6th Parliament of Ontario explained

The 6th Parliament of Ontario was in session from December 29, 1886, until April 26, 1890, just prior to the 1890 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Oliver Mowat.

Jacob Baxter served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Riding	Member	Party
Addington	John Stewart Miller	Conservative
Algoma East	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal
Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal
Brant	William Bruce Wood	Liberal
Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal
Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative
Bruce Centre	Walter MacMorris Dack	Liberal
Bruce North	John Walter Scott Biggar	Conservative
Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal
Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative
Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative
Cornwall and Stormont	William Mack	Liberal
Dufferin	Falkner Cornwall Stewart	Conservative
Dundas	Theodore F. Chamberlain^[2]	Liberal
	James Pliny Whitney (1888)	Conservative
Durham East	Thomas Dixon Craig	Conservative
Durham West	James Wellington McLaughlin	Liberal
Elgin East	Thomas McIntyre Nairn^[3]	Liberal
	James Charles Dance (1888)	Liberal
Elgin West	Andrew B. Ingram	Conservative
Essex North	Gaspard Pacaud	Liberal
Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal
Frontenac	Henry Wilmot	Conservative
	Hugh Smith (1888)	Conservative
Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal
Grenville	Frederick John French	Conservative
Grey Centre	Joseph Rorke	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	Gilbert Wellington Ostrom	Conservative
Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal
Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal
Huron West	Alexander McLagan Ross	Liberal
Kent East	Robert Ferguson	Liberal
Kent West	James Clancy	Conservative
Kingston	James Henry Metcalfe	Conservative
Lambton East	Peter Graham	Liberal
Lambton West	Timothy Blair Pardee^[4]	Liberal
	Charles MacKenzie (1889)	Liberal
Lanark North	Daniel Hilliard	Liberal
	William Clyde Caldwell (1888)	Liberal
Lanark South	William Lees	Conservative
Leeds	Robert Henry Preston	Conservative
Lennox	Walter William Meacham	Conservative
Lincoln	William Garson	Liberal
London	William Ralph Meredith	Conservative
Middlesex East	Richard Tooley	Conservative
Middlesex North	John Waters	Liberal
Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal
Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal
Muskoka	George Frederick Marter	Conservative
Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman	Liberal
Norfolk South	William Morgan	Conservative
Northumberland East	William Arnson Willoughby	Conservative
	Richard Clark (1888)	Liberal
	William Arnson Willoughby (1888)	Conservative
Northumberland West	Corelli Collard Field	Liberal
Ontario North	Isaac James Gould	Liberal
Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal
Ottawa	Erskine Henry Bronson	Liberal
Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal
Oxford South	Angus McKay	Liberal
Parry Sound	Samuel Armstrong	Independent
Peel	Kenneth Chisholm	Liberal
Perth North	John George Hess	Conservative
Perth South	Thomas Ballantyne	Liberal
Peterborough East	Thomas Blezard	Liberal
Peterborough West	James Robert Stratton	Liberal
Prescott	Francis Eugene Alfred Evanturel	Liberal
Prince Edward	John Allison Sprague	Liberal
Renfrew North	Thomas Murray	Liberal
Renfrew South	John Alfred McAndrew	Liberal
Russell	Alexander Robillard	Liberal
Simcoe Centre	Orson James Phelps	Liberal
Simcoe East	Charles Alfred Drury	Liberal
Simcoe West	Thomas Wylie	Conservative
Toronto^[5]	Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative
Toronto	Henry Edward Clarke	Conservative
Toronto	John Leys	Liberal
Victoria East	John Fell	Conservative
Victoria West	John Saunders Cruess	Conservative
Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal
Waterloo South	Isaac Master	Liberal
Welland	James E. Morin	Liberal
Wellington East	Charles Clarke	Liberal
Wellington South	Donald Guthrie	Liberal
Wellington West	Absalom Shade Allan	Liberal
Wentworth North	James McMahon	Liberal
Wentworth South	Nicholas Awrey	Liberal
York East	George Byron Smith	Liberal
York North	Joseph Henry Widdifield^[6]	Liberal
	Elihu James Davis (1888)	Liberal
York West	John Taylor Gilmour	Liberal

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. unseated after an appeal
3. died in 1888
4. died in 1889
5. Toronto had 3 seats
6. resigned after being named sheriff

References

• A History of Ontario : its resources and development., Alexander Fraser
• Members in Parliament 6