15th Canadian Parliament explained

Jurisdiction:	CA
#:	15th
Type:	Minority
Houseimage:	Chambre des Communes 1925.png
Status:	inactive
Term-Begin:	1926-01-07
Term-End:	1926-07-02
Pm:	William Lyon Mackenzie King
Ministry:	12th Canadian Ministry
Pm-Begin:	1921-12-29
Pm-End:	1926-06-28
Pm2:	Arthur Meighen
Ministry2:	13th Canadian Ministry
Pm-Begin2:	1926-06-29
Pm-End2:	1926-09-25
Lo:	Arthur Meighen
Lo-Begin:	1921-12-29
Lo-End:	1926-06-28
Lo2:	William Lyon Mackenzie King
Lo-Begin2:	1926-06-29
Lo-End2:	1926-09-25
Party:	Liberal Party (until June 1926)
Partynew:	Conservative Party (after June 1926)
Party2:	Conservative Party (until June 1926)
Party2new:	Liberal Party (after June 1926)
Party3:	Progressive Party
Party4:	Labour
Party5:	United Farmers of Alberta
Sc:	Rodolphe Lemieux
Scterm:	8 March 1922 – 2 June 1930
Ss:	Hewitt Bostock
Ssterm:	7 February 1922 – 12 May 1930
Gsl:	Raoul Dandurand
Gslterm:	29 December 1921 – 28 June 1926
Gsl2:	William Benjamin Ross
Gslterm2:	28 June 1926 – 24 September 1926
Osl:	William Benjamin Ross
Oslterm:	1 January 1926 – 28 June 1926
Osl2:	Raoul Dandurand
Oslterm2:	29 June 1926 – 31 December 1926
Monarchterm:	6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
Viceroy:	Viscount Byng of Vimy
Viceroyterm:	11 August 1921 – 2 October 1926
Members:	245
Senators:	96
Lastparl:	14th
Nextparl:	16th

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.

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:

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fifteenth 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

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Acadia			Robert Gardiner	Progressive	1921
Athabaska			Charles Wilson Cross	Liberal	1925
Battle River			Henry Elvins Spencer	Progressive	1921
Bow River			Edward Joseph Garland	Progressive	1921
Calgary East			Fred Davis	Conservative	1925
Calgary West			Richard Bedford Bennett	Conservative	1911, 1925
Camrose			William Thomas Lucas	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
Edmonton East			Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury	Conservative	1925
Edmonton West			Charles Stewart	Liberal	1925
Lethbridge			Lincoln Henry Jelliff	Progressive	1921
Macleod			George Gibson Coote	Progressive	1921
Medicine Hat			Frederick William Gershaw	Liberal	1925
Peace River			Donald MacBeth Kennedy	Progressive	1921
Red Deer			Alfred Speakman	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
Vegreville			Arthur Moren Boutillier	Progressive	1925
Wetaskiwin			Stanley Gilbert Tobin	Liberal	1925

British Columbia

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Cariboo			John Anderson Fraser	Conservative	1925
Comox—Alberni			Alan Webster Neill	Independent	1921
Fraser Valley			Harry James Barber	Conservative	1925
Kootenay East			James Horace King	Liberal	1922
Kootenay West			William Kemble Esling	Conservative	1925
Nanaimo			Charles Herbert Dickie	Conservative	1921
New Westminster			William Garland McQuarrie	Conservative	1917
Skeena			Alfred Stork	Liberal	1921
Vancouver—Burrard			John Arthur Clark	Conservative	1921
Vancouver Centre			Henry Herbert Stevens	Conservative	1911
Vancouver North			Dugald Donaghy	Liberal	1925
Vancouver South			Leon Johnson Ladner	Conservative	1921
Victoria			Simon Fraser Tolmie	Conservative	1917
Yale			Grote Stirling	Conservative	1924

Manitoba

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Brandon			Robert Forke	Progressive	1921
Dauphin			William John Ward	Progressive	1921
Lisgar			John Livingstone Brown	Progressive	1921
Macdonald			William James Lovie	Progressive	1921
Marquette			Henry Alfred Mullins	Conservative	1925
Neepawa			Thomas Gerow Murphy	Conservative	1925
Nelson			Thomas William Bird	Progressive	1921
Portage la Prairie			*Arthur Meighen*	Conservative	1908, 1922, 1925
Provencher			Arthur-Lucien Beaubien	Progressive	1921
Selkirk			Hannes Marino Hannesson	Conservative	1925
Souris			James Steedsman	Progressive	1921
Springfield			Thomas Hay	Conservative	1917, 1925
St. Boniface			John Power Howden	Liberal	1925
Winnipeg North			Abraham Albert Heaps	Labour	1925
Winnipeg North Centre			James Shaver Woodsworth	Labour	1921
Winnipeg South			Robert Rogers	Conservative	1911, 1925
Winnipeg South Centre			William Walker Kennedy	Conservative	1925

