9th Canadian Parliament explained

Jurisdiction:	CA
#:	9th
Type:	Majority
Houseimage:	Chambre des Communes 1900.png
Status:	inactive
Term-Begin:	February 6, 1901
Term-End:	September 29, 1904
Pm:	Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Ministry:	8th Canadian Ministry
Pm-Begin:	1896-07-11
Pm-End:	1911-10-06
Lo:	Sir Robert Borden
Loterm:	Feb. 6, 1901 – Oct. 9, 1911
Party:	Liberal Party
Party2:	Conservative Party & Liberal-Conservative Party
Sc:	Louis-Philippe Brodeur
Scterm:	February 6, 1901 – January 18, 1904
Sc2:	Napoléon Belcourt
Scterm2:	March 10, 1904 – January 10, 1905
Ss:	Lawrence Geoffrey Power
Ssterm:	January 29, 1901 – January 8, 1905
Sessionbegin:	February 6, 1901
Sessionend:	May 23, 1901
Sessionbegin2:	February 13, 1902
Sessionend2:	May 15, 1902
Sessionbegin3:	March 12, 1903
Sessionend3:	October 24, 1903
Sessionbegin4:	March 10, 1904
Sessionend4:	August 10, 1904
Monarchterm:	January 22, 1901 – May 6, 1910
Viceroy2:	The Earl of Minto
Viceroyterm2:	12 Nov. 1898 – 10 Dec. 1904
Lastparl:	8th
Nextparl:	10th

The 9th Canadian Parliament was in session from February 6, 1901, until September 29, 1904. The membership was set by the 1900 federal election on November 7, 1900. It was dissolved prior to the 1904 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 Robert Borden.

The Speaker was first Louis Philippe Brodeur, and later Napoléon Antoine Belcourt. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1892-1903 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were four sessions of the 9th Parliament.

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the ninth 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.

British Columbia

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20% rowspan=2	Burrard			George Ritchie Maxwell (died 17 November 1902)	Liberal	1896
		Robert George Macpherson (by-election of 1903-02-04)	Liberal	1903
New Westminster			Aulay MacAulay Morrison	Liberal	1896
Vancouver			Ralph Smith	Liberal	1900
Victoria			Thomas Earle	Conservative	1889
			Edward Gawler Prior (until voided 2 December 1901)	Conservative	1872, 1888
			George Riley (by-election of 1902-01-28)	Liberal	1902
Yale—Cariboo			William Alfred Galliher	Liberal	1900

Manitoba

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Brandon			Clifford Sifton	Liberal	1896
Lisgar			Robert Lorne Richardson (until election voided 20 July 1901)	Independent	1896
			Duncan Alexander Stewart (by-election of 1902-02-18)	Liberal	1902
Macdonald			Nathaniel Boyd	Conservative	1892
Marquette			William James Roche	Conservative	1896
Provencher			Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière	Conservative	1889
Selkirk			William McCreary	Liberal	1900
Winnipeg			Arthur Puttee	Independent Labour	1900

New Brunswick

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Albert			William James Lewis	Liberal	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			Andrew George Blair (resigned 27 December 1903)	Liberal	1896
			John Waterhouse Daniel (by-election of 1904-02-16)	Conservative	1904
Gloucester			Onésiphore Turgeon	Liberal	1900
Kent			Olivier J. Leblanc	Liberal	1900
King's			George William Fowler	Conservative	1900
Northumberland			James Robinson	Conservative	1896
Restigouche			James Reid	Liberal	1900
Sunbury—Queen's			Robert Duncan Wilmot	Conservative	1887, 1900
Victoria			John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Westmorland			Henry Emmerson (until ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1900
			Henry Emmerson (by-election of 1904-01-30)	Liberal
York			Alexander Gibson (until election voided 11 June 1901)	Liberal	1900
			Alexander Gibson (by-election of 1901-12-28)	Liberal

Northwest Territories

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			Thomas Walter Scott	Liberal	1900
Saskatchewan (Provisional District)			Thomas Osborne Davis	Liberal	1896

Nova Scotia

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Annapolis			Fletcher Bath Wade	Liberal	1900
Antigonish			Colin Francis McIsaac	Liberal	1895
Cape Breton			Alexander Johnston	Liberal	1900
			Arthur Samuel Kendall	Liberal	1900
Colchester			Seymour Eugene Gourley	Conservative	1900
Cumberland			Hance James Logan	Liberal	1896
Digby			Albert James Smith Copp	Liberal	1896
Guysborough			Duncan Cameron Fraser (until 10 February 1904 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1891
			John Howard Sinclair (by-election of 1904-03-16)	Liberal	1904
Halifax			Robert Laird Borden	Conservative	1896
			William Roche	Liberal	1900
Hants			Benjamin Russell	Liberal	1896
Inverness			Angus MacLennan	Liberal	1896
Kings			Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874, 1887
Lunenburg			Charles Edwin Kaulbach	Conservative	1882, 1883, 1891
Pictou			Adam Carr Bell	Conservative	1896
			Charles Hibbert Tupper	Conservative	1882
Richmond			Joseph Matheson	Liberal	1900
Shelburne and Queen's			William Stevens Fielding	Liberal	1896
Victoria			William Ross	Liberal	1867, 1900
Yarmouth			Thomas Barnard Flint (until 11 November 1902 House of Commons Clerk appointment)	Liberal	1891
			Bowman Brown Law (by-election of 1902-12-03)	Liberal	1902

