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17th Canadian Parliament

17th parliamentary term of the Parliament of Canada

Field	Value
jurisdiction	CA
image	Coat of arms of Canada (1921–1957).svg
#	17th
type	Majority
houseimage	Chambre des Communes 1930.png
senateimage
status	inactive
term-begin	1930-09-08
term-end	1935-08-14
pm	R. B. Bennett
ministry	[15th Canadian Ministry](15th-canadian-ministry)
pm-begin	1930-08-07
pm-end	1935-10-23
loterm	7 August 1930 – 22 October 1935
party	Conservative Party
party2	Liberal Party
party3	United Farmers of Alberta
party4	Progressive Party
party5	Labour
sc	George Black
scterm	8 September 1930 – 16 January 1935
sc2	James Langstaff Bowman
scterm2	17 January 1935 – 5 February 1936
ss	Pierre-Édouard Blondin
ssterm	3 September 1930 – 10 January 1936
gsl	Wellington Bartley Willoughby
gslterm	7 August 1930 – 3 February 1932
gsl2	Arthur Meighen
gslterm2	3 February 1932 – 22 October 1935
osl	Raoul Dandurand
oslterm	7 August 1930 – 22 October 1935
sessionbegin	8 September 1930
sessionend	22 September 1930
sessionbegin2	12 March 1931
sessionend2	3 August 1931
sessionbegin3	4 February 1932
sessionend3	26 May 1932
sessionbegin4	6 October 1932
sessionend4	27 May 1933
sessionbegin5	25 January 1934
sessionend5	3 July 1934
sessionbegin6	17 January 1935
sessionend6	5 July 1935
monarch	George V
monarchterm	6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
viceroy	Vere Ponsonby
viceroyterm	4 April 1931 – 2 November 1935
members	245
senators
lastparl	16th
nextparl	18th

| # = 17th

| term-begin = 1930-09-08 | term-end = 1935-08-14

| pm-begin = 1930-08-07 | pm-end = 1935-10-23

The 17th Canadian Parliament was in session from 8 September 1930, until 14 August 1935. The membership was set by the 1930 federal election on 28 July 1930, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1935 election.

It was controlled by a Conservative Party majority under Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett and the 15th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led by William Lyon Mackenzie King.

The Speaker was first George Black, and later James Langstaff Bowman. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1924-1933 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

It was the third longest parliament in Canadian history.

There were six sessions of the 17th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	8 September 1930	22 September 1930
2nd	12 March 1931	3 August 1931
3rd	4 February 1932	26 May 1932
4th	6 October 1932	27 May 1933
5th	25 January 1934	3 July 1934
6th	17 January 1935	5 July 1935

List of members

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

Key:

Party leaders are italicized.
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
Acadia	Robert Gardiner	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
Athabaska	John Francis Buckley (died 27 November 1931)	Liberal	1930
Percy Griffith Davies (by-election of 1932-03-21)	Conservative	1932	1st term
	Battle River	Henry Elvins Spencer	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
	Bow River	Edward Joseph Garland	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
	Calgary East	George Douglas Stanley	Conservative	1930
Calgary West	*Richard Bedford Bennett* (until 7 July 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1911, 1925
*Richard Bedford Bennett* (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Camrose	William Thomas Lucas	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
	Edmonton East	Ambrose Bury	Conservative	1925, 1930
	Edmonton West	Charles Stewart	Liberal	1925
	Lethbridge	John Smith Stewart	Conservative	1930
	Macleod	George Gibson Coote	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
	Medicine Hat	Frederick William Gershaw	Liberal	1925
	Peace River	Donald MacBeth Kennedy	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
	Red Deer	Alfred Speakman	United Farmers of Alberta	1921
	Vegreville	Michael Luchkovich	United Farmers of Alberta	1926
	Wetaskiwin	William Irvine	United Farmers of Alberta	1921, 1926

