (died 1 March 1885) | Liberal | 1872 | 4th term | |
| Charles Wesley Weldon | Liberal | 1878 | 2nd term | ||
| Charles Arthur Everett (by-election of 1885-10-20) | Conservative | 1885 | 1st term | ||
| City of St. John | Samuel Leonard Tilley (appointed New Brunswick's Lieutenant-Governor 12 November 1885) | Liberal-Conservative | 1873, 1878 | 3rd term* | |
| Frederick Eustace Barker (by-election of 1885-11-24) | Conservative | 1885 | 1st term | ||
| Gloucester | Kennedy Francis Burns | Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | |
| Kent | Gilbert Anselme Girouard | Liberal-Conservative | 1878 | 2nd term | |
| Pierre Amand Landry (by-election of 1883-09-22) | Conservative | 1883 | 1st term | ||
| King's | George Eulas Foster (election voided 1882) | Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | |
| George Eulas Foster (by-election of 1882-11-07, until Ministerial appointment) | Conservative | ||||
| George Eulas Foster (by-election of 1885-12-31) | Conservative | ||||
| Northumberland | Peter Mitchell | Independent | 1872, 1882 | 3rd term* | |
| Queen's | George Gerald King | Liberal | 1878 | 2nd term | |
| Restigouche | Robert Moffat | Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | |
| Sunbury | Charles Burpee | Liberal | 1867 | 5th term | |
| Victoria | John Costigan | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 | 5th term | |
| Westmorland | Josiah Wood | Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | |
| York | John Pickard | Independent Liberal | 1868 | 5th term | |
| Thomas Temple (by-election of 1884-06-29) | Conservative | 1884 | 1st term |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | No. of terms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's County* | Peter Adolphus McIntyre | Liberal | 1874, 1882 | 2nd term* | |
| James Edwin Robertson (until disqualified from office) | Liberal | 1882 | 1st term | ||
| Augustine Colin Macdonald (by-election of 1883-04-26) | Liberal-Conservative | 1873, 1878, 1883 | 3rd term* | ||
| Prince County* | Edward Hackett | Liberal-Conservative | 1878 | 2nd term | |
| James Yeo | Liberal | 1873 | 4th term | ||
| Queen's County* | Louis Henry Davies | Liberal | 1882 | 1st term | |
| John Theophilus Jenkins (until election voided) | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | ||
| Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken (by-election of 1883-02-27, until postmaster appointment) | Conservative | 1883 | 1st term | ||
| John Theophilus Jenkins (by-election of 1884-08-19) | Liberal-Conservative | 1882, 1884 | 2nd term* |