John George Lynch-Staunton was a Canadian senator,who served as interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada,from December 2003 to March 2004. He represented the Senate division of Grandville,Quebec.
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.
Camillien Houde was a Quebec politician,a Member of Parliament,and a four-time mayor of Montreal –one of the few Canadian politicians to have served at all three levels of government.
The Liberal-Labour banner has been used several times by candidates in Canadian elections:
David Christopherson is a Canadian politician. From 2004 until 2019,he represented the riding of Hamilton Centre in the House of Commons of Canada. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003,and was a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Bob Rae. Christopherson is a member of the New Democratic Party.
William Donald Dennison was a Canadian social-democratic politician that served in both the Ontario Legislative Assembly and finally as the City of Toronto's mayor. He served two nonconsecutive terms as a Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the 1940s and early 1950s. After his provincial-level career,he focused on Toronto's municipal politics,holding offices as an alderman,member of the Toronto Board of Control,and finally as the city's mayor. He was the mayor from 1967 to 1972,winning two consecutive three-year terms. Prior to entering politics,he was a school principal and teacher. As of 2022,he was the last mayor of Toronto to be a member of the Orange Order.
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation –The Farmer-Labor Party of Ontario,or more commonly known as the Ontario CCF,was a democratic socialist provincial political party in Ontario that existed from 1932 to 1961. It was the provincial wing of the federal Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). The party had no leader in the beginning,and was governed by a provincial council and executive. The party's first Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) was elected by voters in the 1934 Ontario general election. In the 1937 general election,no CCF members were elected to the Ontario Legislature. In 1942,the party elected Toronto lawyer Ted Jolliffe as its first leader. He led the party to within a few seats of forming the government in the 1943 general election;instead,it formed the Official Opposition. In that election,the first two women were elected to the Ontario Legislature as CCFers:Agnes Macphail and Rae Luckock. The 1945 election was a setback,as the party lost most of its seats in the Legislature,including Jolliffe's seat. The party again became the Official Opposition after the 1948 general election,and defeated the Conservative premier George Drew in his seat,when Bill Temple unexpectedly won in the High Park constituency. The middle and late 1940s were the peak years for the Ontario CCF. After that time,its electoral performances were dismal,as it was reduced to a rump of two seats in the 1951 election,three seats in the 1955 election,and five seats in the 1959 election. Jolliffe stepped down as leader in 1953,and was replaced by Donald C. MacDonald.
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.
Archibald Kelso Roberts was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1948 and again from 1951 to 1967. Both times he represented the downtown Toronto riding of St. Patrick. He served as a senior cabinet minister in the governments of Leslie Frost and John Robarts.
George Calvin Wardrope was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1951 to 1967. He was a member of cabinet in the governments of Leslie Frost and John Robarts.
Charles Winnans Cox was a politician and timber contractor in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Port Arthur from 1934 to 1943 and the riding of Fort William from 1948 to 1951. He was a member of Mitchell Hepburn's cabinet from 1936 to 1937. He also served as mayor of Port Arthur,Ontario from 1934 to 1948 and again in 1952.
Margaret Rae Morrison Luckock known as Rae Luckock was a feminist,social justice activist,peace activist and,with Agnes Macphail,one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario,in 1943. A member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation,also known as the Ontario CCF,Luckock was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1943 Ontario general election representing Toronto's Bracondale constituency (riding). She served as a Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) until she was defeated in the 1945 Ontario general election. She became the Congress of Canadian Women's founding president in 1950,and became a victim of the Cold War's anti-communist hysteria when she was denied entry into the United States,because she travelled to "Red" China and invited Soviet women to visit Canada. She contracted Parkinson's disease in the mid-1950s and mostly was bedridden until her death in 1972.
William Charles Riggs was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a CCF member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 who represented the southwestern Ontario riding of Windsor—Walkerville. He was a long time municipal councillor and he briefly served as Mayor of Windsor in 1969.
Politically,Hamilton is known for producing groundbreaking,colourful and left-wing politicians. Locally,though,the big political stories have included the controversial amalgamation of Hamilton with its suburbs in 2001,the destruction of green space around the Red Hill Valley to make way for the Red Hill Creek Expressway,and plans to build a Light Rail Transit line in the city.
Frederick Oliver Robinson was an Ontario machinist and political figure. He represented Port Arthur in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from August 1943 to November 1951 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member.
Arthur Henry Williams was a Canadian trade union organizer and politician who served in both the Ontario legislature and the House of Commons of Canada on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He was born in Tredegar,Wales,emigrating with his wife to Canada in 1929.
Colin Alexander "Collie" Campbell was a Canadian mining engineer,politician and curling administrator. Campbell was the president of the International Curling Federation from 1968 to 1978 and served as a Liberal Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Shedden,Ontario.
The Labor-Progressive Party was the legal front of the Communist Party of Canada from 1943 to 1959.
Carl David Hanniwell was a Canadian politician who served as a Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario member of the Ontario legislature and as a municipal politician.
Charles "Tod" Daley,was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1963 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party,and was a cabinet minister in the governments of George Drew,Thomas,and Leslie Frost.
