15th Canadian Parliament

1926 legislative term From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Prime
ministerWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King
Dec. 29, 1921 – Jun. 28, 1926
Cabinets12th Canadian Ministry
13th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the
OppositionArthur Meighen
Dec. 29, 1921 – Jun. 28, 1926
GovernmentLiberal Party[a] (until June 1926)
Quick facts Canadian Parliament, Parliament leaders ...
15th Canadian Parliament
Minority parliament
Jan. 7, 1926 – Jul. 2, 1926
Parliament leaders
Prime
minister		William Lyon Mackenzie King
Dec. 29, 1921 – Jun. 28, 1926
Arthur Meighen
Jun. 29, 1926 – Sep. 25, 1926
Cabinets12th Canadian Ministry
13th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the
Opposition		Arthur Meighen
Dec. 29, 1921 – Jun. 28, 1926
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Jun. 29, 1926 – Sep. 25, 1926
Party caucuses
GovernmentLiberal Party[a] (until June 1926)
Conservative Party (after June 1926)
OppositionConservative Party (until June 1926)
Liberal Party (after June 1926)
CrossbenchProgressive 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
Members245 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
Senators96 senator seats
List of senators
Sovereign
MonarchGeorge 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
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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:

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Session Start End
1st 7 January 1926 2 July 1926
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List of members

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

Key:

  • 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

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Acadia Robert Gardiner Progressive 1921 3rd term
Athabaska Charles Wilson Cross Liberal 1925 1st term
Battle River Henry Elvins Spencer Progressive 1921 2nd term
Bow River Edward Joseph Garland Progressive 1921 2nd term
Calgary East Fred Davis Conservative 1925 1st term
Calgary West Richard Bedford Bennett Conservative 1911, 1925 2nd term*
Camrose William Thomas Lucas United Farmers of Alberta 1921 2nd term
Edmonton East Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury Conservative 1925 1st term
Edmonton West Charles Stewart Liberal 1925 1st term
Lethbridge Lincoln Henry Jelliff Progressive 1921 2nd term
Macleod George Gibson Coote Progressive 1921 2nd term
Medicine Hat Frederick William Gershaw Liberal 1925 1st term
Peace River Donald MacBeth Kennedy Progressive 1921 2nd term
Red Deer Alfred Speakman United Farmers of Alberta 1921 2nd term
Vegreville Arthur Moren Boutillier Progressive 1925 1st term
Wetaskiwin Stanley Gilbert Tobin Liberal 1925 1st term
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British Columbia

More information Riding, Name ...
Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Cariboo John Anderson Fraser Conservative 1925 1st term
Comox—Alberni Alan Webster Neill Independent 1921 2nd term
Fraser Valley Harry James Barber Conservative 1925 1st term
Kootenay East James Horace King Liberal 1922 2nd term
Kootenay West William Kemble Esling Conservative 1925 1st term
Nanaimo Charles Herbert Dickie Conservative 1921 2nd term
New Westminster William Garland McQuarrie Conservative 1917 3rd term
Skeena Alfred Stork Liberal 1921 2nd term
Vancouver—Burrard John Arthur Clark Conservative 1921 2nd term
Vancouver Centre Henry Herbert Stevens Conservative 1911 4th term
Vancouver North Dugald Donaghy Liberal 1925 1st term
Vancouver South Leon Johnson Ladner Conservative 1921 2nd term
Victoria Simon Fraser Tolmie Conservative 1917 3rd term
Yale Grote Stirling Conservative 1924 2nd term
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Manitoba

