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16th Parliament of Ontario

The 16th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 25, 1923, until October 18, 1926, just prior to the 1926 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Conservative Party led by George Howard Ferguson.

The United Farmers of Ontario party, who had held the balance of power in the preceding assembly, lost most of their seats to Conservatives.

The Liberals led by Wellington Hay were recognized as the Official Opposition following the 1923 election by the governing Conservatives, despite the fact that the United Farmers of Ontario had more seats. According to historian Peter Oliver, this was an arbitrary decision without basis in precedent or law. Conservative Premier G. Howard Ferguson used as justification an announcement by UFO general secretary James J. Morrison that the UFO would be withdrawing from party politics, though Oliver argues that this was facetious logic. UFO parliamentary leader Manning Doherty protested the decision, but to no avail. In the course of the parliament, most UFO MLAs reorganized themselves as the Progressive Party under the leadership of first Manning Doherty and then William Raney, with only Beniah Bowman and Leslie Warner Oke continuing as UFO MLAs.

Joseph Elijah Thompson served as speaker for the assembly.

Members of the Assembly

Listing reflects the UFO/Progressive split in 1924. Italicized names indicate members returned by acclamation.

Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected
Addington	William David Black	Conservative	1911
Algoma	Arthur Gladstone Wallis	Liberal	1923
Brant	Harry Corwin Nixon	United Farmers	1919
Brant South	Morrison Mann MacBride	Labour	1919
Brockville	Hezekiah Allan Clark	Conservative	1923
Bruce North	William Henry Fenton	United Farmers	1919
Bruce South	Malcolm Alex McCallum	United Farmers	1923
Bruce West	Alexander Patterson Mewhinney	Liberal	1919
Carleton	Adam Holland Acres	Conservative	1923
Cochrane	Malcolm Lang	Liberal	1914
Dufferin	Charles Robert McKeown	Conservative	1907, 1923
Dundas	Aaron Sweet	Conservative	1923
Durham East	Albert James Fallis	Conservative	1923
Durham West	William John Bragg	Liberal	1919
Elgin East	Michael McKnight	Conservative	1923
Elgin West	Findlay George MacDiarmid	Conservative	1898, 1899, 1923
Essex North	Edward Philip Tellier	Liberal	1923
Essex South	Adolphus T. Armstrong	Conservative	1923
Fort William	Franklin Harford Spence	Conservative	1923
Frontenac	Anthony McGuin Rankin	Conservative	1911
Glengarry	James Alexander Sangster	Liberal	1923
Grenville	George Howard Ferguson	Conservative	1905
Grey Centre	Dougall Carmichael	United Farmers	1919
Grey North	David James Taylor	United Farmers	1919
Grey South	David Jamieson	Conservative	1898, 1923
Haldimand	Richard Nixon Berry	Conservative	1923
Halton	George Hillmer	Conservative	1923
Hamilton East	Leeming Carr	Conservative	1923
Hamilton West	Arthur Campbell Garden	Conservative	1923
Hastings East	James Ferguson Hill	Conservative	1923
Hastings North	John Robert Cooke	Conservative	1911
Hastings West	William Henry Ireland	Conservative	1919
Huron Centre	Ebon Rinaldo Wigle	Conservative	1923
Huron North	John Joynt	Conservative	1919
Huron South	Nelson William Trewartha	Conservative	1923
Kenora	Peter Heenan	Labour	1919
Kent East	Manning William Doherty	United Farmers	1920
Kent West	Robert Livingstone Brackin	Liberal	1919
Kingston	William Folger Nickle	Conservative	1908, 1922
Lambton East	Leslie Warner Oke	United Farmers	1919
Lambton West	Wilfred Smith Haney	Conservative	1923
Lanark North	Thomas Alfred Thompson	Conservative	1923
Lanark South	Egerton Reuben Stedman	Conservative	1923
Leeds	Andrew Wellington Gray	Conservative	1919
Lennox	John Perry Vroomandied in 1923	Liberal	1923
Charles Wesley Hambly (1924)	Conservative	1924
Lincoln	Robert Henry Kemp	United Farmers	1923
London	Adam Beck	Conservative	1902, 1923
Manitoulin	Beniah Bowman	United FarmersOke and Bowman sat as their own UFO faction after January 1925	1918
Middlesex East	John Willard Freeborn	United Farmers	1919
Middlesex North	George Adam Elliott	Conservative	1923
Middlesex West	John Giles Lethbridge	United Farmers	1919
Muskoka	George Walter Ecclestone	Conservative	1919
Niagara Falls	William Gore Willson	Conservative	1923
Nipissing	Henri Morel	Conservative	1908, 1923
Norfolk North	George David Sewell	United Farmers	1919
Norfolk South	John Strickler Martin	Conservative	1923
Northumberland East	James Franklin Beatty Belford	Conservative	1923
Northumberland West	Samuel Clarke	Liberal	1898
Ontario North	John Wesley Widdifield	United Farmers	1919
Ontario South	William Edmund Newton Sinclair	Liberal	1911, 1919
Ottawa East	Joseph Albert Pinard	Liberal	1914
Ottawa West	Harold Fisher	Liberal	1923
Oxford North	David Munroe Ross	United Farmers	1921
Oxford South	William Henry Chambers	Conservative	1923
Parkdale	William Herbert Price	Conservative	1914
Parry Sound	George Vernon Harcourt	Conservative	1923
Peel	Thomas Laird Kennedy	Conservative	1919
Perth North	Joseph Dunsmore Monteith	Conservative	1923
Perth South	McCausland Irvine	Conservative	1923
Peterborough East	Thomas Dalton Johnston	Conservative	1923
Peterborough West	William Herbert Bradburn	Conservative	1923
Port Arthur	Francis Henry Keefer	Conservative	1923
Prescott	Edmond Proulx	Independent	1923
Prince Edward	Horace Stanley Colliver	Conservative	1923
Rainy River	John Fullarton Callan	Labour	1923
Renfrew North	Alexander Stuart	Conservative	1923
Renfrew South	John Carty	United Farmers	1919
Riverdale	George Oakley	Conservative	1923
Russell	Aurélien Bélanger	Liberal	1923
Sault Ste. Marie	James Lyons	Conservative	1923
Simcoe Centre	Charles Ernest Wright	Conservative	1923
Simcoe East	William Finlayson	Conservative	1923
Simcoe South	William Earl Rowe	Conservative	1923
Simcoe West	James Edgar Jamieson	Conservative	1923
St. Catharines	Edwin Cyrus Graves	Conservative	1923
Stormont	John Colborne Milligan	Conservative	1923
Sturgeon Falls	Zotique Mageau	Liberal	1911
Sudbury	Charles McCrea	Conservative	1911
Timiskaming	Angus John Kennedy	Conservative	1923
Toronto Northeast - A	Alexander Cameron Lewis	Conservative	1920
Toronto Northeast - B	Joseph Elijah Thompson	Conservative	1919
Toronto Northwest - A	Thomas Crawfordaccepted post	Conservative	1894
William Henry Edwards (1924)	Conservative	1924
Toronto Northwest - B	Arthur Russell Nesbitt	Conservative	1923
Toronto Southeast - A	John Allister Currie	Conservative	1922
Toronto Southeast - B	Edward William James Owens	Conservative	1911, 1923
Toronto Southwest - A	James Arthur McCausland	Conservative	1923
Toronto Southwest - B	Frederick George McBrien	Conservative	1923
Victoria North	James Raglan Mark	Conservative	1923
Victoria South	Robert John Patterson	Conservative	1923
Waterloo North	William George Weichel	Conservative	1923
Waterloo South	Karl Kenneth Homuth	Labour	1919
Welland	Marshall Vaughan	Conservative	1923
Wellington East	William Edgar Raney	United Farmers	1920
Wellington South	Lincoln Goldie	Conservative	1923
Wellington West	William Clarke Chambers	Conservative	1911, 1923
Wentworth North	Frank Campbell Biggs	United Farmers	1919
Wentworth South	Thomas Joseph Mahony	Conservative	1923
Windsor	Frank Worthington Wilson	Conservative	1923
York East	George Stewart Henry	Conservative	1913
York North	William Keith	Conservative	1923
York West	Forbes Godfrey	Conservative	1907

