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20th Canadian Parliament

Session of the Canadian Parliament (1945–1949)

Field	Value
image	Coat of arms of Canada (1921–1957).svg
jurisdiction	CA
#	20th
type	Minority
status	inactive
term-begin	1945-09-06
term-end	1949-04-30
houseimage	Chambre des Communes 1945.png
members	245
sc	Gaspard Fauteux
scterm	6 September 1945 – 14 September 1949
pm	William Lyon Mackenzie King
ministry	[16th Canadian Ministry](16th-canadian-ministry)
pm-begin	1935-10-23
pm-end	1948-11-15
pm2	Louis St. Laurent
ministry2	[17th Canadian Ministry](17th-canadian-ministry)
pm-begin2	1948-11-15
pm-end2	1957-06-21
lo	John Bracken
loterm	11 June 1945 – 20 July 1948
lo2	George A. Drew
loterm2	2 October 1948 – 1 November 1954
ghl	Ian Alistair Mackenzie
ghlterm	14 October 1944 – 30 April 1948
ghl2	Alphonse Fournier
ghlterm2	1 May 1948 – 9 May 1953
ss	James Horace King
ssterm	24 August 1945 – 2 August 1949
gsl	Wishart McLea Robertson
gslterm	24 August 1945 – 14 October 1953
osl	Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne
oslterm	16 January 1942 – 11 September 1945
osl2	John Thomas Haig
oslterm2	12 September 1945 – 20 June 1957
party	Liberal Party
party2	Progressive Conservative Party
unrecparty1	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
unrecparty2	Social Credit Party
unrecparty3	Bloc populaire
unrecparty4	Labor-Progressive Party
partyfootnote1
sessionbegin	6 September 1945
sessionend	18 December 1945
sessionbegin2	14 March 1946
sessionend2	31 August 1946
sessionbegin3	30 January 1947
sessionend3	17 July 1947
sessionbegin4	5 December 1947
sessionend4	30 June 1948
sessionbegin5	29 January 1949
sessionend5	30 April 1949
monarch	George VI
monarchterm	11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952
viceroy	Alexander Cambridge
viceroyterm	21 June 1940 – 12 April 1946
viceroy2	Harold Alexander
viceroyterm2	12 April 1946 – 28 January 1952
lastparl	19th
nextparl	21st

| # = 20th

| term-begin = 1945-09-06 | term-end = 1949-04-30

| pm-begin = 1935-10-23 | pm-end = 1948-11-15 | pm-begin2 = 1948-11-15 | pm-end2 = 1957-06-21

The 20th Canadian Parliament was in session from 6 September 1945, until 30 April 1949. The membership was set by the 1945 federal election on 11 June 1945, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1949 election.

It was controlled by a Liberal Party minority first under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry, and later a majority under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and the 17th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the newly named Progressive Conservative Party, led first by John Bracken and later by George Drew.

The Speaker was Gaspard Fauteux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

In this parliament, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, led by M. J. Coldwell, overtook the Social Credit as third largest party.

There were five sessions of the 20th Parliament.

List of members

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

Key:

Party leaders are italicized.
Parliamentary assistants 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]]

Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Acadia	Victor Quelch	Social Credit	1935
	Athabaska	Joseph Miville Dechene	Liberal	1940
	Battle River	Robert Fair	Social Credit	1935
	Bow River	Charles Edward Johnston	Social Credit	1935
	Calgary East	Douglas Harkness	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Calgary West	Arthur LeRoy Smith	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Camrose	James Alexander Marshall	Social Credit	1935
	Edmonton East	Patrick Harvey Ashby	Social Credit	1945
	Edmonton West	James Angus MacKinnon	Liberal	1935
	Jasper—Edson	Walter Frederick Kuhl	Social Credit	1935
	Lethbridge	John Horne Blackmore	Social Credit	1935
	Macleod	Ernest George Hansell	Social Credit	1935
	Medicine Hat	William Duncan Wylie	Social Credit	1945
	Peace River	Solon Earl Low	Social Credit	1945
	Red Deer	Frederick Davis Shaw	Social Credit	1940
	Vegreville	Anthony Hlynka	Social Credit	1940
	Wetaskiwin	Norman Jaques	Social Credit	1935

