The 13th Canadian Parliament was in session from March 18, 1918, until October 4, 1921. The membership was set by the 1917 federal election on December 17, 1917, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1921 election.

13th Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
18 March 1918 – 4 October 1921
Parliament leaders
Prime
Minister
Robert Borden
10 Oct 1911 – 10 Jul 1920
Arthur Meighen
10 Jul 1920 – 29 Dec 1921
Cabinets10th Canadian Ministry
11th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the
Opposition
Wilfrid Laurier
October 10, 1911 – February 17, 1919
Daniel Duncan McKenzie
February 17, 1919 – August 7, 1919
William Lyon Mackenzie King
August 7, 1919 – December 28, 1921
Party caucuses
GovernmentUnionist
OppositionLaurier Liberals
House of Commons

Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the
Commons
Edgar Nelson Rhodes
January 18, 1917 – March 5, 1922
Senate
Speaker of the
Senate
Joseph Bolduc
June 3, 1916 – February 6, 1922
Government
Senate Leader
James Alexander Lougheed
October 10, 1911 – December 28, 1921
Opposition
Senate Leader
Hewitt Bostock
March 19, 1914 – January 1, 1919
January 1, 1920– December 28, 1921
Raoul Dandurand
January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1919
Sovereign
MonarchGeorge V
May 6, 1910 – January 20, 1936
Governor
General
Victor Cavendish
November 11, 1916 – August 2, 1921
Julian Byng
August 2, 1921 – August 5, 1926
Sessions
1st session
March 18, 1918 – May 24, 1918
2nd session
February 20, 1919 – July 7, 1919
3rd session
September 1, 1919 – November 10, 1919
4th session
February 26, 1920 – July 1, 1920
5th session
February 14, 1921 – June 4, 1921
← 12th→ 14th
First Session of the 13th Parliament, held in the Victoria Museum Ottawa, Ontario
Sir Robert Borden was Prime Minister during most of the 13th Canadian Parliament.

It was controlled by a Unionist Party majority first under Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden and the 10th Canadian Ministry, and after July 10, 1920, by Prime Minister Arthur Meighen and the 11th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Laurier Liberal Party, led first by Wilfrid Laurier, and then by Daniel McKenzie and William Lyon Mackenzie King consecutively.

The Speaker was Edgar Nelson Rhodes. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1914-1924 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were five sessions of the 13th Parliament; the third was opened by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII):

SessionStartEnd
1stMarch 18, 1918May 24, 1918
2ndFebruary 20, 1919July 7, 1919
3rdSeptember 1, 1919November 10, 1919
4thFebruary 26, 1920July 1, 1920
5thFebruary 14, 1921June 4, 1921

List of members

The following is a full list of members of the thirteenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.Party leaders are italicized.Parliamentary secretaries is indicated by "‡".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.

Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
Battle RiverWilliam John BlairUnionist1917
Bow RiverHoward Hadden HalladayUnionist1917
Calgary WestThomas TweedieUnionist1917
East CalgaryDaniel Lee RedmanUnionist1917
Edmonton EastHenry Arthur MackieUnionist1917
Edmonton WestWilliam Antrobus GriesbachUnionist1917
LethbridgeWilliam Ashbury BuchananUnionist1911
MacleodHugh Murray ShawUnionist1917
Medicine HatArthur Lewis Sifton (died January 21, 1921)Unionist1917
Robert Gardiner (by-election of 1921-06-27)Progressive1921
Red DeerMichael ClarkUnionist1908
Progressive
StrathconaJames McCrie DouglasUnionist1909
VictoriaWilliam Henry WhiteLaurier Liberals1908
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
BurrardSanford Johnston CroweUnionist1917
CaribooFrederick John FultonUnionist1917
Comox—AlberniHerbert Sylvester ClementsUnionist1904,[a] 1911
Kootenay EastSaul BonnellUnionist1917
Kootenay WestRobert Francis GreenUnionist1912
NanaimoJohn Charles McIntoshUnionist1917
New WestminsterWilliam Garland McQuarrieUnionist1917
SkeenaCyrus Wesley PeckUnionist1917
Vancouver CentreHenry Herbert StevensUnionist1911
Vancouver SouthRichard Clive CooperUnionist1917
Victoria CitySimon Fraser Tolmie (until February 8, 1919, ministerial appointment)Unionist1917
Simon Fraser Tolmie (by-election of 1919-10-27)Unionist
Westminster DistrictFrank Bainard StaceyUnionist1917
YaleMartin Burrell (until Parliamentary appointment)Unionist1908
John Armstrong Mackelvie (by-election of 1920-11-22)Conservative1920
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
BrandonHoward Primrose WhiddenUnionist1917
DauphinRobert CruiseUnionist1911
LisgarFerris BoltonUnionist1917
MacdonaldRichard Coe HendersUnionist1917
MarquetteThomas Alexander CrerarUnionist1917
NeepawaFred Langdon DavisUnionist1917
NelsonJohn Archibald CampbellUnionist1917
Portage la PrairieArthur MeighenUnionist1908
ProvencherJohn Patrick MolloyLaurier Liberals1908
SelkirkThomas HayUnionist1917
SourisAlbert Ernest FinleyUnionist1917
SpringfieldRobert Lorne RichardsonUnionist1896,[b] 1917
Winnipeg CentreGeorge William AndrewsUnionist1917
Winnipeg NorthMatthew Robert BlakeUnionist1917
Winnipeg SouthGeorge William AllanUnionist1917
Independent
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
CharlotteThomas Aaron HarttUnionist1911
GloucesterOnésiphore TurgeonLaurier Liberals1900
KentAuguste Théophile LégerLaurier Liberals1917
NorthumberlandWilliam Stewart LoggieUnionist1904
Restigouche—MadawaskaPius MichaudLaurier Liberals1907
RoyalHugh Havelock McLeanUnionist1908
St. John—Albert*Stanley Edward ElkinUnionist1917
Rupert Wilson WigmoreUnionist1917
Rupert Wilson Wigmore (by-election of 1920-09-20)Conservative
Victoria—CarletonFrank Broadstreet CarvellUnionist1904
Thomas Wakem Caldwell (by-election of 1919-10-27)United Farmers1919
WestmorlandArthur Bliss CoppLaurier Liberals1915
York—SunburyHarry Fulton McLeodUnionist1913
Richard Hanson (by-election of 1921-05-28)Conservative1921
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
Antigonish—GuysboroughJohn Howard SinclairLaurier Liberals1904
Cape Breton South and Richmond*Robert Hamilton ButtsUnionist1917
John Carey DouglasUnionist1917
ColchesterFleming Blanchard McCurdy (until July 13, 1920, ministerial appointment)Unionist1911
Fleming Blanchard McCurdy (by-election of 1920-09-20)Nationalist Liberal
CumberlandEdgar Nelson Rhodes (†)Unionist1908
Digby and AnnapolisAvard Longley DavidsonUnionist1911
Halifax*Alexander Kenneth MacleanUnionist1904
Peter Francis MartinUnionist1917
HantsHadley Brown TremainUnionist1911
InvernessAlexander William ChisholmLaurier Liberals1904
KingsRobert Laird BordenUnionist1896, 1905,[c] 1908
LunenburgWilliam DuffLaurier Liberals1917
North Cape Breton and VictoriaDaniel Duncan McKenzieLaurier Liberals1904, 1908
PictouAlexander McGregorUnionist1917
Shelburne and Queen'sWilliam Stevens FieldingUnionist1896, 1917
Yarmouth and ClareEdgar Keith SpinneyUnionist1917
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
Algoma EastGeorge Brecken NicholsonUnionist1917
Algoma WestThomas Edward SimpsonUnionist1917
BrantfordWilliam Foster CockshuttUnionist1904, 1911
BrantJohn HaroldUnionist1917
Bruce NorthHugh Clark Unionist1911
Bruce SouthReuben Eldridge TruaxLaurier Liberals1913
CarletonGeorge BoyceUnionist1917
DufferinJohn BestUnionist1909
DundasOrren D. CasselmanUnionist1917
DurhamNewton RowellUnionist1917
Elgin EastDavid Marshall (died February 14, 1920)Unionist1906
