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23rd Canadian Parliament

Parliamentary session (1957–1958)

Field	Value
image	Coat of Arms of Canada (1957–1994).svg
jurisdiction	CA
#	23rd
type	Minority
houseimage	Chambre des Communes 1957.png
senateimage
status	inactive
term-begin	1957-10-14
term-end	1958-02-01
pm	John Diefenbaker
ministry	[18th Canadian Ministry](18th-canadian-ministry)
pm-begin	1957-06-21
pm-end	1963-04-22
lo	Louis St. Laurent
loterm	June 21, 1957 – January 16, 1958
lo2	Lester B. Pearson
loterm2	January 16, 1958 – April 22, 1963
party	Progressive Conservative Party
party2	Liberal Party
unrecparty1	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
unrecparty2	Social Credit Party
partyfootnote1
sc	Roland Michener
scterm	October 14, 1957 – September 26, 1962
ghl	Howard Charles Green
ghlterm	October 14, 1957 – July 18, 1959
ohl	Lionel Chevrier
ohlterm	October 14, 1957 – February 5, 1963
ss	Mark Robert Drouin
ssterm	October 4, 1957 – September 23, 1962
gsl	John Thomas Haig
gslterm	October 9, 1957 − May 11, 1958
osl	William Ross Macdonald
oslterm	June 21, 1957 – April 22, 1963
sessionbegin	October 14, 1957
sessionend	February 1, 1958
monarch	Elizabeth II
monarchterm	February 6, 1952 – September 8, 2022
viceroy	Vincent Massey
viceroyterm	28 February 1952 – 15 September 1959
members	265
senators	102
lastparl	22nd
nextparl	24th

| # = 23rd

| term-begin = 1957-10-14 | term-end = 1958-02-01

| pm-begin = 1957-06-21 | pm-end = 1963-04-22

The 23rd Canadian Parliament was in session from October 14, 1957, until February 1, 1958. The membership was set by the 1957 federal election on June 10, 1957, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1958 election.

It was the first parliament opened by the Monarch of Canada, and the only parliament formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself, rather than her formal representative, the governor general. In 2025, King Charles III opened the 45th Canadian Parliament, marking the second time any monarch has opened parliament.

It was controlled by a Progressive Conservative Party minority under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and the 18th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led first by Louis St. Laurent, and then by Lester B. Pearson.

It was the second shortest parliament in Canadian history.

The Speaker was Roland Michener. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1952–1966 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There was only one session of the 23rd Parliament.

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the twenty-third Parliament listed first by province or territory, 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]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Acadia	Victor Quelch	Social Credit	1935
	Athabaska	Joseph Miville Dechene	Liberal	1940
	Battle River—Camrose	James Alexander Smith	Social Credit	1955
	Bow River	Charles Edward Johnston	Social Credit	1935
	Calgary North	Douglas Harkness	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Calgary South	Arthur Ryan Smith	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Edmonton East	Ambrose Holowach	Social Credit	1953
	Edmonton—Strathcona	Sydney Herbert Thompson	Social Credit	1957
	Edmonton West	Marcel Lambert {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Jasper—Edson	Charles Yuill	Social Credit	1953
	Lethbridge	John Horne Blackmore	Social Credit	1935
	Macleod	Ernest George Hansell	Social Credit	1935
	Medicine Hat	Bud Olson	Social Credit	1957
	Peace River	Solon Earl Low	Social Credit	1945
	Red Deer	Frederick Davis Shaw	Social Credit	1940
	Vegreville	Peter Stefura	Social Credit	1957
	Wetaskiwin	Ray Thomas	Social Credit	1949

