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.
The United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) was an agrarian and populist provincial political party in Ontario,Canada. It was the Ontario provincial branch of the United Farmers movement of the early part of the 20th century.
George Howard Ferguson was the ninth premier of Ontario,from 1923 to 1930. He was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1905 to 1930 who represented the eastern provincial riding of Grenville.
Arthur Wentworth Roebuck,,was a Canadian politician and labour lawyer.
William James Stewart was a Canadian politician. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada. Stewart also owned and operated the Bates and Dodds Funeral Home on Queen Street West in Toronto.
Leslie Egerton Blackwell was a Canadian politician,soldier,lawyer,and land developer.
Tony Ruprecht is a former Canadian politician. His first elected position was as an alderman in the old Toronto City Council,in the late 1970s. He became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1981,and served in premier David Peterson's cabinet as minister without portfolio from 1985 to 1987. Ruprecht represented Toronto's Parkdale and then Davenport constituencies for the Liberal Party of Ontario for 30 years. On 5 July 2011,he announced that he was leaving politics and would not seek re-election in the October 2011 provincial election.
Donald McDonald Hogarth was a politician and mining financier from Ontario,Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Port Arthur from 1911 to 1923 and again from 1926 to 1929. He served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I where he achieved the rank of Major-General. He was a well-known mining financier who founded some of the biggest gold mines in Northern Ontario.
The 1926 Ontario general election was the 17th general election held in the Province of Ontario,Canada. It was held on December 1,1926,to elect the 112 Members of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs").
Sir William Howard Hearst,was the seventh premier of Ontario from 1914 to 1919.
Herbert Alexander Bruce,served as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1932 to 1937.
Isaac Benson Lucas,was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as a Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Grey Centre from 1898 to 1919.
Manning William Doherty was a farmer,businessman and politician serving as Ontario's Minister of Agriculture during the United Farmers of Ontario-Labour government of 1919 to 1923 and as leader of the Progressives in Opposition before leaving provincial politics.
Parkdale—High Park is a provincial electoral district in Toronto,Ontario,Canada,created in 1996 and represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. It is located in the Toronto's west-end,bordering on the lakefront to the south,the Humber River to the west,and the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks essentially defining its northern and eastern borders. There are 107,035 residents in the district. Federally the electoral district is held by Member of Parliament (MP) Arif Virani,provincially by Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Bhutila Karpoche and municipally by city councillor Gord Perks.
Thomas Hamilton Bell was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1929 to 1934 who represented the downtown Toronto riding of Bellwoods.
High Park was a provincial electoral district in the west-end of the old City of Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1975. It was mostly redistributed into the High Park—Swansea electoral district for the 1975 Ontario general election.
Parkdale was a provincial riding electing Members of Provincial Parliament (MPP) to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The riding was created from the western part of Toronto West riding in 1914 and abolished in 1996 and redistributed into the Parkdale—High Park,Davenport and Trinity—Spadina ridings for the 1999 Ontario general election.
Beaches was a provincial riding in Toronto,Ontario represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1967. It was carved completely out of the existing riding of York East. Its boundaries remained the same until 1967 when it was merged with the neighbouring riding of Woodbine to become Beaches—Woodbine. Other than a single session in the 1940s,the riding was steadfastly Conservative in its voting preference.
James Beecham Trotter was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1959 to 1971 who represented the riding of Parkdale.
Toronto West,also known as West Toronto,was a provincial riding that was created in Toronto,Ontario when the country of Canada was established in 1867. At the time Toronto was divided into two ridings,West Toronto and East Toronto. In 1886,these ridings were dissolved and a combined riding of the entire city was created which elected three members. In 1894 this riding was split into four parts of which Toronto West was one. It occupied the western part of the old city of Toronto. From 1908 to 1914 it elected two members to the legislature.