[[British Columbia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Cariboo	William Irvine	CCF	1921, 1926, 1945
	Comox—Alberni	John Lambert Gibson	Independent Liberal	1945
	Fraser Valley	George Cruickshank	Liberal	1940
	Kamloops	Davie Fulton	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Kootenay East	James Herbert Matthews	CCF	1945
Kootenay West	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	Independent CCF	1945
CCF
	Nanaimo	George Pearkes	Progressive Conservative	1945
	New Westminster	Thomas Reid {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1930
	Skeena	Harry Archibald	CCF	1945
	Vancouver—Burrard	Charles Merritt	Progressive Conservative	1945
Vancouver Centre	Ian Alistair Mackenzie (until 19 January 1948 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1930
Rodney Young (by-election of 8 June 1948)	CCF	1948	1st term
	Vancouver East	Angus MacInnis	CCF	1930
Vancouver North	James Sinclair {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1940
Vancouver South	Howard Charles Green	Progressive Conservative	1935
Victoria	Robert Mayhew {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1937
Yale	Grote Stirling (resigned 21 October 1947)	Progressive Conservative	1924
Owen Jones (by-election of 31 May 1948)	CCF	1948	1st term

[[Manitoba]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Brandon	James Ewen Matthews	Liberal	1938
	Churchill	Ronald Stewart Moore	CCF	1945
	Dauphin	Fred Zaplitny	CCF	1945
	Lisgar	Howard Winkler	Liberal	1935
	Macdonald	William Gilbert Weir	Liberal-Progressive	1930
Marquette	James Allison Glen (resigned 4 November 1948)	Liberal	1926, 1935
Stuart Garson (by-election of 20 December 1948)	Liberal	1948	1st term
	Neepawa	John Bracken	Progressive Conservative	1945
Portage la Prairie	Harry Leader (died 9 May 1946)	Liberal	1921, 1935
Calvert Charlton Miller (by-election of 21 October 1946)	Progressive Conservative	1946	1st term
	Provencher	René Jutras	Liberal	1940
	Selkirk	William Bryce	CCF	1943
	Souris	J. Arthur Ross	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Springfield	John Sinnott	Liberal	1945
	St. Boniface	Fernand Viau	Liberal	1945
	Winnipeg North	Alistair Stewart	CCF	1940
	Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Knowles	CCF	1942
	Winnipeg South	Leslie Mutch {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1935
	Winnipeg South Centre	Ralph Maybank {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1935

[[New Brunswick]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Charlotte	A. Wesley Stuart	Liberal	1945
	Gloucester	Clovis-Thomas Richard	Liberal	1945
	Kent	Aurel Léger	Liberal	1940
	Northumberland	John William Maloney	Liberal	1945
	Restigouche—Madawaska	Benoît Michaud	Liberal	1945
	Royal	Alfred Johnson Brooks	Progressive Conservative	1935
	St. John—Albert	King Hazen	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Victoria—Carleton	Heber Harold Hatfield	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Westmorland	Henry Read Emmerson	Liberal	1935
York—Sunbury	Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges (died in office)	Liberal	1945
Milton Fowler Gregg (by-election of 20 October 1947)	Liberal	1947	1st term

[[Nova Scotia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Antigonish—Guysborough	J. Ralph Kirk	Liberal	1936
	Cape Breton North and Victoria	Matthew MacLean	Liberal	1937
	Cape Breton South	Clarence Gillis	CCF	1940
	Colchester—Hants	Frank Thomas Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Cumberland	Percy Chapman Black	Progressive Conservative	1940
Digby—Annapolis—Kings	James Lorimer Ilsley (resigned 27 October 1948)	Liberal	1926
George Nowlan (by-election of 13 December 1948)	Progressive Conservative	1948	1st term
Halifax*	Gordon Benjamin Isnor	Liberal	1935
William Chisholm Macdonald {{double dagger}} (died 19 November 1946)	Liberal	1940	2nd term
John Dickey (by-election of 14 July 1947, replaces Macdonald)	Liberal	1947	1st term
	Inverness—Richmond	Moses Elijah McGarry	Liberal	1940
	Pictou	Henry Byron McCulloch	Liberal	1935
	Queens—Lunenburg	Robert Winters {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1945
	Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare	Loran Ellis Baker {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1945