[[British Columbia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Burnaby—Coquitlam	Erhart Regier	C.C.F.	1953
	Burnaby—Richmond	Thomas Irwin	Social Credit	1957
	Cariboo	Bert Leboe	Social Credit	1953
	Coast—Capilano	James Sinclair	Liberal	1940
	Comox—Alberni	Thomas Speakman Barnett	C.C.F.	1953
	Esquimalt—Saanich	George Pearkes	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Fraser Valley	Alexander Bell Patterson	Social Credit	1953
	Kamloops	Davie Fulton	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Kootenay East	Jim Byrne	Liberal	1949
	Kootenay West	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	C.C.F.	1945
	Nanaimo	Colin Cameron	C.C.F.	1953
	New Westminster	George Hahn	Social Credit	1953
	Okanagan Boundary	Frank Christian	Social Credit	1957
	Okanagan—Revelstoke	George McLeod	Social Credit	1953
	Skeena	Frank Howard	C.C.F.	1957
	Vancouver—Burrard	John Russell Taylor	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Vancouver Centre	Douglas Jung	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Vancouver East	Harold Winch	C.C.F.	1953
	Vancouver Kingsway	Alexander Macdonald	C.C.F.	1957
	Vancouver Quadra	Howard Charles Green	Progressive Conservative	1935
	Vancouver South	Ernest James Broome	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Victoria	Albert McPhillips	Progressive Conservative	1957

[[Manitoba]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Brandon—Souris	Walter Dinsdale {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1951
	Churchill	Robert Simpson	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Dauphin	Fred Zaplitny	C.C.F.	1945, 1953
	Lisgar	George Muir	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Marquette	Nick Mandziuk	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Portage—Neepawa	George Fairfield	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Provencher	Warner Jorgenson	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Selkirk	William Bryce	C.C.F.	1954
	Springfield	Jacob Schulz	C.C.F.	1957
	St. Boniface	Louis Deniset	Liberal	1957
	Winnipeg North	Alistair Stewart	C.C.F.	1940
	Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Knowles	C.C.F.	1942
	Winnipeg South	Gordon Chown	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Winnipeg South Centre	Gordon Churchill	Progressive Conservative	1951

[[New Brunswick]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Charlotte	A. Wesley Stuart	Liberal	1945
	Gloucester	Hédard Robichaud	Liberal	1953
	Kent	Hervé Michaud	Liberal	1953
	Northumberland—Miramichi	George Roy McWilliam	Liberal	1949
	Restigouche—Madawaska	Charles Van Horne	Progressive Conservative	1955
	Royal	Alfred Johnson Brooks	Progressive Conservative	1935
	St. John—Albert	Thomas Miller Bell {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Victoria—Carleton	Gage Montgomery	Progressive Conservative	1952
	Westmorland	Henry Murphy	Liberal	1949
	York—Sunbury	John Chester MacRae	Progressive Conservative	1957

[[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Bonavista—Twillingate	Jack Pickersgill	Liberal	1953
	Burin—Burgeo	Chesley William Carter	Liberal	1949
	Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador	Thomas G. W. Ashbourne	Liberal	1949
	Humber—St. George's	Herman Maxwell Batten	Liberal	1953
	St. John's East	James McGrath	Progressive Conservative	1957
	St. John's West	William Joseph Browne	Progressive Conservative	1949, 1957
	Trinity—Conception	Leonard Stick	Liberal	1949

[[Northwest Territories]]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
		Mackenzie River	Merv Hardie	Liberal	1953

[[Nova Scotia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Antigonish—Guysborough	Angus Ronald Macdonald {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Cape Breton North and Victoria	Robert Muir	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Cape Breton South	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Colchester—Hants	Cyril Kennedy	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Cumberland	Robert Coates	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Digby—Annapolis—Kings	George Nowlan	Progressive Conservative	1948, 1950
Halifax*	Robert McCleave	Progressive Conservative	1957
Edmund L. Morris	Progressive Conservative	1957	1st term
	Inverness—Richmond	Allan MacEachen	Liberal	1953
	Pictou	Russell MacEwan	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Queens—Lunenburg	Lloyd Crouse	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare	Thomas Kirk	Liberal	1949

