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1st Parliament of Ontario
Coalition parliament
3 September 1867 – 25 February 1871
Parliament leaders
PremierJohn Sandfield Macdonald
Party caucuses
GovernmentConservative Party
OppositionLiberal Party
* Coalition government
Legislative Assembly
Speaker of the
Assembly		John Stevenson
→ 2nd

The 1st Parliament of Ontario was in session from September 3, 1867, until February 25, 1871, just prior to the 1871 general election. This was the first session of the Legislature after Confederation succeeding the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (last session was the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada).

The 1867 general election produced a virtual tie between the Conservative Party led by John Sandfield Macdonald and the Liberal Party led informally by Archibald McKellar. Macdonald ended up securing the Premiership by leading a coalition government with the support of moderate Liberals. His Cabinet, nicknamed the Patent Combination, included two conservatives (John Carling and Matthew Crooks Cameron), a coalition Grit (Edmund Burke Wood) and two old school Baldwinite Reformers (Sandfield Macdonald himself and Stephen Richards). The first ministry would survive the first parliament by less than a year, resigning in December 1871.

In the first several years of Confederation, individuals could be elected to both federal and provincial parliaments and serve as MPs and MPPs at the same time. In the first Parliament of Ontario, provincial cabinet ministers John Sandfield Macdonald, Edmund Burke Wood, and John Carling all sat in both parliaments, as did Edward Blake, Thomas Roberts Ferguson, John Lorn McDougall (after 1869) and Frederick William Cumberland (after 1871). Generally, they represented the same riding, but it was not necessarily so; for example, Edward Blake represented Bruce South in the provincial parliament but Durham West at the federal level.

John Stevenson served as speaker for the assembly.[1]

Below is a list of members of Ontario's first parliament. Bolded names are cabinet ministers; Capitalized names also sat in federal parliament.

