15th Canadian Parliament

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The initial seat distribution of the 15th Canadian Parliament

William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister during most of the 15th Canadian Parliament.

Arthur Meighen and his Conservative Party briefly took power at the end of the 15th Parliament.

The 15th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 7, 1926, until July 2, 1926. The membership was set by the 1925 federal election on October 29, 1925, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1926 election.

Initially, it was controlled by a Liberal Party minority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 12th Canadian Ministry, which only had the second most seats and was propped up by the Progressive Party of Canada. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led by Arthur Meighen, but following the "King-Byng Affair", Meighen's Conservatives took power with the 13th Canadian Ministry. The disorder following this quickly led to an early election.

The Speaker was Rodolphe Lemieux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1924-1933 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

The unusual case of a new party taking control of the government between elections has only happened twice in Canadian history; the other occasion was in the 2nd Canadian parliament.

There was only one session of the 15th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	January 7, 1926	July 2, 1926

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fifteenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

Alberta

Riding		Name	Party
Acadia		Robert Gardiner	Progressive
Athabaska		Charles Wilson Cross	Liberal
Battle River		Henry Elvins Spencer	Progressive
Bow River		Edward Joseph Garland	Progressive
Calgary East		Fred Davis	Conservative
Calgary West		Richard Bedford Bennett	Conservative
Camrose		William Thomas Lucas	United Farmers of Alberta
Edmonton East		Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury	Conservative
Edmonton West		Charles Stewart	Liberal
Lethbridge		Lincoln Henry Jelliff	Progressive
Macleod		George Gibson Coote	Progressive
Medicine Hat		Frederick William Gershaw	Liberal
Peace River		Donald MacBeth Kennedy	Progressive
Red Deer		Alfred Speakman	United Farmers of Alberta
Vegreville		Arthur Moren Boutillier	Progressive
Wetaskiwin		Stanley Gilbert Tobin	Liberal

British Columbia

Riding		Name	Party
Cariboo		John Anderson Fraser	Conservative
Comox—Alberni		Alan Webster Neill	Independent
Fraser Valley		Harry James Barber	Conservative
Kootenay East		James Horace King	Liberal
Kootenay West		William Kemble Esling	Conservative
Nanaimo		Charles Herbert Dickie	Conservative
New Westminster		William Garland McQuarrie	Conservative
Skeena		Alfred Stork	Liberal
Vancouver—Burrard		John Arthur Clark	Conservative
Vancouver Centre		Henry Herbert Stevens	Conservative
Vancouver North		Dugald Donaghy	Liberal
Vancouver South		Leon Johnson Ladner	Conservative
Victoria		Simon Fraser Tolmie	Conservative
Yale		Grote Stirling	Conservative

Manitoba

Riding		Name	Party
Brandon		Robert Forke	Progressive
Dauphin		William John Ward	Progressive
Lisgar		John Livingstone Brown	Progressive
Macdonald		William James Lovie	Progressive
Marquette		Henry Alfred Mullins	Conservative
Neepawa		Thomas Gerow Murphy	Conservative
Nelson		Thomas William Bird	Progressive
Portage la Prairie		Arthur Meighen	Conservative
Provencher		Arthur-Lucien Beaubien	Progressive
Selkirk		Hannes Marino Hannesson	Conservative
Souris		James Steedsman	Progressive
Springfield		Thomas Hay	Conservative
St. Boniface		John Power Howden	Liberal
Winnipeg North		Abraham Albert Heaps	Labour
Winnipeg North Centre		James Shaver Woodsworth	Labour
Winnipeg South		Robert Rogers	Conservative
Winnipeg South Centre		William Walker Kennedy	Conservative

New Brunswick

Riding		Name	Party
Charlotte		Robert Watson Grimmer	Conservative
Gloucester		Jean George Robichaud	Liberal
Kent		Alexandre Joseph Doucet	Conservative
Northumberland		Charles Elijah Fish	Conservative
Restigouche—Madawaska		Arthur Culligan	Conservative
Royal		George Burpee Jones	Conservative
St. John—Albert*		Thomas Bell	Conservative
		Murray Maclaren	Conservative
Victoria—Carleton		James Kidd Flemming	Conservative
Westmorland		Otto Baird Price	Conservative
York—Sunbury		Richard Hanson	Conservative

