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3rd Canadian Parliament

Session of the Canadian Parliament (1874–1878)

Field	Value
image	Arms of Canada 1873.svg
jurisdiction	CA
#	3rd
type	Majority
houseimage	Chambre des Communes 1874.png
status	inactive
term-begin	February 21, 1874
term-end	August 16, 1878
sc	Timothy Warren Anglin
scterm	March 26, 1874 – February 12, 1879
pm	Hon. Alexander Mackenzie
pm-begin	1873-11-07
pm-end	1878-10-08
lo	Sir John A. Macdonald
loterm	Nov. 6, 1873 – Oct. 16, 1878
ss	The Hon. David Christie
ssterm	January 9, 1874 – October 16, 1878
gsl	Luc Letellier de St-Just
gslterm	November 5, 1873 – December 14, 1876
gsl2	Sir Richard William Scott
gslterm2	December 14, 1876 – October 7, 1878
osl	Alexander Campbell
oslterm	November 7, 1873 – October 8, 1878
party	Liberal Party
party2	Conservative Party
& Liberal-Conservative
partyfootnote1
sessionbegin	March 26, 1874
sessionend	May 26, 1874
sessionbegin2	February 4, 1875
sessionend2	April 8, 1875
sessionbegin3	February 10, 1876
sessionend3	April 12, 1876
sessionbegin4	February 8, 1877
sessionend4	April 28, 1877
sessionbegin5	February 7, 1878
sessionend5	May 10, 1878
monarch	Victoria
monarchterm	1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901
viceroy	The Earl of Dufferin
viceroyterm	25 June 1872 – 25 Nov. 1878
ministry	[2nd Canadian Ministry](2nd-canadian-ministry)
members	206 seats
senators	92 seats
lastparl	2nd
nextparl	4th

| # = 3rd

| term-begin = February 21, 1874 | term-end = August 16, 1878

| pm-begin = 1873-11-07 | pm-end = 1878-10-08

& Liberal-Conservative

The 3rd Canadian Parliament was in session from March 26, 1874, until August 17, 1878 (4 years and 144 days). The membership was set by the 1874 federal election on January 22, 1874. It was dissolved prior to the 1878 election.

It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie and the 2nd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative/Liberal-Conservative, first led by Sir John A. Macdonald.

The Speaker was Timothy Warren Anglin. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1873-1882 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were five sessions of the 3rd Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	March 26, 1874	May 26, 1874
2nd	February 4, 1875	April 8, 1875
3rd	February 10, 1876	April 12, 1876
4th	February 8, 1877	April 28, 1877
5th	February 7, 1878	May 10, 1878

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the third 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.

British Columbia

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Cariboo	Joshua Spencer Thompson	Liberal-Conservative	1871
New Westminster	James Cunningham	Liberal	1874
Thomas Robert McInnes (from March 25, 1878)	Independent	1878	1st term
Vancouver	Arthur Bunster	Liberal	1874
Victoria	Francis James Roscoe	Independent Liberal	1874
Amor De Cosmos	Liberal	1871	3rd term
Yale	Edgar Dewdney	Conservative	1872

Manitoba

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Lisgar	John Christian Schultz	Conservative	1871
Marquette	Robert Cunningham (died 4 July 1874)	Liberal	1872
Joseph O'Connell Ryan (from August 25, 1874)	Liberal	1874	1st term
Provencher	Louis Riel (expelled from the House of Commons, reelected, reexpelled and banished from Canada)	Independent	1873
Andrew Bannatyne (from March 31, 1875)	Liberal	1875	1st term
Selkirk	Donald A. Smith	Independent Conservative	1871

One MP recontested his seat in a byelection, and was reelected.

Louis Riel was reelected in Provencher on September 3, 1874, upon the passage of a motion expelling him from the House of Commons.

