11th Canadian Parliament

11th Parliament of Canada
11th Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
20 January 1909 – 29 July 1911
Parliament leaders
Prime; Minister	Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier; 11 Jul 1896 – 6 Oct 1911
Cabinet	8th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the; Opposition	Hon. Robert Borden; February 6, 1901 – October 9, 1911
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party
Opposition	Conservative Party; & Liberal-Conservative
Crossbench	Labour
House of Commons
	; Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the; Commons	Hon. Charles Marcil; January 20, 1909 – November 14, 1911
Members	221 MP seats; List of members
Senate
Speaker of the; Senate	Hon. James Kerr; January 14, 1909 – October 22, 1911
Government; Senate Leader	Sir Richard John Cartwright; 1909 – October 6, 1911
Opposition; Senate Leader	Sir James Alexander Lougheed; April 1, 1906 – October 6, 1911
Sovereign
Monarch	Edward VII; 22 January 1901 – 6 May 1910
	George V; 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
Governor; General	The Earl Grey; Dec. 10, 1904 – Oct. 13, 1911
Sessions
	1st session; January 20, 1909 – May 19, 1909
	2nd session; November 11, 1909 – May 4, 1910
	3rd session; November 17, 1910 – July 29, 1911
← 10th	→ 12th

The 11th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 20, 1909, until July 29, 1911. The membership was set by the 1908 federal election on October 26, 1908, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1911 election.

It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the 8th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative/Liberal-Conservative, led by Robert Borden.

The Speaker was Charles Marcil. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1907-1914 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the eleventh 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

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Calgary	Maitland Stewart McCarthy	Conservative	1904
Edmonton	Frank Oliver	Liberal	1896
Macleod	John Herron	Liberal-Conservative	1904
Medicine Hat	Charles Alexander Magrath	Conservative	1908
Red Deer	Michael Clark	Liberal	1908
Strathcona	Wilbert McIntyre (died 21 July 1909)	Liberal	1906
Strathcona	James McCrie Douglas (by-election of 1909-10-20)	Liberal	1909
Victoria	William Henry White	Liberal	1908

British Columbia

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Comox—Atlin	William Sloan (resigned 21 January 1909 to allow seat for Templeman)	Liberal	1904
Comox—Atlin	William Templeman (by-election of 1909-02-08)	Liberal	1906,^[a] 1909
Kootenay	Arthur Samuel Goodeve	Conservative	1908
Nanaimo	Ralph Smith	Liberal	1900
New Westminster	James Davis Taylor	Conservative	1908
Vancouver City	George Henry Cowan	Conservative	1908
Victoria City	George Henry Barnard	Conservative	1908
Yale—Cariboo	Martin Burrell	Conservative	1908

Manitoba

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Brandon	Clifford Sifton	Liberal	1896
Dauphin	Glenlyon Campbell	Conservative	1908
Lisgar	William Henry Sharpe	Conservative	1908
Macdonald	William D. Staples	Conservative	1904
Marquette	William James Roche	Conservative	1896
Portage la Prairie	Arthur Meighen	Conservative	1908
Provencher	John Patrick Molloy	Liberal	1908
Selkirk	George Henry Bradbury	Conservative	1908
Souris	Frederick Laurence Schaffner	Conservative	1904
Winnipeg	Alexander Haggart	Conservative	1908

New Brunswick

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Carleton	Frank Broadstreet Carvell	Liberal	1904
Charlotte	William Frederick Todd	Liberal	1908
City and County of St. John	William Pugsley	Liberal	1907
City of St. John	John Waterhouse Daniel	Conservative	1904
Gloucester	Onésiphore Turgeon	Liberal	1900
Kent	Olivier J. Leblanc	Liberal	1900
King's and Albert	Duncan Hamilton McAlister	Liberal	1908
Northumberland	William Stewart Loggie	Liberal	1904
Restigouche	James Reid	Liberal	1900
Sunbury—Queen's	Hugh Havelock McLean	Liberal	1908
Victoria	Pius Michaud	Liberal	1907
Westmorland	Henry Emmerson	Liberal	1900
York	Oswald Smith Crocket	Conservative	1904