Nova Scotia

Riding		Name	Party
Antigonish—Guysborough		Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal
Cape Breton North—Victoria		Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone	Conservative
Cape Breton South		Finlay MacDonald	Conservative
Colchester		George Taylor Macnutt	Conservative
Cumberland		Robert Knowlton Smith	Conservative
Digby—Annapolis		Harry Bernard Short	Conservative
Halifax*		William Anderson Black	Conservative
		Felix Patrick Quinn	Conservative
Hants—Kings		Arthur de Witt Foster	Conservative
Inverness		Isaac Duncan MacDougall	Conservative
Pictou		Thomas Cantley	Conservative
Queens—Lunenburg		William Duff	Liberal
Richmond—West Cape Breton		John Alexander MacDonald	Conservative
Shelburne—Yarmouth		Paul Lacombe Hatfield	Liberal

Ontario

Riding		Name	Party
Algoma East		George Brecken Nicholson	Conservative
Algoma West		Thomas Edward Simpson	Conservative
Brantford City		Robert Edwy Ryerson	Conservative
Brant		Franklin Smoke	Conservative
Bruce North		James Malcolm	Liberal
Bruce South		Walter Allan Hall	Liberal
Carleton		William Foster Garland	Conservative
Dufferin—Simcoe		William Earl Rowe	Conservative
Durham		Fred Wellington Bowen	Conservative
Elgin West		Hugh Cummings McKillop	Conservative
Essex East		Raymond Ducharme Morand	Conservative
Essex South		Eccles James Gott	Conservative
Essex West		Sidney Cecil Robinson	Conservative
Fort William		Robert James Manion	Conservative
Frontenac—Addington		John Wesley Edwards	Conservative
Glengarry		Archibald John Macdonald	Liberal
Grenville—Dundas		Arza Clair Casselman	Conservative
Grey North		Matthew Robert Duncan	Conservative
Grey Southeast		Agnes Campbell Macphail	Progressive
Haldimand		Mark Cecil Senn	Conservative
Halton		Robert King Anderson	Conservative
Hamilton East		Sydney Chilton Mewburn	Conservative
Hamilton West		Charles William Bell	Conservative
Hastings—Peterborough		Alexander Thomas Embury	Conservative
Hastings South		William Ernest Tummon	Conservative
Huron North		John Warwick King	Progressive
Huron South		Thomas McMillan	Liberal
Kenora—Rainy River		Peter Heenan	Liberal
Kent		Alexander Dew Chaplin	Conservative
Kingston City		Arthur Edward Ross	Conservative
Lambton East		Joseph Elijah Armstrong	Conservative
Lambton West		William Thomas Goodison	Liberal
Lanark		Richard Franklin Preston	Conservative
Leeds		Hugh Alexander Stewart	Conservative
Lincoln		James Dew Chaplin	Conservative
London		John Franklin White	Conservative
Middlesex East		Adam King Hodgins	Conservative
Middlesex West		John Campbell Elliott (until 8 March 1926 ministerial appointment)	Liberal
		John Campbell Elliott (by-election of 1926-03-29)	Liberal
Muskoka—Ontario		Peter McGibbon	Conservative
Nipissing		Edmond Lapierre	Liberal
Norfolk—Elgin		John Lawrence Stansell	Conservative
Northumberland		Milton Edgar Maybee	Conservative
Ontario		Thomas Erlin Kaiser	Conservative
Ottawa (City of)*		John Léo Chabot	Conservative
		Stewart McClenaghan	Conservative
Oxford North		Donald Matheson Sutherland	Conservative
Oxford South		Donald Sutherland	Conservative
Parkdale		David Spence	Conservative
Parry Sound		James Arthurs	Conservative
Peel		Samuel Charters	Conservative
Perth North		David McKenzie Wright	Conservative
Perth South		Frederick George Sanderson	Liberal
Peterborough West		Edward Armour Peck	Conservative
Port Arthur—Thunder Bay		William Fitzgerald Langworthy	Conservative
Prescott		Gustave Evanturel	Liberal
Prince Edward—Lennox		John Hubbs	Conservative
Renfrew North		Ira Delbert Cotnam	Conservative
Renfrew South		Martin James Maloney	Conservative
Russell		Alfred Goulet	Liberal
Simcoe East		Alfred Burke Thompson	Conservative
Simcoe North		William Alves Boys	Conservative
Stormont		Charles James Hamilton	Conservative
Timiskaming North		John Raymond O'Neill	Conservative
Timiskaming South		Ernest Frederick Armstrong	Conservative
Toronto East		Edmond Baird Ryckman	Conservative
Toronto East Centre		Edmund James Bristol	Conservative
Toronto—High Park		Alexander James Anderson	Conservative
Toronto Northeast		Richard Langton Baker	Conservative
Toronto Northwest		Thomas Langton Church	Conservative
Toronto—Scarborough		Joseph Henry Harris	Conservative
Toronto South		George Reginald Geary	Conservative
Toronto West Centre		Horatio Clarence Hocken	Conservative
Victoria		Thomas Hubert Stinson	Conservative
Waterloo North		William Daum Euler	Liberal
Waterloo South		Alexander McKay Edwards	Conservative
Welland		George Hamilton Pettit	Conservative
Wellington North		Duncan Sinclair	Conservative
Wellington South		Hugh Guthrie	Conservative
Wentworth		Gordon Crooks Wilson	Conservative
York North		Thomas Herbert Lennox	Conservative
York South		William Findlay Maclean	Independent Conservative
York West		Henry Lumley Drayton	Conservative