Sydney Smith McDermand (by-election of 1920-11-22)United Farmers of Ontario1920
Elgin WestThomas Wilson CrothersUnionist1908
Essex NorthWilliam Costello KennedyLaurier Liberals1917
Essex SouthJohn Wesley BrienUnionist1917
Fort William and Rainy RiverRobert James ManionUnionist1917
FrontenacJohn Wesley EdwardsUnionist1908
Glengarry and StormontJohn McMartin (died April 12, 1918)Unionist1917
John Wilfred Kennedy (by-election of 1919-10-27)United Farmers of Ontario-Labour1919
GrenvilleJohn Dowsley ReidUnionist1896
Grey NorthWilliam Sora MiddlebroUnionist1908
Grey SoutheastRobert James BallUnionist1911
HaldimandFrancis Ramsey LalorUnionist1904
HaltonRobert King AndersonUnionist1917
Hamilton EastSydney Chilton MewburnUnionist1917
Hamilton WestThomas Joseph StewartUnionist1900
Hastings EastThomas Henry ThompsonUnionist1917
Hastings WestEdward Guss PorterUnionist1902
Huron NorthJames BowmanUnionist1911
Huron SouthJonathan Joseph MernerUnionist1911
KentArchibald Blake McCoigLaurier Liberals1908
KingstonWilliam Folger Nickle (resigned July 7, 1919)Unionist1911
Henry Lumley Drayton (by-election of 1919-10-20)Conservative1919
Lambton EastJoseph Elijah ArmstrongUnionist1904
Lambton WestFrederick Forsyth PardeeUnionist1905
LanarkAdelbert Edward Hanna (died February 27, 1918)Unionist1913
John Alexander Stewart (by-election of 1918-05-02)Unionist1918
LeedsWilliam Thomas WhiteUnionist1911
Lennox and AddingtonWilliam James PaulUnionist1911
LincolnJames Dew ChaplinUnionist1917
LondonHume Blake CronynUnionist1917
Middlesex EastSamuel Francis GlassUnionist1913
Middlesex WestDuncan Campbell RossLaurier Liberals1909
MuskokaPeter McGibbonUnionist1917
NipissingCharles Robert HarrisonUnionist1917
NorfolkWilliam Andrew CharltonUnionist1911
NorthumberlandCharles Arthur MunsonUnionist1911
Ontario NorthSamuel Simpson Sharpe (died in office)Unionist1908
Robert Henry Halbert (by-election of 1919-12-09)Independent1919
Ontario SouthWilliam SmithUnionist1891, 1892, 1911
Ottawa (City of)*John Léo ChabotUnionist1911
Alfred Ernest FrippUnionist1911
Oxford NorthEdward Walter NesbittUnionist1908
Oxford SouthDonald SutherlandUnionist1911
ParkdaleHerbert Macdonald MowatUnionist1917
Parry SoundJames ArthursUnionist1908
PeelSamuel ChartersUnionist1917
Perth NorthHugh Boulton MorphyUnionist1911
Perth SouthMichael SteeleUnionist1911
Peterborough EastJohn Albert SexsmithUnionist1908
Peterborough WestJohn Hampden Burnham (until resignation)Unionist1911
George Newcombe Gordon (by-election of 1921-02-07)Liberal1921
Port Arthur and KenoraFrancis Henry Keefer Unionist1917
PrescottEdmond ProulxLaurier Liberals1904
Prince EdwardBernard Rickart HepburnUnionist1911
Renfrew NorthHerbert John MackieUnionist1917
Renfrew SouthIsaac Ellis PedlowLaurier Liberals1917
RussellCharles MurphyLaurier Liberals1904
Simcoe EastJames Brockett TudhopeUnionist1917
Simcoe NorthJohn Allister CurrieUnionist1908
Simcoe SouthWilliam Alves BoysUnionist1912
TimiskamingFrancis Cochrane (died in office)Unionist1911
Angus McDonald (by-election of 1920-04-07)Independent1920
Toronto CentreEdmund James BristolUnionist1905
Toronto EastAlbert Edward KempUnionist1900, 1911
Toronto NorthGeorge Eulas FosterUnionist1882,[d] 1904
Toronto SouthCharles SheardUnionist1917
Toronto WestHoratio Clarence HockenUnionist1917
VictoriaSam HughesUnionist1892
Waterloo NorthWilliam Daum EulerLaurier Liberals1917
Waterloo SouthFrank Stewart ScottUnionist1915
WellandEvan Eugene FraserUnionist1917
Wellington NorthWilliam Aurelius ClarkeUnionist1911
Wellington SouthHugh GuthrieUnionist1900
WentworthGordon Crooks WilsonUnionist1911
York EastThomas FosterUnionist1917
York NorthJohn Alexander Macdonald ArmstrongUnionist1911
York SouthWilliam Findlay MacleanUnionist1892
York WestThomas George WallaceUnionist1908
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
King'sJames McIsaacUnionist1917
PrinceJoseph Read (died April 6, 1919)Laurier Liberals1917
William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1919-10-20)Liberal1908,[e] 1919
Queen's*Donald NicholsonUnionist1911
John Ewen SinclairLaurier Liberals1917
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
ArgenteuilPeter Robert McGibbonLaurier Liberals1917
BagotJoseph Edmond MarcileLaurier Liberals1898
BeauceHenri Sévérin BélandLaurier Liberals1902
BeauharnoisLouis-Joseph PapineauLaurier Liberals1908
BellechasseCharles Alphonse FournierLaurier Liberals1917
