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5th Canadian Parliament

Session of the Parliament of Canada

Field	Value
image	Arms of Canada 1873.svg
jurisdiction	CA
#	5th
type	Majority
houseimage	Chambre des Communes 1882.png
senateimage
status	inactive
term-begin	8 February 1883
term-end	15 January 1887
sc	Joseph-Goderic Blanchet
scterm	13 February 1879 – 7 February 1883
sc2	George Airey Kirkpatrick
scterm2	8 February 1883 – 12 July 1887
pm	Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald
pm-begin	1878-10-17
pm-end	1891-06-06
lo	Edward Blake
loterm	4 May 1880 – 2 June 1887
ss	The Hon. Sir David Lewis Macpherson
ssterm	19 April 1880 – 16 October 1883
ss2	The Hon. William Miller
ssterm2	17 October 1883 – 3 April 1887
gsl	Alexander Campbell
gslterm	18 October 1878 – 26 January 1887
osl	Sir Richard William Scott
oslterm	8 October 1878 – 27 April 1896
party	Conservative Party
& Liberal-Conservative
party2	Liberal Party
sessionbegin	8 February 1883
sessionend	27 May 1883
sessionbegin2	17 January 1884
sessionend2	19 April 1884
sessionbegin3	29 January 1885
sessionend3	20 July 1885
sessionbegin4	25 February 1886
sessionend4	2 June 1886
monarch	Victoria
monarchterm	1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901
viceroy	The Duke of Argyll
viceroyterm	25 Nov. 1878 – 23 Oct. 1883
viceroy2	The Marquess of Lansdowne
viceroyterm2	23 Oct. 1883 – 11 June 1888
ministry	[3rd Canadian Ministry](3rd-canadian-ministry)
ministrybegin	17 October 1878
ministryend	6 June 1891
members	242 seats
senators	97 seats
lastparl	4th
nextparl	6th

| # = 5th

| term-begin = 8 February 1883 | term-end = 15 January 1887

| pm-begin = 1878-10-17 | pm-end = 1891-06-06

& Liberal-Conservative

The 5th Canadian Parliament was in session from 8 February 1883, until 15 January 1887 (3 years and 341 days). The membership was set by the 1882 federal election on 20 June 1882. It was dissolved prior to the 1887 election. The 5th Canadian Parliament was controlled by a Conservative/Liberal-Conservative majority under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the 3rd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led by Edward Blake.

The Speaker was George Airey Kirkpatrick. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1882-1887 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were four sessions of the 5th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	February 8, 1883	May 27, 1883
2nd	January 17, 1884	April 19, 1884
3rd	January 29, 1885	July 20, 1885
4th	February 25, 1886	June 2, 1886

Notable legislation

This term was notable for passing the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 which imposed a head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada.

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fifth 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	James Reid	Liberal-Conservative	1881
	New Westminster	Joshua Homer	Liberal-Conservative	1882
	Vancouver	David William Gordon	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Victoria*	Edgar Crow Baker	Conservative	1882
Noah Shakespeare	Conservative	1882	1st term
	Yale	Francis Jones Barnard	Conservative	1879

[[Manitoba]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Lisgar	Arthur Wellington Ross	Liberal-Conservative	1882
	Marquette	Robert Watson	Liberal	1882
	Provencher	Joseph Royal	Conservative	1879
	Selkirk	Hugh McKay Sutherland	Liberal	1882
	Winnipeg	Thomas Scott	Conservative	1880

