8th Canadian Parliament explained

Jurisdiction:	CA
#:	8th
Type:	Majority
Houseimage:	Chambre des Communes 1896.png
Status:	inactive
Term-Begin:	August 19, 1896
Term-End:	July 18, 1900
Sc:	James David Edgar
Scterm:	August 19, 1896 – July 31, 1899
Sc2:	Thomas Bain
Scterm2:	August 1, 1899 – February 5, 1901
Pm:	Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Pm-Begin:	1896-07-11
Pm-End:	1911-10-06
Lo:	Charles Tupper
Loterm:	11 July 1896 – 5 February 1901
Ss:	Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier
Ssterm:	July 13, 1896 – January 28, 1901
Gsl:	Oliver Mowat
Gslterm:	August 19, 1896 – November 17, 1897
Gsl2:	David Mills
Gslterm2:	November 17, 1897 – February 7, 1902
Osl:	Mackenzie Bowell
Oslterm:	April 27, 1896 – March 1, 1906
Party:	Liberal Party
Party2:	Conservative Party & Liberal-Conservative
Unrecparty1:	Patrons of Industry
Sessionbegin:	August 19, 1896
Sessionend:	October 5, 1896
Sessionbegin2:	March 25, 1897
Sessionend2:	June 29, 1897
Sessionbegin3:	February 3, 1898
Sessionend3:	June 13, 1898
Sessionbegin4:	March 16, 1899
Sessionend4:	August 11, 1899
Sessionbegin5:	February 1, 1900
Sessionend5:	July 18, 1900
Monarchterm:	1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901
Viceroy:	The Earl of Aberdeen
Viceroyterm:	18 Sep. 1893 – 12 Nov. 1898
Viceroy2:	The Earl of Minto
Viceroyterm2:	12 Nov. 1898 – 10 Dec. 1904
Ministry:	8th Canadian Ministry
Ministrybegin:	11 July 1896
Ministryend:	5 October 1911
Lastparl:	7th
Nextparl:	9th

The 8th Canadian Parliament was in session from August 19, 1896, until October 9, 1900. The membership was set by the 1896 federal election on June 23, 1896. It was dissolved prior to the 1900 election.

It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the 8th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative/Liberal-Conservative, led by Charles Tupper.

The Speaker was first James David Edgar, and later Thomas Bain. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1892-1903 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were five sessions of the 8th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	August 19, 1896	October 5, 1896
2nd	March 25, 1897	June 29, 1897
3rd	February 3, 1898	June 13, 1898
4th	March 16, 1899	August 11, 1899
5th	February 1, 1900	July 18, 1900

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the eighth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.Party leaders are italicized.Cabinet ministers are in boldface.The Prime Minister is both.The Speaker is indicated by "".

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Burrard			George Ritchie Maxwell	Liberal	1896
New Westminster			Aulay MacAulay Morrison	Liberal	1896
Vancouver			William Wallace Burns McInnes	Liberal	1896
Victoria			Edward Gawler Prior	Conservative	1872, 1888
			Thomas Earle	Conservative	1889
Yale—Cariboo			Hewitt Bostock	Liberal	1896

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20% rowspan=2	Brandon			Dalton McCarthy (left seat to keep Simcoe North, Ontario, riding)	Independent	1876
		Clifford Sifton (by-election of 1896-11-27)	Liberal	1896
Lisgar			Robert Lorne Richardson	Liberal	1896
Macdonald			Nathaniel Boyd	Conservative	1892
			John Gunion Rutherford (by-election of 1897-04-27)	Liberal	1897
Marquette			William James Roche	Conservative	1896
Provencher			Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière	Conservative	1889
Selkirk			John Alexander MacDonell	Liberal	1896
Winnipeg			Hugh John Macdonald (until election voided 29 March 1897)	Conservative	1891
			Richard Willis Jameson (by-election of 1897-04-27)	Liberal	1897
			Arthur Puttee (by-election of 1900-01-25)	Labour	1900

