16th Parliament of Canada | |||
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Minority parliament | |||
9 December 1926 – 30 May 1930 | |||
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Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | William Lyon Mackenzie King 25 Sep 1926 – 7 Aug 1930 | ||
Cabinet | 14th Canadian Ministry | ||
Leader of the Opposition | Hugh Guthrie 11 October 1926 – 11 October 1927 | ||
Richard Bedford Bennett 12 October 1927 – 6 August 1930 | |||
Party caucuses | |||
Government | Liberal Party | ||
Opposition | Conservative Party | ||
Crossbench | Progressive Party | ||
United Farmers of Alberta | |||
Labour | |||
House of Commons | |||
![]() Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
Speaker of the Commons | Rodolphe Lemieux 8 March 1922 – 2 June 1930 | ||
Members | 245 MP seats List of members | ||
Senate | |||
Speaker of the Senate | Hewitt Bostock 7 February 1922 – 12 May 1930 | ||
Arthur Charles Hardy 13 May 1930 – 2 September 1930 | |||
Government Senate Leader | Raoul Dandurand 25 September 1926 – 6 August 1930 | ||
Opposition Senate Leader | William Benjamin Ross 31 December 1926 – 10 January 1929 | ||
Wellington Bartley Willoughby 11 January 1929 – 7 August 1930 | |||
Sovereign | |||
Monarch | George V 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936 | ||
Governor General | Freeman Freeman-Thomas 2 October 1926 – 4 April 1931 | ||
Sessions | |||
1st session 9 December 1926 – 14 April 1927 | |||
2nd session 26 January 1928 – 11 June 1928 | |||
3rd session 7 February 1929 – 14 June 1929 | |||
4th session 20 February 1930 – 30 May 1930 | |||
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The 16th Canadian Parliament was in session from 9 December 1926, until 30 May 1930. The membership was set by the 1926 federal election on 14 September 1926, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1930 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party minority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 14th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led briefly by Hugh Guthrie, and then by Richard Bedford Bennett.
The Speaker was Rodolphe Lemieux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1924-1933 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were four sessions of the 16th Parliament:
Session | Start | End |
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1st | 9 December 1926 | 14 April 1927 |
2nd | 26 January 1928 | 11 June 1928 |
3rd | 7 February 1929 | 14 June 1929 |
4th | 20 February 1930 | 30 May 1930 |
List of members
[edit]Following is a full list of members of the sixteenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district. Party leaders are italicized. Cabinet ministers are in boldface. The Prime Minister is both. The Speaker is indicated by "(†)".
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Cariboo | John Anderson Fraser | Conservative | 1925 | |
Comox—Alberni | Alan Webster Neill | Independent | 1921 | |
Fraser Valley | Harry James Barber | Conservative | 1925 | |
Kootenay East | James Horace King (until 11 October 1926 emoulment appointment) | Liberal | 1922 | |
James Horace King (by-election of 9 November 1926) | Liberal | |||
Kootenay West | William Esling | Conservative | 1925 | |
Nanaimo | Charles Dickie | Conservative | 1921 | |
New Westminster | William Garland McQuarrie | Conservative | 1917 | |
Skeena | James Charles Brady | Conservative | 1926 | |
Vancouver—Burrard | John Arthur Clark | Conservative | 1921 | |
Vancouver Centre | Henry Herbert Stevens | Conservative | 1911 | |
Vancouver North | Alexander Duncan McRae | Conservative | 1926 | |
Vancouver South | Leon Johnson Ladner | Conservative | 1921 | |
Victoria | Simon Fraser Tolmie (resigned 5 June 1928) | Conservative | 1917 | |
D'Arcy Plunkett (by-election of 6 December 1928) | Conservative | 1928 | ||
Yale | Grote Stirling | Conservative | 1924 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Charlotte | Robert Watson Grimmer | Conservative | 1921 | |
