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	Comments
Brant	James Young	Liberal	Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry from June 2 to November 2, 1883^[2]
Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry^[3]
Bruce North	John Gillies	Independent-Liberal
Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal
Elgin East	Charles Oaks Ermatinger	Conservative
Elgin West	John Cascaden	Liberal
Essex North	Solomon White	Conservative
Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal
Grey East	Abram William Lauder	Conservative	died February 20, 1884^[4] (his first name may be Abraham)
	Neil McColman (1884)	Conservative	elected March 18, 1884^[5]
Grey North	David Creighton	Conservative
Grey South	John Blythe	Conservative
Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal
Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal
Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal
Huron West	Alexander McLagan Ross	Liberal	Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry after November 2, 1883^[6]
Kent East	Daniel McCraney	Liberal	died February 28, 1885^[7]
	Robert Ferguson (1885)	Liberal	elected June 20, 1885^[8]
Kent West	James Clancy	Conservative
Lambton East	Peter Graham	Liberal
Lambton West	Timothy Blair Pardee	Liberal	Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry^[9]
London	William Ralph Meredith	Conservative	Leader of the Opposition
Middlesex East	Donald MacKenzie	Liberal
Middlesex North	John Waters	Liberal
Middlesex West	Alexander Johnston	Conservative	unseated November 15, 1883(?) after an appeal^[10]
	George William Ross (1883)	Liberal	elected December 14, 1883 Minister of Education in Mowat ministry]] after November 23, 1883^[11]
Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman	Liberal
Norfolk South	William Morgan	Conservative
Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal	Premier and Attorney General in Mowat ministry^[12]
Oxford South	Adam Crooks	Liberal	Minister of Education in Mowat ministry until November 23, 1883^[13] resigned from legislative assembly February 14, 1884
	George Atwell Cooke (1884)	Liberal	elected March 5, 1884^[14]
Perth North	John George Hess	Conservative
Perth South	Thomas Ballantyne	Liberal
Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal
Waterloo South	Isaac Master	Liberal
Wellington Centre	Charles Clarke	Liberal	Speaker
Wellington South	James Laidlaw	Liberal
Wellington West	Robert McKim	Liberal

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Algoma^[15]	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal
Algoma East	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal
Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal	elected June 26, 1885^[16]
Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative
Dufferin	Robert McGhee	Conservative
Durham East	Charles Herbert Brereton	Conservative
Durham West	James Wellington McLaughlin	Liberal
Halton	William Kerns	Conservative
Hamilton	John Morison Gibson	Liberal
Lincoln	Sylvester Neelon	Liberal
Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal
Muskoka and Parry Sound	Frederick Fauquier	Conservative	unseated November 15, 1883(?) after an appeal^[17]
	Jacob William Dill (1884)	Liberal	elected July 23, 1884^[18]
Northumberland East	James Marshall Ferris	Liberal
Northumberland West	Robert Mulholland	Conservative
Ontario North	Isaac James Gould	Liberal
Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal
Peel	Kenneth Chisholm	Liberal
Peterborough East	Thomas Blezard	Liberal
Peterborough West	John Carnegie	Conservative
Simcoe East	Charles Alfred Drury	Liberal
Simcoe South	George Prevost McKay	Conservative
Simcoe West	Orson James Phelps	Liberal
Toronto East	Alexander Morris	Conservative
Toronto West	Henry Edward Clarke	Conservative
Victoria North	John Fell	Conservative
Victoria South	Duncan John McIntyre	Liberal
Welland	James E. Morin	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

Eastern Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Addington	George Denison	Conservative
Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative	Commissioner of Public Works in Mowat ministry^[19]
Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative
Cornwall	Alexander Peter Ross	Conservative
Dundas	Andrew Broder	Conservative
Frontenac	Henry Wilmot	Conservative
Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal
Grenville South	Frederick John French	Conservative
Hastings East	William Parker Hudson	Conservative
Hastings North	Alpheus Field Wood	Conservative
Hastings West	Ephraim George Sills	Liberal
Kingston	James Henry Metcalfe	Conservative
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	died July 12, 1884^[20]
	George Douglas Hawley (1886)	Liberal	elected August 25, 1884^[21]
Ottawa	Patrick Baskerville	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
Stormont	Joseph Kerr	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. Web site: James Young Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
3. Web site: Arthur Sturgis Hardy Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
4. Web site: Abraham William Lauder Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
5. Web site: Neil McColman Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
6. Web site: Alexander McLagan Ross Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
7. Web site: Daniel McCraney Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
8. Web site: Robert Ferguson Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
9. Web site: Timothy Blair Pardee Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
10. Web site: Alexander Johnston Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
11. Web site: George William Ross Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
12. Web site: Oliver Mowat Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
13. Web site: Adam Crooks Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
14. Web site: George Atwell Cooke Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
15. Algoma split into Algoma East and West on February 1, 1885
16. Web site: James Conmee Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
17. Web site: Frederick G. Fauquier Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
18. Web site: Jacob William Dill Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
19. Web site: Christopher Finlay Fraser Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
20. Web site: Alexander Hall Roe Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
21. Web site: George Douglas Hawley Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.

References

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