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Brandon Robert Forke Progressive 1921 2nd term
Dauphin William John Ward Progressive 1921 2nd term
Lisgar John Livingstone Brown Progressive 1921 2nd term
Macdonald William James Lovie Progressive 1921 2nd term
Marquette Henry Alfred Mullins Conservative 1925 1st term
Neepawa Thomas Gerow Murphy Conservative 1925 1st term
Nelson Thomas William Bird Progressive 1921 2nd term
Portage la Prairie Arthur Meighen Conservative 1908, 1922 5th term*
Provencher Arthur-Lucien Beaubien Progressive 1921 2nd term
Selkirk Hannes Marino Hannesson Conservative 1925 1st term
Souris James Steedsman Progressive 1921 2nd term
Springfield Thomas Hay Conservative 1917,[b] 1925 2nd term*
St. Boniface John Power Howden Liberal 1925 1st term
Winnipeg North Abraham Albert Heaps Labour 1925 1st term
Winnipeg North Centre James Shaver Woodsworth Labour 1921 2nd term
Winnipeg South Robert Rogers Conservative 1911, 1925 2nd term*
Winnipeg South Centre William Walker Kennedy Conservative 1925 1st term
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New Brunswick

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Charlotte Robert Watson Grimmer Conservative 1921 2nd term
Gloucester Jean George Robichaud Liberal 1922 2nd term
Kent Alexandre-Joseph Doucet Conservative 1923 2nd term
Northumberland Charles Elijah Fish Conservative 1925 1st term
Restigouche—Madawaska Arthur Culligan Conservative 1925 1st term
Royal George Burpee Jones Conservative 1921 2nd term
St. John—Albert* Thomas Bell Conservative 1925 1st term
Murray Maclaren Conservative 1921 2nd term
Victoria—Carleton James Kidd Flemming Conservative 1925 1st term
Westmorland Otto Baird Price Conservative 1925 1st term
York—Sunbury Richard Hanson Conservative 1921 3rd term
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Nova Scotia

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Antigonish—Guysborough Edward Mortimer Macdonald Liberal 1904,[c] 1921 5th term*
Cape Breton North—Victoria Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone Conservative 1925 1st term
Cape Breton South Finlay MacDonald Conservative 1925 1st term
Colchester George Taylor Macnutt Conservative 1925 1st term
Cumberland Robert Knowlton Smith Conservative 1925 1st term
Digby—Annapolis Harry Bernard Short Conservative 1925 1st term
Halifax* William Anderson Black Conservative 1923 2nd term
Felix Patrick Quinn Conservative 1925 1st term
Hants—Kings Arthur de Witt Foster Conservative 1911, 1925 2nd term*
Inverness Isaac Duncan MacDougall Conservative 1925 1st term
Pictou Thomas Cantley Conservative 1925 1st term
Queens—Lunenburg William Duff Liberal 1917 3rd term
Richmond—West Cape Breton John Alexander MacDonald Conservative 1925 1st term
Shelburne—Yarmouth Paul Lacombe Hatfield Liberal 1921 2nd term
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Ontario