New Brunswick

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Albert	John Wallace	Liberal	1867
Carleton	Stephen Burpee Appleby	Liberal	1872
Charlotte	Arthur Hill Gillmor	Liberal	1874
City and County of St. John	Isaac Burpee	Liberal	1872
Acalus Lockwood Palmer	Liberal	1872	2nd term
City of St. John	Jeremiah Smith Boies De Veber	Liberal	1873
Gloucester	Timothy Warren Anglin (†)	Liberal	1867
Kent	George McLeod	Independent	1874
King's	James Domville	Conservative	1872
Northumberland	Peter Mitchell	Independent	1872
Queen's	John Ferris	Liberal	1867
Restigouche	George Moffat	Conservative	1870
George Haddow (from January 12, 1878)	Independent	1878	1st term
Sunbury	Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867
Victoria	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Westmorland	Albert James Smith	Liberal	1867
York	John Pickard	Independent Liberal	1868

Two MPs recontested their seats in a byelection, and were reelected:

Timothy Warren Anglin was reelected in Gloucester on July 2, 1877.
Peter Mitchell was reelected in Northumberland on February 5, 1878.

Nova Scotia

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
	Annapolis	William Hallett Ray	Liberal	1867
Antigonish	Angus McIsaac	Liberal	1873
Cape Breton	Newton LeGayet Mackay	Liberal	1872
Cape Breton	William McDonald	Conservative	1872
Colchester	Thomas McKay	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Cumberland	Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867
Digby	Edwin Randolph Oakes	Liberal-Conservative	1874
William Berrian Vail (from October 26, 1874)	Liberal	1874	1st term
John Chipman Wade (from January 29, 1878)	Independent	1878	1st term
Guysborough	John Angus Kirk	Liberal	1874
Halifax	Alfred Gilpin Jones	Independent	1867, 1874
Halifax	Patrick Power	Independent Liberal	1867, 1874
Hants	Monson Henry Goudge	Liberal	1873
Inverness	Samuel McDonnell	Liberal	1872
Kings	Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874
Lunenburg	Charles Edward Church	Liberal	1872
Pictou*	James William Carmichael	Liberal	1867, 1874
John A. Dawson	Liberal	1874	1st term
Queens	James Fraser Forbes	Liberal	1867
Richmond	Edmund Power Flynn	Liberal	1874
Shelburne	Thomas Coffin	Liberal	1867
Victoria	William Ross	Liberal	1867
Charles James Campbell (from December 17, 1874)	Conservative	1874	1st term
Barclay Edmund Tremaine (from April 28, 1875)	Liberal	1875	1st term
Charles James Campbell (from September 21, 1876)	Conservative	1876	1st term
Yarmouth	Frank Killam	Liberal	1868

Two MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected.

Thomas McKay was reelected in Colchester on December 17, 1874
Alfred Gilpin Jones was reelected in Halifax on January 29, 1878, on being named Minister of Militia and Defence.