[[Ontario]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Algoma East	Lester B. Pearson	Liberal	1948
	Algoma West	George E. Nixon	Liberal	1940
	Brantford	Jack Wratten	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Brant—Haldimand	John A. Charlton {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Broadview	George Hees	Progressive Conservative	1950
	Bruce	Andrew E. Robinson	Progressive Conservative	1945, 1953
	Carleton	Dick Bell {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Cochrane	Joseph-Anaclet Habel	Liberal	1953
	Danforth	Robert Small	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Davenport	Douglas Morton	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Dufferin—Simcoe	William Earl Rowe	Progressive Conservative	1925
	Durham	Percy Vivian	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Eglinton	Donald Fleming	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Elgin	James Alexander McBain	Progressive Conservative	1954
	Essex East	Paul Martin Sr.	Liberal	1935
	Essex South	Richard Thrasher	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Essex West	Donald Ferguson Brown	Liberal	1945
	Fort William	Daniel McIvor	Liberal	1935
	Glengarry—Prescott	Osie Villeneuve	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Greenwood	James Macdonnell	Progressive Conservative	1945, 1949
	Grenville—Dundas	Arza Clair Casselman	Progressive Conservative	1921, 1925
	Grey—Bruce	Eric Winkler	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Grey North	Percy Verner Noble	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Halton	Charles Best	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Hamilton East	Quinto Martini	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Hamilton South	Bob McDonald	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Hamilton West	Ellen Fairclough	Progressive Conservative	1950
Hastings—Frontenac	George Stanley White (until 20 August 1957 Senate appointment)	Progressive Conservative	1940
Sidney Smith (by-election of 1957-11-04)	Progressive Conservative	1957	1st term
	Hastings South	Lee Grills	Progressive Conservative	1957
	High Park	John Kucherepa	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Huron	Elston Cardiff	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Kenora—Rainy River	William Moore Benidickson	Liberal-Labour	1945
	Kent	Blake Huffman	Liberal	1949
	Kingston	William James Henderson	Liberal	1949
	Lambton—Kent	Ernest Campbell	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Lambton West	Joseph Warner Murphy	Progressive Conservative	1945
Lanark	William Gourlay Blair (died 16 June 1957)	Progressive Conservative	1945
George Doucett (by-election of 1957-08-26)	Progressive Conservative	1957	1st term
	Leeds	Hayden Stanton	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Lincoln	John Smith	Progressive Conservative	1957
	London	Ernest Halpenny {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Middlesex East	Harry Oliver White	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Middlesex West	William Howell Arthur Thomas	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Niagara Falls	William Houck	Liberal	1953
	Nickel Belt	Léo Gauthier	Liberal	1945
	Nipissing	Jack Garland	Liberal	1949
	Norfolk	Evans Knowles	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Northumberland	Ben Thompson	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Ontario	Michael Starr	Progressive Conservative	1952
	Ottawa East	Jean-Thomas Richard	Liberal	1945
	Ottawa West	George McIlraith	Liberal	1940
	Oxford	Wally Nesbitt {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Parkdale	Arthur Maloney {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Parry Sound-Muskoka	Gordon Aiken	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Peel	John Pallett	Progressive Conservative	1954
	Perth	J. Waldo Monteith	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Peterborough	Gordon Fraser	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Port Arthur	Doug Fisher	C.C.F.	1957
	Prince Edward—Lennox	Clarence Milligan	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Renfrew North	James Forgie	Liberal	1953
	Renfrew South	James William Baskin	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Rosedale	David James Walker {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Russell	Joseph-Omer Gour	Liberal	1945
	St. Paul's	Roland Michener (†)	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Simcoe East	Philip Bernard Rynard	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Simcoe North	Heber Smith	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Spadina	Charles Edward Rea	Progressive Conservative	1955
	Stormont	Albert Lavigne	Liberal	1954
	Sudbury	Rodger Mitchell	Liberal	1953
	Timiskaming	Arnold Peters	C.C.F.	1957
	Timmins	Murdo Martin	C.C.F.	1957
	Trinity	Stanley Haidasz	Liberal	1957
	Victoria	Clayton Hodgson {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1945
	Waterloo North	Norman Schneider	Liberal	1952
	Waterloo South	William Anderson	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Welland	William Hector McMillan	Liberal	1950
	Wellington—Huron	Marvin Howe	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Wellington South	Alfred Hales	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Wentworth	Frank Lennard	Progressive Conservative	1935, 1945
	York Centre	Fred C. Stinson	Progressive Conservative	1957
	York East	Robert Henry McGregor	Progressive Conservative	1926
	York—Humber	Margaret Aitken	Progressive Conservative	1953
	York North	Cecil Cathers	Progressive Conservative	1957
	York—Scarborough	Frank Charles McGee	Progressive Conservative	1957
	York South	William George Beech	Progressive Conservative	1957
	York West	John Borden Hamilton {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1954

