15th Canadian Parliament

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

15th Parliament of Canada
Minority parliament
7 January 1926 – 2 July 1926
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	William Lyon Mackenzie King 29 Dec 1921 – 28 Jun 1926
	Arthur Meighen 29 Jun 1926 – 25 Sep 1926
Cabinets	12th Canadian Ministry 13th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	Arthur Meighen 29 Dec 1921 – 28 Jun 1926
	William Lyon Mackenzie King 29 Jun 1926 – 25 Sep 1926
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party[lower-alpha 1] (until June 1926)
	Conservative Party (after June 1926)
Opposition	Conservative Party (until June 1926)
	Liberal Party (after June 1926)
Crossbench	Progressive Party
	Labour
	United Farmers of Alberta
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
Government Senate Leader	Raoul Dandurand 29 December 1921 – 28 June 1926
	William Benjamin Ross 28 June 1926 – 24 September 1926
Opposition Senate Leader	William Benjamin Ross 1 January 1926 – 28 June 1926
	Raoul Dandurand 29 June 1926 – 31 December 1926
Senators	96 senator seats List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch	George V 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
Governor General	Viscount Byng of Vimy 11 August 1921 – 2 October 1926
Sessions
1st session January 7, 1926 (1926-01-07) – July 2, 1926 (1926-07-02)
← 14th → 16th

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

Initially, it was controlled by a Liberal Party House minority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 12th Canadian Ministry. The Liberal caucus did not have a majority of seats in the House - it only had the second most seats - and was propped up by the Progressive Party of Canada MPs. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led by Arthur Meighen. When the Liberal government fell, Meighen's Conservatives were allowed to form government (the 13th Canadian Ministry), triggering the "King-Byng Affair". Quickly the 13th Ministry fell as well.

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	7 January 1926	2 July 1926

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fifteenth 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.

Alberta

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Acadia		Robert Gardiner	Progressive	1921
Athabaska		Charles Wilson Cross	Liberal	1925
Battle River		Henry Elvins Spencer	Progressive	1921
Bow River		Edward Joseph Garland	Progressive	1921
Calgary East		Fred Davis	Conservative	1925
Calgary West		Richard Bedford Bennett	Conservative	1911,[lower-alpha 2] 1925
Camrose		William Thomas Lucas	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
Edmonton East		Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury	Conservative	1925
Edmonton West		Charles Stewart	Liberal	1925
Lethbridge		Lincoln Henry Jelliff	Progressive	1921
Macleod		George Gibson Coote	Progressive	1921
Medicine Hat		Frederick William Gershaw	Liberal	1925
Peace River		Donald MacBeth Kennedy	Progressive	1921
Red Deer		Alfred Speakman	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
Vegreville		Arthur Moren Boutillier	Progressive	1925
Wetaskiwin		Stanley Gilbert Tobin	Liberal	1925

British Columbia

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
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	Liberal	1922
Kootenay West		William Kemble Esling	Conservative	1925
Nanaimo		Charles Herbert Dickie	Conservative	1921
New Westminster		William Garland McQuarrie	Conservative	1917
Skeena		Alfred Stork	Liberal	1921
Vancouver—Burrard		John Arthur Clark	Conservative	1921
Vancouver Centre		Henry Herbert Stevens	Conservative	1911
Vancouver North		Dugald Donaghy	Liberal	1925
Vancouver South		Leon Johnson Ladner	Conservative	1921
Victoria		Simon Fraser Tolmie	Conservative	1917
Yale		Grote Stirling	Conservative	1924

Manitoba

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Brandon		Robert Forke	Progressive	1921
Dauphin		William John Ward	Progressive	1921
Lisgar		John Livingstone Brown	Progressive	1921
Macdonald		William James Lovie	Progressive	1921
Marquette		Henry Alfred Mullins	Conservative	1925
Neepawa		Thomas Gerow Murphy	Conservative	1925
Nelson		Thomas William Bird	Progressive	1921
Portage la Prairie		Arthur Meighen	Conservative	1908, 1922,[lower-alpha 3] 1925
Provencher		Arthur-Lucien Beaubien	Progressive	1921
Selkirk		Hannes Marino Hannesson	Conservative	1925
Souris		James Steedsman	Progressive	1921
Springfield		Thomas Hay	Conservative	1917,[lower-alpha 4] 1925
St. Boniface		John Power Howden	Liberal	1925
Winnipeg North		Abraham Albert Heaps	Labour	1925
Winnipeg North Centre		James Shaver Woodsworth	Labour	1921
Winnipeg South		Robert Rogers	Conservative	1911, 1925
Winnipeg South Centre		William Walker Kennedy	Conservative	1925