Ontario

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Addington	Schuyler Shibley	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Algoma	Edward Borron	Liberal	1874
Bothwell	David Mills	Liberal	1867
Brant North	Gavin Fleming	Liberal	1872
Brant South	William Paterson	Liberal	1872
Brockville	Jacob Dockstader Buell	Liberal	1872
Bruce North	John Gillies	Liberal	1872
Bruce South	Edward Blake		Liberal	1872
Cardwell	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative	1867
Dalton McCarthy (from December 14, 1876)	Liberal-Conservative	1876	1st term
Carleton	John Rochester	Conservative	1872
Cornwall	Alexander Francis Macdonald	Liberal	1874
Dundas	William Gibson	Independent Liberal	1872
Durham East	Lewis Ross	Liberal Reformer	1872
Durham West	Edmund Burke Wood	Liberal	1867
Harvey William Burk (from April 7, 1874)	Liberal	1874	1st term
Elgin East	William Harvey	Liberal	1872
Colin MacDougall (from August 11, 1874)	Liberal	1874	1st term
Elgin West	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872
Essex	William McGregor	Liberal	1874
Frontenac	George Airey Kirkpatrick	Conservative	1870
Glengarry	Donald Alexander MacDonald	Liberal	1867
Archibald McNab (from July 7, 1875)	Liberal	1875	1st term
Grenville South	William Henry Brouse	Liberal	1872
Grey East	William Kingston Flesher	Conservative	1872
Grey North	George Snider	Liberal	1867
Grey South	George Landerkin	Liberal	1872
Haldimand	David Thompson	Liberal	1867
Halton	Daniel Black Chisholm	Liberal-Conservative	1867
William McCraney (from January 25, 1875)	Liberal	1875	1st term
Hamilton	Aemilius Irving	Liberal	1874
Hamilton	Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	1874
Hastings East	John White	Conservative	1871
Hastings North	Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	1867
Hastings West	James Brown	Conservative	1867
Huron Centre	Horace Horton	Liberal	1872
Huron North	Thomas Farrow	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Huron South	Malcolm Colin Cameron (election overturned in 1875)	Liberal	1867
Thomas Greenway (from 1875)	Independent	1875	1st term
Kent	Rufus Stephenson	Conservative	1867
Kingston	Sir John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Lambton	*Alexander Mackenzie*	Liberal	1867
Lanark North	Daniel Galbraith	Liberal	1872
Lanark South	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Leeds North and Grenville North	Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Leeds South	David Ford Jones	Conservative	1874
Lennox	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867
Lincoln	James Norris	Liberal	1874
London	John Walker	Liberal	1874
James Harshaw Fraser (from February 18, 1875)	Liberal-Conservative	1875	1st term
Middlesex East	Crowell Willson (election successfully contested 1874)	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Duncan Macmillan (from January 28, 1875)	Liberal-Conservative	1875	1st term
Middlesex North	Thomas Scatcherd	Liberal	1867
Robert Colin Scatcherd (from June 7, 1876)	Liberal	1876	1st term
Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal	1872
Monck	Lachlin McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Muskoka	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1872
Niagara	Josiah Burr Plumb	Conservative	1874
Norfolk North	John M. Charlton	Liberal	1872
Norfolk South	John Stuart	Liberal	1874
William Wallace (from December 16, 1874)	Conservative	1874	1st term
Northumberland East	James Lyons Biggar	Independent Liberal	1874
Northumberland West	William Kerr	Liberal	1874
Ontario North	Adam Gordon	Liberal	1874
William Henry Gibbs (from July 5, 1876)	Conservative	1874	1st term
Ontario South	Malcolm Cameron	Liberal Party of Canada	1874
Thomas Nicholson Gibbs (from July 5, 1876)	Liberal-Conservative	1876	1st term
Ottawa (City of)*	Pierre St. Jean	Liberal	1874
Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Oxford North	Thomas Oliver	Liberal	1867
Oxford South	Ebenezer Vining Bodwell (until April 1874 when he became superintendent of the Welland Canal)	Liberal	1867
James Atchison Skinner (from May 23, 1874)	Liberal	1874	1st term
Peel	Robert Smith	Liberal	1872
Perth North	Andrew Monteith	Conservative	1874
Perth South	James Trow	Liberal	1872
Peterborough East	James Hall	Liberal	1874
Peterborough West	John Bertram	Liberal	1874
Prescott	Albert Hagar	Liberal	1867
Prince Edward	Walter Ross	Liberal	1867
Renfrew North	Peter White	Liberal-Conservative	1874
William Murray (from November 4, 1874)	Liberal	1874	1st term
Peter White (from January 21, 1876)	Liberal-Conservative	1876	1st term
Renfrew South	John Lorn McDougall	Liberal	1867, 1874
Russell	Robert Blackburn	Liberal	1874
Simcoe North	Hermon Henry Cook	Liberal	1872
Simcoe South	William Carruthers Little	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Stormont	Cyril Archibald	Liberal	1872
Toronto Centre	Robert Wilkes	Liberal	1872
John Macdonald (from May 21, 1875)	Independent Liberal	1875	1st term
Toronto East	John O'Donohoe	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Samuel Platt (from January 18, 1875)	Independent	1875	1st term
Victoria North	James Maclennan	Liberal	1874
Hector Cameron (from September 17, 1875)	Conservative	1875	1st term
Victoria South	Arthur McQuade	Conservative	1874
Waterloo North	Isaac Erb Bowman	Liberal	1867
Waterloo South	James Young	Liberal	1867
Welland	William Alexander Thomson	Liberal	1872
Wellington Centre	George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Wellington North	Nathaniel Higinbotham	Liberal	1872
Wellington South	David Stirton	Liberal	1867
Donald Guthrie (from July 5, 1876)	Liberal	1876	1st term
Wentworth North	Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872
Wentworth South	Joseph Rymal	Liberal	1867
West Toronto	Thomas Moss	Liberal	1873
John Beverley Robinson (from November 6, 1875)	Conservative	1875	1st term
York East	James Metcalfe	Liberal	1867
York North	Alfred Hutchinson Dymond	Liberal	1874
York West	David Blain	Liberal	1872