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Algoma East George Brecken Nicholson Conservative 1925 1st term
Algoma West Thomas Edward Simpson Conservative 1917 3rd term
Brantford City Robert Edwy Ryerson Conservative 1925 1st term
Brant Franklin Smoke Conservative 1925 1st term
Bruce North James Malcolm Liberal 1921 2nd term
Bruce South Walter Allan Hall Liberal 1925 1st term
Carleton William Foster Garland Conservative 1912, 1921 3rd term*
Dufferin—Simcoe William Earl Rowe Conservative 1925 1st term
Durham Fred Wellington Bowen Conservative 1921 2nd term
Elgin West Hugh Cummings McKillop Conservative 1921 2nd term
Essex East Raymond Ducharme Morand Conservative 1925 1st term
Essex South Eccles James Gott Conservative 1925 1st term
Essex West Sidney Cecil Robinson Conservative 1925 1st term
Fort William Robert James Manion Conservative 1917 3rd term
Frontenac—Addington John Wesley Edwards Conservative 1908, 1925 4th term*
Glengarry Archibald John Macdonald Liberal 1925 1st term
Grenville—Dundas Arza Clair Casselman Conservative 1921, 1925 2nd term*
Grey North Matthew Robert Duncan Conservative 1921 2nd term
Grey Southeast Agnes Campbell Macphail Progressive 1921 2nd term
Haldimand Mark Cecil Senn Conservative 1921 2nd term
Halton Robert King Anderson Conservative 1917 3rd term
Hamilton East Sydney Chilton Mewburn Conservative 1917 3rd term
Hamilton West Charles William Bell Conservative 1925 1st term
Hastings—Peterborough Alexander Thomas Embury Conservative 1925 1st term
Hastings South William Ernest Tummon Conservative 1925 1st term
Huron North John Warwick King Progressive 1921 2nd term
Huron South Thomas McMillan Liberal 1925 1st term
Kenora—Rainy River Peter Heenan Liberal 1925 1st term
Kent Alexander Dew Chaplin Conservative 1925 1st term
Kingston City Arthur Edward Ross Conservative 1921 2nd term
Lambton East Joseph Elijah Armstrong Conservative 1904, 1925 6th term*
Lambton West William Thomas Goodison Liberal 1925 1st term
Lanark Richard Franklin Preston Conservative 1922 2nd term
Leeds Hugh Alexander Stewart Conservative 1921 2nd term
Lincoln James Dew Chaplin Conservative 1917 3rd term
London John Franklin White Conservative 1921 2nd term
Middlesex East Adam King Hodgins Conservative 1925 1st term
Middlesex West John Campbell Elliott (until 8 March 1926 ministerial appointment) Liberal 1925 1st term
John Campbell Elliott (by-election of 1926-03-29) Liberal
Muskoka—Ontario Peter McGibbon Conservative 1925 1st term
Nipissing Edmond Lapierre Liberal 1921 2nd term
Norfolk—Elgin John Lawrence Stansell Conservative 1921 2nd term
Northumberland Milton Edgar Maybee Conservative 1921 2nd term
Ontario Thomas Erlin Kaiser Conservative 1925 1st term
Ottawa (City of)* John Léo Chabot Conservative 1911, 1925 3rd term*
Stewart McClenaghan Conservative 1925 1st term
Oxford North Donald Matheson Sutherland Conservative 1925 1st term
Oxford South Donald Sutherland Conservative 1911 4th term
Parkdale David Spence Conservative 1921 2nd term
Parry Sound James Arthurs Conservative 1908 5th term
Peel Samuel Charters Conservative 1917 3rd term
Perth North David McKenzie Wright Conservative 1925 1st term
Perth South Frederick George Sanderson Liberal 1925 1st term
Peterborough West Edward Armour Peck Conservative 1925 1st term
Port Arthur—Thunder Bay William Fitzgerald Langworthy Conservative 1925 1st term
Prescott Gustave Evanturel Liberal 1925 1st term
Prince Edward—Lennox John Hubbs Conservative 1921 2nd term
Renfrew North Ira Delbert Cotnam Conservative 1925 1st term
Renfrew South Martin James Maloney Conservative 1925 1st term
Russell Alfred Goulet Liberal 1925 1st term
Simcoe East Alfred Burke Thompson Conservative 1925 1st term
Simcoe North William Alves Boys Conservative 1921 2nd term
Stormont Charles James Hamilton Conservative 1925 1st term
Timiskaming North John Raymond O'Neill Conservative 1925 1st term
Timiskaming South Ernest Frederick Armstrong Conservative 1925 1st term
Toronto East Edmond Baird Ryckman Conservative 1921 2nd term
Toronto East Centre Edmund James Bristol Conservative 1905 6th term
Toronto—High Park Alexander James Anderson Conservative 1925 1st term
Toronto Northeast Richard Langton Baker Conservative 1925 1st term
Toronto Northwest Thomas Langton Church Conservative 1921 2nd term
Toronto—Scarborough Joseph Henry Harris Conservative 1921 2nd term
Toronto South George Reginald Geary Conservative 1925 1st term
Toronto West Centre Horatio Clarence Hocken Conservative 1917 3rd term
Victoria Thomas Hubert Stinson Conservative 1925 1st term
Waterloo North William Daum Euler Liberal 1917 3rd term
Waterloo South Alexander McKay Edwards Conservative 1925 1st term
Welland George Hamilton Pettit Conservative 1925 1st term
Wellington North Duncan Sinclair Conservative 1925 1st term
Wellington South Hugh Guthrie Conservative 1900 7th term
Wentworth Gordon Crooks Wilson Conservative 1911 4th term
York North Thomas Herbert Lennox Conservative 1925 1st term
York South William Findlay Maclean Independent Conservative 1892 9th term
York West Henry Lumley Drayton Conservative 1919 3rd term
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Prince Edward Island

