List of Prince Edward Island senators explained

This is a list of past and present members of the Senate of Canada representing the province of Prince Edward Island.

Prince Edward Island, was guaranteed four Senate seats at the 1864 conference in Quebec City of the "Fathers of Confederation", Prince Edward Island representatives campaigned for equal representation claiming that the rights of small provinces needed to be safe guarded. Prince Edward Island delayed joining confederation until 1873 for various reasons including the Senate question.Under the Prince Edward Island Terms of Union, 1873 Prince Edward Island was given four Senate seats.

Current senators

align=left class="unsortable"		Name	Party	Division^1	Date appointed	Nominated by^2	Mandatory retirement	Percy Downe	Canadian Senators Group	Charlottetown		Chrétien		Brian Francis	Progressive Senate Group	Prince Edward Island		J. Trudeau		Jane MacAdam	Independent Senators Group	Prince Edward Island		J. Trudeau		Mary Robinson	Canadian Senators Group	Prince Edward Island		J. Trudeau

Notes:

¹ Senators are appointed to represent Prince Edward Island. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within the province as his or her division.
² Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister.

Historical

align=left class="unsortable"		Name	Party	Division^1	Date appointed	Appointed by^2	End of term	Doris Margaret Anderson	Liberal	St. Peter's, Kings County		Chrétien		Joseph-Octave Arsenault	Conservative	Prince Edward Island		Bowell		George Hilton Barbour	Liberal	Prince		St. Laurent		Lorne Bonnell	Liberal	Murray River		Trudeau, P. E.		Catherine Callbeck	Liberal	Prince Edward Island		Chrétien		Jedediah Slason Carvell	Conservative	Charlottetown		MacDonald		Mike Duffy	Conservative	Cavendish		Harper		Donald Ferguson	Conservative	Queen's		Thompson		Thomas Vincent Grant	Liberal	Montague		St. Laurent		Diane Griffin	Independent	Prince Edward Island		J. Trudeau		Thomas Heath Haviland	Conservative	Prince Edward Island		Macdonald		Robert Haythorne	Liberal	Queen's		Macdonald		George William Howlan	Liberal	Alberton		Macdonald		Elizabeth Hubley	Liberal	Prince Edward Island		Chrétien		James Joseph Hughes	Liberal	King's		King		Florence Elsie Inman	Liberal	Murray Harbour		St. Laurent		Archibald Johnstone	Liberal	Prince Edward Island		Chrétien		John Walter Jones	Liberal	Queen's		St. Laurent		Thomas Joseph Kickham	Liberal	Cardigan		Pearson		Creelman MacArthur	Liberal	Prince		King		Andrew Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	Charlottetown		Macdonald		John Alexander Macdonald	Conservative	Cardigan		Bennett		John Joseph MacDonald	Progressive Conservative	Queen's		Diefenbaker		Heath MacQuarrie	Progressive Conservative	Hillsborough		Clark		James P. McIntyre	Liberal	Mount Stewart		King		John McLean	Conservative	Souris		Borden		Donald Montgomery	Conservative	Park Corner		Macdonald		Patrick Charles Murphy	Conservative	Tignish		Borden		Melvin Perry	Liberal	Prince Edward Island		Chrétien		Orville Howard Phillips	Progressive Conservative	Prince		Diefenbaker		Benjamin Charles Prowse	Liberal	Charlottetown		Laurier		Samuel Prowse	Liberal-Conservative	King's		MacDonald		James Edwin Robertson	Liberal	Prince Edward Island		Laurier		Brewer Waugh Robinson	Liberal	Summerside		King		Eileen Rossiter	Progressive Conservative	Prince Edward Island		Mulroney		John Ewen Sinclair	Liberal	Queen's		King		John Yeo	Liberal	East Prince		Laurier

Notes:

¹ Senators are appointed to represent Prince Edward Island. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within Prince Edward Island as his or her division.
² Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister.

Maritimes regional senators

Senators listed were appointed to represent the Maritimes under section 26 of the Constitution Act. This clause has only been used once before to appoint two extra senators to represent four regional Senate divisions: Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes and the Western Provinces.

As vacancies open up among the normal members of the Senate, they are automatically filled by the regional senators. Regional senators may also designate themselves to a senate division in any province of their choosing in their region.

align=left class="unsortable"		Name	Party^1	Division^2	Date appointed	Appointed by^3	Date shifted to provincial	Province shifted to	Provincial seat vacated by	End of term	Michael Forrestall	Conservative	Dartmouth/Eastern Shore, NS		Mulroney		Nova Scotia	Robert Muir		James W. Ross	Progressive Conservative	Maritimes divisional		Mulroney		New Brunswick	Richard Hatfield

Notes:

¹ Party listed was the last party of which the senator was a member.
² Senators are appointed to represent their region. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within their region as his or her division.
³ Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister.

See also

• Lists of Canadian senators

External links

• Current Senators List Parliament Website
• A Legislative and Historical Overview of the Senate