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17th Parliament of Ontario

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The 17th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from December 1, 1926, until September 17, 1929, just prior to the 1929 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Conservative Party led by George Howard Ferguson.

William David Black served as speaker for the assembly.

Members of the Assembly

Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected
Addington	William David Black	Conservative	1911
Algoma	John Morrow Robb	Conservative	1915, 1926
Beaches	Thomas Alexander Murphy	Conservative	1926
Bellwoods	William Henry Edwards	Conservative	1924
Bracondale	Arthur Russell Nesbitt	Conservative	1923
Brant County	Harry Corwin Nixon	Progressive	1919
Brantford	William George Martin	Conservative	1926
Brockton	Frederick George McBrien	Conservative	1923
Brockville	Hezekiah Allan Clark	Conservative	1923
Bruce North	Alexander Patterson Mewhinney	Liberal	1919
Bruce South	Malcolm Alex McCallum	Progressive	1923
Foster Graham Moffatt (1928)	Conservative	1928
Carleton	Adam Holland Acres	Conservative	1923
Cochrane North	Albert Victor Waters	Conservative	1926
Cochrane South	Alfred Franklin Kenning	Conservative	1926
Dovercourt	Samuel Thomas Wright	Conservative	1926
Dufferin	Thomas Kerr Slack	Progressive	1919, 1926
Dundas	George Smyth	Liberal-Prohibitionist	1926
Durham	William John Bragg	Liberal	1919
Eglinton	Herbert Henry Ball	Conservative	1926
Elgin East	Edward Blake Miller	Liberal	1926
Elgin West	Findlay George MacDiarmid	Conservative	1898, 1899, 1923
Essex North	Paul Poisson	Conservative	1926
Essex South	Charles George Fletcher	Liberal	1926
Fort William	Franklin Harford Spence	Conservative	1923
Frontenac—Lennox	Edward Ming	Liberal	1926
Glengarry	Angus McGillis	Conservative	1926
Greenwood	George Joseph Smith	Conservative	1926
Grenville	George Howard Ferguson	Conservative	1905
Grey North	David James Taylor	Progressive	1919
Grey South	Farquhar Robert Oliver	United Farmers	1926
Haldimand	Robert Francis Miller	Liberal	1926
Halton	George Hillmer	Conservative	1923
Hamilton Centre	Thomas William Jutten	Conservative	1926
Hamilton East	Leeming Carr	Conservative	1923
William Morrison (1928)	Conservative	1928
Hamilton West	Frederick Thomas Smye	Conservative	1926
Hastings East	James Ferguson Hill	Conservative	1923
Hastings North	John Robert Cooke	Conservative	1911
Hastings West	William Henry Ireland	Conservative	1919
High Park	William Alexander Baird	Conservative	1926
Huron North	Charles Alexander Robertson	Liberal	1926
Huron South	William George Medd	United Farmers	1926
Kenora	Joseph Pattulo Earngey	Conservative	1926
Kent East	Christopher Gardiner	Progressive	1926
Kent West	Archibald Clement Calder	Conservative	1926
Kingston	Thomas Ashmore Kidd	Conservative	1926
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	Frederick James Skinner	Conservative	1926
Lincoln	Robert Henry Kemp	Progressive	1923
London North	James Percy Moore	Conservative	1926
London South	John Cameron Wilson	Conservative	1926
Manitoulin	Thomas Farquhar	United Farmers	1926
Middlesex North	Alexander Daniel McLean	Independent-Progressive	1926
Middlesex West	John Giles Lethbridge	Progressive	1919
Muskoka	George Walter Ecclestone	Conservative	1919
Niagara Falls	William Gore Willson	Conservative	1923
Nipissing	Henri Morel	Conservative	1908, 1923
Norfolk	John Strickler Martin	Conservative	1923
Northumberland	William George Robertson	Liberal	1926
Ontario North	John Wesley Widdifield	United Farmers	1919
Ontario South	William Edmund Newton Sinclair	Liberal	1911, 1919
Ottawa East	Joseph Albert Pinard	Independent-Liberal	1914
Ottawa North	Albert Edwin Honeywell	Conservative	1926
Ottawa South	Thomas Miles Birkett	Conservative	1926
Oxford North	David Munroe Ross	Liberal-Progressive	1921
Oxford South	Merton Elvin Scott	Liberal-Progressive	1926
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	Albert Alexander Colquhoun	Liberal	1926
Peterborough City	William Herbert Bradburn	Conservative	1923
Peterborough County	William Alfred Anderson	Liberal	1902, 1926
Port Arthur	Donald McDonald Hogarth	Independent-Conservative	1911, 1926
Prescott	Edmond Proulx	Independent-Liberal	1923
Prince Edward	William Edgar Raney	United Farmers	1920
Horace Stanley Colliver (1928)	Conservative	1923, 1928
Rainy River	James Arthur Mathieu	Conservative	1911, 1926
Renfrew North	Alexander Stuart	Conservative	1923
Edward Arunah Dunlop (1929)	Conservative	1903, 1911, 1929
Renfrew South	Thomas Moore Costello	Conservative	1926
Riverdale	George Oakley	Conservative	1923
Russell	Aurélien Bélanger	Independent-Liberal	1923
Sault Ste. Marie	James Lyons	Conservative	1923
Simcoe Centre	Charles Ernest Wright	Conservative	1923
Simcoe East	William Finlayson	Conservative	1923
Simcoe Southwest	John Henry Mitchell	Liberal-Progressive	1926
St. Andrew	William Robertson Flett	Conservative	1926
St. Catharines	Edwin Cyrus Graves	Independent-Conservative	1923
St. David	Joseph Elijah Thompson	Conservative	1919
St. George	Henry Scholfield	Conservative	1911, 1926
St. Patrick	John Allister Currie	Conservative	1922
Stormont	Duncan Alexander McNaughton	Conservative	1926
Sturgeon Falls	Théodore Legault	Independent-Liberal	1926
Sudbury	Charles McCrea	Conservative	1911
Timiskaming	Angus John Kennedy	Conservative	1923
Victoria North	William Newman	Liberal	1926
Victoria South	Frederick George Sandy	Liberal-Progressive	1919, 1926
Waterloo North	William George Weichel	Conservative	1923
Waterloo South	Karl Kenneth Homuth	Labour	1919
Welland	Marshall Vaughan	Conservative	1923
Wellington Northeast	George Alexander McQuibban	Liberal	1926
Wellington South	Lincoln Goldie	Conservative	1923
Wentworth North	Alex Laurence Shaver	Conservative	1926
Wentworth South	Thomas Joseph Mahony	Conservative	1923
Windsor East	Frank Worthington Wilson	Conservative	1923
Windsor West	John Frederick Reid	Conservative	1926
Woodbine	George Sylvester Shields	Conservative	1926
York East	George Stewart Henry	Conservative	1913
York North	Peter William Pearson	Liberal	1926
York South	Leopold Macaulay	Conservative	1926
York West	Forbes Godfrey	Conservative	1907

