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12th Canadian Parliament

12th Parliament of Canada

Field	Value
jurisdiction	CA
image	Arms of Canada 1907.svg
#	12th
type	Majority
houseimage	Cdn1911.PNG
senateimage
status	inactive
term-begin	1911-11-15
term-end	1917-10-06
pm	Robert Borden
ministry	[9th Canadian Ministry](9th-canadian-ministry)
pm-begin	1911-10-10
pm-end	1920-07-10
lo	Wilfrid Laurier
loterm	10 Oct. 1911 – 17 Feb. 1919
party	Conservative Party
& Liberal-Conservative
party2	Liberal Party
unrecparty1	Labour
partyfootnote1
sc	Thomas Simpson Sproule
scterm	15 November 1911 – 2 December 1915
sc2	Albert Sévigny
scterm2	12 January 1916 – 7 January 1917
sc3	Edgar Nelson Rhodes
scterm3	18 January 1917 – 5 March 1922
ss	Auguste Landry
ssterm	23 October 1911 – 2 June 1916
ss2	Joseph Bolduc
ssterm2	3 June 1916 – 6 February 1922
gsl	James Alexander Lougheed
gslterm	10 October 1911 – 28 December 1921
osl	Richard John Cartwright
oslterm	6 October 1911 – 24 September 1912
osl2	George William Ross
oslterm2	24 September 1912 – 7 March 1914
osl3	Hewitt Bostock
oslterm3	19 March 1914 – 1 January 1919
sessionbegin	15 November 1911
sessionend	1 April 1912
sessionbegin2	21 November 1912
sessionend2	6 June 1913
sessionbegin3	15 January 1914
sessionend3	12 June 1914
sessionbegin4	18 August 1914
sessionend4	22 August 1914
sessionbegin5	4 February 1915
sessionend5	15 April 1915
sessionbegin6	12 January 1916
sessionend6	18 May 1916
sessionbegin7	18 January 1917
sessionend7	20 September 1917
monarch	George V
monarchterm	6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
viceroy	Prince Arthur
viceroyterm	13 Oct. 1911 – 11 Nov. 1916
viceroy2	The Duke of Devonshire
viceroyterm2	11 Nov. 1916 – 11 Aug. 1921
members
senators
lastparl	11th
nextparl	13th

| # = 12th

| term-begin = 1911-11-15 | term-end = 1917-10-06

| pm-begin = 1911-10-10 | pm-end = 1920-07-10

& Liberal-Conservative

The 12th Canadian Parliament was in session from 15 November 1911 until 6 October 1917. The membership was set by the 1911 federal election on 21 September 1911, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1917 election. At 5 years, 10 months and 22 days, it was the longest parliament in Canadian history. The parliament was extended beyond the normal limit of five years by the British North America Act, 1916 as a result of World War I.

It was controlled by a Conservative/Liberal-Conservative majority under Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden and the 9th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led by Wilfrid Laurier. The last year of the wartime parliament was dominated by the Conscription Crisis of 1917. At the end of the parliament, a new ministry, the Union Government, was formed by Borden as a wartime coalition government including Liberals. Laurier refused to join and those Liberals who supported Borden took the name Liberal-Unionists. The Union Government went on to win the 1917 federal election.

The Speaker was first Thomas Simpson Sproule, and later Albert Sévigny. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1907-1914 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were seven sessions of the 12th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	15 November 1911	1 April 1912
2nd	21 November 1912	6 June 1913
3rd	15 January 1914	12 June 1914
4th	18 August 1914	22 August 1914
5th	4 February 1915	15 April 1915
6th	12 January 1916	18 May 1916
7th	18 January 1917	20 September 1917

List of members

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

Key:

Party leaders are italicized.
Parliamentary secretaries is indicated by "".
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.

[[Alberta]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Calgary	Richard Bedford Bennett	Conservative	1911
	Edmonton	Frank Oliver	Liberal	1896
	Macleod	David Warnock	Liberal	1911
	Medicine Hat	William Ashbury Buchanan	Liberal	1911
	Red Deer	Michael Clark	Liberal	1908
	Strathcona	James McCrie Douglas	Liberal	1909
	Victoria	William Henry White	Liberal	1908