22 MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected

William McGregor was reelected in Essex on October 22, 1874.
John Lorn McDougall was reelected in Renfrew South on October 24, 1874, and again on February 20, 1875.
Schuyler Shibley was reelected in Addington on October 28, 1874.
William Kerr was reelected in Northumberland West on November 17, 1874.
James Norris was reelected in Lincoln on November 17, 1874, and May 9, 1877.
James Lyons Biggar was reelected in Northumberland East on December 12, 1874.
George Turner Orton was reelected in Wellington Centre on December 13, 1874.
Charles Frederick Ferguson was reelected in Leeds North and Grenville North on December 16, 1874.
James MacLennan was reelected in Victoria North on December 22, 1874.
Josiah Burr Plumb was reelected in Niagara on December 22, 1874.
Herman Henry Cook was reelected in Simcoe North on December 26, 1874.
Sir John A. Macdonald was reelected in Kingston on December 29, 1874.
Nathaniel Higinbotham was reelected in Wellington North on March 18, 1875.
Aemilius Irving was reelected in Hamilton on May 20, 1875.
Andrew Trew Wood was reelected in Hamilton on May 20, 1875.
Edward Blake was reelected in Bruce South on June 2, 1875, after being named Minister of Justice.
Lachlan McCallum was reelected in Monck on June 22, 1875.
Alfred Hutchison Dymond was reelected in York North on June 29, 1875.
Andrew Monteith was reelected in Perth North on July 7, 1875.
Archibald McNab was reelected in Glengarry on July 31, 1876.
David Mills was reelected in Bothwell on November 15, 1876, after being named Minister of the Interior.
Joseph Merrill Currier was reelected in Ottawa on May 9, 1877.

Prince Edward Island

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's County*	Daniel Davies	Conservative	1873
Peter Adolphus McIntyre	Liberal	1874	1st term
Prince County*	Stanislaus Francis Perry	Liberal	1874
James Yeo	Liberal	1873	2nd term
Queen's County*	David Laird	Liberal	1873
Peter Sinclair	Liberal	1873	2nd term
James Colledge Pope (from November 22, 1876)	Conservative	1876	1st term

