21st Parliament of Canada | |||
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Majority parliament | |||
15 September 1949 – 14 May 1953 | |||
Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | Louis St. Laurent November 15, 1948 – June 21, 1957 | ||
Cabinet | 17th Canadian Ministry | ||
Leader of the Opposition | George A. Drew October 2, 1948 – August 1, 1956 | ||
Party caucuses | |||
Government | Liberal Party | ||
Opposition | Progressive Conservative Party | ||
Crossbench | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | ||
Social Credit Party | |||
Liberal-Labour | |||
Liberal-Progressive | |||
House of Commons | |||
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
Speaker of the Commons | William Ross Macdonald September 15, 1949 – June 11, 1953 | ||
Government House Leader | Alphonse Fournier May 1, 1948 – May 8, 1953 | ||
Members | 262 MP seats List of members | ||
Senate | |||
Speaker of the Senate | Élie Beauregard August 3, 1949 – October 13, 1953 | ||
Government Senate Leader | Wishart McLea Robertson August 24, 1945 – October 14, 1953 | ||
Opposition Senate Leader | John Thomas Haig September 12, 1945 – June 20, 1957 | ||
Senators | 102 senator seats List of senators | ||
Sovereign | |||
Monarch | George VI 6 December 1936 – 6 February 1952 | ||
Elizabeth II 6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022 | |||
Governor General | Harold Alexander 12 April 1946 – 28 January 1952 | ||
Vincent Massey 28 February 1952 – 15 September 1959 | |||
Sessions | |||
1st session 1949-09-15 – 1949-12-10 | |||
2nd session 1950-02-16 – 1950-06-30 | |||
3rd session 1950-08-29 – 1951-01-29 | |||
4th session 1951-01-30 – 1951-10-09 | |||
5th session 1951-10-09 – 1951-12-29 | |||
6th session 1952-02-28 – 1952-11-20 | |||
7th session 1952-11-20 – 1953-05-14 | |||
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The 21st Canadian Parliament was in session from September 15, 1949, until June 13, 1953. The membership was set by the 1949 federal election on June 27, 1949, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1953 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and the 17th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Progressive Conservative Party, led by George Drew.
The Speaker was William Ross Macdonald. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1947-1952 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
List of members
Following is a full list of members of the twenty-first Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district. Party leaders are italicized. Parliamentary assistants 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.
Alberta
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Acadia | Victor Quelch | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Athabaska | Joseph Miville Dechene | Liberal | 1940 | |
Battle River | Robert Fair | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Bow River | Charles Edward Johnston | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Calgary East | Douglas Harkness | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
Calgary West | Arthur LeRoy Smith (resigned 5 July 1951) | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
Carl Olof Nickle (by-election of 1951-12-10) | Progressive Conservative | 1951 | ||
Camrose | Hilliard Beyerstein | Social Credit | 1949 | |
Edmonton East | Albert Frederick Macdonald | Liberal | 1949 | |
Edmonton West | George Prudham ‡ | Liberal | 1949 | |
Jasper—Edson | John William Welbourn | Liberal | 1949 | |
Lethbridge | John Horne Blackmore | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Macleod | Ernest George Hansell | Social Credit | 1935 | |
Medicine Hat | William Duncan Wylie | Social Credit | 1945 | |
Peace River | Solon Earl Low | Social Credit | 1945 | |
Red Deer | Frederick Davis Shaw | Social Credit | 1940 | |
Vegreville | John Decore | Liberal | 1949 | |
Wetaskiwin | Ray Thomas | Social Credit | 1949 |
British Columbia
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Burnaby—Richmond | Tom Goode | Liberal | 1949 | |
Cariboo | George Matheson Murray | Liberal | 1949 | |
Coast—Capilano | James Sinclair ‡ | Liberal | 1940 | |
Comox—Alberni | John Lambert Gibson | Independent | 1945 | |
Fraser Valley | George Cruickshank | Liberal | 1940 | |
Kamloops | Davie Fulton | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
Kootenay East | Jim Byrne | Liberal | 1949 | |
Kootenay West | Herbert Wilfred Herridge | C.C.F. | 1945 | |
Nanaimo | George Pearkes | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
New Westminster | Thomas Reid (until 7 September 1949 Senate appointment) | Liberal | 1930 | |
William Mott (by-election of 1949-10-24) | Liberal | 1949 | ||
Skeena | Edward Applewhaite | Liberal | 1949 | |
Vancouver—Burrard | John Lorne Macdougall | Liberal | 1949 | |
Vancouver Centre | Ralph Campney ‡ | Liberal | 1949 | |
Vancouver East | Angus Macinnis | C.C.F. | 1930 | |