[[New Brunswick]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Albert	John Wallace (unseated 1883)	Liberal	1867, 1882
John Wallace (by-election of 1883-07-10)	Liberal-Conservative	1883	1st term
	Carleton	David Irvine	Liberal	1881
	Charlotte	Arthur Hill Gillmor	Liberal	1874
City and County of St. John*	Isaac Burpee (died 1 March 1885)	Liberal	1872
Charles Wesley Weldon	Liberal	1878	2nd term
Charles Arthur Everett (by-election of 1885-10-20)	Conservative	1885	1st term
City of St. John	Samuel Leonard Tilley (appointed New Brunswick's Lieutenant-Governor 12 November 1885)	Liberal-Conservative	1873, 1878
Frederick Eustace Barker (by-election of 1885-11-24)	Conservative	1885	1st term
	Gloucester	Kennedy Francis Burns	Conservative	1882
Kent	Gilbert Anselme Girouard	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Pierre Amand Landry (by-election of 1883-09-22)	Conservative	1883	1st term
King's	George Eulas Foster (election voided 1882)	Conservative	1882
George Eulas Foster (by-election of 1882-11-07, until Ministerial appointment)	Conservative
George Eulas Foster (by-election of 1885-12-31)	Conservative
	Northumberland	Peter Mitchell	Independent	1872, 1882
	Queen's	George Gerald King	Liberal	1878
	Restigouche	Robert Moffat	Conservative	1882
	Sunbury	Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867
	Victoria	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Westmorland	Josiah Wood	Conservative	1882
York	John Pickard	Independent Liberal	1868
Thomas Temple (by-election of 1884-06-29)	Conservative	1884	1st term

[[Nova Scotia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Annapolis	William Hallett Ray	Liberal	1867, 1882
Antigonish	Angus McIsaac	Liberal	1874
John Thompson (by-election of 1885-10-16)	Liberal-Conservative	1885	1st term
Cape Breton*	Murray Dodd	Conservative	1882
William McDonald (until 1884 Senate appointment)	Conservative	1872	4th term
Hector Francis McDougall (by-election of 1884-07-03)	Liberal-Conservative	1884	1st term
	Colchester	Archibald McLelan	Conservative	1867, 1881
Cumberland	Charles Tupper (until 1884 High Commission appointment)	Conservative	1867
Charles James Townshend (by-election of 1884-06-26)	Liberal-Conservative	1884	1st term
	Digby	William Berrian Vail	Liberal	1874, 1882
	Guysborough	John Angus Kirk	Liberal	1874, 1882
Halifax*	Malachy Bowes Daly	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Matthew Henry Richey (until 1883 Lieutenant-Governor appointment)	Liberal-Conservative	1878	2nd term
John Fitzwilliam Stairs (by-election of 1883-07-24)	Conservative	1883	1st term
	Hants	William Henry Allison	Conservative	1878
	Inverness	Hugh Cameron	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1882
	Kings	Douglas Benjamin Woodworth	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Lunenburg	Thomas Twining Keefler (until 1883 voiding of election)	Liberal	1882
Charles Edwin Kaulbach (by-election of 1883-10-10)	Conservative	1883	1st term
Pictou*	John McDougald	Liberal-Conservative	1881
Charles Hibbert Tupper	Conservative	1882	1st term
	Queens	James Fraser Forbes	Liberal	1867, 1882
	Richmond	Henry Nicholas Paint	Conservative	1882
	Shelburne	Thomas Robertson	Liberal	1878
	Victoria	Charles James Campbell	Conservative	1874, 1882
	Yarmouth	Joseph Robbins Kinney	Liberal	1882