[[Ontario]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Algoma East	Thomas Farquhar (until 10 September 1948 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1935
Lester B. Pearson (by-election of 25 October 1948)	Liberal	1948	1st term
	Algoma West	George E. Nixon	Liberal	1940
	Brantford City	William Ross Macdonald	Liberal	1935
	Brant	John A. Charlton	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Broadview	Thomas Langton Church	Progressive Conservative	1933
	Bruce	Andrew Ernest Robinson	Progressive Conservative	1945
Carleton	George Russell Boucher (resigned 1 November 1948)	Progressive Conservative	1940
George Drew (by-election of 20 December 1948)	Progressive Conservative	1948	1st term
	Cochrane	Joseph-Arthur Bradette	Liberal	1926
	Danforth	Joseph Henry Harris	Progressive Conservative	1921
	Davenport	John Ritchie MacNicol	Progressive Conservative	1930
	Dufferin—Simcoe	William Earl Rowe	Progressive Conservative	1925
	Durham	Charles Elwood Stephenson	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Eglinton	Donald Fleming	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Elgin	Charles Delmer Coyle	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Essex East	Paul Martin Sr.	Liberal	1935
	Essex South	Murray Clark	Liberal	1935
	Essex West	Donald Ferguson Brown	Liberal	1945
	Fort William	Dan McIvor	Liberal	1935
	Frontenac—Addington	Wilbert Ross Aylesworth	Progressive Conservative	1940
Glengarry	William MacDiarmid (resigned 22 June 1945)	Liberal	1940
*William Lyon Mackenzie King* (by-election of 6 August 1945)	Liberal	1908, 1919, 1926, 1945	9th term*
	Greenwood	Denton Massey	Progressive Conservative	1935
	Grenville—Dundas	Arza Clair Casselman	Progressive Conservative	1921, 1925
	Grey—Bruce	Walter Harris	Liberal	1940
	Grey North	W. Garfield Case	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Haldimand	Mark Senn	Progressive Conservative	1921
	Halton	Hughes Cleaver	Liberal	1935
	Hamilton East	Thomas Hambly Ross	Liberal	1940
	Hamilton West	Colin Gibson	Liberal	1940
	Hastings—Peterborough	George Stanley White	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Hastings South	George Henry Stokes	Progressive Conservative	1940
	High Park	William Alexander McMaster	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Huron North	Elston Cardiff	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Huron—Perth	William Henry Golding	Liberal	1932
	Kenora—Rainy River	William Moore Benidickson	Liberal	1945
	Kent	Earl Desmond	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Kingston City	Thomas Kidd	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Lambton—Kent	Robert James Henderson	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Lambton West	Joseph Warner Murphy	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Lanark	William Gourlay Blair	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Leeds	George Webb	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Lincoln	Norman Lockhart	Progressive Conservative	1935
	London	Park Manross	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Middlesex East	Harry Oliver White	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Middlesex West	Robert McCubbin {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1940
	Muskoka—Ontario	James Macdonnell	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Nipissing	Léo Gauthier	Liberal	1945
	Norfolk	Theobald Butler Barrett	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Northumberland	Earle Drope	Progressive Conservative	1945
Ontario	W. E. N. Sinclair (died in office)	Liberal	1945
Arthur Henry Williams (by-election of 8 June 1948)	CCF	1948	1st term
	Ottawa East	Jean-Thomas Richard	Liberal	1945
	Ottawa West	George McIlraith {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1940
	Oxford	Kenneth Daniel	Progressive Conservative	1945
Parkdale	Herbert Alexander Bruce (until resignation)	Progressive Conservative	1940
Harold Timmins (by-election of 21 October 1946)	Progressive Conservative	1946	1st term
	Parry Sound	Wilfred McDonald	Liberal	1945
	Peel	Gordon Graydon	Progressive Conservative	1935
	Perth	Albert Bradshaw	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Peterborough West	Gordon Fraser	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Port Arthur	Clarence Decatur Howe	Liberal	1935
	Prescott	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	Liberal	1929
	Prince Edward—Lennox	George Tustin	Progressive Conservative	1935
	Renfrew North	Ralph Warren	Liberal	1937
	Renfrew South	James Joseph McCann	Liberal	1935
	Rosedale	Harry Jackman	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Russell	Joseph-Omer Gour	Liberal	1945
	St. Paul's	Douglas Ross	Progressive Conservative	1935
	Simcoe East	William Alfred Robinson	Liberal	1945
	Simcoe North	Julian Ferguson	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Spadina	David Croll	Liberal	1945
	Stormont	Lionel Chevrier	Liberal	1935
	Timiskaming	Walter Little	Liberal	1935
	Trinity	Larry Skey	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Victoria	Clayton Hodgson	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Waterloo North	Louis Orville Breithaupt	Liberal	1940
	Waterloo South	Karl Kenneth Homuth	Progressive Conservative	1938
	Welland	Humphrey Mitchell	Liberal	1931, 1942
	Wellington North	Lewis Menary	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Wellington South	Robert Gladstone	Liberal	1935
	Wentworth	Frank Lennard	Progressive Conservative	1935, 1945
	York East	Robert Henry McGregor	Progressive Conservative	1926
	York North	Jack Smith	Liberal	1945
	York South	Alan Cockeram	Progressive Conservative	1940, 1945
	York West	Agar Rodney Adamson	Progressive Conservative	1940