Nova Scotia

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Annapolis	Samuel Walter Willet Pickup	Liberal	1904
Antigonish	William Chisholm	Liberal	1905
Cape Breton South	James William Maddin	Liberal-Conservative	1908
Colchester	John Stanfield	Conservative	1907
Cumberland	Edgar Nelson Rhodes	Conservative	1908
Digby	Clarence Jameson	Conservative	1908
Guysborough	John Howard Sinclair	Liberal	1904
Halifax*	Robert Laird Borden	Conservative	1896, 1905,^[b] 1908
Halifax*	Adam Brown Crosby	Conservative	1908
Hants	Judson Burpee Black	Liberal	1904
Inverness	Alexander William Chisholm	Liberal	1908
Kings	Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874, 1887
Lunenburg	Alexander Kenneth Maclean (resigned 23 October 1909)	Liberal	1904
Lunenburg	John Drew Sperry (by-election of 1909-12-22)	Liberal	1909
North Cape Breton and Victoria	Daniel Duncan McKenzie	Liberal	1904, 1908
Pictou	Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal	1904
Richmond	George William Kyte	Liberal	1908
Shelburne and Queen's	William Stevens Fielding	Liberal	1896
Yarmouth	Bowman Brown Law	Liberal	1902

Ontario

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Algoma East	William Ross Smyth	Conservative	1908
Algoma West	Arthur Cyril Boyce	Conservative	1904
Brantford	Lloyd Harris	Liberal	1908
Brant	William Paterson	Liberal	1872
Brockville	George Perry Graham	Liberal	1907
Bruce North	John Tolmie	Liberal	1906
Bruce South	James J. Donnelly	Conservative	1904, 1908
Carleton	Robert Laird Borden (resigned to maintain seat in Halifax)	Conservative	1896,^[c] 1905
Carleton	Edward Kidd (by-election of 1909-02-22)	Conservative	1909
Dufferin	John Barr (died 19 November 1909)	Conservative	1904
Dufferin	John Best (by-election of 1909-12-22)	Conservative	1909
Dundas	Andrew Broder	Conservative	1896
Durham	Charles Jonas Thornton	Conservative	1900, 1908
Elgin East	David Marshall	Conservative	1906
Elgin West	Thomas Wilson Crothers	Conservative	1908
Essex North	Robert Franklin Sutherland (until 21 October 1909 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1908
Essex North	Oliver James Wilcox (by-election of 1909-11-10)	Conservative	1909
Essex South	Alfred Henry Clarke	Liberal	1904
Frontenac	John Wesley Edwards	Conservative	1908
Glengarry	John Angus McMillan	Liberal	1908
Grenville	John Dowsley Reid	Conservative	1896
Grey East	Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878
Grey North	William Sora Middlebro	Conservative	1908
Grey South	Henry Horton Miller	Liberal	1904
Haldimand	Francis Ramsey Lalor	Conservative	1904
Halton	David Henderson	Conservative	1887, 1888
Hamilton East	Samuel Barker	Conservative	1900
Hamilton West	Thomas Joseph Stewart	Conservative	1908
Hastings East	William Barton Northrup	Conservative	1892, 1900
Hastings West	Edward Guss Porter	Conservative	1902
Huron East	Thomas Chisholm	Conservative	1904
Huron South	Murdo Young McLean	Liberal	1908
Huron West	Edward Norman Lewis	Conservative	1904
Kent East	David Alexander Gordon	Liberal	1904
Kent West	Archibald Blake McCoig	Liberal	1908
Kingston	William Harty	Liberal	1902
Lambton East	Joseph Elijah Armstrong	Conservative	1904
Lambton West	Frederick Forsyth Pardee	Liberal	1905
Lanark North	William Thoburn	Conservative	1908
Lanark South	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Leeds	George Taylor	Conservative	1882
Lennox and Addington	Uriah Wilson	Conservative	1892
Lincoln	Edward Arthur Lancaster	Conservative	1900
London	Thomas Beattie	Conservative	1891, 1900
Middlesex East	Peter Elson	Conservative	1904
Middlesex North	Alexander Wilson Smith	Liberal	1908
Middlesex West	William Samuel Calvert (until 21 October 1909 railway appointment)	Liberal	1896
Middlesex West	Duncan Campbell Ross (by-election of 1909-11-10)	Liberal	1909
Muskoka	William Wright	Conservative	1904
Nipissing	George Gordon	Conservative	1908
Norfolk	Alexander McCall	Conservative	1908
Northumberland East	Charles Lewis Owen	Conservative	1907
Northumberland West	John B. McColl	Liberal	1900
Ontario North	Samuel Simpson Sharpe	Conservative	1908
Ontario South	Frederick Luther Fowke	Liberal	1908
Ottawa (City of)*	Wilfrid Laurier (until resignation)	Liberal	1874, 1877
	Harold Buchanan McGiverin	Liberal	1908
	Albert Allard (by-election of 1910-01-29, replaces Laurier)	Liberal	1910
Oxford North	Edward Walter Nesbitt	Liberal	1908
Oxford South	Malcolm Smith Schell	Liberal	1904
Parry Sound	James Arthurs	Conservative	1908
Peel	Richard Blain	Conservative	1900
Perth North	James Palmer Rankin	Liberal	1908
Perth South	Gilbert Howard McIntyre	Liberal	1904
Peterborough East	John Albert Sexsmith	Conservative	1908
Peterborough West	James Robert Stratton	Liberal	1908
Prescott	Edmond Proulx	Liberal	1904
Prince Edward	Morley Currie	Liberal	1908
Renfrew North	Gerald Verner White	Conservative	1906
Renfrew South	Thomas Andrew Low	Liberal	1908
Russell	Charles Murphy	Liberal	1904
Simcoe East	Thomas Edward Manley Chew	Liberal	1908
Simcoe North	John Allister Currie	Conservative	1908
Simcoe South	Haughton Lennox	Conservative	1900
Stormont	Robert Smith	Liberal	1908
Thunder Bay and Rainy River	James Conmee	Liberal	1904
Toronto Centre	Edmund James Bristol	Conservative	1905
Toronto East	Joseph Russell	Independent	1908
Toronto North	George Eulas Foster	Conservative	1882,^[d] 1904
Toronto South	Angus Claude Macdonell	Conservative	1904
Toronto West	Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative	1896
Victoria	Sam Hughes	Liberal-Conservative	1892
Waterloo North	William Lyon Mackenzie King (until ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1908
Waterloo North	William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1909-06-21)	Liberal	1908
Waterloo South	George Adam Clare	Conservative	1900
Welland	William Manly German	Liberal	1891, 1900
Wellington North	Alexander Munro Martin	Liberal	1907
Wellington South	Hugh Guthrie	Liberal	1900
Wentworth	William Oscar Sealey	Liberal	1908
York Centre	Thomas George Wallace	Conservative	1908
York North	Allen Bristol Aylesworth	Liberal	1905
York South	William Findlay Maclean	Independent Conservative	1892

