4th Canadian Parliament

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The 4th Canadian Parliament was in session from February 13, 1879 until May 18, 1882. The membership was set by the 1878 federal election on September 17, 1878, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1882 election.

It was controlled by a Conservative/Liberal-Conservative majority under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the 3rd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, first led by Alexander Mackenzie, and then by Edward Blake.

The Speaker was Joseph Godéric Blanchet. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1873-1882 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were four sessions of the 4th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	February 13, 1879	May 15, 1879
2nd	February 12, 1880	May 7, 1880
3rd	December 9, 1880	March 21, 1881
4th	February 9, 1882	May 17, 1882

Contents 1 List of members 1.1 British Columbia 1.2 Manitoba 1.3 New Brunswick 1.4 Nova Scotia 1.5 Ontario 1.6 Prince Edward Island 1.7 Quebec 2 References 3 Succession

[edit] List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fourth parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.

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

[edit] British Columbia

Electoral district		Name	Party
Cariboo		Joshua Spencer Thompson (acclaimed) died in office 20 December 1880	Liberal-Conservative
		James Reid from 31 March 1881	Liberal-Conservative
New Westminster		Thomas Robert McInnes, until appointed to Senate 24 December 1881	Independent
		Joshua Homer (acclaimed) from 9 March 1882	Liberal-Conservative
Vancouver		Arthur Bunster	Liberal
Victoria*		Sir John Alexander Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative
		Amor De Cosmos	Liberal
Yale		Edgar Dewdney (acclaimed), resigned 30 May 1879 to become Indian Commissioner of Manitoba and the North West Territories	Conservative
		Francis Jones Barnard from 29 September 1879	Conservative

[edit] Manitoba

Electoral district		Name	Party
Lisgar		John Christian Schultz (acclaimed)	Conservative
Marquette		Sir John A. Macdonald (acclaimed)	Liberal-Conservative
		Joseph O'Connell Ryan (acclaimed) from 30 November 1878	Liberal
Provencher		Joseph Dubuc (acclaimed)	Conservative
		Joseph Royal from 30 December 1879	Conservative
Selkirk		Donald A. Smith	Conservative
		Thomas Scott from 10 September 1880	Conservative

[edit] New Brunswick

Electoral district		Name	Party
Albert		Alexander Rogers	Liberal
Carleton		George Heber Connell	Independent
		David Irvine from 16 February 1881	Liberal
Charlotte		Arthur Hill Gillmor	Liberal
City and County of St. John*		Isaac Burpee	Liberal
		Charles Wesley Weldon	Liberal
City of St. John		Samuel Leonard Tilley (acclaimed), re-elected 4 November 1878	Liberal-Conservative
Gloucester		Timothy Warren Anglin (acclaimed)	Liberal
Kent		Gilbert Anselme Girouard	Liberal-Conservative
King's		James Domville	Conservative
Northumberland		Jabez Bunting Snowball	Liberal
Queen's		George Gerald King	Liberal
Restigouche		George Haddow (acclaimed)	Independent
Sunbury		Charles Burpee	Liberal
Victoria		John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative
Westmorland		Albert James Smith	Liberal
York		John Pickard	Independent Liberal

[edit] Nova Scotia

Electoral district		Name	Party
Annapolis		Avard Longley	Conservative
Antigonish		Angus Mcisaac	Liberal
Cape Breton*		Hugh McLeod, died in office 5 August 1879	Liberal-Conservative
		William McDonald	Conservative
		William McKenzie McLeod from 23 October 1879	Liberal-Conservative
Colchester		Thomas McKay	Liberal-Conservative
		Archibald Woodbury McLelan from 18 June 1881	Conservative
Cumberland		Charles Tupper (acclaimed), re-elected in by-election 4 November 1878	Conservative
Digby		John Chipman Wade	Conservative
Guysborough		Alfred Ogden	Conservative
Halifax*		Matthew Henry Richey	Liberal-Conservative
		Malachy Bowes Daly	Liberal-Conservative
Hants		William Henry Allison	Conservative
Inverness		Samuel McDonnell	Liberal
Kings		Frederick William Borden	Liberal
Lunenburg		Charles Edwin Kaulbach	Conservative
Pictou*		James McDonald, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878, ended term 19 May 1881	Conservative
		Robert Doull	Liberal-Conservative
		John McDougald, acclaimed from 18 June 1881	Liberal-Conservative
Queens		Silas Tertius Rand Bill	Liberal-Conservative
Richmond		Edmund Power Flynn	Liberal
Shelburne		Thomas Robertson	Liberal
Victoria		Duncan McDonald	Liberal
Yarmouth		Frank Killam	Liberal