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Albert			William James Lewis	Independent	1896
Carleton			Frederick Harding Hale	Liberal-Conservative	1887, 1896
Charlotte			Gilbert White Ganong	Liberal-Conservative	1896
City and County of St. John			Joseph John Tucker	Liberal	1896
City of St. John			John Valentine Ellis	Liberal	1887, 1896
Gloucester			Théotime Blanchard	Conservative	1894
Kent			George Valentine McInerney	Conservative	1892
King's			James Domville	Liberal	1872, 1896
Northumberland			James Robinson	Conservative	1896
Restigouche			John McAlister	Liberal-Conservative	1891
Sunbury—Queen's			George Gerald King (until 18 December 1896 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1878, 1891
			Andrew George Blair (by-election of 1896-08-25)	Liberal	1896
Victoria			John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Westmorland			Henry Absalom Powell	Liberal-Conservative	1895
York			George Eulas Foster	Conservative	1882

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Alberta (Provisional District)			Frank Oliver	Liberal	1896
Assiniboia East			James Moffat Douglas	Liberal	1896
Assiniboia West			Nicholas Flood Davin	Liberal-Conservative	1887
Saskatchewan (Provisional District)			Wilfrid Laurier (until 11 July 1896 appointment as Prime Minister)	Liberal	1874
			Thomas Osborne Davis (by-election of 1896-12-19)	Liberal	1896

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Annapolis			John Burpee Mills	Conservative	1887
Antigonish			Colin Francis McIsaac	Liberal	1895
Cape Breton			Hector Francis McDougall	Liberal-Conservative	1884
			Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867, 1896
Colchester			Wilbert David Dimock (until election voided)	Conservative	1896
			Firman McClure (by-election of 1897-04-20)	Liberal	1897
Cumberland			Hance James Logan	Liberal	1896
Digby			Albert James Smith Copp	Liberal	1896
Guysborough			Duncan Cameron Fraser	Liberal	1891
Halifax			Robert Laird Borden	Conservative	1896
			Benjamin Russell	Liberal	1896
Hants			Allen Haley	Liberal	1896
Inverness			Angus MacLennan	Liberal	1896
Kings			Frederick William Borden (until 11 July 1896 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1874, 1887
			Frederick William Borden (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Lunenburg			Charles Edwin Kaulbach	Conservative	1882, 1883, 1891
Pictou			Adam Carr Bell	Conservative	1896
			Charles Hibbert Tupper	Conservative	1882
Richmond			Joseph Alexander Gillies	Conservative	1891
Shelburne and Queen's			Francis Gordon Forbes (until 18 July 1896 customs appointment)	Liberal	1891
			William Stevens Fielding (by-election of 1896-08-05)	Liberal	1896
Victoria			John Lemuel Bethune	Conservative	1896
Yarmouth			Thomas Barnard Flint	Liberal	1891