[[British Columbia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Comox—Atlin	Herbert Sylvester Clements	Conservative	1904, 1911
Kootenay	Arthur Samuel Goodeve (until 4 May 1912 railway appointment)	Conservative	1908
Robert Francis Green (by-election of 30 May 1912)	Conservative	1912	1st term
	Nanaimo	Francis Henry Shepherd	Conservative	1911
	New Westminster	James Davis Taylor	Conservative	1908
	Vancouver City	Henry Herbert Stevens	Conservative	1911
	Victoria City	George Henry Barnard	Conservative	1908
Yale—Cariboo	Martin Burrell (until 10 October 1911 ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1908
Martin Burrell (by-election of 4 November 1911)	Conservative

[[Manitoba]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Brandon	James Albert Manning Aikins	Conservative	1911
	Dauphin	Robert Cruise	Liberal	1911
	Lisgar	William Henry Sharpe	Conservative	1908
Macdonald	William D. Staples (until 10 April 1912 commissioner appointment)	Conservative	1904
Alexander Morrison (by-election of 12 October 1912, until election voided 10 November 1913)	Conservative	1912	1st term
Alexander Morrison (by-election of 13 December 1913)	Conservative
Marquette	William James Roche (until 10 October 1911 Secretary of State appointment)	Conservative	1896
William James Roche (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Conservative
Portage la Prairie	Arthur Meighen (until 26 June 1913 Solicitor General appointment)	Conservative	1908
Arthur Meighen (by-election of 19 July 1913)	Conservative
	Provencher	John Patrick Molloy	Liberal	1908
	Selkirk	George Henry Bradbury	Conservative	1908
	Souris	Frederick Laurence Schaffner	Conservative	1904
Winnipeg	Alexander Haggart (resigned 11 October 1911)	Conservative	1908
Robert Rogers (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Conservative	1911	1st term

[[New Brunswick]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Carleton	Frank Broadstreet Carvell	Liberal	1904
	Charlotte	Thomas Aaron Hartt	Conservative	1911
City and County of St. John	John Waterhouse Daniel (resigned 17 October 1911)	Conservative	1904
John Douglas Hazen (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Conservative	1891, 1911	2nd term*
	City of St. John	William Pugsley	Liberal	1904
	Gloucester	Onésiphore Turgeon	Liberal	1900
	Kent	Ferdinand-Joseph Robidoux	Conservative	1911
	King's and Albert	George William Fowler	Conservative	1900, 1911
	Northumberland	William Stewart Loggie	Liberal	1904
	Restigouche	James Reid	Liberal	1900
	Sunbury—Queen's	Hugh Havelock McLean	Liberal	1908
	Victoria	Pius Michaud	Liberal	1907
Westmorland	Henry Emmerson (died 9 July 1914)	Liberal	1900
Arthur Bliss Copp (by-election of 1 February 1915)	Liberal	1915	1st term
York	Oswald Smith Crocket (until 11 December 1913 judicial appointment)	Conservative	1904
Harry Fulton McLeod (by-election of 31 December 1913)	Conservative	1913	1st term

[[Nova Scotia]]

Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
	Annapolis	Avard Longley Davidson	Conservative	1911
		Antigonish	William Chisholm	Liberal	1905
		Cape Breton South	William F. Carroll	Liberal	1911
		Colchester	John Stanfield	Conservative	1907
		Cumberland	Edgar Nelson Rhodes (†)	Conservative	1908
		Digby	Clarence Jameson	Conservative	1908
		Guysborough	John Howard Sinclair	Liberal	1904
	Halifax*	*Robert Laird Borden* (until 10 October 1911 Prime Minister appointment)	Conservative	1896, 1905
	*Robert Laird Borden* (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Conservative
	Alexander Kenneth Maclean	Liberal	1904	3rd term
		Hants	Hadley Brown Tremain	Conservative	1911
		Inverness	Alexander William Chisholm	Liberal	1908
		Kings	Arthur de Witt Foster	Conservative	1911
		Lunenburg	Dugald Stewart	Conservative	1911
		North Cape Breton and Victoria	Daniel Duncan McKenzie	Liberal	1904, 1908
		Pictou	Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal	1904
		Richmond	George William Kyte	Liberal	1908
		Shelburne and Queen's	Fleming Blanchard McCurdy {{double dagger}}	Conservative	1911
	Yarmouth	Bowman Brown Law	Liberal	1902
Bowman Brown Law died in the 1916 Parliament fire	Vacant

