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8th Canadian Parliament

Session of the Canadian Parliament (1896–1900)

Field	Value
image	Arms of Canada 1873.svg
jurisdiction	CA
#	8th
type	Majority
houseimage	Chambre des Communes 1896.png
senateimage
status	inactive
term-begin	August 19, 1896
term-end	July 18, 1900
sc	James David Edgar
scterm	August 19, 1896 – July 31, 1899
sc2	Thomas Bain
scterm2	August 1, 1899 – February 5, 1901
pm	Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
pm-begin	1896-07-11
pm-end	1911-10-06
lo	Charles Tupper
loterm	11 July 1896 – 5 February 1901
ss	Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier
ssterm	July 13, 1896 – January 28, 1901
gsl	Oliver Mowat
gslterm	August 19, 1896 – November 17, 1897
gsl2	David Mills
gslterm2	November 17, 1897 – February 7, 1902
osl	Mackenzie Bowell
oslterm	April 27, 1896 – March 1, 1906
party	Liberal Party
party2	Conservative Party
& Liberal-Conservative
unrecparty1	Patrons of Industry
partyfootnote1
sessionbegin	August 19, 1896
sessionend	October 5, 1896
sessionbegin2	March 25, 1897
sessionend2	June 29, 1897
sessionbegin3	February 3, 1898
sessionend3	June 13, 1898
sessionbegin4	March 16, 1899
sessionend4	August 11, 1899
sessionbegin5	February 1, 1900
sessionend5	July 18, 1900
monarch	Victoria
monarchterm	1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901
viceroy	The Earl of Aberdeen
viceroyterm	18 Sep. 1893 – 12 Nov. 1898
viceroy2	The Earl of Minto
viceroyterm2	12 Nov. 1898 – 10 Dec. 1904
ministry	[8th Canadian Ministry](8th-canadian-ministry)
ministrybegin	11 July 1896
ministryend	5 October 1911
lastparl	7th
nextparl	9th

| # = 8th

| term-begin = August 19, 1896 | term-end = July 18, 1900

| pm-begin = 1896-07-11 | pm-end = 1911-10-06

& Liberal-Conservative

The 8th Canadian Parliament was in session from August 19, 1896, until October 9, 1900 (4 years and 51 days). The membership was set by the 1896 federal election on June 23, 1896. It was dissolved prior to the 1900 election.

It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the 8th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative/Liberal-Conservative, led by Charles Tupper.

The Speaker was first James David Edgar, and later Thomas Bain. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1892-1903 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were five sessions of the 8th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	August 19, 1896	October 5, 1896
2nd	March 25, 1897	June 29, 1897
3rd	February 3, 1898	June 13, 1898
4th	March 16, 1899	August 11, 1899
5th	February 1, 1900	July 18, 1900

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the eighth 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
Burrard	George Ritchie Maxwell	Liberal	1896
	New Westminster	Aulay MacAulay Morrison	Liberal	1896
	Vancouver	William Wallace Burns McInnes	Liberal	1896
Victoria*	Edward Gawler Prior	Conservative	1888
Thomas Earle	Conservative	1889	3rd term
	Yale—Cariboo	Hewitt Bostock	Liberal	1896

[[Manitoba]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Brandon	Dalton McCarthy (left seat to keep Simcoe North, Ontario, riding)	Independent	1876
Clifford Sifton (by-election of 1896-11-27)	Liberal	1896	1st term
	Lisgar	Robert Lorne Richardson	Liberal	1896
Macdonald	Nathaniel Boyd	Conservative	1892
John Gunion Rutherford (by-election of 1897-04-27)	Liberal	1897	1st term
	Marquette	William James Roche	Conservative	1896
	Provencher	Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière	Conservative	1889
	Selkirk	John Alexander MacDonell	Liberal	1896
Winnipeg	Hugh John Macdonald (until election voided 29 March 1897)	Conservative	1891
Richard Willis Jameson (by-election of 1897-04-27)	Liberal	1897	1st term
Arthur Puttee (by-election of 1900-01-25)	Labour	1900	1st term