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Addington			John William Bell	Conservative	1882, 1896
Algoma			Albert Dyment	Liberal	1896
Bothwell			James Clancy	Conservative	1896
Brant South			Robert Henry	Conservative	1896
			Charles Bernhard Heyd (by-election of 1897-02-04)	Liberal	1897
Brockville			John Fisher Wood	Liberal-Conservative	1882
			William Henry Comstock (by-election of 1899-04-20)	Liberal	1899
Bruce East			Henry Cargill	Conservative	1892
Bruce North			Alexander McNeill	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Bruce West			John Tolmie	Liberal	1896
Cardwell			William Stubbs	Independent Conservative	1895
Carleton			William Thomas Hodgins	Conservative	1891
Cornwall and Stormont			Darby Bergin	Liberal-Conservative	1872, 1878
			John Goodall Snetsinger (by-election of 1896-12-19)	Liberal	1896
Dundas			Andrew Broder	Conservative	1896
Durham East			Thomas Dixon Craig	Independent Conservative	1891
Durham West			Robert Beith	Liberal	1891
Elgin East			Andrew B. Ingram	Liberal-Conservative	1891
Elgin West			George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1878
Essex North			William McGregor	Liberal	1891
Essex South			Mahlon K. Cowan	Liberal	1896
Frontenac			David Dickson Rogers	Patrons of Industry	1896
Glengarry			Roderick R. McLennan	Conservative	1891
Grenville South			John Dowsley Reid	Conservative	1891
Grey East			Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878
Grey North			John Clark	Liberal	1896
			William Paterson (by-election of 1896-08-25)	Liberal	1896
Grey South			George Landerkin	Liberal	1872, 1882
Haldimand and Monck			Walter Humphries Montague	Conservative	1887, 1890
Halton			David Henderson	Conservative	1887, 1888
Hamilton			Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	1874, 1896
			Thomas Henry Macpherson	Liberal	1896
Hastings East			Jeremiah M. Hurley	Liberal	1896
Hastings North			Alexander Augustus Williamson Carscallen	Conservative	1892
Hastings West			Henry Corby	Conservative	1888
Huron East			Peter Macdonald	Liberal	1887
Huron South			John McMillan	Liberal	1882, 1887
Huron West			Malcolm Colin Cameron (until 30 May 1898 appointment as North West Territories Lieutenant-Governor)	Liberal	1882, 1896
			Robert Holmes (by-election of 1899-02-21)	Liberal	1899
Kent			Archibald Campbell	Liberal	1887
Kingston			Byron Moffatt Britton	Liberal	1896
Lambton East			John Fraser	Liberal	1896
Lambton West			James Frederick Lister (until 21 June 1898 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1882
			Thomas George Johnston (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Liberal	1898
Lanark North			Bennett Rosamond	Conservative	1891
Lanark South			John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Leeds North and Grenville North			Francis Theodore Frost	Liberal	1896
Leeds South			George Taylor	Conservative	1882
Lennox			Uriah Wilson	Conservative	1892
Lincoln and Niagara			William Gibson	Liberal	1891
London			Thomas Beattie	Conservative	1896
Middlesex East			James Gilmour	Conservative	1896
Middlesex North			Valentine Ratz	Liberal	1896
Middlesex South			Malcolm McGugan	Liberal	1896
Middlesex West			William Samuel Calvert	Liberal	1896
Muskoka and Parry Sound			George McCormick	Liberal-Conservative	1896
Nipissing			James Bell Klock	Conservative	1896
Norfolk North			John Charlton	Liberal	1872
Norfolk South			David Tisdale	Conservative	1887
Northumberland East			Edward Cochrane	Conservative	1887
Northumberland West			George Guillet	Conservative	1891
Ontario North			John Alexander McGillivray	Liberal-Conservative	1895
			Duncan Graham (by-election of 1897-02-04)	Independent Liberal	1897
Ontario South			Leonard Burnett	Liberal	1896
Ontario West			James David Edgar (died 31 July 1899)	Liberal	1884
			Isaac James Gould (by-election of 1900-01-18)	Liberal	1900
Ottawa (City of)			Napoléon Antoine Belcourt	Liberal	1896
			William H. Hutchison	Liberal	1896
Oxford North			James Sutherland	Liberal	1880
Oxford South			Richard John Cartwright (until ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1867
			Richard John Cartwright (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Peel			Joseph Featherston	Liberal	1891
Perth North			Alexander Ferguson Maclaren	Conservative	1896
Perth South			Dilman Kinsey Erb	Liberal	1896
Peterborough East			John Lang	Independent Liberal	1896
Peterborough West			James Kendry	Conservative	1887
Prescott			Isidore Proulx	Liberal	1891
Prince Edward			William Varney Pettet	Patrons of Industry	1896
Renfrew North			Thomas Mackie	Liberal	1896
Renfrew South			John Ferguson	Independent Conservative	1887
Russell			William Cameron Edwards	Liberal	1887
Simcoe East			William Humphrey Bennett	Conservative	1892
			William Humphrey Bennett (by-election of 1897-02-04)	Conservative
Simcoe North			Dalton McCarthy (died 11 May 1898)	Independent	1887
			Leighton Goldie McCarthy (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Independent	1898
Simcoe South			Richard Tyrwhitt	Conservative	1882
Toronto Centre			William Lount	Liberal	1896
			George Hope Bertram (by-election of 1897-11-30)	Liberal	1897
Toronto East			John Ross Robertson	Independent Conservative	1896
Victoria North			Sam Hughes	Liberal-Conservative	1892
Victoria South			George McHugh	Liberal	1896
Waterloo North			Joseph Emm Seagram	Conservative	1896
Waterloo South			James Livingston	Liberal	1882
Welland			William McCleary	Conservative	1896
Wellington Centre			Andrew Semple	Liberal	1887
Wellington North			James McMullen	Liberal	1882
Wellington South			Christian Kloepfer	Conservative	1896
Wentworth North and Brant			James Somerville	Liberal	1882
Wentworth South				Liberal	1872
West Toronto			Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative	1896
			Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative	1896
York East			William Findlay Maclean	Conservative	1892
York North			William Mulock (until Postmaster General appointment)	Liberal	1882
			William Mulock (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
York West			Nathaniel Clarke Wallace	Conservative	1878

