7th Parliament of Ontario explained

The 7th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 5, 1890, until May 29, 1894, just prior to the 1894 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Oliver Mowat.

Thomas Ballantyne served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

There was a small third-party movement represented in the 7th Parliament: the McCarthyite movement included Liberals and Conservatives who supported the "Equal Rights Party," which was anti-Catholic and anti-French, and involved four members.

Western Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Brant	William Bruce Wood	Liberal
Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal	Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry^[2]
Bruce Centre	Walter MacMorris Dack	Liberal
Bruce North	John George	Conservative	unseated after an appeal
	David Porter (1891)	Liberal	elected March 3, 1891; died August 7, 1893^[3]
	Daniel McNaughton (1893)	Liberal	elected December 2, 1893^[4]
Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal
Elgin East	Henry Thomas Godwin	Conservative
Elgin West	Dugald McColl	Conservative
Essex North	Solomon White	Conservative
Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal
Grey Centre	Joseph Rorke	Conservative
Grey North	James Cleland	Liberal
Grey South	James Hill Hunter	Liberal	died February 2, 1891^[5]
	Gilbert McKechnie (1891)	Liberal	elected April 1, 1891^[6]
Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal
Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal
Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal
Huron West	James Thompson Garrow	Liberal
Kent East	Robert Ferguson	Liberal
Kent West	James Clancy	Conservative
Lambton East	Hugh McKenzie	Liberal	died October 3, 1893^[7]
	Peter Duncan McCallum (1893)	Independent Conservative	elected December 2, 1893^[8]
Lambton West	Charles MacKenzie	Liberal
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^[9]
Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman^[10]	Liberal	died November 22, 1890^[11]
	Edwin Clarendon Carpenter (1891)	Liberal	elected January 23, 1891^[12]
Norfolk South	William Andrew Charlton	Liberal
Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal	Premier and Attorney General in Mowat ministry^[13]
Oxford South	Angus McKay	Liberal
Perth North	Alfred Emanuel Ahrens	Liberal	unseated after an appeal^[14]
	Thomas Magwood (1891)	Conservative	elected February 6, 1891^[15]
Perth South	Thomas Ballantyne	Liberal	Speaker
Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal
Waterloo South	John Douglas Moore	Liberal
Wellington East	Charles Clarke	Liberal	resigned October 6, 1891 after appointment as clerk for the legislature^[16]
	James Kirkwood (1891)	Liberal	elected November 10, 1891^[17]
Wellington South	Donald Guthrie	Liberal
Wellington West	Absalom Shade Allan	Liberal

Central and Northern Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Algoma East	Alexander Franklin Campbell	Conservative
Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal
Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative
Dufferin	John Barr	Conservative Equal Rights
Durham East	George Campbell	Conservative Equal Rights
Durham West	William Thomas Lockhart	Liberal
Halton	William Kerns	Conservative
Hamilton	John Morison Gibson	Liberal	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry^[18]
Lincoln	James Hiscott	Conservative
Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal	Treasurer in Mowat ministry after October 25, 1890^[19]
Muskoka	George Frederick Marter	Conservative
Nipissing	John Loughrin	Liberal
Northumberland East	William Arnson Willoughby	Conservative
Northumberland West	Corelli Collard Field	Liberal
Ontario North	James Glendinning	Conservative
Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal	Minister of Agriculture in Mowat ministry after September 16, 1890^[20]
Parry Sound	James Sharpe	Liberal
Peel	Kenneth Chisholm	Liberal	resigned 1892 after being appointed registrar of Peel^[21]
	John Smith (1893)	Liberal	elected December 30, 1892^[22]
Peterborough East	Thomas Blezard	Liberal
Peterborough West	James Robert Stratton	Liberal
Simcoe Centre	Robert Paton	Liberal
Simcoe East	Andrew Miscampbell	Conservative
Simcoe West	Thomas Wylie	Conservative
Toronto^[23]	Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative
	Henry Edward Clarke	Conservative	died March 25, 1892^[24]
	Joseph Tait	Liberal
Toronto by-el	Nelson Gordon Bigelow(1892)	Liberal	elected April 29, 1892; died November 4, 1892^[25]
Toronto by-el	George Ryerson (1893)	Conservative	elected February 28, 1893^[26]
Victoria East	John Fell	Conservative
Victoria West	John McKay	Liberal-Equal Rights
Welland	William McCleary	Conservative
Wentworth North	James McMahon	Liberal
Wentworth South	Nicholas Awrey	Liberal
York East	George Byron Smith	Liberal
York North	Elihu James Davis	Liberal
York West	John Taylor Gilmour	Liberal

Eastern Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Addington	James Reid	Conservative
Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative	Commissioner of Public Works in Mowat ministry^[27]
Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative
Dundas	James Pliny Whitney	Conservative
Frontenac	Hugh Smith	Conservative
Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal
Grenville	Orlando Bush	Conservative
Hastings East	William Parker Hudson	Conservative
Hastings North	Alpheus Field Wood	Conservative
Hastings West	William Hodgins Biggar	Liberal
Kingston	James Henry Metcalfe	Conservative	resigned 1891 after being elected to a seat in federal parliament^[28]
	William Harty (1892)	Liberal	elected February 23, 1892^[29]
Lanark North	William Clyde Caldwell	Liberal-Equal Rights
Lanark South	Nathaniel McLenaghan	Conservative	resigned 1893 after appointment as deputy custom collector in Perth^[30]
	James Maitland Clarke (1894)	Liberal	elected February 16, 1894^[31]
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	Arunah Dunlop	Conservative	died January 1, 1892^[32]
	Henry Barr (1892)	Liberal	elected February 23, 1892^[33]
Renfrew South	John Francis Dowling	Liberal
Russell	Alexander Robillard	Liberal
Stormont	William Mack	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 . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
3. Web site: David Porter Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
4. Web site: Daniel McNaughton Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
5. Web site: James Hill Hunter Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
6. Web site: Gilbert McKechnie Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
7. Web site: Hugh McKenzie Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
8. Web site: Peter Duncan McCallum Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
9. Web site: George William Ross Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
10. died in 1890
11. Web site: John Bailey Freeman Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
12. Web site: Edwin Clarendon Carpenter Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
13. Web site: Oliver Mowat Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
14. Web site: Alfred Emanuel Ahrens Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
15. Web site: Thomas Magwood Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
16. Web site: Charles J.P. Clarke Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
17. Web site: James Kirkwood Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
18. Web site: John Morison Gibson Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
19. Web site: Richard Harcourt Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
20. Web site: John Dryden Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
21. Web site: Kenneth Chisholm Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
22. Web site: John Smith Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
23. Toronto had 3 seats
24. Web site: Henry Edward Clarke Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
25. Web site: Nelson Gordon Bigelow Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
26. Web site: George Sterling Ansel Ryerson Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
27. Web site: Christopher Finlay Fraser Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
28. Web site: James Henry Metcalfe Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
29. Web site: William Harty Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
30. Web site: Nathaniel McLenaghan Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
31. Web site: James Maitland Clarke Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
32. Web site: Arunah Dunlop Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.
33. Web site: 23 February 1892. Henry Barr Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2025-01-14 . www.ola.org . en.

External links

• A History of Ontario : its resources and development., Alexander Fraser
• Members in Parliament 7