[[New Brunswick]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Albert	William James Lewis	Independent	1896
	Carleton	Frederick Harding Hale	Liberal-Conservative	1887, 1896
	Charlotte	Gilbert White Ganong	Liberal-Conservative	1896
	City and County of St. John	Joseph John Tucker	Liberal	1896
	City of St. John	John Valentine Ellis	Liberal	1887, 1896
	Gloucester	Théotime Blanchard	Conservative	1894
	Kent	George Valentine McInerney	Conservative	1892
	King's	James Domville	Liberal	1872, 1896
	Northumberland	James Robinson	Conservative	1896
	Restigouche	John McAlister	Liberal-Conservative	1891
Sunbury—Queen's	George Gerald King (until 18 December 1896 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1878, 1891
Andrew George Blair (by-election of 1896-08-25)	Liberal	1896	1st term
	Victoria	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Westmorland	Henry Absalom Powell	Liberal-Conservative	1895
	York	George Eulas Foster	Conservative	1882

[[Northwest Territories]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Alberta (Provisional District)	Frank Oliver	Liberal	1896
	Assiniboia East	James Moffat Douglas	Liberal	1896
	Assiniboia West	Nicholas Flood Davin	Liberal-Conservative	1887
Saskatchewan (Provisional District)	*Wilfrid Laurier* (until 11 July 1896 appointment as Prime Minister)	Liberal	1874
Thomas Osborne Davis (by-election of 1896-12-19)	Liberal	1896	1st term

[[Nova Scotia]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Annapolis	John Burpee Mills	Conservative	1887
	Antigonish	Colin Francis McIsaac	Liberal	1895
Cape Breton*	Hector Francis McDougall	Liberal-Conservative	1884
Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867, 1887, 1896	8th term*
Colchester	Wilbert David Dimock (until election voided)	Conservative	1896
Firman McClure (by-election of 1897-04-20)	Liberal	1897	1st term
	Cumberland	Hance James Logan	Liberal	1896
	Digby	Albert James Smith Copp	Liberal	1896
	Guysborough	Duncan Cameron Fraser	Liberal	1891
Halifax*	Robert Laird Borden	Conservative	1896
Benjamin Russell	Liberal	1896	1st term
	Hants	Allen Haley	Liberal	1896
	Inverness	Angus MacLennan	Liberal	1896
Kings	Frederick William Borden (until 11 July 1896 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1874, 1887
Frederick William Borden (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
	Lunenburg	Charles Edwin Kaulbach	Conservative	1882, 1883, 1891
Pictou*	Adam Carr Bell	Conservative	1896
Charles Hibbert Tupper	Conservative	1882	4th term
	Richmond	Joseph Alexander Gillies	Conservative	1891
Shelburne and Queen's	Francis Gordon Forbes (until 18 July 1896 customs appointment)	Liberal	1891
William Stevens Fielding (by-election of 1896-08-05)	Liberal	1896	1st term
	Victoria	John Lemuel Bethune	Conservative	1896
	Yarmouth	Thomas Barnard Flint	Liberal	1891