Prince Edward Island

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
King's	Austin Levi Fraser	Conservative	1908
Prince	James William Richards	Liberal	1908
Queen's*	Lemuel Ezra Prowse	Liberal	1908
Queen's*	Alexander Bannerman Warburton	Liberal	1908

Quebec

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Argenteuil	George Halsey Perley	Conservative	1904
Bagot	Joseph Edmond Marcile	Liberal	1898
Beauce	Henri Sévérin Béland	Liberal	1902
Beauharnois	Louis-Joseph Papineau	Liberal	1908
Bellechasse	Onésiphore Ernest Talbot	Liberal	1896
Berthier	Arthur Ecrément	Liberal	1908
Bonaventure	Charles Marcil (†)	Liberal	1900
Brome	Sydney Arthur Fisher	Liberal	1896
Chambly—Verchères	Victor Geoffrion	Liberal	1900
Champlain	Pierre Édouard Blondin	Conservative	1908
Charlevoix	Joseph David Rodolphe Forget	Conservative	1904
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Joseph Girard	Conservative	1900
Châteauguay	James Pollock Brown	Liberal	1891
Compton	Aylmer Byron Hunt	Liberal	1904
Dorchester	Joseph Alfred Ernest Roy	Liberal	1908
Drummond—Arthabaska	Louis Lavergne (until Senate appointment)	Liberal	1897
Drummond—Arthabaska	Arthur Gilbert (by-election of 1910-11-03)	Nationaliste	1910
Gaspé	Rodolphe Lemieux	Liberal	1896
Hochelaga	Louis Alfred Adhémar Rivet	Liberal	1904
Huntingdon	James Alexander Robb	Liberal	1908
Jacques Cartier	Frederick Debartzch Monk	Conservative	1896
Joliette	Joseph Adélard Dubeau	Liberal	1904
Kamouraska	Ernest Lapointe	Liberal	1904
Labelle	Charles Beautrom Major	Liberal	1907
Laprairie—Napierville	Roch Lanctôt	Liberal	1904
L'Assomption	Paul-Arthur Séguin	Liberal	1908
Laval	Charles Avila Wilson	Liberal	1908
Lévis	Louis Auguste Carrier	Liberal	1905
L'Islet	Eugène Paquet	Conservative	1904
Lotbinière	Edmond Fortier (until election voided 29 September 1909)	Liberal	1900
Lotbinière	Edmond Fortier (by-election of 1909-10-26)	Liberal	1900
Maisonneuve	Alphonse Verville	Labour	1906
Maskinongé	Hormidas Mayrand	Liberal	1903
Mégantic	François Théodore Savoie	Liberal	1904
Missisquoi	Daniel Bishop Meigs	Liberal	1888, 1896
Montcalm	François Octave Dugas (until 6 September 1909 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1900
Montcalm	David Arthur Lafortune (by-election of 1909-09-25)	Independent Liberal	1909
Montmagny	Cyrias Roy	Liberal	1908
Montmorency	Georges Parent	Liberal	1904
Nicolet	Gustave Adolphe Turcotte	Liberal	1907
Pontiac	George Frederick Hodgins	Liberal	1908
Portneuf	Michel-Siméon Delisle	Liberal	1900
Quebec-Centre	Arthur Lachance	Liberal	1905
Quebec County	Joseph Pierre Turcotte	Liberal	1908
Quebec East	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
Quebec West	William Price	Conservative	1908
Richelieu	Adélard Lanctôt	Liberal	1907
Richmond—Wolfe	Edmund William Tobin	Liberal	1900
Rimouski	Jean Auguste Ross	Liberal	1897
Rouville	Louis Philippe Brodeur	Liberal	1904
Shefford	Henry Edgarton Allen	Liberal	1908
Town of Sherbrooke	Arthur Norreys Worthington	Conservative	1904
Soulanges	Joseph Arthur Lortie	Conservative	1896
St. Anne	Charles Joseph Doherty	Conservative	1908
Stanstead	Charles Henry Lovell	Liberal	1907
St. Antoine	Herbert Brown Ames	Conservative	1904
St. Hyacinthe	Aimé Majorique Beauparlant	Liberal	1904
St. James	Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais	Liberal	1904
St. Johns—Iberville	Marie Joseph Demers	Liberal	1906
St. Lawrence	Robert Bickerdike	Liberal	1900
St. Mary	Médéric Martin	Liberal	1908
Terrebonne	Wilfrid Bruno Nantel	Conservative	1908
Three Rivers and St. Maurice	Jacques Bureau	Liberal	1900
Témiscouata	Charles Arthur Gauvreau	Liberal	1897
Two Mountains	Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier	Liberal	1896
Vaudreuil	Gustave Benjamin Boyer	Liberal	1904
Wright	Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin	Liberal	1904
Yamaska	Oscar Gladu	Liberal	1904