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20% rowspan=2	East Prince			John Yeo (until 19 November 1898 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1891
		John Howatt Bell (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Liberal	1898
East Queen's			Alexander Martin	Conservative	1896
King's			Augustine Colin Macdonald	Conservative	1873, 1878, 1883, 1891
West Prince			Edward Hackett (until election voided 24 March 1897)	Liberal-Conservative	1878, 1896
			Stanislaus Francis Perry (by-election of 1897-04-27, died 24 February 1898)	Liberal	1897
			Bernard Donald McLellan (by-election of 1898-04-13)	Liberal	1896
West Queen's			Louis Henry Davies (until 11 July 1896 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1882
			Louis Henry Davies (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Argenteuil			Thomas Christie	Liberal	1875, 1891
Bagot			Flavien Dupont (died in office)	Conservative	1882
			Joseph Edmond Marcile (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Liberal	1898
Beauce			Joseph Godbout	Liberal	1887
Beauharnois			Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron	Conservative	1882
Bellechasse			Onésiphore Ernest Talbot	Liberal	1896
Berthier			Cléophas Beausoleil (until 1 December 1899 postmaster appointment)	Liberal	1882
			Joseph Éloi Archambault (by-election of 1900-01-18)	Liberal	1900
Bonaventure			William LeBoutillier Fauvel (died 8 February 1897)	Liberal	1891
			Jean-François Guité (by-election of 1897-03-17)	Liberal	1897
Brome			Sydney Arthur Fisher (until 11 July 1896 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1896
			Sydney Arthur Fisher (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Chambly—Verchères			Christophe Alphonse Geoffrion (died 18 July 1899)	Liberal	1895
			Victor Geoffrion (by-election of 1900-01-18)	Liberal	1900
Champlain			François Arthur Marcotte (until election voided 12 January 1897)	Conservative	1896
			François Arthur Marcotte (by-election of 1897-04-07)	Conservative
Charlevoix			Louis Charles Alphonse Angers	Liberal	1896
Châteauguay			James Pollock Brown	Liberal	1891
Chicoutimi—Saguenay			Paul Vilmond Savard	Liberal	1891
Compton			Rufus Henry Pope	Conservative	1889
Dorchester			Jean-Baptiste Morin	Conservative	1896
Drummond—Arthabaska			Joseph Lavergne (until 4 August 1897 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1882
			Louis Lavergne (by-election of 1897-11-13)	Liberal	1897
Gaspé			Rodolphe Lemieux	Liberal	1896
Hochelaga			Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore	Liberal	1896
Huntingdon			Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869
Jacques Cartier			Frederick Debartzch Monk	Conservative	1896
Joliette			Charles Bazinet	Liberal	1896
Kamouraska			Henry George Carroll	Liberal	1891
Labelle			Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa (resigned 26 October 1899)	Liberal	1896
			Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa (by-election of 1900-01-18)	Independent
Laprairie—Napierville			Dominique Monet	Liberal	1891
L'Assomption			Joseph Gauthier	Liberal	1892
Laval			Thomas Fortin	Liberal	1896
Lévis			Pierre Malcom Guay (died 19 February 1899)	Liberal	1885
			Louis Julien Demers (by-election of 1899-03-22)	Liberal	1899
L'Islet			Alphonse Arthur Miville Déchêne	Liberal	1896
Lotbinière			Côme Isaïe Rinfret (until 25 August 1899 revenue inspector appointment)	Liberal	1878
			Edmond Fortier (by-election of 1900-01-25)	Liberal	1900
Maisonneuve			Joseph Raymond Fournier Préfontaine	Liberal	1886