[[Ontario]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Addington	John William Bell	Conservative	1882, 1896
	Algoma	Albert Dyment	Liberal	1896
	Bothwell	James Clancy	Conservative	1896
Brant South	Robert Henry	Conservative	1896
Charles Bernhard Heyd (by-election of 1897-02-04)	Liberal	1897	1st term
Brockville	John Fisher Wood	Liberal-Conservative	1882
William Henry Comstock (by-election of 1899-04-20)	Liberal	1899	1st term
	Bruce East	Henry Cargill	Conservative	1892
	Bruce North	Alexander McNeill	Liberal-Conservative	1882
	Bruce West	John Tolmie	Liberal	1896
	Cardwell	William Stubbs	Independent Conservative	1895
	Carleton	William Thomas Hodgins	Conservative	1891
Cornwall and Stormont	Darby Bergin	Liberal-Conservative	1872, 1878
John Goodall Snetsinger (by-election of 1896-12-19)	Liberal	1896	1st term
	Dundas	Andrew Broder	Conservative	1896
	Durham East	Thomas Dixon Craig	Independent Conservative	1891
	Durham West	Robert Beith	Liberal	1891
	Elgin East	Andrew B. Ingram	Liberal-Conservative	1891
	Elgin West	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1878
	Essex North	William McGregor	Liberal	1891
	Essex South	Mahlon K. Cowan	Liberal	1896
	Frontenac	David Dickson Rogers	Patrons of Industry	1896
	Glengarry	Roderick R. McLennan	Conservative	1891
	Grenville South	John Dowsley Reid	Conservative	1891
	Grey East	Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878
Grey North	John Clark	Liberal	1896
William Paterson (by-election of 1896-08-25)	Liberal	1896	1st term
	Grey South	George Landerkin	Liberal	1872, 1882
	Haldimand and Monck	Walter Humphries Montague	Conservative	1887, 1890
	Halton	David Henderson	Conservative	1887, 1888
Hamilton*	Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	1874, 1896
Thomas Henry Macpherson	Liberal	1896	1st term
	Hastings East	Jeremiah M. Hurley	Liberal	1896
	Hastings North	Alexander Augustus Williamson Carscallen	Conservative	1892
	Hastings West	Henry Corby	Conservative	1888
	Huron East	Peter Macdonald	Liberal	1887
	Huron South	John McMillan	Liberal	1882, 1887
Huron West	Malcolm Colin Cameron (until 30 May 1898 appointment as North West Territories Lieutenant-Governor)	Liberal	1867, 1891, 1896
Robert Holmes (by-election of 1899-02-21)	Liberal	1899	1st term
	Kent	Archibald Campbell	Liberal	1887
	Kingston	Byron Moffatt Britton	Liberal	1896
	Lambton East	John Fraser	Liberal	1896
Lambton West	James Frederick Lister (until 21 June 1898 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1882
Thomas George Johnston (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Liberal	1898	1st term
	Lanark North	Bennett Rosamond	Conservative	1891
	Lanark South	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
	Leeds North and Grenville North	Francis Theodore Frost	Liberal	1896
	Leeds South	George Taylor	Conservative	1882
	Lennox	Uriah Wilson	Conservative	1892
	Lincoln and Niagara	William Gibson	Liberal	1891
	London	Thomas Beattie	Conservative	1896
	Middlesex East	James Gilmour	Conservative	1896
	Middlesex North	Valentine Ratz	Liberal	1896
	Middlesex South	Malcolm McGugan	Liberal	1896
	Middlesex West	William Samuel Calvert	Liberal	1896
	Muskoka and Parry Sound	George McCormick	Liberal-Conservative	1896
	Nipissing	James Bell Klock	Conservative	1896
	Norfolk North	John Charlton	Liberal	1872
	Norfolk South	David Tisdale	Conservative	1887
	Northumberland East	Edward Cochrane	Conservative	1887
	Northumberland West	George Guillet	Conservative	1891
Ontario North	John Alexander McGillivray	Liberal-Conservative	1895
Duncan Graham (by-election of 1897-02-04)	Independent Liberal	1897	1st term
	Ontario South	Leonard Burnett	Liberal	1896
Ontario West	James David Edgar (died 31 July 1899) (†)	Liberal	1884
Isaac James Gould (by-election of 1900-01-18)	Liberal	1900	1st term
Ottawa (City of)*	Napoléon Antoine Belcourt	Liberal	1896
William H. Hutchison	Liberal	1896	1st term
	Oxford North	James Sutherland	Liberal	1880
Oxford South	Richard John Cartwright (until ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1867
Richard John Cartwright (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
	Peel	Joseph Featherston	Liberal	1891
	Perth North	Alexander Ferguson Maclaren	Conservative	1896
	Perth South	Dilman Kinsey Erb	Liberal	1896
	Peterborough East	John Lang	Independent Liberal	1896
	Peterborough West	James Kendry	Conservative	1887
	Prescott	Isidore Proulx	Liberal	1891
	Prince Edward	William Varney Pettet	Patrons of Industry	1896
	Renfrew North	Thomas Mackie	Liberal	1896
	Renfrew South	John Ferguson	Independent Conservative	1887
	Russell	William Cameron Edwards	Liberal	1887
Simcoe East	William Humphrey Bennett	Conservative	1892
William Humphrey Bennett (by-election of 1897-02-04)	Conservative
Simcoe North	Dalton McCarthy (died 11 May 1898)	Independent	1887
Leighton Goldie McCarthy (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Independent	1898	1st term
	Simcoe South	Richard Tyrwhitt	Conservative	1882
Toronto Centre	William Lount	Liberal	1896
George Hope Bertram (by-election of 1897-11-30)	Liberal	1897	1st term
	Toronto East	John Ross Robertson	Independent Conservative	1896
	Victoria North	Sam Hughes	Liberal-Conservative	1892
	Victoria South	George McHugh	Liberal	1896
	Waterloo North	Joseph Emm Seagram	Conservative	1896
	Waterloo South	James Livingston	Liberal	1882
	Welland	William McCleary	Conservative	1896
	Wellington Centre	Andrew Semple	Liberal	1887
	Wellington North	James McMullen	Liberal	1882
	Wellington South	Christian Kloepfer	Conservative	1896
	Wentworth North and Brant	James Somerville	Liberal	1882
	Wentworth South	Thomas Bain (†)	Liberal	1872
West Toronto*	Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative	1896
Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative	1896	1st term
	York East	William Findlay Maclean	Conservative	1892
York North	William Mulock (until Postmaster General appointment)	Liberal	1882
William Mulock (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
	York West	Nathaniel Clarke Wallace	Conservative	1878