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
King's John Alexander Macdonald Conservative 1925 1st term
Prince Alfred Edgar MacLean Liberal 1921 2nd term
Queen's* Robert Harold Jenkins Liberal 1925 1st term
John Albert Messervy Conservative 1925 1st term
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Quebec

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Argenteuil George Halsey Perley Conservative 1904, 1925 4th term*
Bagot Joseph Edmond Marcile (died in office) Liberal 1898 8th term
Georges Dorèze Morin (by-election of 1925-12-07) Liberal 1925 1st term
Beauce Édouard Lacroix Liberal 1925 1st term
Beauharnois Maxime Raymond Liberal 1925 1st term
Bellechasse Charles Alphonse Fournier Liberal 1917 3rd term
Berthier—Maskinongé Joseph-Charles-Théodore Gervais Liberal 1917 3rd term
Bonaventure Charles Marcil Liberal 1900 7th term
Brome—Missisquoi William Frederic Kay Liberal 1911 4th term
Cartier Samuel William Jacobs Liberal 1917 3rd term
Chambly—Verchères Aimé Langlois Liberal 1925 1st term
Champlain Arthur Lesieur Desaulniers Liberal 1917 3rd term
Charlevoix—Saguenay Pierre-François Casgrain Liberal 1917 3rd term
Châteauguay—Huntingdon James Alexander Robb Liberal 1908 5th term
Chicoutimi Julien-Édouard-Alfred Dubuc Independent Liberal 1925 1st term
Compton Joseph Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just Liberal 1925 1st term
Dorchester Lucien Cannon Liberal 1917 3rd term
Drummond—Arthabaska Wilfrid Girouard Liberal 1925 1st term
Gaspé Rodolphe Lemieux (†) Liberal 1896 8th term
Hochelaga Édouard-Charles St-Père Liberal 1921 2nd term
Hull Joseph-Éloi Fontaine Liberal 1917 3rd term
Jacques Cartier Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume Liberal 1922 2nd term
Joliette Jean-Joseph Denis Liberal 1917 3rd term
Kamouraska Joseph Georges Bouchard Liberal 1922 2nd term
Labelle Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa Independent 1896,[d] 1925 4th term*
Lake St. John Armand Sylvestre Liberal 1925 1st term
Laprairie—Napierville Roch Lanctôt Liberal 1904 6th term
L'Assomption—Montcalm Paul-Arthur Séguin Liberal 1908 5th term
Laurier—Outremont Joseph-Alexandre Mercier Liberal 1925 1st term
Laval—Two Mountains Liguori Lacombe Liberal 1925 1st term
Lévis Joseph-Étienne Dussault Liberal 1925 1st term
L'Islet Joseph-Fernand Fafard Liberal 1917 3rd term
Lotbinière Joseph-Achille Verville Liberal 1925 1st term
Maisonneuve Clément Robitaille Liberal 1921 2nd term
Matane Georges-Léonidas Dionne Liberal 1925 1st term
Mégantic Eusèbe Roberge Liberal 1922 2nd term
Montmagny Léo Kemner Laflamme Liberal 1925 1st term
Mount Royal Robert Smeaton White Conservative 1888,[e] 1925 3rd term*
Nicolet Joseph-Félix Descoteaux Liberal 1923 2nd term
Pontiac Frank S. Cahill Liberal 1917 3rd term
Portneuf Michel-Siméon Delisle Liberal 1900 7th term
Québec—Montmorency Henri-Edgar Lavigueur Liberal 1917 3rd term
Quebec East Ernest Lapointe Liberal 1904 7th term
Quebec South Charles Gavan Power Liberal 1917 3rd term
Quebec West Georges Parent Liberal 1904,[f] 1917 5th term*
Richelieu Arthur Cardin Liberal 1911 4th term
Richmond—Wolfe Edmund William Tobin Liberal 1900 7th term
Rimouski Eugène Fiset Liberal 1924 2nd term
St. Ann James John Edmund Guérin Liberal 1925 1st term
St. Antoine Leslie Gordon Bell Conservative 1925 1st term
St. Denis Joseph-Arthur Denis Liberal 1921 2nd term
St. Henri Paul Mercier Liberal 1921 2nd term
St. Hyacinthe—Rouville René Morin Liberal 1921 2nd term
St. James Fernand Rinfret Liberal 1920 3rd term
St. Johns—Iberville Aldéric-Joseph Benoit Liberal 1922 2nd term
St. Lawrence—St. George Charles Cahan Conservative 1925 1st term
St. Mary Hermas Deslauriers Liberal 1917 3rd term
Shefford Georges Henri Boivin Liberal 1911 4th term
Sherbrooke Charles Benjamin Howard Liberal 1925 1st term
Stanstead Willis Keith Baldwin Liberal 1917 3rd term
Témiscouata Jean-François Pouliot Liberal 1924 2nd term
Terrebonne Jules-Édouard Prévost Liberal 1917 3rd term
Three Rivers—St. Maurice Arthur Bettez Liberal 1925 1st term
Vaudreuil—Soulanges Lawrence Alexander Wilson Liberal 1925 1st term
Wright Fizalam-William Perras Liberal 1925 1st term
Yamaska Aimé Boucher Liberal 1921 3rd term
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Saskatchewan

