5th Parliament of Ontario explained

The 5th Parliament of Ontario was in session from February 27, 1883, until November 15, 1886, just prior to the 1886 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Oliver Mowat.

Charles Clarke served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Riding	Member	Party
Addington	George Denison	Conservative
Algoma^[2]	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal
Algoma East	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal
Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal
Brant	James Young	Liberal
Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal
Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative
Bruce North	John Gillies	Independent-Liberal
Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal
Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative
Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative
Cornwall	Alexander Peter Ross	Conservative
Dufferin	Robert McGhee	Conservative
Dundas	Andrew Broder	Conservative
Durham East	Charles Herbert Brereton	Conservative
Durham West	James Wellington McLaughlin	Liberal
Elgin East	Charles Oaks Ermatinger	Conservative
Elgin West	John Cascaden	Liberal
Essex North	Solomon White	Conservative
Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal
Frontenac	Henry Wilmot	Conservative
Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal
Grenville South	Frederick John French	Conservative
Grey East	Abram William Lauder^[3]	Conservative
	Neil McColman (1884)	Conservative
Grey North	David Creighton	Conservative
Grey South	John Blythe	Conservative
Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal
Halton	William Kerns	Conservative
Hamilton	John Morison Gibson	Liberal
Hastings East	William Parker Hudson	Conservative
Hastings North	Alpheus Field Wood	Conservative
Hastings West	Ephraim George Sills	Liberal
Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal
Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal
Huron West	Alexander McLagan Ross	Liberal
Kent East	Daniel McCraney^[4]	Liberal
	Robert Ferguson (1885)	Liberal
Kent West	James Clancy	Conservative
Kingston	James Henry Metcalfe	Conservative
Lambton East	Peter Graham	Liberal
Lambton West	Timothy Blair Pardee	Liberal
Lanark North	William Clyde Caldwell	Liberal
Lanark South	William Lees	Independent
Leeds North and Grenville North	Henry Merrick	Conservative
Leeds South	Robert Henry Preston	Conservative
Lennox	Alexander Hall Roe	Liberal
	George Douglas Hawley (1886)	Liberal
Lincoln	Sylvester Neelon	Liberal
London	William Ralph Meredith	Conservative
Middlesex East	Donald MacKenzie	Liberal
Middlesex North	John Waters	Liberal
Middlesex West	Alexander Johnston^[5]	Conservative
	George William Ross (1883)	Liberal
Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal
Muskoka and Parry Sound	Frederick G. Fauquier	Conservative
	Jacob William Dill (1884)	Liberal
Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman	Liberal
Norfolk South	William Morgan	Conservative
Northumberland East	James Marshall Ferris	Liberal
Northumberland West	Robert Mulholland	Conservative
Ontario North	Isaac James Gould	Liberal
Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal
Ottawa	Patrick Baskerville	Conservative
Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal
Oxford South	Adam Crooks^[6]	Liberal
	George Atwell Cooke (1884)	Liberal
Peel	Kenneth Chisholm	Liberal
Perth North	John George Hess	Conservative
Perth South	Thomas Ballantyne	Liberal
Peterborough East	Thomas Blezard	Liberal
Peterborough West	John Carnegie	Conservative
Prescott	Albert Peter Hagar	Liberal
Prince Edward	James Hart	Independent-Liberal
Renfrew North	Thomas Murray	Liberal
Renfrew South	John Francis Dowling	Liberal
Russell	Honoré Robillard	Liberal-Conservative
Simcoe East	Charles Alfred Drury	Liberal
Simcoe South	George Prevost McKay	Conservative
Simcoe West	Orson James Phelps	Liberal
Stormont	Joseph Kerr	Conservative
Toronto East	Alexander Morris	Conservative
Toronto West	Henry Edward Clarke	Conservative
Victoria North	John Fell	Conservative
Victoria South	Duncan John McIntyre	Liberal
Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal
Waterloo South	Isaac Master	Liberal
Welland	James E. Morin	Liberal
Wellington Centre	Charles Clarke	Liberal
Wellington South	James Laidlaw	Liberal
Wellington West	Robert McKim	Liberal
Wentworth North	James McMahon	Liberal
Wentworth South	Nicholas Awrey	Liberal
York East	George Badgerow	Liberal
York North	Joseph Henry Widdifield	Liberal
York West	John Gray	Conservative

Notes

1. Web site: Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2014-08-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140801101335/http://speaker.ontla.on.ca/en/at-the-assembly/speakers/ . 2014-08-01 . dead .
2. Algoma split into Algoma East and West on February 1, 1885
3. died in 1884
4. died in 1885
5. unseated after an appeal
6. declared "incurably insane" in 1883

References

• A History of Ontario : its resources and development., Alexander Fraser
• Members in Parliament 5