2nd Canadian Parliament

File:John A Macdonald election poster 1891.jpg

Sir John A. Macdonald, depicted in this poster from 1891, was Prime Minister during most of the 2nd Canadian Parliament.

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Alexander Mackenzie and his Liberal Party briefly took power at the end of the 2nd Parliament.

The 2nd Canadian Parliament was in session from March 5, 1873, until January 2, 1874 (303 days). The membership was set by the 1872 federal election from July 20 to October 12, 1872, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1874 election. Among the by-elections were the first election of PEI MPs, PEI joining Confederation in 1873.

It was first controlled by a Conservative/Liberal-Conservative majority under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the 1st Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led by Alexander Mackenzie. After a scandal in the Conservative Party, the Liberals took power, forming the 2nd Canadian Ministry. Alexander Mackenzie, now Prime Minister, immediately called an election.

The Speaker was James Cockburn. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1872-1873 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

The unusual case of a new party taking control of the government between elections has only happened in the federal government twice; the other occasion was in the 15th Canadian parliament.

There were 2 sessions of the 2nd Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	March 5, 1873	August 13, 1873
2nd	October 23, 1873	November 7, 1873

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the second 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 "(Template:Dagger)".

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

British Columbia

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cariboo	Joshua Spencer Thompson	Liberal-Conservative	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	New Westminster	Hugh Nelson	Liberal-Conservative	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	Vancouver	Francis Hincks	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria*	Henry Nathan Jr.	Liberal	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|		Amor De Cosmos	Liberal	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	Yale	Edgar Dewdney	Conservative	1872

Manitoba

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lisgar	John Christian Schultz	Conservative	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	Marquette	Robert Cunningham	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Provencher	The Honourable Sir George-Étienne Cartier (to May 20, 1873) (death)	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		Louis Riel (from October 13, 1873)	Independent	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Selkirk	Donald A. Smith	Independent Conservative	1871

New Brunswick

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Albert	John Wallace	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Carleton	The Honourable Charles Connell	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Charlotte	John McAdam	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	City and County of St. John*	Isaac Burpee	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		Acalus Lockwood Palmer	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	City of St. John	The Honourable Samuel Leonard Tilley (to November 15, 1873) (named Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick)	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Jeremiah Smith Boies De Veber (from December 1, 1873)	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Gloucester	Timothy Warren Anglin	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kent	Robert Barry Cutler	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	King's	James Domville	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Northumberland	The Honourable Peter Mitchell	Independent	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Queen's	John Ferris	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Restigouche	George Moffat	Conservative	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	Sunbury	Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Westmorland	The Honourable Albert James Smith	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	York	John Pickard	Independent Liberal	1868

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

• Albert James Smith was reelected in Westmorland on November 28, 1873.
• Isaac Burpee was reelected in the City and County of St. John on December 1, 1873.

Nova Scotia

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Annapolis	William Hallett Ray	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Antigonish	Hugh McDonald (to May 11, 1873) (appointed to Supreme Court of Nova Scotia)	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Angus McIsaac (from December 20, 1873)	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cape Breton*	Newton LeGayet Mackay	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		William McDonald	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Colchester	Frederick M. Pearson	Liberal	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cumberland	Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Digby	Alfred William Savary	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Guysborough	Stewart Campbell	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Halifax*	William Johnston Almon	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Stephen Tobin	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hants	Joseph Howe (to July 5, 1873)	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Monson Henry Goudge (from July 5, 1873)	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Inverness	Samuel McDonnell	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kings	Leverett de Veber Chipman	Liberal	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lunenburg	Charles Edward Church	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Pictou*	Robert Doull	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		James McDonald	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Queens	James Fraser Forbes	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Richmond	Isaac Le Vesconte	Conservative	1869
Template:Canadian party colour|	Shelburne	Thomas Coffin	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|			Liberal
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria	William Ross (to July 11, 1873) (appointment to cabinet)	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		William Ross (from December 20, 1873)	Liberal
Template:Canadian party colour|	Yarmouth	Frank Killam	Liberal	1868

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

• Hugh McDonald was reelected in Antigonish on July 7, 1873, on being named Minister of Militia and Defence.
• Thomas Coffin was reelected in Shelburne on July 11, 1873, on being named Receiver-General of Canada.

