20th Parliament of Ontario
The 20th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from October 6, 1937, until June 30, 1943, just prior to the 1943 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Mitchell Hepburn.
In 1938, the title "Member of Provincial Parliament", abbreviated as "MPP", was officially adopted by the members of the legislative assembly.
Hepburn resigned as Premier in October 1942, remaining party leader, and Gordon Daniel Conant became Premier. In 1943, Harry Nixon became both party leader and Premier after a leadership convention was held for the provincial Liberal party.
Norman Otto Hipel served as speaker for the assembly until September 2, 1938. James Howard Clark replaced Hipel as speaker.[1]
Members elected to the Assembly
[edit]Italicized names indicate members returned by acclamation.
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Timeline
[edit]| Party | 1937 | Gain/(loss) due to | 1943 | |||||
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| Changed party |
Death in office |
Resignation as MPP |
Byelection gain |
Byelection hold | ||||
| Liberal | 62 | 2 | (4) | (7) | 1 | 5 | 59 | |
| Conservative | 23 | (4) | (2) | 2 | 19 | |||
| Liberal–Progressive | 3 | (1) | 2 | |||||
| United Farmers | 1 | (1) | – | |||||
| Independent-Liberal | 1 | (1) | – | |||||
| Vacant | – | 5 | 5 | 10 | ||||
| Total | 90 | – | (4) | (4) | 1 | 7 | 90 | |
| Seat | Before | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Member | Party | Reason | Date | Member | Party | |
| Sault Ste. Marie | October 20, 1937 | Richard McMeekin | █ Liberal | Resigned to allow Campbell to enter provincial politics | November 23, 1937 | Colin Alexander Campbell[a 1] | █ Liberal |
| Hamilton Centre | January 26, 1938 | William Frederick Schwenger | █ Liberal | Appointed to Bench | March 2, 1938 | John Newlands | █ Liberal |
| Lambton East | February 3, 1938 | Milton Duncan McVicar | █ Liberal | Died in office | March 22, 1938 | Charles Oliver Fairbank | █ Liberal |
| Brantford | June 5, 1938 | Morrison Mann MacBride | █ Independent-Liberal | Died in office | July 20, 1938 | Louis Hagey | █ Liberal |
| Parkdale | July 2, 1938 | Fred McBrien | █ Conservative | Died in office | October 5, 1938 | William James Stewart | █ Conservative |
| Simcoe East | January 13, 1939 | William Finlayson | █ Conservative | Resigned to enable Drew to gain seat as new party leader | February 14, 1939 | George Drew[a 1] | █ Conservative |
| Kingston | March 7, 1940 | Thomas Ashmore Kidd | █ Conservative | Chose to stand in Kingston City in the 1940 federal election | █ Vacant | ||
| Bellwoods | March 8, 1940 | Arthur Wentworth Roebuck | █ Liberal | Chose to stand in Trinity in the 1940 federal election | █ Vacant | ||
| Huron—Bruce | March 22, 1940 | Charles Alexander Robertson | █ Liberal | Died in office | █ Vacant | ||
| Cochrane South | May 28, 1940 | Charles Vincent Gallagher | █ Liberal | Died in office | █ Vacant | ||
| High Park | May 30, 1940 | William Alexander Baird | █ Conservative | Died in office | █ Vacant | ||
| Simcoe Centre | August 18, 1940 | Leonard Jennett Simpson | █ Liberal | Died in office | October 23, 1940 | Duncan McArthur[a 1] | █ Liberal |
| Ottawa East | September 27, 1940 | Paul Leduc | █ Liberal | Appointed Registrar of Supreme Court of Canada | November 27, 1940 | Robert Laurier | █ Liberal |
| Grey South | January 23, 1941 | Farquhar Robert Oliver | █ United Farmers | Appointed Minister of Public Works | February 24, 1941 | Farquhar Robert Oliver[a 1] | █ Liberal |
| Lincoln | January 10, 1942 | Archibald Judson Haines | █ Liberal | Resigned, in protest of a liquor licence being issued despite prior guarantees that it would not happen. | █ Vacant | ||
| Fort William | January 16, 1943 | Franklin Harford Spence | █ Conservative | Died in office | █ Vacant | ||
| Ontario | May 18, 1943 | Gordon Daniel Conant | █ Liberal | Appointed Master of the Supreme Court of Ontario. | █ Vacant | ||
| Hastings East | May 20, 1943 | Harold Edward Welsh | █ Conservative | Died in office, having drowned while fishing in Algonquin Provincial Park. | █ Vacant | ||
| St. George | June 1, 1943 | Ian Thomas Strachan | █ Liberal | Appointed Registrar of Deeds for the City of Toronto. | █ Vacant | ||
- ^ a b c d Won byelection by acclamation
External links
[edit]- Members in Parliament 20 Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
References
[edit]- ^ "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-27.