5th Parliament of Canada | |||
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Majority parliament | |||
8 February 1883 – 15 January 1887 | |||
Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald 17 Oct 1878 – 6 Jun 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. 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 |
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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. Party leaders are italicized. 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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Cariboo | James Reid | Liberal-Conservative | 1881 | |
New Westminster | Joshua Homer | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | |
Vancouver | David William Gordon | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | |
Victoria* | Edgar Crow Baker | Conservative | 1882 | |
Noah Shakespeare | Conservative | 1882 | ||
Yale | Francis Jones Barnard | Conservative | 1879 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Lisgar | Arthur Wellington Ross | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | |
Marquette | Robert Watson | Liberal | 1882 | |
Provencher | Joseph Royal | Conservative | 1879 | |
Selkirk | Hugh McKay Sutherland | Liberal | 1882 | |
Winnipeg | Thomas Scott | Conservative | 1880 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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King's County* | Peter Adolphus McIntyre | Liberal | 1874, 1882 | |
James Edwin Robertson (until disqualified from office) | Liberal | 1882 | ||
Augustine Colin Macdonald (by-election of 1883-04-26) | Liberal-Conservative | 1873, 1878, 1883 | ||
Prince County* | Edward Hackett | Liberal-Conservative | 1878 | |
James Yeo | Liberal | 1873 | ||
Queen's County* | Louis Henry Davies | Liberal | 1882 | |
John Theophilus Jenkins (until election voided) | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | ||
Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken (by-election of 1883-02-27, until postmaster appointment) | Conservative | 1883 | ||
John Theophilus Jenkins (by-election of 1884-08-19) | Liberal-Conservative | 1882, 1884 |
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