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Assiniboia Robert McKenzie Liberal 1925 1st term
Humboldt Albert Frederick Totzke Liberal 1925 1st term
Kindersley Archibald M. Carmichael Progressive 1921 2nd term
Last Mountain William Russell Fansher Progressive 1925 1st term
Long Lake John Frederick Johnston Progressive 1917[g] 3rd term
Liberal
Mackenzie Milton Neil Campbell Progressive 1921 2nd term
Maple Creek George Spence Liberal 1925 1st term
Melfort Malcolm McLean Liberal 1925 1st term
Melville William Richard Motherwell Liberal 1921 2nd term
Moose Jaw John Gordon Ross Liberal 1925 1st term
North Battleford Cameron Ross McIntosh Liberal 1925 1st term
Prince Albert Charles McDonald (until 15 January 1926 resignation to allow seat for Mackenzie King) Liberal 1925 1st term
William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1926-02-15) Liberal 1908,[h] 1919,[i] 1926 4th term*
Qu'Appelle John Millar Progressive 1921 2nd term
Regina Francis Nicholson Darke (resigned 20 February 1926 to allow seat for Dunning) Liberal 1925 1st term
Charles Avery Dunning (by-election of 1926-03-16) Liberal 1926 1st term
Rosetown John Evans Progressive 1921 2nd term
Saskatoon Alexander MacGillivray Young Liberal 1925 1st term
South Battleford John Vallance Liberal 1925 1st term
Swift Current Charles Edward Bothwell Liberal 1925 1st term
Weyburn Edward James Young Liberal 1925 1st term
Willow Bunch Thomas F. Donnelly Liberal 1925 1st term
Yorkton George Washington McPhee Liberal 1925 1st term
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Yukon

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Riding Name Party First elected/previously elected No. of terms
Yukon George Black Conservative 1921 2nd term
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By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 15th Canadian Parliament
More information By-election, Date ...
By-electionDateIncumbentPartyWinnerPartyCauseRetained
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
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Notes

  1. [a]
    The Conservative Party replaced the Liberal Party without an election on 29 June 1926 as a result of the King-Byng Affair.
  2. [b]
    Selkirk
  3. [c]
    Pictou
  4. [d]
    First elected as a Liberal
  5. [e]
    Cardwell (Ontario)
  6. [f]
    Montmorency
  7. [g]
    First elected as a Unionist
  8. [h]
    Waterloo North (Ontario)
  9. [i]
    Prince (PEI)/York North (Ontario)

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