Ontario

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20% rowspan=2	Addington			John William Bell (died 5 July 1901)	Conservative	1882, 1896
		Melzar Avery (by-election of 1902-01-15)	Conservative	1902
Algoma			Albert Dyment	Liberal	1896
Bothwell			James Clancy	Conservative	1896
Brant South			Charles Bernhard Heyd	Liberal	1897
Brockville			John Culbert	Conservative	1900
Bruce East			Henry Cargill (died 1 October 1903)	Conservative	1892
			James J. Donnelly (by-election of 1904-02-16)	Conservative	1904
Bruce North			Alexander McNeill (until election voided 2 December 1901)	Liberal-Conservative	1882
			James Halliday (by-election of 1901-03-20)	Conservative	1901
Bruce West			John Tolmie	Liberal	1896
Cardwell			Robert Johnston	Conservative	1900
Carleton			Edward Kidd	Conservative	1900
Cornwall and Stormont			Robert Abercrombie Pringle	Conservative	1900
Dundas			Andrew Broder	Conservative	1896
Durham East			Henry Alfred Ward	Conservative	1885, 1900
Durham West			Charles Jonas Thornton (until election voided 6 October 1901)	Conservative	1900
			Robert Beith (by-election of 1902-01-15)	Liberal	1902
Elgin East			Andrew B. Ingram	Liberal-Conservative	1891
Elgin West			Jabel Robinson	Independent	1900
Essex North			Robert Franklin Sutherland	Liberal	1900
Essex South			Mahlon K. Cowan	Liberal	1896
Frontenac			Hiram Augustus Calvin	Conservative	1900
Glengarry			Jacob Thomas Schell	Liberal	1900
Grenville South			John Dowsley Reid	Conservative	1896
Grey East			Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878
Grey North			Edward Henry Horsey (died 23 July 1902)	Liberal	1900
			Thomas Inkerman Thomson (by-election of 1903-02-24)	Conservative	1903
Grey South			Matthew Kendal Richardson	Liberal-Conservative	1900
Haldimand and Monck			Andrew Thorburn Thompson	Liberal	1900
Halton			David Henderson	Conservative	1887, 1888
Hamilton			Francis Carmichael Bruce	Conservative	1900
			Samuel Barker	Conservative	1900
Hastings East			William Barton Northrup	Conservative	1892, 1900
Hastings North			Alexander Augustus Williamson Carscallen	Conservative	1892
Hastings West			Henry Corby (resigned 28 February 1901)	Conservative	1888
			Edward Guss Porter (by-election of 1902-01-15)	Conservative	1902
Huron East			Peter Macdonald	Liberal	1887
Huron South			George McEwen	Liberal	1900
Huron West			Robert Holmes	Liberal	1899
Kent			George Stephens	Liberal	1900
Kingston			Byron Moffatt Britton	Liberal	1896
			William Harty (by-election of 1902-01-15)	Liberal	1902
Lambton East			Oliver Simmons (died 11 November 1903)	Conservative	1900
			Joseph Elijah Armstrong (by-election of 1904-02-16)	Conservative	1904
Lambton West			Thomas George Johnston	Liberal	1898
Lanark North			Bennett Rosamond	Conservative	1891
Lanark South			John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Leeds North and Grenville North			John Reeve Lavell	Conservative	1900
Leeds South			George Taylor	Conservative	1882
Lennox			Uriah Wilson	Conservative	1892
Lincoln and Niagara			Edward Arthur Lancaster	Conservative	1900
London			Charles Smith Hyman	Liberal	1891, 1900
Middlesex East			James Gilmour (politician)	Conservative	1896
Middlesex North			John Sherritt	Conservative	1900
Middlesex South			Malcolm McGugan	Liberal	1896
Middlesex West			William Samuel Calvert	Liberal	1896
Muskoka and Parry Sound			George McCormick	Liberal-Conservative	1896
Nipissing			Charles Arthur McCool	Liberal	1900
Norfolk North			John Charlton	Liberal	1872
Norfolk South			David Tisdale	Conservative	1887
Northumberland East			Edward Cochrane	Conservative	1887
Northumberland West			John B. McColl	Liberal	1900
Ontario North			Angus McLeod (died in office)	Liberal-Conservative	1900
			George Davidson Grant (by-election of 1903-03-10)	Liberal	1903
Ontario South			William Ross	Liberal	1900
Ontario West			Isaac James Gould	Liberal	1900
Ottawa (City of)				Liberal	1896
			Thomas Birkett	Conservative	1900
Oxford North			James Sutherland (until ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1880
			James Sutherland (by-election of 1902-01-29)	Liberal
Oxford South			Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867
Peel			Richard Blain	Conservative	1900
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			George Oscar Alcorn	Conservative	1900
Renfrew North			Thomas Mackie	Liberal	1896
Renfrew South			Aaron Abel Wright	Liberal	1900
Russell			William Cameron Edwards (until Senate appointment)	Liberal	1887
			David Wardrope Wallace (by-election of 1903-04-20)	Liberal	1903
Simcoe East			William Humphrey Bennett	Conservative	1892
Simcoe North			Leighton Goldie McCarthy	Independent	1898
Simcoe South			Haughton Lennox	Conservative	1900
Toronto Centre			William Rees Brock	Conservative	1900
Toronto East			Albert Edward Kemp	Conservative	1900
Victoria North			Sam Hughes	Liberal-Conservative	1892
Victoria South			Adam Edward Vrooman	Conservative	1900
Waterloo North			Joseph Emm Seagram	Conservative	1882
Waterloo South			George Adam Clare	Conservative	1900
Welland			William Manly German	Liberal	1891, 1900
Wellington Centre			John McGowan	Liberal-Conservative	1900
Wellington North			Edwin Tolton	Conservative	1900
Wellington South			Hugh Guthrie	Liberal	1900
Wentworth North and Brant			William Paterson	Liberal	1882
Wentworth South			E. D. Smith	Conservative	1900
West Toronto			Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative	1896
			Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative	1896
York East			William Findlay Maclean	Independent Conservative	1892
York North			William Mulock	Liberal	1882
York West			Nathaniel Clarke Wallace	Conservative	1878
			Archibald Campbell (by-election of 1902-01-15)	Liberal	1902