[[Prince Edward Island]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's	Thomas Vincent Grant	Liberal	1935
	Prince	John Watson MacNaught {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1945
Queen's*	James Lester Douglas	Liberal	1940
Chester McLure	Progressive Conservative	1930, 1945	2nd term*

[[Quebec]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	Georges Héon	Independent Progressive Conservative	1938, 1945
	Beauce	Ludger Dionne	Liberal	1945
	Beauharnois—Laprairie	Maxime Raymond	Bloc populaire canadien	1925
	Bellechasse	Louis-Philippe Picard	Liberal	1940
	Berthier—Maskinongé	Aldéric Laurendeau	Liberal	1945
	Bonaventure	Bona Arsenault	Independent	1945
	Brome—Missisquoi	Maurice Hallé	Liberal	1940
Cartier	Fred Rose (seat declared vacant 30 January 1947, by House of Commons)	Labor-Progressive	1943
Maurice Hartt (by-election of 31 March 1947)	Liberal	1947	1st term
	Chambly—Rouville	Roch Pinard	Liberal	1945
	Champlain	Hervé-Edgar Brunelle	Liberal	1935
	Chapleau	David Gourd	Liberal	1945
	Charlevoix—Saguenay	Frédéric Dorion	Independent	1942
	Châteauguay—Huntingdon	Donald Elmer Black	Liberal	1935
	Chicoutimi	Paul-Edmond Gagnon	Independent	1945
	Compton	Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1935
	Dorchester	Léonard Tremblay	Liberal	1935
	Drummond—Arthabaska	Armand Cloutier	Liberal	1940
	Gaspé	Léopold Langlois	Liberal	1945
	Hochelaga	Raymond Eudes	Liberal	1940
	Hull	Alphonse Fournier	Liberal	1930
	Jacques Cartier	Elphège Marier	Liberal	1939
	Joliette—l'Assomption—Montcalm	Georges-Émile Lapalme	Liberal	1945
	Kamouraska	Eugène Marquis	Liberal	1945
	Labelle	Maurice Lalonde	Liberal	1935
	Lake St-John—Roberval	Joseph-Alfred Dion	Independent Liberal	1945
	Laurier	Ernest Bertrand	Liberal	1935
Laval—Two Mountains	Liguori Lacombe (resigned 12 July 1948)	Independent	1925, 1935
Léopold Demers (by-election of 20 December 1948)	Liberal	1948	1st term
	Lévis	Maurice Bourget	Independent Liberal	1940
	Lotbinière	Hugues Lapointe {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1940
	Maisonneuve—Rosemont	Sarto Fournier	Liberal	1935
	Matapédia—Matane	Philéas Côté	Independent Liberal	1945
	Mégantic—Frontenac	Joseph Lafontaine	Liberal	1940
	Mercier	Joseph Jean	Liberal	1932
	Montmagny—L'Islet	Jean Lesage	Liberal	1945
	Mount Royal	Fred Whitman	Liberal	1940
Nicolet—Yamaska	Lucien Dubois (died 8 November 1948)	Independent Liberal	1930
Renaud Chapdelaine (by-election of 7 February 1949)	Progressive Conservative	1949	1st term
	Outremont	Édouard Rinfret	Liberal	1945
Pontiac	Wallace McDonald (died 2 May 1946)	Liberal	1935
Réal Caouette (by-election of 16 September 1946)	Social Credit	1946	1st term
	Portneuf	Pierre Gauthier	Liberal	1936
	Québec—Montmorency	Wilfrid Lacroix	Independent Liberal	1935