[edit] Ontario

Electoral district		Name	Party
Addington		John McRory	Conservative
Algoma		Simon James Dawson	Conservative
Bothwell		David Mills	Liberal
Brant North		Gavin Fleming	Liberal
Brant South		William Paterson	Liberal
Brockville		William Fitzsimmons	Conservative
Bruce North		John Gillies	Liberal
Bruce South		Alexander Shaw	Liberal-Conservative
Cardwell		Thomas White	Conservative
Carleton		John Rochester	Conservative
Cornwall		Darby Bergin, re-elected in by-election 27 January 1880	Liberal-Conservative
Dundas		John Sylvester Ross	Liberal-Conservative
Durham East		Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams	Conservative
Durham West		Harvey William Burk until 10 October 1879	Liberal
		Edward Dominick Blake, acclaimed from 17 November 1879	Liberal
Elgin East		Thomas Arkell	Liberal-Conservative
Elgin West		George Elliott Casey	Liberal
Essex		James Colebrooke Patterson	Conservative
Frontenac		George Airey Kirkpatrick	Conservative
Glengarry		John McLennan	Liberal-Conservative
Grenville South		John Philip Wiser	Liberal
Grey East		Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative
Grey North		Samuel Johnathan Lane	Conservative
Grey South		George Jackson	Liberal-Conservative
Haldimand		David Thompson	Liberal
Halton		William McDougall	Liberal-Conservative
Hamilton*		Francis Edwin Kilvert	Conservative
		Thomas Robertson	Liberal
Hastings East		John White, re-elected in by-election 25 February 1879	Conservative
Hastings North		Mackenzie Bowell, acclaimed in by-election 6 November 1878	Conservative
Hastings West		James Brown	Conservative
Huron Centre		Horace Horton until 10 October 1878	Liberal
		Richard John Cartwright from 2 November 1878	Liberal
Huron North		Thomas Farrow	Liberal-Conservative
Huron South		Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal
Kent		Rufus Stephenson	Conservative
Kingston		Alexander Gunn	Liberal
Lambton		Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal
Lanark North		Daniel Galbraith, died in office 17 December 1879	Liberal
		Donald Greenfield McDonell from 22 January 1880	Liberal
Lanark South		John Graham Haggart	Conservative
Leeds North and Grenville North		Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative
Leeds South		David Ford Jones	Conservative
Lennox		Edmund Hooper	Liberal-Conservative
Lincoln		John Charles Rykert	Conservative
London		John Carling	Liberal-Conservative
Middlesex East		Duncan Macmillan	Liberal-Conservative
Middlesex North		Timothy Coughlin	Liberal-Conservative
Middlesex West		George William Ross	Liberal
Monck		Lachlin McCallum	Liberal-Conservative
Muskoka		Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal
Niagara		Patrick Hughes, defeated in by-election 20 March 1879	Liberal
		Josiah Burr Plumb from 20 March 1879	Conservative
Norfolk North		John Charlton	Liberal
Norfolk South		William Wallace	Conservative
Northumberland East		Joseph Keeler, died in office 21 January 1881	Liberal-Conservative
		Darius Crouter, acclaimed from 25 March 1881	Independent Liberal
Northumberland West		James Cockburn until 14 November 1881	Conservative
		George Guillet from 19 December 1881	Conservative
Ontario North		George Wheler, until 10 June 1880, re-elected 28 August 1880	Liberal
Ontario South		Francis Wayland Glen	Liberal
Ottawa (City of)*		Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative
		Joseph Tassé	Conservative
Oxford North		Thomas Oliver, died in office 8 November 1880	Liberal
		James Sutherland from 9 December 1880	Liberal
Oxford South		James Atchison Skinner	Liberal
Peel		William Elliott	Conservative
Perth North		Samuel Rollin Hesson	Conservative
Perth South		James Trow	Liberal
Peterborough East		John Burnham	Conservative
Peterborough West		George Hilliard	Liberal-Conservative
Prescott		Félix Routhier	Conservative
Prince Edward		James Simeon McCuaig	Conservative
Renfrew North		Peter White	Conservative
Renfrew South		William Bannerman	Conservative
Russell		John O'Connor, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878	Conservative
Simcoe North		Dalton McCarthy	Conservative
Simcoe South		William Carruthers Little, died in office 31 December 1881	Liberal-Conservative
		Richard Tyrwhitt, acclaimed from 16 February 1882	Conservative
Stormont		Oscar Fulton	Liberal-Conservative
Toronto Centre		Robert Hay	Liberal
Toronto East		Samuel Platt	Independent
Victoria North		Hector Cameron	Conservative
Victoria South		Arthur McQuade	Conservative
Waterloo North		Hugo Kranz	Conservative
Waterloo South		Samuel Merner	Conservative
Welland		Christopher William Bunting	Liberal-Conservative
Wellington Centre		George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative
Wellington North		George Alexander Drew	Liberal-Conservative
Wellington South		Donald Guthrie	Liberal
Wentworth North		Thomas Bain	Liberal
Wentworth South		Joseph Rymal	Liberal
West Toronto		John Beverley Robinson until 30 June 1880	Conservative
		James Beaty, Jr. from 28 August 1880	Conservative
York East		Alfred Boultbee	Conservative
York North		Frederick William Strange	Liberal-Conservative
York West		Nathaniel Clarke Wallace	Conservative

