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]

Western Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Brant	William Bruce Wood	Liberal
Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry until January 18, 1889; Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry after January 18, 1889^[2]
Bruce Centre	Walter MacMorris Dack	Liberal
Bruce North	John Walter Scott Biggar	Conservative
Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal
Elgin East	Thomas McIntyre Nairn	Liberal	died June 1, 1888^[3]
	James Charles Dance (1888)	Liberal	elected October 26, 1888^[4]
Elgin West	Andrew B. Ingram	Conservative
Essex North	Gaspard Pacaud	Liberal
Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal
Grey Centre	Joseph Rorke	Conservative
Grey North	David Creighton	Conservative
Grey South	John Blythe	Conservative
Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal	Speaker
Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal
Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal
Huron West	Alexander McLagan Ross	Liberal	Treasurer in Mowat ministry; Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry until May 1, 1888^[5]
Kent East	Robert Ferguson	Liberal
Kent West	James Clancy	Conservative
Lambton East	Peter Graham	Liberal
Lambton West	Timothy Blair Pardee	Liberal	Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry until January 18, 1889^[6] ; died January 18, 1888
	Charles MacKenzie (1889)	Liberal	elected October 19, 1889^[7]
London	William Ralph Meredith	Conservative	Leader of the Opposition
Middlesex East	Richard Tooley	Conservative
Middlesex North	John Waters	Liberal
Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal	Minister of Education in Mowat ministry^[8]
Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman	Liberal
Norfolk South	William Morgan	Conservative
Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal	Premier and Attorney General in Mowat ministry^[9]
Oxford South	Angus McKay	Liberal
Perth North	John George Hess	Conservative
Perth South	Thomas Ballantyne	Liberal
Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal
Waterloo South	Isaac Master	Liberal
Wellington East	Charles Clarke	Liberal
Wellington South	Donald Guthrie	Liberal
Wellington West	Absalom Shade Allan	Liberal

Central and Northern Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Algoma East	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal
Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal
Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative
Dufferin	Falkner Cornwall Stewart	Conservative
Durham East	Thomas Dixon Craig	Conservative
Durham West	James Wellington McLaughlin	Liberal
Halton	William Kerns	Conservative
Hamilton	John Morison Gibson	Liberal	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry after January 18, 1889^[10]
Lincoln	William Garson	Liberal
Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal
Muskoka	George Frederick Marter	Conservative
Northumberland East	William Arnson Willoughby	Conservative	unseated February 1, 1888;^[11]
	Richard Clarke (1888)	Liberal	seated February 1, 1888; died August 7, 1888^[12]
	William Arnson Willoughby (1888)	Conservative	elected October 11, 1888^[13]
Northumberland West	Corelli Collard Field	Liberal
Ontario North	Isaac James Gould	Liberal
Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal
Parry Sound	Samuel Armstrong	Independent
Peel	Kenneth Chisholm	Liberal
Peterborough East	Thomas Blezard	Liberal
Peterborough West	James Robert Stratton	Liberal
Simcoe Centre	Orson James Phelps	Liberal
Simcoe East	Charles Alfred Drury	Liberal	Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry after May 1, 1888^[14]
Simcoe West	Thomas Wylie	Conservative
Toronto^[15]	Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative
Toronto	Henry Edward Clarke	Conservative
Toronto	John Leys	Liberal
Victoria East	John Fell	Conservative
Victoria West	John Saunders Cruess	Conservative
Welland	James E. Morin	Liberal
Wentworth North	James McMahon	Liberal
Wentworth South	Nicholas Awrey	Liberal
York East	George Byron Smith	Liberal
York North	Joseph Henry Widdifield	Liberal	resigned March 5, 1888 after being appointed sheriff
	Elihu James Davis (1888)	Liberal	elected May 23, 1888^[16]
York West	John Taylor Gilmour	Liberal

Eastern Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Addington	John Stewart Miller	Conservative
Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative	Commissioner of Public Works in Mowat ministry^[17]
Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative
Cornwall and Stormont	William Mack	Liberal
Dundas	Theodore F. Chamberlain	Liberal	unseated April 23, 1887 after an appeal^[18]
	James Pliny Whitney (1888)	Conservative	elected January 31, 1888^[19]
Frontenac	Henry Wilmot	Conservative	died July 1, 1888^[20]
	Hugh Smith (1888)	Conservative	elected October 11, 1888^[21]
Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal
Grenville	Frederick John French	Conservative
Hastings East	William Parker Hudson	Conservative
Hastings North	Alpheus Field Wood	Conservative
Hastings West	Gilbert Wellington Ostrom	Conservative
Kingston	James Henry Metcalfe	Conservative
Lanark North	Daniel Hilliard	Liberal	died June 1, 1888^[22]
	William Clyde Caldwell (1888)	Liberal	elected August 23, 1888^[23]
Lanark South	William Lees	Conservative
Leeds	Robert Henry Preston	Conservative
Lennox	Walter William Meacham	Conservative
Ottawa	Erskine Henry Bronson	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

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: Arthur Sturgis Hardy Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
3. Web site: Thomas McIntyre Nairn Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
4. Web site: James Charles Dance Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
5. Web site: Alexander McLagan Ross Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
6. Web site: Timothy Blair Pardee Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
7. Web site: Charles Mackenzie Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
8. Web site: George William Ross Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
9. Web site: Oliver Mowat Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
10. Web site: John Morison Gibson Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
11. Web site: William Arnson Willoughby Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
12. Web site: Richard Clarke Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
13. Web site: William Arnson Willoughby Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
14. Web site: Charles Alfred Drury Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
15. Toronto district had 3 MPPs, elected through Limited Voting in a single contest.
16. Web site: Elihu James Davis Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
17. Web site: Christopher Finlay Fraser Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
18. Web site: Theodore F. Chamberlain Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
19. Web site: James Pliny Whitney Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
20. Web site: Henry Wilmot Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
21. Web site: Hugh Smith Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
22. Web site: Daniel Hilliard Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-16 . www.ola.org . en.
23. Web site: William Clyde Caldwell 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 6