Gloucester | Peter Veniot (until 5 October 1926 emoulment appointment) | Liberal | 1926 | |
Peter Veniot (by-election of 2 November 1926) | Liberal | |||
Kent | Alfred Edmond Bourgeois | Liberal | 1926 | |
Northumberland | Charles Joseph Morrissy | Liberal | 1926 | |
Restigouche—Madawaska | Stanislas Blanchard | Liberal | 1926 | |
Royal | George Burpee Jones | Conservative | 1921 | |
St. John—Albert* | Thomas Bell | Conservative | 1925 | |
Murray MacLaren | Conservative | 1921 | ||
Victoria—Carleton | James Kidd Flemming | Conservative | 1925 | |
Albion Roudolph Foster (by-election of 16 June 1927) | Liberal | 1927 | ||
Westmorland | Otto Baird Price | Conservative | 1925 | |
York—Sunbury | Richard Hanson | Conservative | 1921 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Antigonish—Guysborough | John Carey Douglas | Conservative | 1917,[d] 1926 | |
William Duff (by-election of 18 January 1927) | Liberal | 1917,[e] 1927 | ||
Cape Breton North—Victoria | Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone | Conservative | 1925 | |
Cape Breton South | Finlay MacDonald | Conservative | 1925 | |
Colchester | George Taylor MacNutt | Conservative | 1925 | |
Cumberland | Robert Knowlton Smith | Conservative | 1925 | |
Digby—Annapolis | Harry Short | Conservative | 1925 | |
Halifax* | William Anderson Black | Conservative | 1923 | |
Felix Patrick Quinn | Conservative | 1925 | ||
Hants—Kings | James Lorimer Ilsley | Liberal | 1926 | |
Inverness | Isaac Duncan MacDougall | Conservative | 1925 | |
Pictou | Thomas Cantley | Conservative | 1925 | |
Queens—Lunenburg | William Gordon Ernst | Conservative | 1926 | |
Richmond—West Cape Breton | John Alexander MacDonald | Conservative | 1925 | |
Shelburne—Yarmouth | Paul Hatfield (until 6 October 1926) | Liberal | 1921 | |
James Ralston (by-election of 2 November 1926) | Liberal | 1926 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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King's | John Alexander Macdonald | Conservative | 1925 | |
Prince | Alfred Edgar MacLean | Liberal | 1921 | |
Queen's* | Robert Harold Jenkins | Liberal | 1925 | |
John Ewen Sinclair | Liberal | 1917, 1926 |
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Yukon | George Black | Conservative | 1921 |
By-elections
[edit]By-election | Date | Incumbent | Party | Winner | Party | Cause | Retained | ||
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Brandon | February 5, 1930 | Robert Forke | Liberal-Progressive | Thomas Alexander Crerar | Liberal | Called to the Senate | No | ||
Bagot | January 27, 1930 | Georges Dorèze Morin | Liberal | Cyrille Dumaine | Liberal | Death | Yes | ||
Châteauguay—Huntingdon | January 27, 1930 | James Alexander Robb | Liberal | Dennis James O'Connor | Liberal | Death | Yes | ||
Prescott | July 29, 1929 | Louis-Mathias Auger | Independent Liberal | Élie-Oscar Bertrand | Liberal | Resignation following criminal charge | No | ||
Lanark | July 29, 1929 | Richard Franklin Preston | Conservative | William Samuel Murphy | Independent Conservative | Death | No | ||
Vaudreuil-Soulanges | July 29, 1929 | Lawrence Alexander Wilson | Liberal | Lawrence Alexander Wilson | Liberal | Resigned, intending to retire, but persuaded to run again | Yes | ||
Laprairie—Napierville | July 22, 1929 | Roch Lanctôt | Liberal | Vincent Dupuis | Liberal | Death | Yes | ||
Frontenac—Addington | July 22, 1929 | John Wesley Edwards | Conservative | William Spankie | Conservative | Death | Yes | ||
Lambton West | January 14, 1929 | William Goodison | Liberal | Ross Gray | Liberal | Death | Yes | ||
Joliette | December 17, 1928 | Jean-Joseph Denis | Liberal | Charles-Édouard Ferland | Liberal | Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec. | Yes | ||
Victoria | December 6, 1928 | Simon Fraser Tolmie | Conservative | D'Arcy Plunkett | Conservative | Resignation to become Premier of British Columbia. | Yes | ||