[[British Columbia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Cariboo	John Fraser	Conservative	1925
	Comox—Alberni	Alan Webster Neill	Independent	1921
	Fraser Valley	Harry James Barber	Conservative	1925
Kootenay East	Michael Dalton McLean (until 7 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1930
Henry Herbert Stevens (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative	1911	6th term
	Kootenay West	William Esling	Conservative	1925
	Nanaimo	Charles Dickie	Conservative	1921
	New Westminster	Thomas Reid	Liberal	1930
	Skeena	Olof Hanson	Liberal	1930
	Vancouver—Burrard	Wilfred Hanbury	Liberal	1930
	Vancouver Centre	Ian Alistair Mackenzie	Liberal	1930
	Vancouver North	Albert Edward Munn	Liberal	1930
	Vancouver South	Angus MacInnis	Independent Labour	1930
	Victoria	D'Arcy Plunkett	Conservative	1928
	Yale	Grote Stirling	Conservative	1924

[[Manitoba]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Brandon	David Wilson Beaubier	Conservative	1930
	Dauphin	James Langstaff Bowman (†)	Conservative	1930
	Lisgar	John Livingstone Brown	Liberal-Progressive	1921
	Macdonald	William Gilbert Weir	Liberal-Progressive	1930
	Marquette	Henry Mullins	Conservative	1925, 1930
Neepawa	Thomas Gerow Murphy (until 7 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1925, 1930
Thomas Gerow Murphy (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Nelson	Bernard Munroe Stitt	Conservative	1930
	Portage la Prairie	William Herbert Burns	Conservative	1930
	Provencher	Arthur-Lucien Beaubien	Liberal-Progressive	1921
	Selkirk	James Herbert Stitt	Conservative	1930
	Souris	Errick Willis	Progressive Conservative	1930
	Springfield	Thomas Hay	Conservative	1917, 1925, 1930
	St. Boniface	John Power Howden	Liberal	1925
	Winnipeg North	A. A. Heaps	Labour	1925
	Winnipeg North Centre	J. S. Woodsworth	Labour	1921
	Winnipeg South	Robert Rogers	Conservative	1911, 1925, 1930
	Winnipeg South Centre	William Walker Kennedy	Conservative	1925, 1930

[[New Brunswick]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Charlotte	Arthur D. Ganong	Conservative	1930
	Gloucester	Peter Veniot	Liberal	1926
	Kent	Télesphore Arsenault	Conservative	1930
	Northumberland	George Manning McDade	Conservative	1930
Restigouche—Madawaska	Maxime Cormier	Conservative	1930
Joseph-Enoil Michaud (by-election of 1933-10-23)	Liberal	1933	1st term
Royal	George Burpee Jones	Conservative	1921
George Burpee Jones (by-election of 1932-06-27)	Conservative
St. John—Albert*	Thomas Bell	Conservative	1925
Murray MacLaren	Conservative	1921	4th term
Murray MacLaren (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Victoria—Carleton	Benjamin Franklin Smith	Conservative	1930
	Westmorland	Otto Baird Price	Conservative	1925
	York—Sunbury	Richard Hanson	Conservative	1921

[[Nova Scotia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Antigonish—Guysborough	William Duff	Liberal	1917, 1927
	Cape Breton North—Victoria	Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone	Conservative	1925
	Cape Breton South	Finlay MacDonald	Conservative	1925
	Colchester	Martin Luther Urquhart	Liberal	1930
	Cumberland	Robert Knowlton Smith	Conservative	1925
	Digby—Annapolis	Harry Short	Conservative	1925
Halifax*	William Anderson Black	Conservative	1923
Felix Patrick Quinn	Conservative	1925	3rd term
	Hants—Kings	James Lorimer Ilsley	Liberal	1926
	Inverness	Isaac Duncan MacDougall	Conservative	1925
	Pictou	Thomas Cantley	Conservative	1925
	Queens—Lunenburg	William Gordon Ernst	Conservative	1926
Richmond—West Cape Breton	John Alexander Macdonald (until 22 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1925
Edgar Nelson Rhodes (by-election of 1930-09-02)	Conservative	1908, 1930	4th term*
	Shelburne—Yarmouth	James Ralston	Liberal	1926