[[Prince Edward Island]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's	John Augustine Macdonald	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Prince	Orville Howard Phillips	Progressive Conservative	1957
Queen's*	Angus MacLean	Progressive Conservative	1951
Heath MacQuarrie	Progressive Conservative	1957	1st term

[[Quebec]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes	Philippe Valois	Liberal	1949
	Beauce	Raoul Poulin	Independent	1949
	Beauharnois—Salaberry	Robert Cauchon	Liberal	1949
	Bellechasse	Ovide Laflamme	Liberal	1955
	Berthier—Maskinongé—Delanaudière	Joseph Langlois	Liberal	1949
	Bonaventure	Nérée Arsenault	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Brome—Missisquoi	Joseph-Léon Deslières	Liberal	1952
	Cartier	Leon Crestohl	Liberal	1950
	Chambly—Rouville	Yvon L'Heureux	Liberal	1957
	Champlain	Joseph Irenée Rochefort	Liberal	1949
	Chapleau	Charles-Noël Barbès	Liberal	1957
	Charlevoix	Auguste Maltais	Liberal	1949
	Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie	Jean Boucher	Liberal	1953
	Chicoutimi	Rosaire Gauthier	Liberal	1957
	Compton—Frontenac	Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette	Liberal	1935
	Dollard	Guy Rouleau	Liberal	1953
	Dorchester	Joseph-Armand Landry	Liberal	1957
	Drummond—Arthabaska	Samuel Boulanger	Independent Liberal	1957
	Gaspé	Roland English	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Gatineau	Rodolphe Leduc	Liberal	1936, 1954
	Hochelaga	Raymond Eudes	Liberal	1940
	Hull	Alexis Caron	Liberal	1953
	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Charles Cannon	Liberal	1949
	Jacques-Cartier—Lasalle	Robert John Pratt	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Joliette—l'Assomption—Montcalm	Maurice Breton	Liberal	1950
	Kamouraska	Benoît Chabot	Independent	1957
	Labelle	Henri Courtemanche	Independent Progressive Conservative	1949, 1957
	Lac-Saint-Jean	André Gauthier	Liberal	1949
	Lafontaine	J.-Georges Ratelle	Liberal	1949
	Lapointe	Augustin Brassard	Liberal	1957
	Laurier	Lionel Chevrier	Liberal	1935, 1957
	Laval	Léopold Demers	Liberal	1948
	Lévis	Maurice Bourget	Liberal	1940
	Longueuil	Auguste Vincent	Liberal	1953
	Lotbinière	Raymond O'Hurley {{double dagger}}	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Maisonneuve—Rosemont	Jean-Paul Deschatelets	Liberal	1953
	Matapédia—Matane	Léandre Thibault	Liberal	1953
	Mégantic	Joseph Lafontaine	Liberal	1940
	Mercier	Marcel Monette	Liberal	1949
	Montmagny—L'Islet	Jean Lesage	Liberal	1945
	Mount Royal	Alan Macnaughton	Liberal	1949
	Nicolet—Yamaska	Paul Comtois	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	William McLean Hamilton	Progressive Conservative	1953
	Outremont—St-Jean	Romuald Bourque	Liberal	1952
	Papineau	Adrien Meunier	Liberal	1953
	Pontiac—Témiscamingue	John Hugh Proudfoot	Liberal	1949
	Portneuf	Pierre Gauthier	Liberal	1936
	Québec—Montmorency	Wilfrid Lacroix	Liberal	1935
	Quebec East	Louis St. Laurent	Liberal	1942
	Quebec South	Francis (Frank) Gavan Power	Liberal	1955
	Quebec West	René Bégin	Liberal	1957
	Richelieu—Verchères	Lucien Cardin	Liberal	1952
	Richmond—Wolfe	Ernest-Omer Gingras	Liberal	1949
	Rimouski	Gérard Légaré	Liberal	1953
	Roberval	Georges Villeneuve	Liberal	1953
	Saguenay	Lomer Brisson	Liberal	1949
	St. Ann	Gérard Loiselle	Independent Liberal	1957
	Saint-Antoine—Westmount	George Carlyle Marler	Liberal	1954
	Saint-Denis	Azellus Denis	Liberal	1935
	Saint-Henri	Joseph-Arsène Bonnier	Liberal	1938
	Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot	Théogène Ricard	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Saint-Jacques	Roland Beaudry	Liberal	1945
	Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville	J.-Armand Ménard	Liberal	1955
	St. Lawrence—St. George	Claude Richardson	Liberal	1954
	Sainte-Marie	Hector Dupuis	Liberal	1953
	Saint-Maurice—Laflèche	Joseph-Adolphe Richard	Liberal	1949
	Shefford	Marcel Boivin	Liberal	1945
	Sherbrooke	Maurice Gingues	Liberal	1940
	Stanstead	Louis-Édouard Roberge	Liberal	1949
	Témiscouata	Jean-Paul St. Laurent	Liberal	1955
	Terrebonne	Raymond Raymond	Liberal	1957
	Trois-Rivières	Léon Balcer	Progressive Conservative	1949
	Vaudreuil—Soulanges	Louis-René Beaudoin	Liberal	1945
	Verdun	Yves Leduc	Liberal	1954
	Villeneuve	Armand Dumas	Liberal	1949

