5th Parliament of Ontario

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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.

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

RidingMemberPartyComments
Brant James Young Liberal Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry from June 2 to November 2, 1883 [2]
Brant South Arthur Sturgis Hardy Liberal Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry [3]
Bruce North John Gillies Independent-Liberal
Bruce South Hamilton Parke O'Connor Liberal
Elgin East Charles Oaks Ermatinger Conservative
Elgin West John Cascaden Liberal
Essex North Solomon White Conservative
Essex South William Douglas Balfour Liberal
Grey East Abram William Lauder Conservative died February 20, 1884 [4]
(his first name may be Abraham)
Neil McColman (1884) Conservative elected March 18, 1884 [5]
Grey North David Creighton Conservative
Grey South John Blythe Conservative
Haldimand Jacob Baxter Liberal
Huron East Thomas Gibson Liberal
Huron South Archibald Bishop Liberal
Huron West Alexander McLagan Ross Liberal Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry after November 2, 1883 [6]
Kent East Daniel McCraney Liberal died February 28, 1885 [7]
Robert Ferguson (1885) Liberal elected June 20, 1885 [8]
Kent West James Clancy Conservative
Lambton East Peter Graham Liberal
Lambton West Timothy Blair Pardee Liberal Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry [9]
London William Ralph Meredith Conservative Leader of the Opposition
Middlesex East Donald MacKenzie Liberal
Middlesex North John Waters Liberal
Middlesex West Alexander Johnston Conservative unseated November 15, 1883(?) after an appeal [10]
George William Ross (1883) Liberal elected December 14, 1883
Minister of Education in Mowat ministry]] after November 23, 1883 [11]
Norfolk North John Bailey Freeman Liberal
Norfolk South William Morgan Conservative
Oxford North Oliver Mowat Liberal Premier and Attorney General in Mowat ministry [12]
Oxford South Adam Crooks Liberal Minister of Education in Mowat ministry until November 23, 1883 [13]
resigned from legislative assembly February 14, 1884
George Atwell Cooke (1884) Liberal elected March 5, 1884 [14]
Perth North John George Hess Conservative
Perth South Thomas Ballantyne Liberal
Waterloo North Elias Weber Bingeman Snider Liberal
Waterloo South Isaac Master Liberal
Wellington Centre Charles Clarke Liberal Speaker
Wellington South James Laidlaw Liberal
Wellington West Robert McKim Liberal
RidingMemberPartyComments
Algoma [nb 1] Robert Adam Lyon Liberal
Algoma East Robert Adam Lyon Liberal
Algoma West James Conmee Liberal elected June 26, 1885 [15]
Cardwell William Henry Hammell Conservative
Dufferin Robert McGhee Conservative
Durham East Charles Herbert Brereton Conservative
Durham West James Wellington McLaughlin Liberal
Halton William Kerns Conservative
Hamilton John Morison Gibson Liberal
Lincoln Sylvester Neelon Liberal
Monck Richard Harcourt Liberal
Muskoka
and Parry Sound
Frederick Fauquier Conservative unseated November 15, 1883(?) after an appeal [16]
Jacob William Dill (1884) Liberal elected July 23, 1884 [17]
Northumberland East James Marshall Ferris Liberal
Northumberland West Robert Mulholland Conservative
Ontario North Isaac James Gould Liberal
Ontario South John Dryden Liberal
Peel Kenneth Chisholm Liberal
Peterborough East Thomas Blezard Liberal
Peterborough West John Carnegie Conservative
Simcoe East Charles Alfred Drury Liberal
Simcoe South George Prevost McKay Conservative
Simcoe West Orson James Phelps Liberal
Toronto East Alexander Morris Conservative
Toronto West Henry Edward Clarke Conservative
Victoria North John Fell Conservative
Victoria South Duncan John McIntyre Liberal
Welland James E. Morin Liberal
Wentworth North James McMahon Liberal
Wentworth South Nicholas Awrey Liberal
York East George Badgerow Liberal
York North Joseph Henry Widdifield Liberal
York West John Gray Conservative

Eastern Ontario

RidingMemberPartyComments
Addington George Denison Conservative
Brockville Christopher Finlay Fraser Conservative Commissioner of Public Works in Mowat ministry [18]
Carleton George William Monk Conservative
Cornwall Alexander Peter Ross Conservative
Dundas Andrew Broder Conservative
Frontenac Henry Wilmot Conservative
Glengarry James Rayside Liberal
Grenville South Frederick John French Conservative
Hastings East William Parker Hudson Conservative
Hastings North Alpheus Field Wood Conservative
Hastings West Ephraim George Sills Liberal
Kingston James Henry Metcalfe Conservative
Lanark North William Clyde Caldwell Liberal
Lanark South William Lees Independent
Leeds North and
Grenville North
Henry Merrick Conservative
Leeds South Robert Henry Preston Conservative
Lennox Alexander Hall Roe Liberal died July 12, 1884 [19]
George Douglas Hawley (1886) Liberal elected August 25, 1884 [20]
Ottawa Patrick Baskerville Conservative
Prescott Albert Peter Hagar Liberal
Prince Edward James Hart Independent-Liberal
Renfrew North Thomas Murray Liberal
Renfrew South John Francis Dowling Liberal
Russell Honoré Robillard Liberal-Conservative
Stormont Joseph Kerr Conservative


Notes

  1. Algoma split into Algoma East and West on February 1, 1885

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