There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party,or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s. These were usually local or provincial groups using the Labour Party or Independent Labour Party name,backed by local labour councils made up of many union locals in a particular city,or individual trade unions. There was an attempt to create a national Canadian Labour Party in the late 1910s and in the 1920s,but these were only partly successful.
Harry Corwin Nixon was a Canadian politician and briefly the 13th premier of Ontario in 1943. He is both the longest-serving member in the history of the Ontario legislature and the shortest-serving premier of Ontario.
Liberal-Progressive was a label used by a number of candidates in Canadian elections between 1925 and 1953. In federal and Ontario politics there was no Liberal-Progressive Party,as such. The term generally referred to candidates endorsed by Liberal and Progressive constituency associations or to individual candidates who claimed the label,sometimes running against a straight Liberal or straight Progressive candidate. In Manitoba,a party existed with this name provincially,and Liberal-Progressives ran federally in Manitoba under the leadership of Robert Forke,with the support of the Liberal Party.
The Liberal–Labour banner has been used several times by candidates in Canadian elections:
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is the legislative chamber of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its elected members are known as Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs). Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor of Ontario to become law. Together,the Legislative Assembly and Lieutenant Governor make up the unicameral Legislature of Ontario or Parliament of Ontario. The assembly meets at the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park in the provincial capital of Toronto.
Alfred Wallace Downer was a Canadian politician and longtime member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Lachlin (Lachlan) McCallum was a Canadian politician.
St. Andrew was a provincial electoral district in Ontario,Canada,that was established to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and then Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Frederick McIntosh Cass Q.C.,C.D. was a Canadian politician who served as both Attorney-General of Ontario and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He served as a Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament from 1955 until his retirement in 1971. Cass served in the Canadian Army during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945.
Donald Hugo Morrow was a politician in Ontario,Canada of Scottish descent. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He represented the ridings of Carleton from 1948 to 1955 and Ottawa West from 1955 to 1977. From 1963 to 1967 he was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
James Malcolm,was a Canadian politician who was the Member of Parliament for Bruce North from 1921 to 1935 and served as Minister of Trade and Commerce from 1926 to 1930.
Dovercourt was the name of a provincial riding in Ontario,Canada. It existed from the 1926 election to the 1999 election. When it was established,it bordered Brockton on to the west,York South to the north,and Bracondale on the east. Lake Ontario was its southern border for most of its existence. At its abolition in 1999,it consisted of that part of the city of Toronto bounded on the north by the former city limits,on the east by Bathurst Street,on the south by Bloor Street and on the west by the CN Railway and St. Clair Avenue. It was redistributed into Davenport,St. Paul's and Trinity—Spadina ridings.
Joseph Seeley McCallum was a Canadian politician from Alberta.
Karl Kenneth Homuth was a Canadian manufacturer and political figure in Ontario.
William George Weichel was a merchant and political figure in Ontario,Canada. He represented Waterloo North in the House of Commons of Canada from 1911 to 1917 as a Conservative member and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1929.
Leslie Warner Oke was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Lambton East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1929 as a United Farmers member.
Charles Ernest Tran was a Canadian physician and politician in the province of Saskatchewan. He represented Pelly from 1925 to 1929 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Progressive Party member.
Bruce South was an electoral riding in Ontario,Canada. It was created in 1867 at the time of confederation and was abolished in 1933 before the 1934 election.
Foster Graham Moffatt was a Canadian politician from the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He represented Bruce South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1928 to 1929. He was elected in a by-election to replace Progressive Malcolm Alex McCallum whose election was voided. Moffatt was unseated in the 1934 Ontario general election by Liberal William John MacKay.