[[Ontario]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Addington	John William Bell	Conservative	1882
	Algoma	Simon James Dawson	Conservative	1878
Bothwell	John Joseph Hawkins (until 1884 voiding of election)	Liberal-Conservative	1882
David Mills (by-election of 1884-02-25)	Liberal	1884	1st term
	Brant North	James Somerville	Liberal	1882
	Brant South	William Paterson	Liberal	1872
	Brockville	John Fisher Wood	Liberal-Conservative	1882
	Bruce East	Rupert Mearse Wells	Liberal	1882
	Bruce North	Alexander McNeill	Liberal-Conservative	1882
	Bruce West	James Somerville	Liberal	1882
Cardwell	Thomas White (until 1885 ministerial nomination)	Conservative	1878
Thomas White (by-election of 1885-08-27)
	Carleton	*John A. Macdonald*	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Cornwall and Stormont	Darby Bergin	Liberal-Conservative	1872, 1878
	Dundas	Charles Erastus Hickey	Conservative	1882
Durham East	Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams (died 4 July 1885)	Conservative	1878
Henry Alfred Ward (by-election of 1885-08-24)	Conservative	1885	1st term
	Durham West	Edward Blake	Liberal	1879
	Elgin East	John Henry Wilson	Liberal	1882
	Elgin West	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872
	Essex North	James Colebrooke Patterson	Conservative	1878
	Essex South	Lewis Wigle	Conservative	1882
	Frontenac	George Airey Kirkpatrick (†)	Conservative	1870
	Glengarry	Donald Macmaster	Conservative	1882
Grenville South	William Thomas Benson (died 8 June 1885)	Conservative	1882
Walter Shanly (by-election of 1885-07-04)	Conservative	1885	1st term
	Grey East	Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878
	Grey North	Benjamin Allen	Liberal	1882
	Grey South	George Landerkin	Liberal	1872, 1882
Haldimand	David Thompson (died 18 April 1886)	Liberal	1867
Charles Wesley Colter (by-election of 1886-09-08)	Liberal	1886	1st term
	Halton	William McCraney	Liberal	1875, 1882
Hamilton	Francis Edwin Kilvert	Conservative	1878
Thomas Robertson	Liberal	1878	2nd term
	Hastings East	John White	Conservative	1871
	Hastings North	Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	1867
	Hastings West	Alexander Robertson	Conservative	1882
	Huron East	Thomas Farrow	Conservative	1878
Huron South	John McMillan (resigned 1883)	Liberal	1882
Richard John Cartwright (by-election of 1883-12-10)	Liberal	1883	1st term
	Huron West	Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	1867, 1878
Kent	Henry Smyth (until election voided 31 December 1883)	Conservative	1882
Henry Smyth (by-election of 1884-01-29)	Conservative
	Kingston	Alexander Gunn	Liberal	1878
	Lambton East	John Henry Fairbank	Liberal	1882
	Lambton West	James Frederick Lister	Liberal	1882
	Lanark North	Joseph Jamieson	Conservative	1882
	Lanark South	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
	Leeds North and Grenville North	Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative	1874
	Leeds South	George Taylor	Conservative	1882