Prince Edward Island

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	East Prince			Alfred Alexander Lefurgey	Conservative	1900
East Queen's			Donald Alexander Mackinnon (until election voided 11 February 1901)	Liberal	1900
			Donald Alexander Mackinnon (by-election of 1901-03-20)	Liberal
King's			James Joseph Hughes	Liberal	1900
West Prince			Edward Hackett	Liberal-Conservative	1878, 1896
West Queen's			Louis Henry Davies (until 25 September 1901 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1882
			Donald Farquharson (by-election of 1902-01-15, died 26 June 1903)	Liberal	1902
			Horace Haszard (by-election of 1904-02-16)	Liberal	1904

Quebec

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20% rowspan=2	Argenteuil			Thomas Christie (died in office)	Liberal	1875, 1891
		Thomas Christie, Jr. (by-election of 1902-12-03)	Liberal	1902
Bagot			Joseph Edmond Marcile	Liberal	1898
Beauce			Joseph Godbout (until Senate appointment)	Liberal	1887
			Henri Sévérin Béland (by-election of 1902-01-08)	Liberal	1902
Beauharnois			George di Madeiros Loy (until election voided)	Liberal	1900
			George di Madeiros Loy (by-election of 1902-03-26)	Liberal
Bellechasse			Onésiphore Ernest Talbot	Liberal	1896
Berthier			Joseph Éloi Archambault	Liberal	1900
Bonaventure			Charles Marcil	Liberal	1900
Brome			Sydney Arthur Fisher	Liberal	1896
Chambly—Verchères			Victor Geoffrion	Liberal	1900
Champlain			Jeffrey Alexandre Rousseau	Liberal	1900
Charlevoix			Louis Charles Alphonse Angers	Liberal	1896
Châteauguay			James Pollock Brown	Liberal	1891
Chicoutimi—Saguenay			Joseph Girard	Conservative	1900
Compton			Rufus Henry Pope	Conservative	1889
Dorchester			Jean-Baptiste Morin	Conservative	1896
Drummond—Arthabaska			Louis Lavergne	Liberal	1897
Gaspé			Rodolphe Lemieux (until 29 January 1904 Solicitor General appointment)	Liberal	1896
			Rodolphe Lemieux (by-election of 1904-02-20)	Liberal
Hochelaga			Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore (until December 1903 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1896
			Louis Alfred Adhémar Rivet (by-election of 1904-02-16)	Liberal	1904
Huntingdon			William Scott Maclaren	Liberal	1900
Jacques Cartier			Frederick Debartzch Monk	Conservative	1896
Joliette			Charles Bazinet	Liberal	1896
Kamouraska			Henry George Carroll (until 10 February 1902 Solicitor General appointment)	Liberal	1891
			Henry George Carroll (by-election of 1902-02-28, until 29 January 1904 judicial appointment)	Liberal
			Ernest Lapointe (by-election of 1904-02-12)	Liberal	1904
Labelle			Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa	Liberal	1896
Laprairie—Napierville			Dominique Monet	Liberal	1891
L'Assomption			Romuald-Charlemagne Laurier	Liberal	1900
Laval			Thomas Fortin (until 25 September 1901 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1896
			Joseph-Édouard-Émile Léonard (by-election of 1902-01-15)	Conservative	1902
Lévis			Louis Julien Demers	Liberal	1899
L'Islet			Alphonse Arthur Miville Déchêne (until 13 May 1901 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1896
			Onésiphore Carbonneau (by-election of 1902-01-15)	Liberal	1902
Lotbinière			Edmond Fortier	Liberal	1900
Maisonneuve			Joseph Raymond Fournier Préfontaine (until 11 November 1902 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1886