New Brunswick

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Charlotte			Robert Watson Grimmer	Conservative	1921
Gloucester			Jean George Robichaud	Liberal	1922
Kent			Alexandre-Joseph Doucet	Conservative	1923
Northumberland			Charles Elijah Fish	Conservative	1925
Restigouche—Madawaska			Arthur Culligan	Conservative	1925
Royal			George Burpee Jones	Conservative	1921
St. John—Albert			Thomas Bell	Conservative	1925
St. John—Albert			Murray Maclaren	Conservative	1921
Victoria—Carleton			James Kidd Flemming	Conservative	1925
Westmorland			Otto Baird Price	Conservative	1925
York—Sunbury			Richard Hanson	Conservative	1921

Nova Scotia

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Antigonish—Guysborough			Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal	1904, 1921
Cape Breton North—Victoria			Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone	Conservative	1925
Cape Breton South			Finlay MacDonald	Conservative	1925
Colchester			George Taylor Macnutt	Conservative	1925
Cumberland			Robert Knowlton Smith	Conservative	1925
Digby—Annapolis			Harry Bernard Short	Conservative	1925
Halifax			William Anderson Black	Conservative	1923
Halifax			Felix Patrick Quinn	Conservative	1925
Hants—Kings			Arthur de Witt Foster	Conservative	1911, 1925
Inverness			Isaac Duncan MacDougall	Conservative	1925
Pictou			Thomas Cantley	Conservative	1925
Queens—Lunenburg			William Duff	Liberal	1917
Richmond—West Cape Breton			John Alexander MacDonald	Conservative	1925
Shelburne—Yarmouth			Paul Lacombe Hatfield	Liberal	1921

Ontario

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Algoma East			George Brecken Nicholson	Conservative	1925
Algoma West			Thomas Edward Simpson	Conservative	1917
Brantford City			Robert Edwy Ryerson	Conservative	1925
Brant			Franklin Smoke	Conservative	1925
Bruce North			James Malcolm	Liberal	1921
Bruce South			Walter Allan Hall	Liberal	1925
Carleton			William Foster Garland	Conservative	1912, 1921
Dufferin—Simcoe			William Earl Rowe	Conservative	1925
Durham			Fred Wellington Bowen	Conservative	1921
Elgin West			Hugh Cummings McKillop	Conservative	1921
Essex East			Raymond Ducharme Morand	Conservative	1925
Essex South			Eccles James Gott	Conservative	1925
Essex West			Sidney Cecil Robinson	Conservative	1925
Fort William			Robert James Manion	Conservative	1917
Frontenac—Addington			John Wesley Edwards	Conservative	1908, 1925
Glengarry			Archibald John Macdonald	Liberal	1925
Grenville—Dundas			Arza Clair Casselman	Conservative	1921, 1925
Grey North			Matthew Robert Duncan	Conservative	1921
Grey Southeast			Agnes Campbell Macphail	Progressive	1921
Haldimand			Mark Cecil Senn	Conservative	1921
Halton			Robert King Anderson	Conservative	1917
Hamilton East			Sydney Chilton Mewburn	Conservative	1917
Hamilton West			Charles William Bell	Conservative	1925
Hastings—Peterborough			Alexander Thomas Embury	Conservative	1925
Hastings South			William Ernest Tummon	Conservative	1925
Huron North			John Warwick King	Progressive	1921
Huron South			Thomas McMillan	Liberal	1925
Kenora—Rainy River			Peter Heenan	Liberal	1925