Lennox	John A. Macdonald (until election voided)	Liberal-Conservative	1867
David Wright Allison (by-election of 1883-11-26, until election voided)	Liberal	1883	1st term
Matthew William Pruyn (by-election of 1885-01-28)	Conservative	1885	1st term
	Lincoln and Niagara	John Charles Rykert	Conservative	1878
	London	John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
	Middlesex East	Duncan Macmillan	Liberal-Conservative	1875
	Middlesex North	Timothy Coughlin	Liberal-Conservative	1878
	Middlesex South	James Armstrong	Liberal	1882
Middlesex West	George William Ross (until election voided October 1883)	Liberal	1872
Donald Mackenzie Cameron (by-election of 1883-12-14)	Liberal	1883	1st term
	Monck	Lachlan McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	1874
	Muskoka and Parry Sound	William Edward O'Brien	Conservative	1882
	Norfolk North	John Charlton	Liberal	1872
	Norfolk South	Joseph Jackson	Liberal	1882
	Northumberland East	Edward Cochrane	Conservative	1882
Northumberland West	George Guillet (unseated 1885)	Conservative	1881
George Guillet (by-election of 1885-04-07)	Conservative	1885	1st term
	Ontario North	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1878
	Ontario South	Francis Wayland Glen	Liberal	1878
Ontario West	George Wheler (resigned 1884)	Liberal	1878
James David Edgar (by-election of 1884-08-22)	Liberal	1884	1st term
Ottawa (City of)*	Charles Herbert Mackintosh	Conservative	1882
Joseph Tassé	Conservative	1878	2nd term
	Oxford North	James Sutherland	Liberal	1880
	Oxford South	Archibald Harley	Liberal	1882
	Peel	James Fleming	Liberal	1882
	Perth North	Samuel Rollin Hesson	Conservative	1878
	Perth South	James Trow	Liberal	1872
	Peterborough East	John Burnham	Conservative	1878
	Peterborough West	George Hilliard	Liberal-Conservative	1878
	Prescott	Simon Labrosse	Liberal	1882
	Prince Edward	John Milton Platt	Liberal	1882
	Renfrew North	Peter White	Conservative	1876
	Renfrew South	Robert Campbell	Liberal	1882
	Russell	Moss Kent Dickinson	Conservative	1882
	Simcoe East	Hermon Henry Cook	Liberal	1874, 1882
	Simcoe North	Dalton McCarthy	Conservative	1872
	Simcoe South	Richard Tyrwhitt	Conservative	1882
	Toronto Centre	Robert Hay	Liberal	1878
	Toronto East	John Small	Conservative	1882
	Victoria North	Hector Cameron	Conservative	1875
	Victoria South	Joseph Rutherford Dundas	Conservative	1882
	Waterloo North	Hugo Kranz	Conservative	1878
	Waterloo South	James Livingston	Liberal	1882
	Welland	John Ferguson	Conservative	1878
	Wellington Centre	George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative	1874
	Wellington North	James McMullen	Liberal	1882
	Wellington South	James Innes	Liberal	1882
	Wentworth North	Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872
	Wentworth South	Lewis Springer	Liberal	1882
	West Toronto	James Beaty	Conservative	1880
	York East	Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal	1867
	York North	William Mulock	Liberal	1882
	York West	Nathaniel Clarke Wallace	Conservative	1878