Timeline

Party	1923	Gain/(loss) due to	1926	Party
split	Death
in office	Resignation
as MPP	Byelection
gain	Byelection
hold
75		(1)	(2)	1	1	74
17	(15)		(1)			1
–	15		(4)			11
14		(2)	(1)			11
4			(1)			3
1						1
–		2	8			10
Total	111	–	(1)	(1)	1	1	111

Seat	Before	Change	Member	Party	Reason
Lennox	August 23, 1923	John Perry Vrooman	Died in office	October 22, 1923	Charles Wesley Hambly
Toronto Northwest - A	May 15, 1924	Thomas Crawford	Accepted provincial appointment	July 7, 1924	William Henry Edwards
Simcoe South	April 14, 1925	William Earl Rowe	Resigned to run in 1925 federal election
Kenora	April 14, 1925	Peter Heenan	Resigned to run in 1925 federal election
Cochrane	April 14, 1925	Malcolm Lang	Resigned to run in 1925 federal election
Norfolk North	April 14, 1925	George David Sewell	Resigned to run in 1925 federal election
Grey Centre	April 14, 1925	Dougall Carmichael	Resigned to run in 1925 federal election
Kent East	April 14, 1925	Manning William Doherty	Resigned seat to promote cooperative movement
London	August 15, 1925	Adam Beck	Died in office
Middlesex East	April 8, 1926	John Willard Freeborn	Resigned to run in 1926 federal election
Manitoulin	April 8, 1926	Beniah Bowman	Resigned to run in 1926 federal election
Kent West	October 11, 1926	Robert Livingstone Brackin	Died in office

Notes

References

Peter Oliver, ''G. Howard Ferguson: Ontario Tory'', (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), p. 158.)
"Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

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