Members

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Riding Member Party First elected Comments
Addington Edmund John Glyn Hooper Conservative 1867
Algoma FREDERICK WILLIAM CAMERON Conservative 1867
Bothwell Archibald McKellar Liberal 1867 Informal Leader of the Opposition, 1867 to c. 1868
Brant Hugh Finlayson Liberal 1867
Brant South EDMUND BURKE WOOD Conservative 1867 Treasurer in Sandfield Macdonald ministry[2]
Brockville and
Elizabethtown 		William Fitzsimmons Conservative 1867
Bruce North Donald Sinclair Liberal 1867
Bruce South EDWARD BLAKE Liberal 1867 Informal Leader of the Opposition, c. 1868 to 1872
Cardwell Thomas Swinarton Conservative 1867
Carleton Robert Lyon Liberal 1867
Cornwall JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD Conservative-Liberal
coalition 		1867 Premier and Attorney General in Sandfield Macdonald Ministry[3]
Dundas Simon S. Cook Liberal 1867
Durham East Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams Conservative 1867
Durham West John McLeod Liberal 1867
Elgin East Daniel Luton Conservative 1867
Elgin West Nicol McColl Conservative 1867
Essex Solomon Wigle Conservative 1867
Frontenac Henry Smith Conservative 1867 died September 18, 1868[4]
Delino Dexter Calvin (1868) Conservative 1868 elected October 19, 1868[5]
Glengarry James Craig Conservative 1867
Grenville South Mcneil Clarke Conservative 1867
Grey North Thomas Scott Conservative 1867
Grey South Abram William Lauder Conservative 1867
Haldimand Jacob Baxter Liberal 1867
Halton William Barber Liberal 1867
Hamilton James Miller Williams Liberal 1867
Hastings East Henry Corby Conservative 1867
Hastings North George Henry Boulter Conservative 1867
Hastings West Ketchum Graham Conservative 1867
Huron North William Torrance Hays Conservative 1867
Huron South Robert Gibbons Conservative 1867 unseated December 9, 1868 on appeal of election results[6]
Isaac Carling (1868) Liberal 1868 elected 1868?[7]
Kent John Smith Liberal 1867
Kingston Maxwell W. Strange Conservative 1867
Lambton Timothy Blair Pardee Liberal 1867
Lanark North Daniel Galbraith Liberal 1867
Lanark South William McNairn Shaw Conservative 1867 died January 6, 1869[8]
Abraham Code (1869) Conservative 1869 elected February 6, 1869[9]
Leed North and
Grenville North 		Henry Dolphus Smith Liberal 1867
Leeds South Benjamin Tett Conservative 1867
Lennox John Stevenson Conservative 1867 Speaker
Lincoln John Charles Rykert Conservative 1867
London JOHN CARLING Conservative 1867 Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works in Sandfield Macdonald ministry[10]
Middlesex East James Evans Liberal 1867
Middlesex North James Sinclair Smith Liberal 1867
Middlesex West Nathaniel Currie Conservative 1867
Monck George Secord Conservative 1867
Niagara Donald Robertson Conservative 1867 resigned December 27, 1867 to allow Stephen Richards an opportunity to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly[11]
Stephen Richards (1867) Conservative 1867 elected December 11, 1867;
Commissioner of Crown Lands in Sandfield Macdonald ministry[12]
Norfolk North James Wilson Conservative 1867
Norfolk South Simpson McCall Liberal 1867
Northumberland East John Eyre Liberal 1867
Northumberland West Alexander Fraser Liberal 1867
Ontario North Thomas Paxton Liberal 1867
Ontario South William McGill Liberal 1867
Ottawa Richard William Scott Liberal 1867
Oxford North George Perry Liberal 1867
Oxford South Adam Oliver Liberal 1867
Peel John Coyne Conservative 1867
Perth North Andrew Monteith Conservative 1867
Perth South James Trow Liberal 1867
Peterborough East George Read Conservative 1867
Peterborough West John Carnegie Conservative 1867
Prescott James P. Boyd Liberal 1867
Prince Edward Absalom Greeley Conservative 1867 resigned December 7, 1870[13]
William Anderson (1870) Liberal 1870 elected June 30, 1870[14]
Renfrew North John Supple Liberal 1867 died October 22, 1869[15]
Thomas Murray (1870) Conservative 1869 elected December 5, 1869[16]
Renfrew South JOHN LORN MCDOUGALL Liberal 1867
Russell William Craig Conservative 1867
Simcoe North William Lount Liberal 1867
Simcoe South THOMAS ROBERTS FERGUSON Conservative 1867
Stormont William Colquhoun Conservative 1867
Toronto East Matthew Crooks Cameron Conservative 1867 Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Sandfield Macdonald ministry[17]
Toronto West John Wallis Conservative 1867
Victoria North Alexander Peter Cockburn Liberal 1867
Victoria South Thomas Matchett Liberal 1867
Waterloo North Moses Springer Liberal 1867
Waterloo South Isaac Clemens Liberal 1867
Welland William Beatty Liberal 1867
Wellington Centre Alexander David Ferrier Conservative 1867
Wellington North Robert McKim Liberal 1867
Wellington South Peter Gow Liberal 1867
Wentworth North Robert Christie Liberal 1867
Wentworth South William Sexton Liberal 1867
York East Hugh Powell Crosby Liberal 1867
York North John McMurrich Liberal 1867
York West Thomas Grahame Conservative 1867

References

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  1. ^ "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
  2. ^ "Edmund Burke Wood | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  3. ^ "John Sandfield Macdonald | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  4. ^ "Henry Smith | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  5. ^ "Delino Dexter Calvin | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  6. ^ "Robert Gibbons | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. March 21, 1871.
  7. ^ "Isaac Carling | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  8. ^ "William McNairn Shaw | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  9. ^ "Abraham Code | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  10. ^ "John Carling | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  11. ^ "Donald Robertson | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  12. ^ "Stephen Richards | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  13. ^ "Absalom Greeley | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  14. ^ "William Anderson | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  15. ^ "John Supple | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  16. ^ "Thomas Murray | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
  17. ^ "Matthew Crooks Cameron | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.

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