[[Ontario]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Algoma East	George Nicholson	Conservative	1917, 1925, 1930
	Algoma West	Thomas Edward Simpson	Conservative	1917
	Brantford City	Robert Edwy Ryerson	Conservative	1925
	Brant	Franklin Smoke	Conservative	1925
	Bruce North	James Malcolm	Liberal	1921
	Bruce South	Walter Allan Hall	Liberal	1925
	Carleton	William Foster Garland	Conservative	1912, 1921
	Dufferin—Simcoe	William Earl Rowe	Conservative	1925
	Durham	Fred Wellington Bowen	Conservative	1921
Elgin West	Mitchell Hepburn (resigned 8 June 1934)	Liberal	1926
Wilson Mills (by-election of 1934-09-24)	Liberal	1934	1st term
	Essex East	Raymond Ducharme Morand	Conservative	1925, 1930
	Essex South	Eccles James Gott	Conservative	1925
	Essex West	Sidney Cecil Robinson	Conservative	1925
Fort William	Robert Manion (until 7 August 1930 ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1917
Robert Manion (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
Frontenac—Addington	William Spankie (died 27 May 1934)	Conservative	1929
Colin Campbell (by-election of 1934-09-24)	Liberal	1934	1st term
	Glengarry	Angus McGillis	Conservative	1930
	Grenville—Dundas	Arza Clair Casselman	Conservative	1921, 1925
	Grey North	Victor Porteous	Conservative	1930
	Grey Southeast	Agnes Macphail	Progressive	1921
	Haldimand	Mark Senn	Conservative	1921
	Halton	Robert King Anderson	Conservative	1917
Hamilton East	George Rennie (died 13 October 1930)	Conservative	1926
Humphrey Mitchell (by-election of 1931-08-10)	Labour	1931	1st term
	Hamilton West	Charles William Bell	Conservative	1925
	Hastings—Peterborough	Alexander Thomas Embury	Conservative	1925
	Hastings South	William Ernest Tummon	Conservative	1925
	Huron North	George Spotton	Conservative	1927
Huron South	Thomas McMillan (died 7 June 1932)	Liberal	1925
William Henry Golding (by-election of 1932-10-03)	Liberal	1932	1st term
Kenora—Rainy River	Peter Heenan (resigned 10 July 1934 to take seat in Ontario Legislature)	Liberal	1925
Hugh McKinnon (by-election of 1934-09-24)	Liberal	1934	1st term
	Kent	James Rutherford	Liberal	1926
	Kingston City	Arthur Edward Ross	Conservative	1921
	Lambton East	John Thomas Sproule	Conservative	1930
	Lambton West	Ross Gray	Liberal	1929
	Lanark	Thomas Alfred Thompson	Conservative	1930
Leeds	Hugh Alexander Stewart (until 7 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1921
Hugh Alexander Stewart (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Lincoln	James Dew Chaplin	Conservative	1917
	London	John Franklin White	Conservative	1921
	Middlesex East	Frank Boyes	Conservative	1930
	Middlesex West	John Campbell Elliott	Liberal	1925
	Muskoka—Ontario	Peter McGibbon	Conservative	1925
	Nipissing	Raoul Hurtubise	Liberal	1930
	Norfolk—Elgin	William Horace Taylor	Liberal	1926
	Northumberland	William Alexander Fraser	Liberal	1930
	Ontario	William Henry Moore	Liberal	1930
Ottawa (City of)*	T. Franklin Ahearn	Liberal	1930
Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier	Liberal	1921, 1926	3rd term*
Oxford North	Donald Matheson Sutherland (until emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1925, 1930
Donald Matheson Sutherland (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
Oxford South	Thomas Merritt Cayley (died in office)	Liberal	1926
Almon Rennie (by-election of 1934-04-16)	Liberal	1934	1st term
	Parkdale	David Spence	Conservative	1921
	Parry Sound	James Arthurs	Conservative	1908
	Peel	Samuel Charters	Conservative	1917
	Perth North	David McKenzie Wright	Conservative	1925, 1930
	Perth South	Fred Sanderson	Liberal	1925
	Peterborough West	Edward Armour Peck	Conservative	1925
	Port Arthur—Thunder Bay	Donald James Cowan	Conservative	1926
	Prescott	Elie-Oscar Bertrand	Liberal	1929
	Prince Edward—Lennox	John Aaron Weese	Conservative	1930
	Renfrew North	Ira Delbert Cotnam	Conservative	1925
	Renfrew South	Martin James Maloney	Conservative	1925
	Russell	Alfred Goulet	Liberal	1925
	Simcoe East	Alfred Burke Thompson	Conservative	1925
	Simcoe North	John Thomas Simpson	Conservative	1930
	Stormont	Frank Thomas Shaver	Conservative	1930
	Timiskaming North	Joseph-Arthur Bradette	Liberal	1926
Timiskaming South	Wesley Ashton Gordon (until ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1930
Wesley Ashton Gordon (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
Toronto East	Edmond Baird Ryckman (until ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1921
Edmond Baird Ryckman (by-election of 1930-08-25, then died in office)	Conservative
Thomas Langton Church (by-election of 1934-09-24)	Conservative	1934	1st term
	Toronto East Centre	Robert Charles Matthews	Conservative	1926
	Toronto—High Park	Alexander James Anderson	Conservative	1925
	Toronto Northeast	Richard Langton Baker	Conservative	1925, 1930
	Toronto Northwest	John Ritchie MacNicol	Conservative	1930
	Toronto—Scarborough	Joseph Henry Harris	Conservative	1921
	Toronto South	George Reginald Geary	Conservative	1925
	Toronto West Centre	Samuel Factor	Liberal	1930
	Victoria	Thomas Hubert Stinson	Conservative	1925
	Waterloo North	William Daum Euler	Liberal	1917
	Waterloo South	Alexander Edwards	Conservative	1925
	Welland	George Hamilton Pettit	Conservative	1925
	Wellington North	John Knox Blair	Liberal	1930
Wellington South	Hugh Guthrie (until ministerial appointment)	Conservative	1900
Hugh Guthrie (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Wentworth	Gordon Crooks Wilson	Conservative	1911
York North	Thomas Herbert Lennox (died in office)	Conservative	1925
William Pate Mulock (by-election of 1934-09-24)	Liberal	1934	1st term
	York South	Robert Henry McGregor	Conservative	1926
	York West	Earl Lawson	Conservative	1928