[[Ontario]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Algoma East	William Ross Smyth	Conservative	1908
	Algoma West	Arthur Cyril Boyce	Conservative	1904
	Brantford	William Foster Cockshutt	Conservative	1904, 1911
	Brant	John Henry Fisher	Conservative	1911
	Brockville	John Webster	Conservative	1911
	Bruce North		Hugh Clark {{double dagger}}	Conservative	1911
Bruce South	James J. Donnelly (until 26 May 1913 Senate appointment)	Conservative	1904, 1908
Reuben Eldridge Truax (by-election of 30 October 1913)	Liberal	1913	1st term
Carleton	Edward Kidd (died 16 September 1912)	Conservative	1909
William Foster Garland (by-election of 30 October 1912)	Conservative	1912	1st term
	Dufferin	John Best	Conservative	1909
	Dundas	Andrew Broder	Conservative	1896
	Durham	Charles Jonas Thornton	Conservative	1900, 1908
	Elgin East	David Marshall	Conservative	1906
Elgin West	Thomas Wilson Crothers (until 10 October 1911 ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1908
Thomas Wilson Crothers (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Conservative
	Essex North	Oliver James Wilcox	Conservative	1909
	Essex South	Alfred Henry Clarke	Liberal	1904
	Frontenac	John Wesley Edwards	Conservative	1908
	Glengarry	John Angus McMillan	Liberal	1908
Grenville	John Dowsley Reid (until 10 October 1911 ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1896
John Dowsley Reid (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Conservative
	Grey East	Thomas Simpson Sproule (†)	Conservative	1878
	Grey North	William Sora Middlebro	Conservative	1908
	Grey South	Robert James Ball	Conservative	1911
	Haldimand	Francis Ramsey Lalor	Conservative	1904
	Halton	David Henderson	Conservative	1887, 1888
	Hamilton East	Samuel Barker	Conservative	1900
	Hamilton West	Thomas Joseph Stewart	Conservative	1908
	Hastings East	William Barton Northrup	Conservative	1892, 1900
	Hastings West	Edward Guss Porter	Conservative	1902
	Huron East	James Bowman	Conservative	1911
	Huron South	Jonathan Joseph Merner	Conservative	1911
	Huron West	Edward Norman Lewis	Conservative	1904
	Kent East	David Alexander Gordon	Liberal	1904
	Kent West	Archibald Blake McCoig	Liberal	1908
	Kingston	William Folger Nickle	Conservative	1911
	Lambton East	Joseph Elijah Armstrong	Conservative	1904
	Lambton West	Frederick Forsyth Pardee	Liberal	1905
	Lanark North	William Thoburn	Conservative	1908
Lanark South	John Graham Haggart (died 13 March 1913)	Conservative	1872
Adelbert Edward Hanna (by-election of 13 December 1913)	Conservative	1913	1st term
Leeds	George Taylor (resigned 25 October 1911)	Conservative	1882
William Thomas White (by-election of 6 November 1911)	Conservative	1911	1st term
	Lennox and Addington	William James Paul	Conservative	1911
	Lincoln	Edward Arthur Lancaster	Conservative	1900
London	Thomas Beattie (died 2 December 1914)	Conservative	1891, 1900
William Gray (by-election of 1 February 1915)	Conservative	1915	1st term
Middlesex East	Peter Elson (died 11 June 1913)	Conservative	1904
Samuel Francis Glass (by-election of 21 October 1913)	Conservative	1913	1st term
	Middlesex North	George Adam Elliott	Conservative	1911
	Middlesex West	Duncan Campbell Ross	Liberal	1909
	Muskoka	William Wright	Conservative	1904
Nipissing	George Gordon (resigned 25 October 1911)	Conservative	1908
Francis Cochrane (by-election of 8 November 1911)	Conservative	1911	1st term
	Norfolk	William Andrew Charlton	Liberal	1911
	Northumberland East	Henry Joseph Walker	Conservative	1911
	Northumberland West	Charles Arthur Munson	Conservative	1911
	Ontario North	Samuel Simpson Sharpe	Conservative	1908
	Ontario South	William Smith	Conservative	1887, 1892, 1911
Ottawa (City of)*	John Léo Chabot	Conservative	1911
Alfred Ernest Fripp	Conservative	1911	1st term
	Oxford North	Edward Walter Nesbitt	Liberal	1908
	Oxford South	Donald Sutherland	Conservative	1911
	Parry Sound	James Arthurs	Conservative	1908
	Peel	Richard Blain	Conservative	1900
	Perth North	Hugh Boulton Morphy	Conservative	1911
	Perth South	Michael Steele	Conservative	1911
	Peterborough East	John Albert Sexsmith	Conservative	1908
	Peterborough West	John Hampden Burnham	Conservative	1911
	Prescott	Edmond Proulx	Liberal	1904
	Prince Edward	Bernard Rickart Hepburn	Conservative	1911
	Renfrew North	Gerald Verner White	Conservative	1906
Renfrew South	Thomas Andrew Low (until resignation)	Liberal	1908
George Perry Graham (by-election of 22 February 1912)	Liberal	1907, 1912	3rd term*
	Russell	Charles Murphy	Liberal	1904
	Simcoe East	William Humphrey Bennett	Conservative	1892, 1911
	Simcoe North	John Allister Currie	Conservative	1908
Simcoe South	Haughton Lennox (until judicial appointment)	Conservative	1900
William Alves Boys (by-election of 10 June 1912)	Conservative	1912	1st term
	Stormont	Duncan Orestes Alguire	Conservative	1911
	Thunder Bay and Rainy River	John James Carrick	Conservative	1911
	Toronto Centre	Edmund James Bristol	Conservative	1905
Toronto East	Albert Edward Kemp (until ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1900, 1911
Albert Edward Kemp (by-election of 14 December 1916)	Conservative
Toronto North	George Eulas Foster (until ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1882, 1904
George Eulas Foster (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Conservative
	Toronto South	Angus Claude Macdonell	Conservative	1904
	Toronto West	Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative	1896
Victoria	Sam Hughes (until ministerial appointment)	Liberal-Conservative	1892
Sam Hughes (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Liberal-Conservative
	Waterloo North	William George Weichel	Conservative	1911
Waterloo South	George Adam Clare (died in office)	Conservative	1900
Frank Stewart Scott (by-election of 1 February 1915)	Conservative	1915	1st term
	Welland	William Manly German	Liberal	1891, 1900
	Wellington North	William Aurelius Clarke	Conservative	1911
	Wellington South	Hugh Guthrie	Liberal	1900
	Wentworth	Gordon Crooks Wilson	Conservative	1911
	York Centre	Thomas George Wallace	Conservative	1908
	York North	John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong	Conservative	1911
	York South	William Findlay Maclean	Independent Conservative	1892