[[Prince Edward Island]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's County*	Peter Adolphus McIntyre	Liberal	1874, 1882
James Edwin Robertson (until disqualified from office)	Liberal	1882	1st term
Augustine Colin Macdonald (by-election of 1883-04-26)	Liberal-Conservative	1873, 1878, 1883	3rd term*
Prince County*	Edward Hackett	Liberal-Conservative	1878
James Yeo	Liberal	1873	4th term
Queen's County*	Louis Henry Davies	Liberal	1882
John Theophilus Jenkins (until election voided)	Liberal-Conservative	1882	1st term
Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken (by-election of 1883-02-27, until postmaster appointment)	Conservative	1883	1st term
John Theophilus Jenkins (by-election of 1884-08-19)	Liberal-Conservative	1882, 1884	2nd term*

[[Quebec]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1880
Bagot	Joseph Alfred Mousseau (until Quebec cabinet appointment)	Conservative	1874
Flavien Dupont (by-election of 1882-09-02)	Conservative	1882	1st term
Beauce	Joseph Bolduc (until Senate appointment)	Conservative	1876
Thomas Linière Taschereau (by-election of 1884-10-31)	Conservative	1884	1st term
	Beauharnois	Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron	Conservative	1879
	Bellechasse	Guillaume Amyot	Conservative	1881
	Berthier	Edward Octavian Cuthbert	Conservative	1875
	Bonaventure	Louis Joseph Riopel	Conservative	1882
	Brome	Sydney Arthur Fisher	Liberal	1882
Chambly	Pierre Basile Benoit (until Chambly Canal appointment)	Conservative	1876
Raymond Préfontaine (by-election of 1886-07-30)	Liberal	1886	1st term
	Champlain	Hippolyte Montplaisir	Liberal-Conservative	1874
	Charlevoix	Simon-Xavier Cimon	Conservative	1881
	Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Jean Alfred Gagné	Conservative	1882
	Châteauguay	Edward Holton	Liberal	1880
	Compton	John Henry Pope	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Dorchester	Charles Alexander Lesage	Conservative	1882
	Drummond—Arthabaska	Désiré Olivier Bourbeau	Conservative	1877
	Gaspé	Pierre Fortin	Conservative	1867, 1878
	Hochelaga	Alphonse Desjardins	Conservative	1874
	Huntingdon	Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869
	Iberville	François Béchard	Liberal	1867
	Jacques Cartier	Désiré Girouard	Conservative	1878
Joliette	Édouard Guilbault (until election voided 4 November 1882)	Conservative	1882
Édouard Guilbault (by-election of 1882-12-07)	Independent Conservative	1882	1st term
	Kamouraska	Charles Bruno Blondeau	Conservative	1882
	Laprairie	Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867
	L'Assomption	Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative	1874
	Laval	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Lévis	Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (until Customs appointment) (†)	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
Isidore-Noël Belleau (by-election of 1883-10-25, until unseated by court)	Conservative	1883	1st term
Pierre Malcom Guay (by-election of 1885-04-14)	Liberal	1885	1st term
	L'Islet	Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872
	Lotbinière	Côme Isaïe Rinfret	Liberal	1878
Maskinongé	Frédéric Houde (died 15 November 1884)	Nationalist Conservative	1878
Alexis Lesieur Desaulniers (by-election of 1884-12-22)	Conservative	1884	1st term
Mégantic	Louis-Israël Côté alias Fréchette (until election voided 1 April 1884)	Conservative	1882
François Charles Stanislas Langelier (by-election of 1884-06-10)	Liberal	1884	1st term
	Missisquoi	George Barnard Baker	Liberal-Conservative	1878
	Montcalm	Firmin Dugas	Conservative	1871
	Montmagny	Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry	Conservative	1878
	Montmorency	Pierre Vincent Valin	Conservative	1878, 1880
	Montreal Centre	John Joseph Curran	Conservative	1882
	Montreal East	Charles-Joseph Coursol	Conservative	1878
	Montreal West	Matthew Hamilton Gault	Conservative	1878
	Napierville	Médéric Catudal	Liberal	1882
Nicolet	François Xavier Ovide Méthot (until Quebec legislative council appointment 27 March 1884)	Independent Conservative	1877
Athanase Gaudet (by-election of 1884-04-16)	Nationalist Conservative	1884	1st term
	Ottawa (County of)	Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Pontiac	John Bryson	Conservative	1882
	Portneuf	Joseph Esdras Alfred de Saint-Georges	Liberal	1872, 1882
	Quebec-Centre	Joseph Guillaume Bossé	Conservative	1882
	Quebec County	Adolphe-Philippe Caron	Conservative	1873
	Quebec East	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
	Quebec West	Thomas McGreevy	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Richelieu	Louis Huet Massue	Liberal-Conservative	1878
	Richmond—Wolfe	William Bullock Ives	Conservative	1878
	Rimouski	Louis Adolphe Billy	Conservative	1882
	Rouville	Georges Auguste Gigault	Conservative	1878
	Saint Maurice	Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers	Conservative	1867, 1878
	Shefford	Michel Auger	Independent Liberal	1882
	Town of Sherbrooke	Robert Newton Hall	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Soulanges	Jacques Philippe Lantier (died 15 September 1882)	Conservative	1872
Georges-Raoul-Léotale-Guichart-Humbert Saveuse de Beaujeu (by-election of 1882-10-27, until unseated 11 December 1883)	Conservative	1882	1st term
James William Bain (by-election of 1883-12-27, until election voided)	Conservative	1883	1st term
James William Bain (by-election of 1885-02-05)	Conservative	1882	1st term
	Stanstead	Charles Carroll Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	St. Hyacinthe	Michel Esdras Bernier	Liberal	1882
	St. John's	François Bourassa	Liberal	1867
Terrebonne	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (resigned to open seat for Chapleau)	Conservative	1882
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (by-election of 1882-08-16)	Conservative	1882	1st term
	Three Rivers	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	1867, 1876, 1878
	Témiscouata	Paul Étienne Grandbois	Conservative	1878
	Two Mountains	Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Conservative	1876
	Vaudreuil	Hugh McMillan	Conservative	1882
	Verchères	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867
	Yamaska	Fabien Vanasse	Conservative	1879

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 5th Canadian Parliament

References

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