High Park (provincial electoral district)

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For the federal electoral district, see High Park (electoral district).
High Park
Ontario electoral district
File:Toronto Provincial Ridings 1926a.pdf
High Park, in relation to the other Toronto ridings, after the 1926 redistribution.
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created 1925
District abolished 1975
First contested 1926
Last contested 1971
Demographics
Census divisions Toronto, Ontario
Census subdivisions Toronto, Ontario

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.[1][2]

The High Park provincial electoral district was notable for its electors defeating the incumbent Premier, and their Member of Provincial Parliament, George Drew, in the 1948 provincial election. He lost his seat over the issue of temperance; even though his Conservatives were returned with a majority government.[3] The old City of West Toronto Junction had been an alcohol-free area since even before it was annexed by Toronto back in 1909, and those "dry-laws" were still current at the time of the 1948 election. So when Drew's government passed a new law that allowed "cocktail bars" to open in the province, his local constituents were not pleased, allowing the aptly named temperance candidate, "Temperance Bill" Temple of the Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation to win.[4]

The provincial riding had a number of colourful Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) including Drew, and his successor William Horace Temple as well as the district's final representative, Doctor Morton Shulman. The district was abolished during the 1975 redistribution, placing most of it in the new High Park—Swansea district. As of 2013, the territory it represented belongs in the current Parkdale—High Park, York South—Weston and Davenport districts.

Members of Provincial Parliament

High Park
Assembly Years Member Party
Prior to 1926 part of York West constituency[5]
17th  1926–1929     William Baird[nb 1][nb 2] Conservative
18th  1929–1934
19th  1934–1937
20th  1937–1943
21st  1943–1945     George Drew Conservative
22nd  1945–1948
23rd  1948–1951     William Temple Co-operative Commonwealth
24th  1951–1955     Alf Cowling Progressive Conservative
25th  1955–1959
26th  1959–1963
27th  1963–1967
28th  1967–1971     Morton Shulman New Democratic
29th  1971–1975
Sourced from the Ontario Legislative Assembly[6]
Merged into High Park—Swansea and Parkdale constituencies after 1975

Election results

1926 Boundaries

Ontario general election, 1926
Party Candidate Votes[7] Vote %
    Conservative William A. Baird 10,563
    Prohibitionist W.A. MacMaster 6,809
Total
Ontario general election, 1929
Party Candidate Votes[8] Vote %
    Conservative William A. Baird 8,448
    Prohibitionist Minerva Reid 4,653
Total

1934 Boundaries

File:1934TorontoRidings.jpg
Toronto riding boundaries after 1934 redistribution
Ontario general election, 1934
Party Candidate Votes[9] Vote %
    Conservative William A. Baird 8,742
    Liberal J.O. Culnan 7,908
    Co-operative Commonwealth D.M. LeBourdais 4,251
Total
Ontario general election, 1937
Party Candidate Votes[10] Vote %
    Conservative William A. Baird 9,442
    Liberal B.A. Ritchie 7,270
    Co-operative Commonwealth Carroll Coburn 3,305
Total 20,840

1943 Boundaries

Ontario general election, 1943
Party Candidate Votes[11] Vote %
    Conservative George A. Drew 7,729
    Co-operative Commonwealth W.H. Temple 7,210
    Liberal L.A. Leslie 3,366
    Socialist-Labour W.E Hendry 151
Total
Ontario general election, 1945
Party Candidate Votes[12][nb 3] Vote %
    Conservative George A. Drew 12,349
    Co-operative Commonwealth Lewis Duncan 9,212
Total
Ontario general election, 1948
Party Candidate Votes[13] Vote %
    Co-operative Commonwealth W.H. Temple 11,561
    Conservative George A. Drew 10,546
    Liberal H. Stephens 5,358
Total

1951 Boundaries

Ontario general election, 1951
Party Candidate Votes[14] Vote %
    Conservative Alfred Cowling 10,318
    Co-operative Commonwealth William H. Temple 7,947
    Liberal Earl Selkirk 5,056
Total

1955 Boundaries

Ontario general election, 1955
Party Candidate Votes[15] Vote %
    Conservative Alfred Cowling 7,743
    Co-operative Commonwealth William H. Temple 5,573
    Liberal Herbert W. Powell 4,438
- Labor–Progressive Helen Weir 430
Total
Ontario general election, 1959
Party Candidate Votes[16] Vote %
    Conservative Alfred Cowling 6,587
    Liberal Paul Staniszewski 5,056
    Co-operative Commonwealth William H. Temple 4,257
- Labor–Progressive John Weir 390
Total

1963 Boundaries

Ontario general election, 1963
Party Candidate Votes[17] Vote %
    Conservative Alfred Cowling 7,684
    Liberal Paul Staniszewski 6,743
    New Democrat Andy Mays 3,415
    Social Credit R.A. Reesor 114
Total

1967 boundaries

Ontario general election, 1967
Party Candidate Votes[18] Vote %
    New Democrat Morton Shulman 12,888
    Liberal Paul Staniszewski 6,614
    Conservative Alfred Cowling 6,475
Total
Ontario general election, 1971
Party Candidate Votes[19] Vote %
    New Democrat Morton Shulman 16,509
    Conservative Yuri Shymko 9,228
    Liberal Laima Svegeda 4,284
    Social Credit Geza Matrai 230
Total

References

Notes

  1. ↑ In 1938, the title of Member of the Legislative Assembly was changed to Member of Provincial Parliament.
  2. ↑ Baird died in 1940. The seat remained vacant until 1943.
  3. ↑ 117 out of 130 polls reporting.

Citations

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