New Brunswick

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Charlotte		Robert Watson Grimmer	Conservative	1921
Gloucester		Jean George Robichaud	Liberal	1922
Kent		Alexandre-Joseph Doucet	Conservative	1923
Northumberland		Charles Elijah Fish	Conservative	1925
Restigouche—Madawaska		Arthur Culligan	Conservative	1925
Royal		George Burpee Jones	Conservative	1921
St. John—Albert*		Thomas Bell	Conservative	1925
		Murray Maclaren	Conservative	1921
Victoria—Carleton		James Kidd Flemming	Conservative	1925
Westmorland		Otto Baird Price	Conservative	1925
York—Sunbury		Richard Hanson	Conservative	1921

Nova Scotia

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Antigonish—Guysborough		Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal	1904,[lower-alpha 5] 1921
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 Bernard Short	Conservative	1925
Halifax*		William Anderson Black	Conservative	1923
		Felix Patrick Quinn	Conservative	1925
Hants—Kings		Arthur de Witt Foster	Conservative	1911, 1925
Inverness		Isaac Duncan MacDougall	Conservative	1925
Pictou		Thomas Cantley	Conservative	1925
Queens—Lunenburg		William Duff	Liberal	1917
Richmond—West Cape Breton		John Alexander MacDonald	Conservative	1925
Shelburne—Yarmouth		Paul Lacombe Hatfield	Liberal	1921

Ontario

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Algoma East		George Brecken Nicholson	Conservative	1925
Algoma West		Thomas Edward Simpson	Conservative	1917
Brantford City		Robert Edwy Ryerson	Conservative	1925
Brant		Franklin Smoke	Conservative	1925
Bruce North		James Malcolm	Liberal	1921
Bruce South		Walter Allan Hall	Liberal	1925
Carleton		William Foster Garland	Conservative	1912, 1921
Dufferin—Simcoe		William Earl Rowe	Conservative	1925
Durham		Fred Wellington Bowen	Conservative	1921
Elgin West		Hugh Cummings McKillop	Conservative	1921
Essex East		Raymond Ducharme Morand	Conservative	1925
Essex South		Eccles James Gott	Conservative	1925
Essex West		Sidney Cecil Robinson	Conservative	1925
Fort William		Robert James Manion	Conservative	1917
Frontenac—Addington		John Wesley Edwards	Conservative	1908, 1925
Glengarry		Archibald John Macdonald	Liberal	1925
Grenville—Dundas		Arza Clair Casselman	Conservative	1921, 1925
Grey North		Matthew Robert Duncan	Conservative	1921
Grey Southeast		Agnes Campbell Macphail	Progressive	1921
Haldimand		Mark Cecil Senn	Conservative	1921
Halton		Robert King Anderson	Conservative	1917
Hamilton East		Sydney Chilton Mewburn	Conservative	1917
Hamilton West		Charles William Bell	Conservative	1925
Hastings—Peterborough		Alexander Thomas Embury	Conservative	1925
Hastings South		William Ernest Tummon	Conservative	1925
Huron North		John Warwick King	Progressive	1921
Huron South		Thomas McMillan	Liberal	1925
Kenora—Rainy River		Peter Heenan	Liberal	1925
Kent		Alexander Dew Chaplin	Conservative	1925
Kingston City		Arthur Edward Ross	Conservative	1921
Lambton East		Joseph Elijah Armstrong	Conservative	1904, 1925
Lambton West		William Thomas Goodison	Liberal	1925
Lanark		Richard Franklin Preston	Conservative	1922
Leeds		Hugh Alexander Stewart	Conservative	1921
Lincoln		James Dew Chaplin	Conservative	1917
London		John Franklin White	Conservative	1921
Middlesex East		Adam King Hodgins	Conservative	1925
Middlesex West		John Campbell Elliott (until 8 March 1926 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1925
		John Campbell Elliott (by-election of 1926-03-29)	Liberal
Muskoka—Ontario		Peter McGibbon	Conservative	1925
Nipissing		Edmond Lapierre	Liberal	1921
Norfolk—Elgin		John Lawrence Stansell	Conservative	1921
Northumberland		Milton Edgar Maybee	Conservative	1921
Ontario		Thomas Erlin Kaiser	Conservative	1925
Ottawa (City of)*		John Léo Chabot	Conservative	1911, 1925
		Stewart McClenaghan	Conservative	1925
Oxford North		Donald Matheson Sutherland	Conservative	1925
Oxford South		Donald Sutherland	Conservative	1911
Parkdale		David Spence	Conservative	1921
Parry Sound		James Arthurs	Conservative	1908
Peel		Samuel Charters	Conservative	1917
Perth North		David McKenzie Wright	Conservative	1925
Perth South		Frederick George Sanderson	Liberal	1925
Peterborough West		Edward Armour Peck	Conservative	1925
Port Arthur—Thunder Bay		William Fitzgerald Langworthy	Conservative	1925
Prescott		Gustave Evanturel	Liberal	1925
Prince Edward—Lennox		John Hubbs	Conservative	1921
Renfrew North		Ira Delbert Cotnam	Conservative	1925
Renfrew South		Martin James Maloney	Conservative	1925
Russell		Alfred Goulet	Liberal	1925
Simcoe East		Alfred Burke Thompson	Conservative	1925
Simcoe North		William Alves Boys	Conservative	1921
Stormont		Charles James Hamilton	Conservative	1925
Timiskaming North		John Raymond O'Neill	Conservative	1925
Timiskaming South		Ernest Frederick Armstrong	Conservative	1925
Toronto East		Edmond Baird Ryckman	Conservative	1921
Toronto East Centre		Edmund James Bristol	Conservative	1905
Toronto—High Park		Alexander James Anderson	Conservative	1925
Toronto Northeast		Richard Langton Baker	Conservative	1925
Toronto Northwest		Thomas Langton Church	Conservative	1921
Toronto—Scarborough		Joseph Henry Harris	Conservative	1921
Toronto South		George Reginald Geary	Conservative	1925
Toronto West Centre		Horatio Clarence Hocken	Conservative	1917
Victoria		Thomas Hubert Stinson	Conservative	1925
Waterloo North		William Daum Euler	Liberal	1917
Waterloo South		Alexander McKay Edwards	Conservative	1925
Welland		George Hamilton Pettit	Conservative	1925
Wellington North		Duncan Sinclair	Conservative	1925
Wellington South		Hugh Guthrie	Conservative	1900
Wentworth		Gordon Crooks Wilson	Conservative	1911
York North		Thomas Herbert Lennox	Conservative	1925
York South		William Findlay Maclean	Independent Conservative	1892
York West		Henry Lumley Drayton	Conservative	1919