[[Saskatchewan]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Assiniboia	Hazen Argue	C.C.F.	1945
	Humboldt—Melfort	Hugh Alexander Bryson	C.C.F.	1953
	Kindersley	Merv Johnson	C.C.F.	1953
	Mackenzie	Alexander Malcolm Nicholson	C.C.F.	1940, 1953
	Meadow Lake	John Harrison	Liberal	1949
	Melville	James Garfield Gardiner	Liberal	1936
	Moose Jaw—Lake Centre	Scoop Lewry	C.C.F.	1957
	Moose Mountain	Edward McCullough	C.C.F.	1945, 1953
	Prince Albert	*John Diefenbaker*	Progressive Conservative	1940
	Qu'Appelle	Alvin Hamilton	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Regina City	Claude Ellis	C.C.F.	1953
	Rosetown—Biggar	Major James Coldwell	C.C.F.	1935
	Rosthern	Walter Tucker	Liberal	1935, 1953
	Saskatoon	Henry Frank Jones	Progressive Conservative	1957
	Swift Current—Maple Creek	Irvin Studer	Liberal	1949
	The Battlefords	Max Campbell	C.C.F.	1945, 1953
	Yorkton	George Hugh Castleden	C.C.F.	1940, 1953

[[Yukon]]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
		Yukon	James Aubrey Simmons	Liberal	1949
		Erik Nielsen (by-election of 1957-12-16)	Progressive Conservative	1957	1st term

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 23rd Canadian Parliament

Notes

References

Burack, Emily. (May 27, 2025). "King Charles Makes History as He Delivers Throne Speech in Canada". Yahoo News.

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