Prince Edward Island

Riding		Name	Party
King's		John Alexander Macdonald	Conservative
Prince		Alfred Edgar MacLean	Liberal
Queen's*		Robert Harold Jenkins	Liberal
		John Albert Messervy	Conservative

Quebec

Riding		Name	Party
Argenteuil		George Halsey Perley	Conservative
Bagot		Joseph Edmond Marcile (died in office)	Liberal
		Georges Dorèze Morin (by-election of 1925-12-07)	Liberal
Beauce		Édouard Lacroix	Liberal
Beauharnois		Maxime Raymond	Liberal
Bellechasse		Charles Alphonse Fournier	Liberal
Berthier—Maskinongé		Joseph-Charles-Théodore Gervais	Liberal
Bonaventure		Charles Marcil	Liberal
Brome—Missisquoi		William Frederic Kay	Liberal
Cartier		Samuel William Jacobs	Liberal
Chambly—Verchères		Aimé Langlois	Liberal
Champlain		Arthur Lesieur Desaulniers	Liberal
Charlevoix—Saguenay		Pierre-François Casgrain	Liberal
Châteauguay—Huntingdon		James Alexander Robb	Liberal
Chicoutimi		Julien-Édouard-Alfred Dubuc	Independent Liberal
Compton		Joseph Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just	Liberal
Dorchester		Lucien Cannon	Liberal
Drummond—Arthabaska		Wilfrid Girouard	Liberal
Gaspé		Rodolphe Lemieux	Liberal
Hochelaga		Édouard-Charles St-Père	Liberal
Hull		Joseph-Éloi Fontaine	Liberal
Jacques Cartier		Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume	Liberal
Joliette		Jean-Joseph Denis	Liberal
Kamouraska		Joseph Georges Bouchard	Liberal
Labelle		Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa	Independent
Lake St. John		Armand Sylvestre	Liberal
Laprairie—Napierville		Roch Lanctôt	Liberal
L'Assomption—Montcalm		Paul-Arthur Séguin	Liberal
Laurier—Outremont		Joseph-Alexandre Mercier	Liberal
Laval—Two Mountains		Liguori Lacombe	Liberal
Lévis		Joseph-Étienne Dussault	Liberal
L'Islet		Joseph-Fernand Fafard	Liberal
Lotbinière		Joseph-Achille Verville	Liberal
Maisonneuve		Clément Robitaille	Liberal
Matane		Georges-Léonidas Dionne	Liberal
Mégantic		Eusèbe Roberge	Liberal
Montmagny		Leo Kemner Laflamme	Liberal
Mount Royal		Robert Smeaton White	Conservative
Nicolet		Joseph-Félix Descoteaux	Liberal
Pontiac		Frank S. Cahill	Liberal
Portneuf		Michel-Siméon Delisle	Liberal
Québec—Montmorency		Henri-Edgar Lavigueur	Liberal
Quebec East		Ernest Lapointe	Liberal
Quebec South		Charles Gavan Power	Liberal
Quebec West		Georges Parent	Liberal
Richelieu		Pierre-Joseph-Arthur Cardin	Liberal
Richmond—Wolfe		Edmund William Tobin	Liberal
Rimouski		Eugène Fiset	Liberal
St. Ann		James John Edmund Guérin	Liberal
St. Antoine		Leslie Gordon Bell	Conservative
St. Denis		Joseph-Arthur Denis	Liberal