[[Prince Edward Island]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
East Prince	John Yeo (until 19 November 1898 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1891
John Howatt Bell (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Liberal	1898	1st term
	East Queen's	Alexander Martin	Conservative	1896
	King's	Augustine Colin Macdonald	Conservative	1873, 1878, 1883, 1891
West Prince	Edward Hackett (until election voided 24 March 1897)	Liberal-Conservative	1878, 1896
Stanislaus Francis Perry (by-election of 1897-04-27, died 24 February 1898)	Liberal	1874, 1887, 1897	4th term*
Bernard Donald McLellan (by-election of 1898-04-13)	Liberal	1896	1st term
West Queen's	Louis Henry Davies (until 11 July 1896 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1882
Louis Henry Davies (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal

[[Quebec]]

Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	Thomas Christie	Liberal	1875, 1891
Bagot	Flavien Dupont (died in office)	Conservative	1882
Joseph Edmond Marcile (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Liberal	1898	1st term
	Beauce	Joseph Godbout	Liberal	1887
	Beauharnois	Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron	Conservative	1882
	Bellechasse	Onésiphore Ernest Talbot	Liberal	1896
Berthier	Cléophas Beausoleil (until 1 December 1899 postmaster appointment)	Liberal	1882
Joseph Éloi Archambault (by-election of 1900-01-18)	Liberal	1900	1st term
Bonaventure	William LeBoutillier Fauvel (died 8 February 1897)	Liberal	1891
Jean-François Guité (by-election of 1897-03-17)	Liberal	1897	1st term
Brome	Sydney Arthur Fisher (until 11 July 1896 ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1896
Sydney Arthur Fisher (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Chambly—Verchères	Christophe Alphonse Geoffrion (died 18 July 1899)	Liberal	1895
Victor Geoffrion (by-election of 1900-01-18)	Liberal	1900	1st term
Champlain	François Arthur Marcotte (until election voided 12 January 1897)	Conservative	1896
François Arthur Marcotte (by-election of 1897-04-07)	Conservative
	Charlevoix	Louis Charles Alphonse Angers	Liberal	1896
	Châteauguay	James Pollock Brown	Liberal	1891
	Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Paul Vilmond Savard	Liberal	1891
	Compton	Rufus Henry Pope	Conservative	1889
	Dorchester	Jean-Baptiste Morin	Conservative	1896
Drummond—Arthabaska	Joseph Lavergne (until 4 August 1897 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1882
Louis Lavergne (by-election of 1897-11-13)	Liberal	1897	1st term
	Gaspé	Rodolphe Lemieux	Liberal	1896
	Hochelaga	Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore	Liberal	1896
	Huntingdon	Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869
	Jacques Cartier	Frederick Debartzch Monk	Conservative	1896
	Joliette	Charles Bazinet	Liberal	1896
	Kamouraska	Henry George Carroll	Liberal	1891
Labelle	Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa (resigned 26 October 1899)	Liberal	1896
Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa (by-election of 1900-01-18)	Independent
	Laprairie—Napierville	Dominique Monet	Liberal	1891
	L'Assomption	Joseph Gauthier	Liberal	1892
	Laval	Thomas Fortin	Liberal	1896
Lévis	Pierre Malcom Guay (died 19 February 1899)	Liberal	1885
Louis Julien Demers (by-election of 1899-03-22)	Liberal	1899	1st term
	L'Islet	Alphonse Arthur Miville Déchêne	Liberal	1896
Lotbinière	Côme Isaïe Rinfret (until 25 August 1899 revenue inspector appointment)	Liberal	1878
