5th Parliament of Ontario

The 5th Parliament of Ontario was in session from February 27, 1883, until November 15, 1886, just prior to the 1886 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Oliver Mowat.

Charles Clarke served as speaker for the assembly. ^[1]

Members of the Assembly

Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected	Comments
Addington	George Denison	Conservative	1885
Algoma [a]	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal	1878
Algoma East	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal	1878
Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal	1885	elected June 26, 1885 [2]
Brant	James Young	Liberal	1879	Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry from June 2 to November 2, 1883 [3]
Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal	1873	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry [4]
Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative	1872	Commissioner of Public Works in Mowat ministry [5]
Bruce North	John Gillies	Independent-Liberal	1883
Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal	1882
Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative	1883
Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative	1871
Cornwall	Alexander Peter Ross	Conservative	1883
Dufferin	Robert McGhee	Conservative	1883
Dundas	Andrew Broder	Conservative	1875
Durham East	Charles Herbert Brereton	Conservative	1882
Durham West	James Wellington McLaughlin	Liberal	1879
Elgin East	Charles Oaks Ermatinger	Conservative	1883
Elgin West	John Cascaden	Liberal	1879
Essex North	Solomon White	Conservative	1878
Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal	1882
Frontenac	Henry Wilmot	Conservative	1883
Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal	1882
Grenville South	Frederick John French	Conservative	1879
Grey East	Abram William Lauder	Conservative	1867	died February 20, 1884 [6] (his first name may be Abraham)
	Neil McColman (1884)	Conservative	1884	elected March 18, 1884 [7]
Grey North	David Creighton	Conservative	1875
Grey South	John Blythe	Conservative	1883
Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal	1867
Halton	William Kerns	Conservative	1883
Hamilton	John Morison Gibson	Liberal	1879
Hastings East	William Parker Hudson	Conservative	1883
Hastings North	Alpheus Field Wood	Conservative	1883
Hastings West	Ephraim George Sills	Liberal	1883
Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal	1871
Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal	1873
Huron West	Alexander McLagan Ross	Liberal	1875	Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry after November 2, 1883 [8]
Kent East	Daniel McCraney	Liberal	1875	died February 28, 1885 [9]
	Robert Ferguson (1885)	Liberal	1885	elected June 20, 1885 [10]
Kent West	James Clancy	Conservative	1883
Kingston	James Henry Metcalfe	Conservative	1879
Lambton East	Peter Graham	Liberal	1875
Lambton West	Timothy Blair Pardee	Liberal	1867	Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry [11]
Lanark North	William Clyde Caldwell	Liberal	1872, 1879
Lanark South	William Lees	Independent	1879
Leeds North and Grenville North	Henry Merrick	Conservative	1871
Leeds South	Robert Henry Preston	Conservative	1875, 1883
Lennox	Alexander Hall Roe	Liberal	1883	died July 12, 1884 [12]
	George Douglas Hawley (1884)	Liberal	1879, 1884	elected August 25, 1884 [13]
Lincoln	Sylvester Neelon	Liberal	1875, 1879
London	William Ralph Meredith	Conservative	1872	Leader of the Opposition
Middlesex East	Donald MacKenzie	Liberal	1883
Middlesex North	John Waters	Liberal	1879
Middlesex West	Alexander Johnston	Conservative	1883	unseated November 15, 1883(?) after an appeal [14]
	George William Ross (1883)	Liberal	1883	elected December 14, 1883 Minister of Education in Mowat ministry]] after November 23, 1883 [15]
Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal	1879
Muskoka and Parry Sound	Frederick Fauquier	Conservative	1883	unseated November 15, 1883(?) after an appeal [16]
	Jacob William Dill (1884)	Liberal	1884	elected July 23, 1884 [17]
Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman	Liberal	1879
Norfolk South	William Morgan	Conservative	1879
Northumberland East	James Marshall Ferris	Liberal	1875
Northumberland West	Robert Mulholland	Conservative	1883
Ontario North	Isaac James Gould	Liberal	1883
Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal	1879
Ottawa	Patrick Baskerville	Conservative	1879
Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal	1872	Premier and Attorney General in Mowat ministry [18]
Oxford South	Adam Crooks	Liberal	1871, [b] 1875	Minister of Education in Mowat ministry until November 23, 1883 [19] resigned from legislative assembly February 14, 1884
	George Atwell Cooke (1884)	Liberal	1884	elected March 5, 1884 [20]
Peel	Kenneth Chisholm	Liberal	1873
Perth North	John George Hess	Conservative	1883
Perth South	Thomas Ballantyne	Liberal	1875
Peterborough East	Thomas Blezard	Liberal	1879
Peterborough West	John Carnegie	Conservative	1867, 1883
Prescott	Albert Peter Hagar	Liberal	1881
Prince Edward	James Hart	Independent-Liberal	1883
Renfrew North	Thomas Murray	Liberal	1869, 1879, 1883
Renfrew South	John Francis Dowling	Liberal	1883
Russell	Honoré Robillard	Liberal-Conservative	1883
Simcoe East	Charles Alfred Drury	Liberal	1882
Simcoe South	George Prevost McKay	Conservative	1883
Simcoe West	Orson James Phelps	Liberal	1883
Stormont	Joseph Kerr	Conservative	1879
Toronto East	Alexander Morris	Conservative	1879
Toronto West	Henry Edward Clarke	Conservative	1883
Victoria North	John Fell	Conservative	1883
Victoria South	Duncan John McIntyre	Liberal	1883
Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal	1881
Waterloo South	Isaac Master	Liberal	1877, 1882
Welland	James E. Morin	Liberal	1883
Wellington Centre	Charles Clarke	Liberal	1871	Speaker
Wellington South	James Laidlaw	Liberal	1879
Wellington West	Robert McKim	Liberal	1867, [c] 1879
Wentworth North	James McMahon	Liberal	1875
Wentworth South	Nicholas Awrey	Liberal	1879
York East	George Badgerow	Liberal	1879
York North	Joseph Henry Widdifield	Liberal	1875
York West	John Gray	Conservative	1883

Notes

1. Algoma split into Algoma East and West on February 1, 1885
2. Toronto West
3. Wellington North

References

1. "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
2. "James Conmee | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
3. "James Young | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
4. "Arthur Sturgis Hardy | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
5. "Christopher Finlay Fraser | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
6. "Abraham William Lauder | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
7. "Neil McColman | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
8. "Alexander McLagan Ross | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
9. "Daniel McCraney | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
10. "Robert Ferguson | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
11. "Timothy Blair Pardee | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
12. "Alexander Hall Roe | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
13. "George Douglas Hawley | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
14. "Alexander Johnston | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
15. "George William Ross | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
16. "Frederick G. Fauquier | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
17. "Jacob William Dill | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
18. "Oliver Mowat | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
19. "Adam Crooks | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
20. "George Atwell Cooke | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. Retrieved 2025-01-16.

Web resources

• A History of Ontario : its resources and development., Alexander Fraser
• Members in Parliament 5

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