St. Henri		Paul Mercier	Liberal
St. Hyacinthe—Rouville		René Morin	Liberal
St. James		Fernand Rinfret	Liberal
St. Johns—Iberville		Aldéric-Joseph Benoit	Liberal
St. Lawrence—St. George		Charles Cahan	Conservative
St. Mary		Hermas Deslauriers	Liberal
Shefford		Georges Henri Boivin	Liberal
Sherbrooke		Charles Benjamin Howard	Liberal
Stanstead		Willis Keith Baldwin	Liberal
Témiscouata		Jean-François Pouliot	Liberal
Terrebonne		Jules-Édouard Prévost	Liberal
Three Rivers—St. Maurice		Arthur Bettez	Liberal
Vaudreuil—Soulanges		Lawrence Alexander Wilson	Liberal
Wright		Fizalam-William Perras	Liberal
Yamaska		Aimé Boucher	Liberal

Saskatchewan

Riding		Name	Party
Assiniboia		Robert McKenzie	Liberal
Humboldt		Albert Frederick Totzke	Liberal
Kindersley		Archibald M. Carmichael	Progressive
Last Mountain		William Russell Fansher	Progressive
Long Lake		John Frederick Johnston	Progressive
Mackenzie		Milton Neil Campbell	Progressive
Maple Creek		George Spence	Liberal
Melfort		Malcolm McLean	Liberal
Melville		William Richard Motherwell	Liberal
Moose Jaw		John Gordon Ross	Liberal
North Battleford		Cameron Ross McIntosh	Liberal
Prince Albert		Charles McDonald (until 15 January 1926 resignation to allow seat for Mackenzie King)	Liberal
		William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1926-02-15)	Liberal
Qu'Appelle		John Millar	Progressive
Regina		Francis Nicholson Darke (resigned 20 February 1926 to allow seat for Dunning)	Liberal
		Charles Avery Dunning (by-election of 1926-03-16)	Liberal
Rosetown		John Evans	Progressive
Saskatoon		Alexander MacGillivray Young	Liberal
South Battleford		John Vallance	Liberal
Swift Current		Charles Edward Bothwell	Liberal
Weyburn		Edward James Young	Liberal
Willow Bunch		Thomas F. Donnelly	Liberal
Yorkton		George Washington McPhee	Liberal

Yukon

Riding		Name	Party
Yukon		George Black	Conservative

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 15th Canadian Parliament

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
Middlesex West	March 29, 1926	John Campbell Elliott		Liberal	John Campbell Elliott		Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Labour	Yes
Regina	March 16, 1926	Francis Nicholson Darke		Liberal	Charles Avery Dunning		Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Dunning	Yes
Prince Albert	February 15, 1926	Charles McDonald		Liberal	William Lyon Mackenzie King		Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Mackenzie King	Yes
Bagot	December 7, 1925	Joseph Edmond Marcile		Liberal	Georges Dorèze Morin		Liberal	Death	Yes