Maskinongé			Joseph Hormidas Legris	Liberal	1891
Mégantic			Georges Turcot	Liberal	1887, 1896
Missisquoi			Daniel Bishop Meigs	Liberal	1888, 1896
Montcalm			Joseph Louis Euclide Dugas	Conservative	1891
Montmagny			Philippe-Auguste Choquette (until 7 July 1898 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1887
			Pierre-Raymond-Léonard Martineau (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Liberal	1898
Montmorency			Thomas Chase Casgrain	Conservative	1896
Nicolet			Fabien Boisvert (died 12 November 1897)	Conservative	1888, 1896
			Joseph Hector Leduc (by-election of 1897-12-21)	Liberal	1897
Pontiac			William Joseph Poupore	Conservative	1896
Portneuf			Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (until 11 July 1896 revenue appointment)	Liberal	1867, 1896
			Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Quebec-Centre			François Charles Stanislas Langelier (until 14 January 1898 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1882
			Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin (by-election of 1898-01-24)	Liberal	1898
Quebec County			Charles Fitzpatrick (until 11 July 1896 Solicitor General appointment)	Liberal	1896
			Charles Fitzpatrick (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Quebec East			Wilfrid Laurier (until 11 July 1896 appointment as Prime Minister)	Liberal	1874
			Wilfrid Laurier (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Quebec West			Richard Reid Dobell	Liberal	1896
Richelieu			Arthur Aimé Bruneau	Liberal	1892
Richmond—Wolfe			Michael Thomas Stenson	Liberal	1896
Rimouski			Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset (until 20 October 1897 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1872, 1887, 1896
			Jean Auguste Ross (by-election of 1897-11-06)	Liberal	1897
Rouville			Louis Philippe Brodeur	Liberal	1878
St. Anne			Michael Joseph Francis Quinn	Conservative	1896
St. Antoine			Thomas George Roddick	Conservative	1896
St. Hyacinthe			Michel Esdras Bernier (until 22 June 1900 revenue appointment)	Liberal	1882
			Michel Esdras Bernier (by-election of 1900-07-04)	Liberal
St. James			Odilon Desmarais	Liberal	1896
St. Johns—Iberville			François Béchard (until 17 July 1896 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1867
			Joseph Israël Tarte (by-election of 1896-08-03)	Liberal	1891, 1893, 1896
St. Lawrence			Edward Goff Penny	Liberal	1896
St. Mary			Hercule Dupré	Liberal	1896
Shefford			Charles Henry Parmelee	Liberal	1896
Town of Sherbrooke			William Bullock Ives (died 15 July 1899)	Conservative	1882
			John McIntosh (by-election of 1900-01-25)	Conservative	1900
Soulanges			Augustin Bourbonnais	Liberal	1896
Stanstead			Alvin Head Moore	Conservative	1896
Témiscouata			Charles Eugène Pouliot (died 24 June 1897)	Liberal	1896
			Charles Arthur Gauvreau (by-election of 1897-11-06)	Liberal	1897
Terrebonne			Léon Adolphe Chauvin	Conservative	1896
Three Rivers and St. Maurice			Joseph Philippe René Adolphe Caron	Conservative	1867
Two Mountains			Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier	Liberal	1896
Vaudreuil			Henry Stanislas Harwood	Liberal	1891
Wright			Charles Ramsay Devlin (until 15 March 1897 immigration appointment)	Liberal	1891
			Louis Napoléon Champagne (by-election of 1897-03-23)	Liberal	1897
Yamaska			Roch Moïse Samuel Mignault	Liberal	1891

By-elections

See main article: By-elections to the 8th Canadian Parliament.

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