Kent			Alexander Dew Chaplin	Conservative	1925
Kingston City			Arthur Edward Ross	Conservative	1921
Lambton East			Joseph Elijah Armstrong	Conservative	1904, 1925
Lambton West			William Thomas Goodison	Liberal	1925
Lanark			Richard Franklin Preston	Conservative	1922
Leeds			Hugh Alexander Stewart	Conservative	1921
Lincoln			James Dew Chaplin	Conservative	1917
London			John Franklin White	Conservative	1921
Middlesex East			Adam King Hodgins	Conservative	1925
Middlesex West			John Campbell Elliott (until 8 March 1926 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1925
Middlesex West			John Campbell Elliott (by-election of 1926-03-29)	Liberal	1925
Muskoka—Ontario			Peter McGibbon	Conservative	1925
Nipissing			Edmond Lapierre	Liberal	1921
Norfolk—Elgin			John Lawrence Stansell	Conservative	1921
Northumberland			Milton Edgar Maybee	Conservative	1921
Ontario			Thomas Erlin Kaiser	Conservative	1925
Ottawa (City of)			John Léo Chabot	Conservative	1911, 1925
Ottawa (City of)			Stewart McClenaghan	Conservative	1925
Oxford North			Donald Matheson Sutherland	Conservative	1925
Oxford South			Donald Sutherland	Conservative	1911
Parkdale			David Spence	Conservative	1921
Parry Sound			James Arthurs	Conservative	1908
Peel			Samuel Charters	Conservative	1917
Perth North			David McKenzie Wright	Conservative	1925
Perth South			Frederick George Sanderson	Liberal	1925
Peterborough West			Edward Armour Peck	Conservative	1925
Port Arthur—Thunder Bay			William Fitzgerald Langworthy	Conservative	1925
Prescott			Gustave Evanturel	Liberal	1925
Prince Edward—Lennox			John Hubbs	Conservative	1921
Renfrew North			Ira Delbert Cotnam	Conservative	1925
Renfrew South			Martin James Maloney	Conservative	1925
Russell			Alfred Goulet	Liberal	1925
Simcoe East			Alfred Burke Thompson	Conservative	1925
Simcoe North			William Alves Boys	Conservative	1921
Stormont			Charles James Hamilton	Conservative	1925
Timiskaming North			John Raymond O'Neill	Conservative	1925
Timiskaming South			Ernest Frederick Armstrong	Conservative	1925
Toronto East			Edmond Baird Ryckman	Conservative	1921
Toronto East Centre			Edmund James Bristol	Conservative	1905
Toronto—High Park			Alexander James Anderson	Conservative	1925
Toronto Northeast			Richard Langton Baker	Conservative	1925
Toronto Northwest			Thomas Langton Church	Conservative	1921
Toronto—Scarborough			Joseph Henry Harris	Conservative	1921
Toronto South			George Reginald Geary	Conservative	1925
Toronto West Centre			Horatio Clarence Hocken	Conservative	1917
Victoria			Thomas Hubert Stinson	Conservative	1925
Waterloo North			William Daum Euler	Liberal	1917
Waterloo South			Alexander McKay Edwards	Conservative	1925
Welland			George Hamilton Pettit	Conservative	1925
Wellington North			Duncan Sinclair	Conservative	1925
Wellington South			Hugh Guthrie	Conservative	1900
Wentworth			Gordon Crooks Wilson	Conservative	1911
York North			Thomas Herbert Lennox	Conservative	1925
York South			William Findlay Maclean	Independent Conservative	1892
York West			Henry Lumley Drayton	Conservative	1919