			Joseph Raymond Fournier Préfontaine (by-election of 1902-12-09)	Liberal
Maskinongé			Joseph Hormidas Legris (until 10 February 1903 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1891
			Hormidas Mayrand (by-election of 1903-03-03)	Liberal	1903
Mégantic			Georges Turcot	Liberal	1887, 1896
Missisquoi			Daniel Bishop Meigs	Liberal	1888, 1896
Montcalm			François Octave Dugas	Liberal	1900
Montmagny			Pierre-Raymond-Léonard Martineau (died 31 August 1903)	Liberal	1898
			Armand Renaud Lavergne (by-election of 1904-02-16)	Liberal	1904
Montmorency			Thomas Chase Casgrain	Conservative	1896
Nicolet			Georges Ball	Conservative	1900
Pontiac			Thomas Murray	Liberal	1891, 1900
Portneuf			Michel-Siméon Delisle	Liberal	1900
Quebec-Centre			Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin	Liberal	1898
Quebec County			Charles Fitzpatrick	Liberal	1896
Quebec East			Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
Quebec West			Richard Reid Dobell (died 11 January 1902)	Liberal	1896
			William Power (by-election of 1902-01-29)	Liberal	1902
Richelieu			Arthur Aimé Bruneau	Liberal	1892
Richmond—Wolfe			Edmund William Tobin	Liberal	1900
Rimouski			Jean Auguste Ross	Liberal	1897
Rouville			Louis Philippe Brodeur (until 19 January 1904 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1878
			Louis Philippe Brodeur (by-election of 1904-01-30)	Liberal
St. Anne			Daniel Gallery	Liberal	1900
St. Antoine			Thomas George Roddick	Conservative	1896
St. Hyacinthe			Michel Esdras Bernier (until 19 January 1904 Railway Commissioner appointment)	Liberal	1882
			Jean Baptiste Blanchet (by-election of 1904-02-16)	Liberal	1904
St. James			Odilon Desmarais (until 25 June 1901 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1896
			Joseph Brunet (by-election of 1902-01-15, until election voided 22 December 1902)	Liberal	1902
			Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais (by-election of 1904-02-16)	Liberal	1904
St. Johns—Iberville			Louis Philippe Demers	Liberal	1900
St. Lawrence			Robert Bickerdike	Liberal	1900
St. Mary			Joseph Israël Tarte	Liberal	1891, 1893, 1896
Shefford			Charles Henry Parmelee	Liberal	1896
Town of Sherbrooke			John McIntosh	Conservative	1900
Soulanges			Augustin Bourbonnais	Liberal	1896
Stanstead			Henry Lovell	Liberal	1900
Témiscouata			Charles Arthur Gauvreau	Liberal	1897
Terrebonne			Raymond Préfontaine (until 11 November 1902 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1896
			Samuel Desjardins (by-election of 1903-02-24)	Liberal	1902
Three Rivers and St. Maurice			Jacques Bureau	Liberal	1900
Two Mountains			Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier (until election voided 6 August 1902)	Liberal	1896
			Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier (by-election of 1903-02-24)	Liberal
Vaudreuil			Henry Stanislas Harwood	Liberal	1891
Wright			Louis Napoléon Champagne	Liberal	1897
Yamaska			Roch Moïse Samuel Mignault	Liberal	1891

Yukon

Electoral district	Name	width=20%	Party	First elected/previously elected
width=20%	Yukon			James Hamilton Ross (by-election of 1902-12-02)	Liberal	1902

By-elections

See main article: By-elections to the 9th Canadian Parliament.

References

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Further reading

• Book: Magurn . Arnott J. . The Canadian Parliamentary Guide . 1904 . Ottawa . August 9, 2020 . 0315-6168 . 266967058.