[edit] Prince Edward Island

Electoral district		Name	Party
King's County*		Augustine Colin Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative
		Ephraim Bell Muttart	Conservative
Prince County*		James Yeo (politician)	Liberal
		Edward Hackett	Liberal-Conservative
Queen's County*		James Colledge Pope, acclaimed in by-election 9 November 1878	Conservative
		Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken	Conservative

[edit] Quebec

Electoral district		Name	Party
Argenteuil		Thomas Christie, defeated in by-election 12 February 1880	Liberal
		John Joseph Caldwell Abbott from 12 February 1880, acclaimed in by-election 17 August 1881	Liberal-Conservative
Bagot		Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, acclaimed in by-election 20 November 1880	Conservative
Beauce		Joseph Bolduc	Conservative
Beauharnois		Michael Cayley, died in office 3 December 1878	Conservative
		Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron from 9 January 1879	Conservative
Bellechasse		Achille Larue until 11 February 1881	Liberal
		Guillaume Amyot from 19 March 1881	Conservative
Berthier		Edward Octavian Cuthbert	Conservative
Bonaventure		Théodore Robitaille	Conservative
		Pierre-Clovis Beauchesne, acclaimed from 26 August 1879	Conservative
Brome		Edmund Leavens Chandler	Liberal
		David Ames Manson from 18 October 1880	Liberal-Conservative
Chambly		Pierre Basile Benoit	Conservative
Champlain		Hippolyte Montplaisir	Liberal-Conservative
Charlevoix		Pierre Alexis Tremblay, died in office 5 January 1879	Liberal
		Joseph Stanislas Perrault from 13 February 1879	Conservative
		Simon-Xavier Cimon from 19 March 1881	Conservative
Châteauguay		Luther Hamilton Holton, died in office 14 March 1880	Liberal
		Edward Holton from 17 April 1880	Liberal
Chicoutimi - Saguenay		Marie Honorius Ernest Cimon	Conservative
Compton		John Henry Pope, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878	Liberal-Conservative
Dorchester		François Fortunat Rouleau	Liberal-Conservative
Drummond - Arthabaska		Désiré Olivier Bourbeau	Conservative
Gaspé		Pierre Fortin	Conservative
Hochelaga		Alphonse Desjardins	Conservative
Huntingdon		Julius Scriver (acclaimed)	Liberal
Iverbville		François Béchard	Liberal
Jacques Cartier		Désiré Girouard	Conservative
Joliette		Louis François Georges Baby, acclaimed in by-election 14 November 1878	Conservative
		Lewis Arthur McConville from 9 December 1880	Conservative
Kamouraska		Joseph Dumont	Liberal
L'Assomption		Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative
L'Islet		Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal
Laprairie		Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative
Laval		Joseph-Aldéric Ouimet (acclaimed)	Liberal-Conservative
Lévis		Joseph-Godéric Blanchet	Liberal-Conservative
Lotbinière		Côme-Isaïe Rinfret	Liberal
Maskinongé		Frédéric Houde	Nationalist Conservative
Mégantic		Louis-Éphrem Olivier	Liberal
Missisquoi		George Barnard Baker	Liberal-Conservative
Montcalm		Firmin Dugas	Conservative
Montmagny		Auguste-Charles-Philippe-Robert Landry	Conservative