[[Prince Edward Island]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's	James Joseph Hughes	Liberal	1900, 1911
	Prince	James William Richards	Liberal	1908
Queen's*	Angus Alexander McLean	Conservative	1904, 1911
Donald Nicholson	Conservative	1911	1st term

[[Quebec]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	George Halsey Perley	Conservative	1904
	Bagot	Joseph Edmond Marcile	Liberal	1898
	Beauce	Henri Sévérin Béland	Liberal	1902
	Beauharnois	Louis-Joseph Papineau	Conservative	1908
	Bellechasse	Joseph Octave Lavallée	Conservative	1911
	Berthier	Joseph Arthur Barrette	Conservative	1911
	Bonaventure	Charles Marcil	Liberal	1900
	Brome	George Harold Baker	Conservative	1911
	Chambly—Verchères	Joseph Hormisdas Rainville	Conservative	1911
Champlain	Pierre Édouard Blondin (until 20 October 1914 ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1908
Pierre Édouard Blondin (by-election of 7 November 1914)	Conservative
	Charlevoix	Joseph David Rodolphe Forget	Conservative	1904
	Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Joseph Girard	Independent Conservative	1900
Châteauguay	James Pollock Brown (died 30 May 1913)	Liberal	1891
James Morris (by-election of 11 October 1913)	Conservative	1913	1st term
	Compton	Frederick Robert Cromwell	Conservative	1911
Dorchester	Albert Sévigny (until 8 January 1917 ministerial appointment) (†)	Conservative	1911
Albert Sévigny (by-election of 27 January 1917) (†)	Conservative
	Drummond—Arthabaska	Joseph Ovide Brouillard	Liberal	1911
	Gaspé	Louis-Philippe Gauthier	Conservative	1911
Hochelaga	Louis Coderre (until 29 October 1912 Secretary of State appointment)	Conservative	1911
Louis Coderre (by-election of 19 November 1912, until 6 October 1915 judicial appointment)	Conservative
Esioff-Léon Patenaude (by-election of 15 October 1915)	Conservative	1915	1st term
	Huntingdon	James Alexander Robb	Liberal	1908
Jacques Cartier	Frederick Debartzch Monk (until 10 October 1911 ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1896
Frederick Debartzch Monk (by-election of 27 October 1911, resigned 2 March 1914)	Conservative
Joseph Adélard Descarries (by-election of 1 February 1915)	Conservative	1915	1st term
	Joliette	Joseph Pierre Octave Guilbault	Conservative	1911
	Kamouraska	Ernest Lapointe	Liberal	1904
Labelle	Honoré Achim	Conservative	1911
Liberal
	Laprairie—Napierville	Roch Lanctôt	Liberal	1904
	L'Assomption	Paul-Arthur Séguin	Liberal	1908
	Laval	Charles Avila Wilson	Liberal	1908
	Lévis	Joseph Boutin Bourassa	Liberal	1911
	L'Islet	Eugène Paquet	Conservative	1904
	Lotbinière	Edmond Fortier	Liberal	1900
	Maisonneuve	Alphonse Verville	Labour	1906
	Maskinongé	Adélard Bellemare	Independent Conservative	1911
	Mégantic	Lucien Turcotte Pacaud	Liberal	1911
	Missisquoi	William Frederic Kay	Liberal	1911
	Montcalm	David Arthur Lafortune	Liberal	1909
	Montmagny	David Ovide L'Espérance	Conservative	1911
	Montmorency	Joseph David Rodolphe Forget	Conservative	1904
	Nicolet	Paul-Émile Lamarche	Conservative	1911
