7th Parliament of Ontario

The 7th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 5, 1890, until May 29, 1894, just prior to the 1894 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Oliver Mowat.

Thomas Ballantyne served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

There was a small third-party movement represented in the 7th Parliament: the McCarthyite movement included Liberals and Conservatives who supported the "Equal Rights Party," which was anti-Catholic and anti-French, and involved four members.

Members of the Assembly

	Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected	Comments
	Addington	James Reid	Conservative	1890
	Algoma East	Alexander Franklin Campbell	Conservative	1890
	Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal	1885
	Brant North	William Bruce Wood	Liberal	1886
	Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal	1873	Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry[2]
	Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative	1872	Commissioner of Public Works in Mowat ministry[3]
	Bruce Centre	Walter MacMorris Dack	Liberal	1886
	Bruce North	John George	Conservative	1890	unseated after an appeal
		David Porter (1891)	Liberal	1891	elected March 3, 1891; died August 7, 1893[4]
	Daniel McNaughton (1893)	Liberal	1893	elected December 2, 1893[5]
	Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal	1882
	Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative	1883
	Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative	1871
	Dufferin	John Barr	Conservative Equal Rights	1875,[a] 1890
	Dundas	James Pliny Whitney	Conservative	1888
	Durham East	George Campbell	Conservative Equal Rights	1890
	Durham West	William Thomas Lockhart	Liberal	1890
	Elgin East	Henry Thomas Godwin	Conservative	1890
	Elgin West	Dugald McColl	Conservative	1890
	Essex North	Solomon White	Conservative	1878, 1890
	Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal	1882
	Frontenac	Hugh Smith	Conservative	1888
	Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal	1882
	Grenville	Orlando Bush	Conservative	1890
	Grey Centre	Joseph Rorke	Conservative	1886
	Grey North	James Cleland	Liberal	1890
	Grey South	James Hill Hunter	Liberal	1875, 1890	died February 2, 1891[6]
	Gilbert McKechnie (1891)	Liberal	1891	elected April 1, 1891[7]
	Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal	1867
	Halton	William Kerns	Conservative	1883
	Hamilton	Thomas Henry Stinson	Conservative	1890
	John Morison Gibson (1891)	Liberal	1879, 1891	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry[8]
	Hastings East	William Parker Hudson	Conservative	1883
	Hastings North	Alpheus Field Wood	Conservative	1883
	Hastings West	William Hodgins Biggar	Liberal	1890
	Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal	1871
	Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal	1873
	Huron West	James Thompson Garrow	Liberal	1890
	Kent East	Robert Ferguson	Liberal	1885
	Kent West	James Clancy	Conservative	1883
	Kingston	James Henry Metcalfe	Conservative	1879	resigned 1891 after being elected to a seat in federal parliament[9]
	William Harty (1892)	Liberal	1892	elected February 23, 1892[10]
	Lambton East	Hugh McKenzie	Liberal	1890	died October 3, 1893[11]
	Peter Duncan McCallum (1893)	Independent Conservative	1893	elected December 2, 1893[12]
	Lambton West	Charles MacKenzie	Liberal	1889
	Lanark North	William Clyde Caldwell	Liberal-Equal Rights	1872, 1879, 1888
	Lanark South	Nathaniel McLenaghan	Conservative	1890	resigned 1893 after appointment as deputy custom collector in Perth[13]
	James Maitland Clarke (1894)	Liberal	1894	elected February 16, 1894[14]
	Leeds	Robert Henry Preston	Conservative	1875, 1883
	Lennox	Walter William Meacham	Conservative	1886
	Lincoln	James Hiscott	Conservative	1890
	London	William Ralph Meredith	Conservative	1872	Leader of the Opposition
	Middlesex East	Richard Tooley	Conservative	1871, 1886
	Middlesex North	John Waters	Liberal	1879
	Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal	1883	Minister of Education in Mowat ministry[15]
	Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal	1879	Treasurer in Mowat ministry after October 25, 1890[16]
	Muskoka	George Frederick Marter	Conservative	1886
	Nipissing	John Loughrin	Liberal	1890
	Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman[b]	Liberal	1879	died November 22, 1890[17]
	Edwin Clarendon Carpenter (1891)	Liberal	1891	elected January 23, 1891[18]
	Norfolk South	William Andrew Charlton	Liberal	1890
	Northumberland East	William Arnson Willoughby	Conservative	1886, 1888
	Northumberland West	Corelli Collard Field	Liberal	1886
	Ontario North	James Glendinning	Conservative	1890
	Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal	1879	Minister of Agriculture in Mowat ministry after September 16, 1890[19]
	Ottawa	Erskine Henry Bronson	Liberal	1886
	Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal	1872	Premier and Attorney General in Mowat ministry[20]
	Oxford South	Angus McKay	Liberal	1886
	Parry Sound	James Sharpe	Liberal	1890
	Peel	Kenneth Chisholm	Liberal	1873	resigned 1892 after being appointed registrar of Peel[21]
	John Smith (1892)	Liberal	1892	elected December 30, 1892[22]
	Perth North	Alfred Emanuel Ahrens	Liberal	1890	unseated after an appeal[23]
	Thomas Magwood (1891)	Conservative	1891	elected February 6, 1891[24]
	Perth South	Thomas Ballantyne	Liberal	1875	Speaker
	Peterborough East	Thomas Blezard	Liberal	1879
	Peterborough West	James Robert Stratton	Liberal	1886
	Prescott	Francis Eugene Alfred Evanturel	Liberal	1886
	Prince Edward	John Allison Sprague	Liberal	1886
	Renfrew North	Arunah Dunlop	Conservative	1890	died January 1, 1892[25]
	Henry Barr (1892)	Liberal	1892	elected February 23, 1892[26]
	Renfrew South	John Francis Dowling	Liberal	1883, 1890
	Russell	Alexander Robillard	Liberal	1886
	Simcoe Centre	Robert Paton	Liberal	1890
	Simcoe East	Andrew Miscampbell	Conservative	1890
	Simcoe West	Thomas Wylie	Conservative	1886
	Stormont	William Mack	Liberal	1879, 1886
	Toronto[c]	Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative	1886
		Henry Edward Clarke (1892)	Conservative	1892	died March 25, 1892[27]
	Joseph Tait (1893)	Liberal	1893
	Toronto by-el	Nelson Gordon Bigelow(1892)	Liberal	1892	elected April 29, 1892; died November 4, 1892[28]
	Toronto by-el	George Ryerson (1893)	Conservative	1893	elected February 28, 1893[29]
	Victoria East	John Fell	Conservative	1883
	Victoria West	John McKay	Liberal-Equal Rights	1890
	Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal	1881
	Waterloo South	John Douglas Moore	Liberal	1890
	Welland	William McCleary	Conservative	1890
	Wellington East	Charles Clarke	Liberal	1871	resigned October 6, 1891 after appointment as clerk for the legislature[30]
	James Kirkwood (1891)	Liberal	1891	elected November 10, 1891[31]
	Wellington South	Donald Guthrie	Liberal	1886
	Wellington West	Absalom Shade Allan	Liberal	1886
	Wentworth North	James McMahon	Liberal	1875
	Wentworth South	Nicholas Awrey	Liberal	1879
	York East	George Byron Smith	Liberal	1886
	York North	Elihu James Davis	Liberal	1888
	York West	John Taylor Gilmour	Liberal	1886

Notes

1. First elected as a Conservative
2. died in 1890
3. Toronto had 3 seats