York West | October 29, 1928 | Henry Lumley Drayton | Conservative | Earl Lawson | Conservative | Appointed Chairman of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. | Yes | ||
Maple Creek | November 25, 1927 | George Spence | Liberal | William George Bock | Liberal | Resignation to enter provincial politics in Saskatchewan | Yes | ||
Huron North | September 12, 1927 | John Warwick King | Progressive | George Spotton | Liberal | Death | No | ||
Victoria—Carleton | June 16, 1927 | James Kidd Flemming | Conservative | Albion Roudolph Foster | Liberal | Death | No | ||
Antigonish—Guysborough | January 18, 1927 | John Carey Douglas | Conservative | William Duff | Liberal | Death | No | ||
Kootenay East | November 9, 1926 | James Horace King | Liberal | James Horace King | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment | Yes | ||
Bruce North | November 9, 1926 | James Malcolm | Liberal | James Malcolm | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Trade and Commerce | Yes | ||
Dorchester | November 2, 1926 | Lucien Cannon | Liberal | Lucien Cannon | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Solicitor General | Yes | ||
Richelieu | November 2, 1926 | Arthur Cardin | Liberal | Arthur Cardin | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Marine and Fisheries | Yes | ||
Regina | November 2, 1926 | Charles Avery Dunning | Liberal | Charles Avery Dunning | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Railways and Canals. | Yes | ||
Middlesex West | November 2, 1926 | John Campbell Elliott | Liberal | John Campbell Elliott | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Public Works. | Yes | ||
Waterloo North | November 2, 1926 | William Daum Euler | Liberal | William Daum Euler | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Customs and Excise. | Yes | ||
Brandon | November 2, 1926 | Robert Forke | Liberal-Progressive | Robert Forke | Liberal-Progressive | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Immigration and Colonization | Yes | ||
Kenora—Rainy River | November 2, 1926 | Peter Heenan | Liberal | Peter Heenan | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Labour | Yes | ||
Prince Albert | November 2, 1926 | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Liberal | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Prime Minister. | Yes | ||
Quebec East | November 2, 1926 | Ernest Lapointe | Liberal | Ernest Lapointe | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Justice. | Yes | ||
Melville | November 2, 1926 | William Richard Motherwell | Liberal | William Richard Motherwell | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Agriculture. | Yes | ||
Shelburne—Yarmouth | November 2, 1926 | Paul Lacombe Hatfield | Liberal | James Ralston | Liberal | Called to the Senate to provide a seat for Ralston | Yes | ||
St. James | November 2, 1926 | Fernand Rinfret | Liberal | Fernand Rinfret | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Secretary of State of Canada. | Yes | ||
Châteauguay—Huntingdon | November 2, 1926 | James Robb | Liberal | James Robb | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Finance. | Yes | ||
Edmonton West | November 2, 1926 | Charles Stewart | Liberal | Charles Stewart | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of the Interior and Mines. | Yes | ||
Gloucester | November 2, 1926 | Peter Veniot | Liberal | Peter Veniot | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Postmaster General. | Yes |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Calgary
- ^ East Calgary (Alberta) elected as a Labour
- ^ Marquette (elected as a Unionist/Progressive)
- ^ Cape Breton South and Richmond
- ^ Lunenburg/Queens—Lunenburg
- ^ elected as a Liberal
- ^ Cardwell (Ontario)
- ^ Montmorency
- ^ elected as a Unionist
- ^ Waterloo North (Ontario)
- ^ Prince (Prince Edward Island)
- ^ York North (Ontario)
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