[[Prince Edward Island]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's	John Alexander Macdonald	Conservative	1925
	Prince	Alfred Edgar MacLean	Liberal	1921
Queen's*	Chester McLure	Conservative	1930
John Howard Myers	Conservative	1930	1st term

[[Quebec]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	George Halsey Perley	Conservative	1904, 1925
	Bagot	Cyrille Dumaine	Liberal	1930
	Beauce	Édouard Lacroix	Liberal	1925
	Beauharnois	Maxime Raymond	Liberal	1925
	Bellechasse	Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger	Liberal	1926
	Berthier—Maskinongé	Joseph-Arthur Barrette	Conservative	1911, 1930
	Bonaventure	Charles Marcil	Liberal	1900
	Brome—Missisquoi	Follin Horace Pickel	Conservative	1930
	Cartier	Samuel William Jacobs	Liberal	1917
Chambly—Verchères	Alfred Duranleau (until 7 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1930
Alfred Duranleau (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Champlain	Jean-Louis Baribeau	Conservative	1930
	Charlevoix—Saguenay	Pierre-François Casgrain	Liberal	1917
	Chicoutimi	Alfred Dubuc	Liberal	1925
	Châteauguay—Huntingdon	John Clarke Moore	Conservative	1930
	Compton	Samuel Gobeil	Conservative	1930
	Dorchester	Onésime Gagnon	Conservative	1930
	Drummond—Arthabaska	Wilfrid Girouard	Liberal	1925
	Gaspé	Maurice Brasset	Liberal	1930
	Hochelaga	Édouard-Charles St-Père	Liberal	1921
	Hull	Alphonse Fournier	Liberal	1930
	Jacques Cartier	Georges-Philippe Laurin	Conservative	1930
	Joliette	Charles-Édouard Ferland	Liberal	1928
	Kamouraska	Joseph Georges Bouchard	Liberal	1922
	Labelle	Henri Bourassa	Independent	1896, 1925
	Lake St. John	Joseph-Léonard Duguay	Conservative	1930
	Laprairie—Napierville	Vincent Dupuis	Liberal	1929
	L'Assomption—Montcalm	Paul-Arthur Séguin	Liberal	1908
	Laurier—Outremont	Joseph-Alexandre Mercier	Liberal	1925
Laval—Two Mountains	Arthur Sauvé (until 7 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1930
Arthur Sauvé (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Lévis	Émile Fortin	Conservative	1930
	L'Islet	Joseph-Fernand Fafard	Liberal	1917
	Lotbinière	Joseph-Achille Verville	Liberal	1925
Maisonneuve	Clément Robitaille (died 16 January 1932)	Liberal	1921
Joseph Jean (by-election of 1932-06-27)	Liberal	1932	1st term
	Matane	Henri LaRue	Conservative	1930
	Mégantic	Eusèbe Roberge	Liberal	1922
	Montmagny	Armand Lavergne	Conservative	1904, 1930
	Mount Royal	Robert Smeaton White	Conservative	1888, 1925
	Nicolet	Lucien Dubois	Liberal	1930
	Pontiac	Charles Bélec	Conservative	1930
	Portneuf	Jules Desrochers	Liberal	1930
	Québec—Montmorency	Charles-Napoléon Dorion	Conservative	1930
	Quebec East	Ernest Lapointe	Liberal	1904
	Quebec South	Charles Gavan Power	Liberal	1917
Quebec West	Maurice Dupré (until 7 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1930
Maurice Dupré (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Richelieu	Arthur Cardin	Liberal	1911