Quebec

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Lemuel Cushing (from November 4, 1874)	Liberal	1874	1st term
Thomas Christie (from December 31, 1875)	Liberal	1875	1st term
Bagot	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau	Conservative	1874
Beauce	Christian Pozer	Liberal	1867
Joseph Bolduc (from October 18, 1876)	Conservative	1876	1st term
Beauharnois	Ulysse-Janvier Robillard	Independent Conservative	1872
Bellechasse	Télesphore Fournier	Liberal	1870
Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (from November 23, 1875)	Conservative	1875	1st term
Berthier	Anselme Homère Pâquet	Liberal	1867
Edward Octavian Cuthbert (from February 27, 1875)	Conservative	1875	1st term
Bonaventure	Théodore Robitaille	Conservative	1867
Brome	Nathaniel Pettes	Liberal	1874
Chambly	Amable Jodoin	Liberal	1874
Pierre-Basile Benoit (from January 7, 1876)	Conservative	1876	1st term
Champlain	Hippolyte Montplaisir	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Charlevoix	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal	1867
Hector-Louis Langevin (from January 22, 1876)	Conservative	1876	1st term
Châteauguay	Luther Hamilton Holton	Liberal	1867
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Ernest Cimon	Conservative	1874
Compton	John Henry Pope	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Dorchester	François Fortunat Rouleau	Conservative	1874
Drummond—Arthabaska	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
Désiré Olivier Bourbeau (from October 27, 1877)	Conservative	1877	1st term
Gaspé	Louis George Harper	Conservative	1874
John Short (from July 10, 1875)	Conservative	1875	1st term
Hochelaga	Alphonse Desjardins	Conservative	1874
Huntingdon	Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869
Iberville	François Béchard	Liberal	1867
Jacques Cartier	Rodolphe Laflamme	Liberal	1872
Joliette	Louis François Georges Baby	Conservative	1872
Kamouraska	Charles Pelletier	Liberal	1869
Charles-François Roy (from February 19, 1877)	Conservative	1877	1st term
Laprairie	Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867
L'Assomption	Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Laval	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Lévis	Louis-Honoré Fréchette	Liberal	1874
L'Islet	Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872
Lotbinière	Henri Bernier	Liberal	1874
Maskinongé	Louis-Alphonse Boyer	Liberal	1872
Mégantic	Édouard-Émery Richard	Liberal	1872
Missisquoi	William Donahue	Liberal	1874
Montcalm	Firmin Dugas	Conservative	1871
Montmagny	Henri-Thomas Taschereau	Liberal	1872
Montmorency	Jean Langlois	Conservative	1867
Montreal Centre	Michael Patrick Ryan	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Bernard Devlin (from November 26, 1875)	Liberal	1875	1st term
Montreal East	Louis-Amable Jetté	Liberal	1872
Montreal West	Frederick Mackenzie	Liberal	1874
Thomas Workman (from October 30, 1875)	Liberal	1875	1st term
Napierville	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Liberal	1872
Sixte Coupal dit la Reine (from August 4, 1874)	Liberal	1874	1st term
Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Conservative	1867
François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot (from December 18, 1877)	Independent Conservative	1877	1st term
Ottawa (County of)	Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Pontiac	William McKay Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Portneuf	Esdras Alfred de St-Georges	Liberal	1872
Quebec-Centre	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Conservative	1872
Jacques Malouin (from November 3, 1877)	Independent	1877	1st term
Quebec County	Joseph-Philippe-René-Adolphe Caron	Conservative	1873
Quebec East	Isidore Thibaudeau	Liberal	1874
Wilfrid Laurier (from November 28, 1877)	Liberal	1874	1st term
Quebec West	Thomas McGreevy	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Richelieu	Georges Isidore Barthe	Independent Conservative	1870, 1874
Richmond—Wolfe	Henry Aylmer	Liberal	1874
Rimouski	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal	1872
Rouville	Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques	Liberal	1867, 1874
Saint Maurice	Charles Gérin-Lajoie	Liberal	1874
Shefford	Lucius Huntington	Liberal	1867
Town of Sherbrooke	Edward Towle Brooks	Conservative	1872
Soulanges	Jacques-Philippe Lanthier	Conservative	1872
St. Hyacinthe	Louis Delorme	Liberal	1870
St. John's	François Bourassa	Liberal	1867
Stanstead	Charles Carroll Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Témiscouata	Jean-Baptiste Pouliot	Liberal	1874
Terrebonne	Louis Masson	Conservative	1867
Three Rivers	William McDougall	Conservative	1868
Two Mountains	Wilfrid Prévost	Liberal	1872
Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky (from February 26, 1875)	Independent	1875	1st term
Jean-Baptiste Daoust (from March 11, 1876)	Conservative	1876	1st term
Vaudreuil	Robert Harwood	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Verchères	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867
Yamaska	Charles Gill	Conservative	1874

Twelve MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected:

Félix Geoffrion was reelected in Verchères on July 25, 1874, after being named Minister of Inland Revenue.
Henry Aylmer was reelected in Richmond—Wolfe on December 4, 1874, after being named Receiver-General.
Louis François George Baby was reelected in Joliette on December 10, 1874.
Frederick Mackenzie was reelected in Montreal West on December 10, 1874.
Amable Jodoin was reelected in Chambly on December 30, 1874.
Hilaire Hurteau was reelected in L'Assomption on January 16, 1875.
Sixte Coupal dit la Reine was reelected in Napierville on June 19, 1875.
Bernard Devlin was reelected in Montreal Centre on November 26, 1875.
François Fortunat Rouleau was reelected in Dorchester on December 14, 1875.
Joseph-Édouard Cauchon was reelected in Quebec Centre on December 27, 1875, after being named President of the Privy Council.
Rodolphe Laflamme was reelected in Jacques Cartier on December 28, 1876, after being named Minister of Inland Revenue.
Hector-Louis Langevin was reelected in Charlevoix on March 23, 1877.

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 3rd Canadian Parliament

References

Succession

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