BerthierJoseph-Charles-Théodore GervaisLaurier Liberals1917
BonaventureCharles MarcilLaurier Liberals1900
BromeAndrew Ross McMasterLaurier Liberals1917
Chambly—VerchèresJoseph ArchambaultLaurier Liberals1917
ChamplainArthur Lesieur DesaulniersLaurier Liberals1917
Charlevoix—MontmorencyPierre-François CasgrainLaurier Liberals1917
Chicoutimi—SaguenayEdmond SavardLaurier Liberals1917
Châteauguay—HuntingdonJames Alexander RobbLaurier Liberals1908
ComptonAylmer Byron HuntLaurier Liberals1904, 1917
DorchesterLucien CannonLaurier Liberals1917
Drummond—ArthabaskaJoseph Ovide BrouillardLaurier Liberals1911
GaspéRodolphe LemieuxLaurier Liberals1896
George-Étienne CartierSamuel William JacobsLaurier Liberals1917
HochelagaJoseph Edmond LesageLaurier Liberals1917
HullJoseph-Éloi FontaineLaurier Liberals1917
Jacques CartierDavid Arthur LafortuneLaurier Liberals1896
JolietteJean-Joseph DenisLaurier Liberals1917
KamouraskaErnest Lapointe (resigned October 14, 1919)Laurier Liberals1904
Charles Adolphe Stein (by-election of 1920-03-31)Liberal1920
LabelleHyacinthe-Adélard FortierLaurier Liberals1917
Laprairie—NapiervilleRoch LanctôtLaurier Liberals1904
L'Assomption—MontcalmPaul-Arthur SéguinLaurier Liberals1908
Laurier—OutremontPamphile Réal Blaise Nugent Du TremblayLaurier Liberals1917
Laval—Two MountainsJoseph Arthur Calixte ÉthierLaurier Liberals1896
LévisJoseph Boutin BourassaLaurier Liberals1911
L'IsletJoseph-Fernand FafardLaurier Liberals1917
LotbinièreThomas VienLaurier Liberals1917
MaisonneuveRodolphe LemieuxLaurier Liberals1896
MaskinongéHormidas MayrandLaurier Liberals1903, 1917
MataneFrançois Jean PelletierLaurier Liberals1917
MéganticLucien Turcotte PacaudLaurier Liberals1911
MissisquoiWilliam Frederic KayLaurier Liberals1911
MontmagnyJoseph Bruno Aimé Miville DéchêneLaurier Liberals1917
NicoletArthur TrahanLaurier Liberals1917
PontiacFrank S. CahillLaurier Liberals1917
PortneufMichel-Siméon DelisleLaurier Liberals1900
Quebec CountyHenri-Edgar LavigueurLaurier Liberals1917
Quebec EastWilfrid Laurier (died February 17, 1919)Laurier Liberals1874
Ernest Lapointe (by-election of 1919-10-27)Laurier Liberals1904
Quebec SouthCharles Gavan PowerLaurier Liberals1917
Quebec WestGeorges ParentLaurier Liberals1904,[f] 1917
RichelieuArthur CardinLaurier Liberals1911
Richmond—WolfeEdmund William TobinLaurier Liberals1900
RimouskiJoseph-Émile-Stanislas-Émmanuel D'AnjouLaurier Liberals1917
St. AnnCharles Joseph DohertyUnionist1908
St. AntoineHerbert Brown AmesUnionist1904
St. DenisAlphonse VervilleLaurier Liberals1906
St. Hyacinthe—RouvilleLouis Joseph GauthierLaurier Liberals1911
St. JamesLouis Audet Lapointe (died February 7, 1920)Laurier Liberals1911
Fernand Rinfret (by-election of 1920-04-07)Liberal1920
St. Johns—IbervilleMarie Joseph DemersLaurier Liberals1906
St. Lawrence—St. GeorgeCharles BallantyneUnionist1917
St. MaryHermas DeslauriersLaurier Liberals1917
SheffordGeorges Henri BoivinLaurier Liberals1911
Town of SherbrookeFrancis N. McCreaLaurier Liberals1911
StansteadWillis Keith BaldwinLaurier Liberals1917
TerrebonneJules-Édouard PrévostLaurier Liberals1917
Three Rivers and St. MauriceJacques BureauLaurier Liberals1900
TémiscouataCharles Arthur GauvreauLaurier Liberals1897
Vaudreuil—SoulangesGustave Benjamin BoyerLaurier Liberals1904
Westmount—St. HenriJoseph Alfred LeducLaurier Liberals1917
WrightEmmanuel Berchmans DevlinLaurier Liberals1904
YamaskaOscar Gladu (died December 5, 1920)Laurier Liberals1917
Aimé Boucher (by-election of 1921-05-28)Liberal1921
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
AssiniboiaJohn Gillanders Turriff (until September 23, 1918, Senate appointment)Unionist1904
Oliver Robert Gould (by-election of 1919-10-27)United Farmers1919
BattlefordHenry Oswald WrightUnionist1917
HumboldtNorman LangUnionist1917
KindersleyEdward Thomas Wordon MyersUnionist1917
Last MountainJohn Frederick JohnstonUnionist1917
MackenzieJohn Flaws ReidUnionist1917
Maple CreekJohn Archibald MahargUnionist1917
Moose JawJames Alexander CalderUnionist1917
North BattlefordCharles Edwin LongUnionist1917
Prince AlbertAndrew KnoxUnionist1917
Progressive
Qu'AppelleLevi ThomsonUnionist1911
ReginaWalter Davy CowanUnionist1917
SaltcoatsThomas MacNuttUnionist1908
SaskatoonJames Robert WilsonUnionist1917
Swift CurrentIra Eugene ArgueUnionist1917
WeyburnRichard Frederick ThompsonUnionist1917
Electoral districtNamePartyFirst elected/previously elected
YukonAlfred ThompsonUnionist1904, 1911