	Richmond—Wolfe	François-Joseph Laflèche	Conservative	1930
	Rimouski	Eugène Fiset	Liberal	1924
	St. Ann	John Alexander Sullivan	Conservative	1930
	St. Antoine	Leslie Gordon Bell	Conservative	1925
	St. Denis	Arthur Denis	Liberal	1921
	St. Henri	Paul Mercier	Liberal	1921
	St. Hyacinthe—Rouville	Adélard Fontaine	Liberal	1930
	St. James	Fernand Rinfret	Liberal	1920
	St. Johns—Iberville	Martial Rhéaume	Liberal	1930
St. Lawrence—St. George	Charles Cahan (until 7 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1925
Charles Cahan (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	St. Mary	Hermas Deslauriers	Liberal	1917
	Shefford	J.-Eugène Tétreault	Conservative	1926
	Sherbrooke	Charles Benjamin Howard	Liberal	1925
	Stanstead	John Thomas Hackett	Conservative	1930
	Terrebonne	Louis-Étienne Parent	Liberal	1930
Three Rivers—St. Maurice	Arthur Bettez (died 4 January 1931)	Liberal	1925
Charles Bourgeois (by-election of 1931-08-10)	Conservative	1931	1st term
	Témiscouata	Jean-François Pouliot	Liberal	1924
	Vaudreuil—Soulanges	Joseph Thauvette	Liberal	1930
	Wright	Fizalam-William Perras	Liberal	1925
Yamaska	Aimé Boucher (until election voided 23 December 1932)	Liberal	1921
Aimé Boucher (by-election of 1933-10-23)	Liberal

[[Saskatchewan]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Assiniboia	Robert McKenzie	Liberal	1925
	Humboldt	Albert Frederick Totzke	Liberal	1925
	Kindersley	Archibald M. Carmichael	Progressive	1921
	Last Mountain	Harry Butcher	Liberal	1930
	Long Lake	Walter Davy Cowan	Conservative	1917, 1930
Mackenzie	Milton Neil Campbell (until 6 February 1933 emoulment appointment)	Progressive	1921
John Angus MacMillan (by-election of 1933-10-23)	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Maple Creek	James Beck Swanston	Conservative	1930
Melfort	Robert Weir (until 8 August 1930 emoulment appointment)	Conservative	1930
Robert Weir (by-election of 1930-08-25)	Conservative
	Melville	William Richard Motherwell	Liberal	1921
	Moose Jaw	William Addison Beynon	Conservative	1930
	North Battleford	Cameron Ross McIntosh	Liberal	1925
	Prince Albert	William Lyon Mackenzie King	Liberal	1908, 1919, 1926
	Qu'Appelle	Ernest Perley	Liberal	1921
	Regina	Franklin White Turnbull	Conservative	1930
	Rosetown	William John Loucks	Liberal	1930
	Saskatoon	Frank MacMillan	Conservative	1930
	South Battleford	John Vallance	Liberal	1925
	Swift Current	Charles Edward Bothwell	Liberal	1925
	Weyburn	Edward James Young	Liberal	1925
	Willow Bunch	Thomas F. Donnelly	Liberal	1925
	Yorkton	George Washington McPhee	Liberal	1925

[[Yukon]]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
		Yukon	George Black (†)	Conservative	1921

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 17th Canadian Parliament

Notes

References

Succession

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