	Pontiac	Gerald Hugh Brabazon	Conservative	1904, 1911
	Portneuf	Michel-Siméon Delisle	Liberal	1900
	Quebec-Centre	Arthur Lachance	Liberal	1905
Quebec County	Louis-Philippe Pelletier (until 10 October 1911 Postmaster General appointment)	Conservative	1911
Louis-Philippe Pelletier (by-election of 27 October 1911, resigned 20 October 1914)	Conservative
Thomas Chase Casgrain (by-election of 7 November 1914)	Conservative	1914	1st term
	Quebec East	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
	Quebec West	William Power	Liberal	1902, 1911
Richelieu	Arthur Cardin (until election voided 29 April 1912)	Liberal	1911
Arthur Cardin (by-election of 24 October 1912)	Liberal
	Richmond—Wolfe	Edmund William Tobin	Liberal	1900
	Rimouski	Herménégilde Boulay	Conservative	1911
	Rouville	Rodolphe Lemieux	Liberal	1896
St. Anne	Charles Joseph Doherty (until 10 October 1911)	Conservative	1908
Charles Joseph Doherty (by-election of 27 October 1911)	Conservative
	St. Antoine	Herbert Brown Ames	Conservative	1904
	St. Hyacinthe	Louis Joseph Gauthier	Liberal	1911
	St. James	Louis Audet Lapointe	Liberal	1911
	St. Johns—Iberville	Marie Joseph Demers	Liberal	1906
	St. Lawrence	Robert Bickerdike	Liberal	1900
	St. Mary	Médéric Martin	Liberal	1908
	Shefford	Georges Henri Boivin	Liberal	1911
	Town of Sherbrooke	Francis N. McCrea	Liberal	1911
	Soulanges	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
	Stanstead	Charles Henry Lovell	Liberal	1907
	Témiscouata	Charles Arthur Gauvreau	Liberal	1897
Terrebonne	Wilfrid Bruno Nantel (until 10 October 1911 ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1908
Wilfrid Bruno Nantel (by-election of 27 October 1911, until 20 October 1914 railway appointment)	Conservative
Gédéon Rochon (by-election of 8 February 1915)	Conservative	1915	1st term
	Three Rivers and St. Maurice	Jacques Bureau	Liberal	1900
	Two Mountains	Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier	Liberal	1896
	Vaudreuil	Gustave Benjamin Boyer	Liberal	1904
	Wright	Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin	Liberal	1904
	Yamaska	Albéric Archie Mondou	Conservative	1911

[[Saskatchewan]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Assiniboia	John Gillanders Turriff	Liberal	1904
	Battleford	Albert Champagne	Liberal	1908
	Humboldt	David Bradley Neely	Liberal	1908
	Mackenzie	Edward L. Cash	Liberal	1904
	Moose Jaw	William Erskine Knowles	Liberal	1908
Prince Albert	James McKay (until 16 December 1914 judicial appointment)	Conservative	1911
Samuel James Donaldson (by-election of 1 February 1915)	Conservative	1915	1st term
	Qu'Appelle	Levi Thomson	Liberal	1911
	Regina	William Melville Martin	Liberal	1908
	Saltcoats	Thomas MacNutt	Liberal	1908
	Saskatoon	George Ewan McCraney	Liberal	1908

[[Yukon]]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
		Yukon	Alfred Thompson	Conservative	1904, 1911

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 12th Canadian Parliament

References

Notes

Succession

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