By-elections

By-electionDateIncumbentPartyWinnerPartyCauseRetained
Medicine HatJune 27, 1921Arthur Lewis Sifton    UnionistRobert Gardiner    ProgressiveDeathNo
YamaskaMay 28, 1921Oscar Gladu    Laurier LiberalAimé Boucher    LiberalDeathYes
York—SunburyMay 28, 1921Harry Fulton McLeod    UnionistRichard Hanson    ConservativeDeathYes
Peterborough WestFebruary 7, 1921John Hampden Burnham    UnionistGeorge Newcombe Gordon    LiberalResignationNo
YaleNovember 22, 1920Martin Burrell    UnionistJohn Armstrong MacKelvie    ConservativeAppointed Librarian of ParliamentYes
Elgin EastNovember 22, 1920David Marshall    UnionistSydney Smith McDermand    United FarmersDeathNo
St. John—AlbertSeptember 20, 1920Rupert Wilson Wigmore    UnionistRupert Wilson Wigmore    ConservativeRecontested upon appointment as Minister of Customs and Inland RevenueYes
ColchesterSeptember 20, 1920Fleming Blanchard McCurdy    UnionistFleming Blanchard McCurdy    Nationalist LiberalRecontested upon appointment as Minister of Public WorksYes
TimiskamingApril 7, 1920Francis Cochrane    UnionistAngus McDonald    IndependentDeathNo
St. JamesApril 7, 1920Louis Audet Lapointe    Laurier LiberalFernand Rinfret    LiberalDeathYes
KamouraskaMarch 31, 1920Ernest Lapointe    Laurier LiberalCharles Adolphe Stein    LiberalResignation to contest Quebec East by-electionYes
Ontario NorthDecember 9, 1919Samuel Simpson Sharpe    ConservativeRobert Henry Halbert    IndependentDeathNo
Quebec EastOctober 27, 1919Wilfrid Laurier    Laurier LiberalErnest Lapointe    Laurier LiberalDeathYes
Glengarry and StormontOctober 27, 1919John McMartin    UnionistJohn Wilfred Kennedy    United FarmersDeathNo
AssiniboiaOctober 27, 1919John Gillanders Turriff    UnionistOliver Robert Gould    United FarmersCalled to the SenateNo
Victoria CityOctober 27, 1919Simon Fraser Tolmie    UnionistSimon Fraser Tolmie    UnionistRecontested upon appointment as Minister of Agriculture.Yes
PrinceOctober 20, 1919Joseph Read    LiberalWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King    LiberalDeathYes
KingstonOctober 20, 1919William Folger Nickle    ConservativeHenry Lumley Drayton    UnionistResignationYes
Victoria—CarletonOctober 17, 1919Frank Carvell    UnionistThomas Wakem Caldwell    United FarmersAppointed Chairman of the Board of Railway CommissionersNo
LanarkMay 2, 1918Adelbert Edward Hanna    UnionistJohn Alexander Stewart    UnionistDeathYes


Notes

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