Prince Edward Island

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
King's		John Alexander Macdonald	Conservative	1925
Prince		Alfred Edgar MacLean	Liberal	1921
Queen's*		Robert Harold Jenkins	Liberal	1925
		John Albert Messervy	Conservative	1925

Quebec

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Argenteuil		George Halsey Perley	Conservative	1904, 1925
Bagot		Joseph Edmond Marcile (died in office)	Liberal	1898
		Georges Dorèze Morin (by-election of 1925-12-07)	Liberal	1925
Beauce		Édouard Lacroix	Liberal	1925
Beauharnois		Maxime Raymond	Liberal	1925
Bellechasse		Charles Alphonse Fournier	Liberal	1917
Berthier—Maskinongé		Joseph-Charles-Théodore Gervais	Liberal	1917
Bonaventure		Charles Marcil	Liberal	1900
Brome—Missisquoi		William Frederic Kay	Liberal	1911
Cartier		Samuel William Jacobs	Liberal	1917
Chambly—Verchères		Aimé Langlois	Liberal	1925
Champlain		Arthur Lesieur Desaulniers	Liberal	1917
Charlevoix—Saguenay		Pierre-François Casgrain	Liberal	1917
Châteauguay—Huntingdon		James Alexander Robb	Liberal	1908
Chicoutimi		Julien-Édouard-Alfred Dubuc	Independent Liberal	1917
Compton		Joseph Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just	Liberal	1925
Dorchester		Lucien Cannon	Liberal	1917
Drummond—Arthabaska		Wilfrid Girouard	Liberal	1925
Gaspé		Rodolphe Lemieux (†)	Liberal	1896
Hochelaga		Édouard-Charles St-Père	Liberal	1921
Hull		Joseph-Éloi Fontaine	Liberal	1917
Jacques Cartier		Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume	Liberal	1922
Joliette		Jean-Joseph Denis	Liberal	1917
Kamouraska		Joseph Georges Bouchard	Liberal	1922
Labelle		Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa	Independent	1896,[lower-alpha 6] 1925
Lake St. John		Armand Sylvestre	Liberal	1925
Laprairie—Napierville		Roch Lanctôt	Liberal	1904
L'Assomption—Montcalm		Paul-Arthur Séguin	Liberal	1908
Laurier—Outremont		Joseph-Alexandre Mercier	Liberal	1925
Laval—Two Mountains		Liguori Lacombe	Liberal	1925
Lévis		Joseph-Étienne Dussault	Liberal	1925
L'Islet		Joseph-Fernand Fafard	Liberal	1917
Lotbinière		Joseph-Achille Verville	Liberal	1925
Maisonneuve		Clément Robitaille	Liberal	1921
Matane		Georges-Léonidas Dionne	Liberal	1925
Mégantic		Eusèbe Roberge	Liberal	1922
Montmagny		Léo Kemner Laflamme	Liberal	1925
Mount Royal		Robert Smeaton White	Conservative	1888,[lower-alpha 7] 1925
Nicolet		Joseph-Félix Descoteaux	Liberal	1923
Pontiac		Frank S. Cahill	Liberal	1917
Portneuf		Michel-Siméon Delisle	Liberal	1900
Québec—Montmorency		Henri-Edgar Lavigueur	Liberal	1917
Quebec East		Ernest Lapointe	Liberal	1904
Quebec South		Charles Gavan Power	Liberal	1917
Quebec West		Georges Parent	Liberal	1904,[lower-alpha 8] 1917
Richelieu		Arthur Cardin	Liberal	1911
Richmond—Wolfe		Edmund William Tobin	Liberal	1900
Rimouski		Eugène Fiset	Liberal	1924