Timeline

Party	1926	Gain/(loss) due to	1929	Election
void	Death
in office	Resignation
as MPP	Byelection
gain	Byelection
hold
72		(1)	(3)	2	2	72
14						14
10	(1)		(1)			8
4						4
3						3
1						1
4			(1)			3
2						2
1						1
		Liberal-Prohibitionist	1					1
–			3			3
Total	112	(1)	(1)	(2)	2	2	112

Seat	Before	Change	Member	Party	Reason
Prince Edward	September 16, 1927	William Edgar Raney	Appointed to the Bench	November 1, 1927	Horace Stanley Colliver
Bruce South	November 14, 1927	Malcolm Alex McCallum	Election declared void	June 27, 1928	Foster Graham Moffatt
Renfrew North	April 2, 1928	Alexander Stuart	Died in office	June 27, 1928	Edward Arunah Dunlop
Hamilton East	May 15, 1928	Leeming Carr	Appointed Sheriff for Wentworth County	June 27, 1928	William Morrison
Lanark North	June 1929	Thomas Alfred Thompson	Chose to stand in the 1929 federal Lanark byelection
Prescott	September 10, 1929	Edmond Proulx	Appointed to the Bench
St. David	September 1929	Joseph Elijah Thompson	Appointed Registrar of the Surrogate Court

Notes

References

"Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

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