Edmond Fortier (by-election of 1900-01-25)	Liberal	1900	1st term
	Maisonneuve	Joseph Raymond Fournier Préfontaine	Liberal	1886
	Maskinongé	Joseph Hormidas Legris	Liberal	1891
	Mégantic	Georges Turcot	Liberal	1887, 1896
	Missisquoi	Daniel Bishop Meigs	Liberal	1888, 1896
	Montcalm	Joseph Louis Euclide Dugas	Conservative	1891
Montmagny	Philippe-Auguste Choquette (until 7 July 1898 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1887
Pierre-Raymond-Léonard Martineau (by-election of 1898-12-14)	Liberal	1898	1st term
	Montmorency	Thomas Chase Casgrain	Conservative	1896
Nicolet	Fabien Boisvert (died 12 November 1897)	Conservative	1888, 1896
Joseph Hector Leduc (by-election of 1897-12-21)	Liberal	1897	1st term
	Pontiac	William Joseph Poupore	Conservative	1896
Portneuf	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (until 11 July 1896 revenue appointment)	Liberal	1867, 1896
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Quebec-Centre	François Charles Stanislas Langelier (until 14 January 1898 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1882
Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin (by-election of 1898-01-24)	Liberal	1898	1st term
Quebec County	Charles Fitzpatrick (until 11 July 1896 Solicitor General appointment)	Liberal	1896
Charles Fitzpatrick (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
Quebec East	*Wilfrid Laurier* (until 11 July 1896 appointment as Prime Minister)	Liberal	1874
*Wilfrid Laurier* (by-election of 1896-07-30)	Liberal
	Quebec West	Richard Reid Dobell	Liberal	1896
	Richelieu	Arthur Aimé Bruneau	Liberal	1892
	Richmond—Wolfe	Michael Thomas Stenson	Liberal	1896
Rimouski	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset (until 20 October 1897 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1872, 1887, 1896
Jean Auguste Ross (by-election of 1897-11-06)	Liberal	1897	1st term
	Rouville	Louis Philippe Brodeur	Liberal	1878
	St. Anne	Michael Joseph Francis Quinn	Conservative	1896
	St. Antoine	Thomas George Roddick	Conservative	1896
St. Hyacinthe	Michel Esdras Bernier (until 22 June 1900 revenue appointment)	Liberal	1882
Michel Esdras Bernier (by-election of 1900-07-04)	Liberal
	St. James	Odilon Desmarais	Liberal	1896
St. Johns—Iberville	François Béchard (until 17 July 1896 Senate appointment)	Liberal	1867
Joseph Israël Tarte (by-election of 1896-08-03)	Liberal	1891, 1893, 1896	3rd term*
	St. Lawrence	Edward Goff Penny	Liberal	1896
	St. Mary	Hercule Dupré	Liberal	1896
	Shefford	Charles Henry Parmelee	Liberal	1896
Town of Sherbrooke	William Bullock Ives (died 15 July 1899)	Conservative	1882
John McIntosh (by-election of 1900-01-25)	Conservative	1900	1st term
	Soulanges	Augustin Bourbonnais	Liberal	1896
	Stanstead	Alvin Head Moore	Conservative	1896
Témiscouata	Charles Eugène Pouliot (died 24 June 1897)	Liberal	1896
Charles Arthur Gauvreau (by-election of 1897-11-06)	Liberal	1897	1st term
	Terrebonne	Léon Adolphe Chauvin	Conservative	1896
	Three Rivers and St. Maurice	Joseph Philippe René Adolphe Caron	Conservative	1867
	Two Mountains	Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier	Liberal	1896
	Vaudreuil	Henry Stanislas Harwood	Liberal	1891
Wright	Charles Ramsay Devlin (until 15 March 1897 immigration appointment)	Liberal	1891
Louis Napoléon Champagne (by-election of 1897-03-23)	Liberal	1897	1st term
	Yamaska	Roch Moïse Samuel Mignault	Liberal	1891

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 8th Canadian Parliament

Notes

References

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