Vancouver Quadra | Howard Charles Green | Progressive Conservative | 1935 | |
Vancouver South | Arthur Laing | Liberal | 1949 | |
Victoria | Robert Mayhew | Liberal | 1937 | |
Yale | Owen Lewis Jones | C.C.F. | 1948 |
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Charlotte | Andrew Wesley Stuart | Liberal | 1945 | |
Gloucester | Clovis-Thomas Richard (until 5 March 1952 emoulment appointment) | Liberal | 1945 | |
Albany M. Robichaud (by-election of 1952-05-26) | Progressive Conservative | 1952 | ||
Kent | Aurel D. Léger | Liberal | 1940 | |
Northumberland | George Roy McWilliam | Liberal | 1949 | |
Restigouche—Madawaska | Benoît Michaud | Liberal | 1945 | |
Paul-Léon Dubé (by-election of 1949-10-24) | Independent Liberal | 1949 | ||
Royal | Alfred Johnson Brooks | Progressive Conservative | 1935 | |
St. John—Albert | Daniel Aloysius Riley | Liberal | 1949 | |
Victoria—Carleton | Heber Harold Hatfield | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
Gage Montgomery (by-election of 26 May 1952) | Progressive Conservative | 1952 | ||
Westmorland | Edmund William George | Liberal | 1949 | |
York—Sunbury | Milton Fowler Gregg | Liberal | 1947 |
Newfoundland
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Bonavista—Twillingate | Frederick Gordon Bradley | Liberal | 1949 | |
Burin—Burgeo | Chesley William Carter | Liberal | 1949 | |
Grand Falls—White Bay | Thomas Gordon William Ashbourne | Liberal | 1949 | |
Humber—St. George's | William Richard Kent | Liberal | 1949 | |
St. John's East | Gordon Higgins | Progressive Conservative | 1949 | |
St. John's West | William Joseph Browne | Progressive Conservative | 1949 | |
Trinity—Conception | Leonard Stick | Liberal | 1949 |
Northwest Territories
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Yukon—Mackenzie River | James Aubrey Simmons | Liberal | 1949 |
Nova Scotia
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Annapolis—Kings | Angus Alexander Elderkin (until election voided 6 March 1950) | Liberal | 1949 | |
George Nowlan (by-election of 1950-06-19) | Progressive Conservative | 1948, 1950 | ||
Antigonish—Guysborough | J. Ralph Kirk | Liberal | 1949 | |
Cape Breton North and Victoria | Matthew MacLean | Liberal | 1937 | |
Cape Breton South | Clarence Gillis | C.C.F. | 1940 | |
Colchester—Hants | Frank Thomas Stanfield | Progressive Conservative | 1945 | |
Cumberland | Percy Chapman Black | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
Digby—Yarmouth | Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk | Liberal | 1949 | |
Halifax* | John Horace Dickey (until 2 May 1950 Senate appointment) | Liberal | 1947 | |
Gordon Benjamin Isnor | Liberal | 1935 | ||
Samuel Rosborough Balcom (by-election of 1950-06-19, replaces Dickey) | Liberal | 1950 | ||
Inverness—Richmond | William F. Carroll | Liberal | 1911,[lower-alpha 2] 1921,[lower-alpha 3] 1949 | |
Lunenburg | Robert Winters | Liberal | 1945 | |
Pictou | Henry Byron McCulloch | Liberal | 1935 | |
Queens—Shelburne | Donald Smith | Liberal | 1949 |
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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King's | Thomas Joseph Kickham | Liberal | 1949 | |
Prince | John Watson Macnaught ‡ | Liberal | 1945 | |
Queen's* | James Lester Douglas (died 30 September 1950) | Liberal | 1940 | |
Winfield Chester Scott McLure | Progressive Conservative | 1930, 1945 | ||
Angus MacLean (by-election of 1951-06-25, replaces Douglas) | Progressive Conservative | 1951 |
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | |
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Assiniboia | Hazen Argue | C.C.F. | 1945 | |
Humboldt | Joseph Ingolph Hetland | Liberal | 1949 | |
Kindersley | Frederick Hugo Larson | Liberal | 1949 | |
Lake Centre | John Diefenbaker | Progressive Conservative | 1940 | |
Mackenzie | Gladstone Mansfield Ferrie | Liberal | 1949 | |
Maple Creek | Irvin William Studer | Liberal | 1949 | |
Meadow Lake | John Hornby Harrison | Liberal | 1949 | |
Melfort | Percy Ellis Wright | C.C.F. | 1940 | |
Melville | James Garfield Gardiner | Liberal | 1936 | |
Moose Jaw | Ross Thatcher | C.C.F. | 1945 | |
Moose Mountain | John James Smith | Liberal | 1949 | |
Prince Albert | Francis Heselton Helme | Liberal | 1949 | |
Qu'Appelle | Austin Edwin Dewar | Liberal | 1949 | |
Regina City | Emmett Andrew McCusker | Liberal | 1949 | |
Rosetown—Biggar | Major James Coldwell | C.C.F. | 1935 | |
Rosthern | William Albert Boucher | Liberal | 1948 | |
Saskatoon | Robert Ross (Roy) Knight | C.C.F. | 1945 | |
Swift Current | Harry B. Whiteside | Liberal | 1949 | |
The Battlefords | Arthur James Bater | Liberal | 1949 | |
Yorkton | Alan Carl Stewart | Liberal | 1949 |
By-elections
Notes
- ↑ elected as a Progressive/Liberal Progressive
- ↑ Cape Breton South
- ↑ Cape Breton South and Richmond
- ↑ Muskoka—Ontario
- ↑ Hamilton East (elected as a Labour)
- ↑ Massé defeated the official Liberal candidate.
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