Saskatchewan

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Assiniboia	John Gillanders Turriff	Liberal	1904
Battleford	Albert Champagne	Liberal	1908
Humboldt	David Bradley Neely	Liberal	1908
Mackenzie	Edward L. Cash	Liberal	1904
Moose Jaw	William Erskine Knowles	Liberal	1908
Prince Albert	William Windfield Rutan	Liberal	1908
Qu'Appelle	Richard Stuart Lake	Conservative	1904
Regina	William Melville Martin	Liberal	1908
Saltcoats	Thomas MacNutt	Liberal	1908
Saskatoon	George Ewan McCraney	Liberal	1908

Yukon

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Yukon		Frederick Tennyson Congdon	Liberal	1908

By-elections

By-election	Date	Incumbent		Winner		Cause	Retained
Drummond—Arthabaska	November 3, 1910	Louis Lavergne	Liberal	Arthur Gilbert	Nationalist	Called to the Senate	No
City of Ottawa	January 29, 1910	Sir Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	Albert Allard	Liberal	Chose to sit for Quebec East.	Yes
Dufferin	December 22, 1909	John Barr	Conservative	John Best	Conservative	Death	Yes
Lunenburg	December 22, 1909	Alexander Kenneth Maclean	Liberal	John Drew Sperry	Liberal	Resignation	Yes
Middlesex West	November 20, 1909	William Samuel Calvert	Liberal	Duncan Campbell Ross	Liberal	Appointed to the National Transcontinental Railway Commission	Yes
Essex North	November 20, 1909	Robert Franklin Sutherland	Liberal	Oliver James Wilcox	Conservative	Appointed a judge	No
Lotbinière	October 26, 1909	Edmond Fortier	Liberal	Edmond Fortier	Liberal	Election declared void	Yes
Strathcona	October 20, 1909	Wilbert McIntyre	Liberal	James McCrie Douglas	Liberal	Death	Yes
Montcalm	September 25, 1909	François Octave Dugas	Liberal	David Arthur Lafortune	Independent Liberal	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	No
Waterloo North	June 21, 1909	William Lyon Mackenzie King	Liberal	William Lyon Mackenzie King	Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Labour.	Yes
Carleton	February 22, 1909	Robert Borden	Conservative	Edward Kidd	Conservative	Chose to sit for Halifax	Yes
Comox—Atlin	February 8, 1909	William Sloan	Liberal	William Templeman	Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Templeman	Yes

Notes

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