Prince Edward Island

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	King's			John Alexander Macdonald	Conservative	1925
Prince			Alfred Edgar MacLean	Liberal	1921
Queen's			Robert Harold Jenkins	Liberal	1925
Queen's			John Albert Messervy	Conservative	1925

Quebec

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Argenteuil			George Halsey Perley	Conservative	1904, 1925
Bagot			Joseph Edmond Marcile (died in office)	Liberal	1898
Bagot			Georges Dorèze Morin (by-election of 1925-12-07)	Liberal	1925
Beauce			Édouard Lacroix	Liberal	1925
Beauharnois			Maxime Raymond	Liberal	1925
Bellechasse			Charles Alphonse Fournier	Liberal	1917
Berthier—Maskinongé			Joseph-Charles-Théodore Gervais	Liberal	1917
Bonaventure			Charles Marcil	Liberal	1900
Brome—Missisquoi			William Frederic Kay	Liberal	1911
Cartier			Samuel William Jacobs	Liberal	1917
Chambly—Verchères			Aimé Langlois	Liberal	1925
Champlain			Arthur Lesieur Desaulniers	Liberal	1917
Charlevoix—Saguenay			Pierre-François Casgrain	Liberal	1917
Châteauguay—Huntingdon			James Alexander Robb	Liberal	1908
Chicoutimi			Julien-Édouard-Alfred Dubuc	Independent Liberal	1917
Compton			Joseph Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just	Liberal	1925
Dorchester			Lucien Cannon	Liberal	1917
Drummond—Arthabaska			Wilfrid Girouard	Liberal	1925
Gaspé				Liberal	1896
Hochelaga			Édouard-Charles St-Père	Liberal	1921
Hull			Joseph-Éloi Fontaine	Liberal	1917
Jacques Cartier			Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume	Liberal	1922
Joliette			Jean-Joseph Denis	Liberal	1917
Kamouraska			Joseph Georges Bouchard	Liberal	1922
Labelle			Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa	Independent	1896, 1925
Lake St. John			Armand Sylvestre	Liberal	1925
Laprairie—Napierville			Roch Lanctôt	Liberal	1904
L'Assomption—Montcalm			Paul-Arthur Séguin	Liberal	1908
Laurier—Outremont			Joseph-Alexandre Mercier	Liberal	1925
Laval—Two Mountains			Liguori Lacombe	Liberal	1925
Lévis			Joseph-Étienne Dussault	Liberal	1925
L'Islet			Joseph-Fernand Fafard	Liberal	1917
Lotbinière			Joseph-Achille Verville	Liberal	1925
Maisonneuve			Clément Robitaille	Liberal	1921
Matane			Georges-Léonidas Dionne	Liberal	1925
Mégantic			Eusèbe Roberge	Liberal	1922
Montmagny			Léo Kemner Laflamme	Liberal	1925
Mount Royal			Robert Smeaton White	Conservative	1888, 1925
Nicolet			Joseph-Félix Descoteaux	Liberal	1923
Pontiac			Frank S. Cahill	Liberal	1917
Portneuf			Michel-Siméon Delisle	Liberal	1900
Québec—Montmorency			Henri-Edgar Lavigueur	Liberal	1917
Quebec East			Ernest Lapointe	Liberal	1904
Quebec South			Charles Gavan Power	Liberal	1917
Quebec West			Georges Parent	Liberal	1904, 1917
Richelieu			Arthur Cardin	Liberal	1911
Richmond—Wolfe			Edmund William Tobin	Liberal	1900
Rimouski			Eugène Fiset	Liberal	1924
St. Ann			James John Edmund Guérin	Liberal	1925
St. Antoine			Leslie Gordon Bell	Conservative	1925
St. Denis			Joseph-Arthur Denis	Liberal	1921
St. Henri			Paul Mercier	Liberal	1921
St. Hyacinthe—Rouville			René Morin	Liberal	1921
St. James			Fernand Rinfret	Liberal	1920
St. Johns—Iberville			Aldéric-Joseph Benoit	Liberal	1922
St. Lawrence—St. George			Charles Cahan	Conservative	1925
St. Mary			Hermas Deslauriers	Liberal	1917
Shefford			Georges Henri Boivin	Liberal	1911
Sherbrooke			Charles Benjamin Howard	Liberal	1925
Stanstead			Willis Keith Baldwin	Liberal	1917
Témiscouata			Jean-François Pouliot	Liberal	1924
Terrebonne			Jules-Édouard Prévost	Liberal	1917
Three Rivers—St. Maurice			Arthur Bettez	Liberal	1925
Vaudreuil—Soulanges			Lawrence Alexander Wilson	Liberal	1925
Wright			Fizalam-William Perras	Liberal	1925
Yamaska			Aimé Boucher	Liberal	1921

Saskatchewan

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Assiniboia			Robert McKenzie	Liberal	1925
Humboldt			Albert Frederick Totzke	Liberal	1925
Kindersley			Archibald M. Carmichael	Progressive	1921
Last Mountain			William Russell Fansher	Progressive	1925
Long Lake			John Frederick Johnston	Progressive	1917
Long Lake			John Frederick Johnston	Liberal	1917
Mackenzie			Milton Neil Campbell	Progressive	1921
Maple Creek				Liberal	1925
Melfort			Malcolm McLean	Liberal	1925
Melville			William Richard Motherwell	Liberal	1921
Moose Jaw			John Gordon Ross	Liberal	1925
North Battleford			Cameron Ross McIntosh	Liberal	1925
Prince Albert			Charles McDonald (until 15 January 1926 resignation to allow seat for Mackenzie King)	Liberal	1925
Prince Albert			*William Lyon Mackenzie King* (by-election of 1926-02-15)	Liberal	1908, 1919, 1921, 1926
Qu'Appelle			John Millar	Progressive	1921
Regina			Francis Nicholson Darke (resigned 20 February 1926 to allow seat for Dunning)	Liberal	1925
Regina			Charles Avery Dunning (by-election of 1926-03-16)	Liberal	1926
Rosetown			John Evans	Progressive	1921
Saskatoon			Alexander MacGillivray Young	Liberal	1925
South Battleford			John Vallance	Liberal	1925
Swift Current			Charles Edward Bothwell	Liberal	1925
Weyburn			Edward James Young	Liberal	1925
Willow Bunch			Thomas F. Donnelly	Liberal	1925
Yorkton			George Washington McPhee	Liberal	1925

Yukon

Riding	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=24%	Yukon			George Black	Conservative	1921

By-elections

See main article: By-elections to the 15th Canadian Parliament.

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