St. Ann		James John Edmund Guérin	Liberal	1925
St. Antoine		Leslie Gordon Bell	Conservative	1925
St. Denis		Joseph-Arthur Denis	Liberal	1921
St. Henri		Paul Mercier	Liberal	1921
St. Hyacinthe—Rouville		René Morin	Liberal	1921
St. James		Fernand Rinfret	Liberal	1920
St. Johns—Iberville		Aldéric-Joseph Benoit	Liberal	1922
St. Lawrence—St. George		Charles Cahan	Conservative	1925
St. Mary		Hermas Deslauriers	Liberal	1917
Shefford		Georges Henri Boivin	Liberal	1911
Sherbrooke		Charles Benjamin Howard	Liberal	1925
Stanstead		Willis Keith Baldwin	Liberal	1917
Témiscouata		Jean-François Pouliot	Liberal	1924
Terrebonne		Jules-Édouard Prévost	Liberal	1917
Three Rivers—St. Maurice		Arthur Bettez	Liberal	1925
Vaudreuil—Soulanges		Lawrence Alexander Wilson	Liberal	1925
Wright		Fizalam-William Perras	Liberal	1925
Yamaska		Aimé Boucher	Liberal	1921

Saskatchewan

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Assiniboia		Robert McKenzie	Liberal	1925
Humboldt		Albert Frederick Totzke	Liberal	1925
Kindersley		Archibald M. Carmichael	Progressive	1921
Last Mountain		William Russell Fansher	Progressive	1925
Long Lake		John Frederick Johnston	Progressive	1917[lower-alpha 9]
			Liberal
Mackenzie		Milton Neil Campbell	Progressive	1921
Maple Creek		George Spence	Liberal	1925
Melfort		Malcolm McLean	Liberal	1925
Melville		William Richard Motherwell	Liberal	1921
Moose Jaw		John Gordon Ross	Liberal	1925
North Battleford		Cameron Ross McIntosh	Liberal	1925
Prince Albert		Charles McDonald (until 15 January 1926 resignation to allow seat for Mackenzie King)	Liberal	1925
		William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1926-02-15)	Liberal	1908,[lower-alpha 10] 1919,[lower-alpha 11] 1921,[lower-alpha 12] 1926
Qu'Appelle		John Millar	Progressive	1921
Regina		Francis Nicholson Darke (resigned 20 February 1926 to allow seat for Dunning)	Liberal	1925
		Charles Avery Dunning (by-election of 1926-03-16)	Liberal	1926
Rosetown		John Evans	Progressive	1921
Saskatoon		Alexander MacGillivray Young	Liberal	1925
South Battleford		John Vallance	Liberal	1925
Swift Current		Charles Edward Bothwell	Liberal	1925
Weyburn		Edward James Young	Liberal	1925
Willow Bunch		Thomas F. Donnelly	Liberal	1925
Yorkton		George Washington McPhee	Liberal	1925

Yukon

Riding		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Yukon		George Black	Conservative	1921

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

Notes

1. The Conservative Party replaced the Liberal Party without an election on 29 June 1926 as a result of the King-Byng Affair.
2. Calgary
3. Grenville (Ontario)
4. Selkirk
5. Pictou
6. elected as a Liberal
7. Cardwell (Ontario)
8. Montmorency
9. elected as a Unionist
10. Waterloo North (Ontario)
11. Prince (Prince Edward Island)
12. York North (Ontario)

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