Montmorency		Pierre-Vincent Valin until 9 January 1880, re-elected 9 December 1880	Conservative
		Auguste-Réal Angers from 14 February 1880 until 12 November 1880	Conservative
Montreal Centre		Michael Patrick Ryan	Liberal-Conservative
Montreal East		Michel Charles Joseph Coursol	Conservative
Montreal West		Matthew Hamilton Gault	Conservative
Napierville		Sixte Coupal dit la Reine	Liberal
Nicolet		François Xavier Ovide Méthot	Independent Conservative
Ottawa (County of)		Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative
Pontiac		John Poupore	Conservative
Portneuf		Roch-Pamphile Vallée	Conservative
Quebec County		Joseph-Philippe-René-Adolphe Caron, acclaimed in by-election 20 November 1880	Conservative
Quebec East		Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal
Quebec West		Thomas McGreevy (acclaimed)	Liberal-Conservative
Quebec-Centre		Jacques Malouin	Independent
Richelieu		Louis Huet Massue	Liberal-Conservative
Richmond—Wolfe		William Bullock Ives	Conservative
Rimouski		Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal
Rouville		George Auguste Gigault	Conservative
Saint Maurice		Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers	Conservative
Shefford		Lucius Seth Huntington	Liberal
Sherbrooke (Town of)		Edward Towle Brooks (acclaimed)	Conservative
Soulanges		Jacques-Philippe Lanthier	Conservative
St. Hyacinthe		Louis Tellier	Conservative
St. John's		François Bourassa	Liberal
Stanstead		Charles Carroll Colby	Liberal-Conservative
Témiscouata		Paul-Étienne Grandbois	Conservative
Terrebonne		Louis-François-Rodrigue Masson, acclaimed in by-election 6 November 1878	Conservative
Three Rivers		William McDougall	Conservative
		Hector Louis Langevin, acclaimed from 21 November 1878	Conservative
Two Mountains		Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Conservative
Vaudreuil		Jean Baptiste Mongenais	Conservative
Verchères		Félix Geoffrion	Liberal
Yamaska		Charles Gill	Conservative
		Fabien Vanasse dit Vertefeuille from 7 July 1879	Conservative

[edit] References

• Government of Canada. 3rd Ministry. Guide to Canadian Ministries since Confederation. Privy Council Office. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.
• Government of Canada. 4th Parliament. Members of the House of Commons: 1867 to Date: By Parliament. Library of Parliament. Retrieved on 2006-11-30.
• Government of Canada. Duration of Sessions. Library of Parliament. Retrieved on 2006-05-12.
• Government of Canada. General Elections. Library of Parliament. Retrieved on 2006-05-12.
• Government of Canada. Key Dates for each Parliament. Library of Parliament. Retrieved on 2006-05-12.
• Government of Canada. Leaders of the Opposition in the House of Commons. Library of Parliament. Retrieved on 2006-05-12.
• Government of Canada. Prime Ministers of Canada. Library of Parliament. Retrieved on 2006-05-12.
• Government of Canada. Speakers. Library of Parliament. Retrieved on 2006-05-12.

[edit] Succession

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