	Quebec East	*Louis St. Laurent*	Liberal	1942
	Quebec South	Charles Gavan Power	Liberal	1917
	Quebec West and South	Charles Parent	Independent Liberal	1935
Richelieu—Verchères	Arthur Cardin (died 21 October 1946)	Independent	1911
Gérard Cournoyer (by-election of 23 December 1946)	Liberal	1946	1st term
	Richmond—Wolfe	James Patrick Mullins	Liberal	1935
	Rimouski	Gleason Belzile {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1945
	St. Ann	Thomas Healy	Liberal	1940
	St. Antoine—Westmount	Douglas Abbott	Liberal	1940
	St. Denis	Azellus Denis	Liberal	1935
	St. Henry	Joseph-Arsène Bonnier	Liberal	1938
	St. Hyacinthe—Bagot	Joseph Fontaine	Liberal	1945
	St. James	Roland Beaudry	Liberal	1945
	St. Johns—Iberville—Napierville	Alcide Côté	Liberal	1945
	St. Lawrence—St. George	Brooke Claxton	Liberal	1940
	St. Mary	Gaspard Fauteux (†)	Liberal	1942
	St-Maurice—Laflèche	René Hamel	Bloc populaire canadien	1945
	Shefford	Marcel Boivin	Liberal	1945
	Sherbrooke	Maurice Gingues	Liberal	1940
	Stanstead	John Thomas Hackett	Progressive Conservative	1930, 1945
Témiscouata	Jean-François Pouliot	Independent Liberal	1924
Liberal
	Terrebonne	Lionel Bertrand	Liberal	1940
	Trois-Rivières	Wilfrid Gariépy	Independent	1935, 1945
	Vaudreuil—Soulanges	Louis-René Beaudoin	Liberal	1945
	Verdun	Paul-Émile Côté {{double dagger}}	Liberal	1940
	Wright	Léon Raymond	Liberal	1945

[[Saskatchewan]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Assiniboia	Edward McCullough	CCF	1945
	Humboldt	Joseph William Burton	CCF	1935
	Kindersley	Frank Jaenicke	CCF	1945
	Lake Centre	John Diefenbaker	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Mackenzie	Alexander Malcolm Nicholson	CCF	1940
	Maple Creek	Duncan John McCuaig	CCF	1945
	Melfort	Percy Wright	CCF	1940
	Melville	James Garfield Gardiner	Liberal	1936
	Moose Jaw	Ross Thatcher	CCF	1945
	North Battleford	Frederick Townley-Smith	CCF	1945
	Prince Albert	Edward LeRoy Bowerman	CCF	1945
	Qu'Appelle	Gladys Strum	CCF	1945
	Regina City	John Probe	CCF	1945
	Rosetown—Biggar	Major James Coldwell	CCF	1935
Rosthern	Walter Tucker {{double dagger}} (resigned 8 June 1948)	Liberal	1935
William Albert Boucher (by-election of 25 October 1948)	Liberal	1948	1st term
	Saskatoon City	Roy Knight	CCF	1945
	Swift Current	Thomas John Bentley	CCF	1945
	The Battlefords	Max Campbell	CCF	1945
	Weyburn	Eric McKay	CCF	1945
	Wood Mountain	Hazen Argue	CCF	1945
	Yorkton	George Hugh Castleden	CCF	1940

[[Yukon]]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
		Yukon	George Black	Progressive Conservative	1921, 1940

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 20th Canadian Parliament

Notes

References

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