Ontario

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Addington	Schuyler Shibley	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Algoma	John Beverley Robinson	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bothwell	David Mills	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Brant North	Gavin Fleming	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Brant South	William Paterson	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Brockville	Jacob Dockstader Buell	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bruce North	John Gillies	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bruce South	Edward Blake	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cardwell	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Carleton	John Rochester	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cornwall	Darby Bergin	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Dundas	William Gibson	Independent Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Durham East	Lewis Ross	Liberal Reformer	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Durham West	Edward Blake (to April 10, 1873) (dual election in Durham West and Bruce South)	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Edmund Burke Wood (from April 10, 1873)	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Elgin East	William Harvey	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Elgin West	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Essex	John O'Connor	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Frontenac	George Airey Kirkpatrick	Conservative	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	Glengarry	Donald Alexander Macdonald	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Grenville South	William Henry Brouse	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Grey East	William Kingston Flesher	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Grey North	George Snider	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Grey South	George Landerkin	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Haldimand	David Thompson	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Halton	John White	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hamilton*	Daniel Black Chisholm	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		Henry Buckingham Witton	Conservative Labour	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hastings East	John White	Conservative	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hastings North	Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hastings West	James Brown	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Huron Centre	Horace Horton	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Huron North	Thomas Farrow	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Huron South	Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kent	Rufus Stephenson	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kingston	The Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lambton	Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lanark North	Daniel Galbraith	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lanark South	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Leeds North and Grenville North	Francis Jones	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Leeds South	Albert Norton Richards	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lennox	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lincoln	Thomas Rodman Merritt	Liberal	1868
Template:Canadian party colour|	London	John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Middlesex East	David Glass	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Middlesex North	Thomas Scatcherd	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Monck	James David Edgar	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Muskoka	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Niagara	Angus Morrison	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Norfolk North	John Charlton	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Norfolk South	William Wallace	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Northumberland East	Joseph Keeler	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Northumberland West	James Cockburn (†)	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Ontario North	William Henry Gibbs	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Ontario South	Thomas Nicholson Gibbs	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Ottawa (City of)*	John Bower Lewis	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Oxford North	Thomas Oliver	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Oxford South	Ebenezer Vining Bodwell	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Peel	Robert Smith	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Perth North	Thomas Mayne Daly	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Perth South	James Trow	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Peterborough East	Peregrine Maitland Grover	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Peterborough West	John Bertram	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		William Cluxton (not elected candidate but designated by return)	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Prescott	Albert Hagar	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Prince Edward	Walter Ross	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Renfrew North	James Findlay	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Renfrew South	James O'Reilly	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Russell	James Alexander Grant	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Simcoe North	Herman Henry Cook	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Simcoe South	William Carruthers Little	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Stormont	Cyril Archibald	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Toronto Centre	Robert Wilkes	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Toronto East	James Beaty	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria North	Joseph Staples	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria South	George Dormer	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Waterloo North	Isaac Erb Bowman	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Waterloo South	James Young	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Welland	Thomas Clark Street (died September 20, 1872, 22 days before the election)	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		William Alexander Thomson (from November 23, 1872)	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Wellington Centre	James Ross	Liberal	1869
Template:Canadian party colour|	Wellington North	Nathaniel Higinbotham	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Wellington South	David Stirton	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Wentworth North	Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Wentworth South	Joseph Rymal	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	West Toronto	John Willoughby Crawford (to November 4, 1873) (resigned)	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		Thomas Moss (from December 18, 1873)	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	York East	James Metcalfe	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	York North	Anson Dodge	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	York West	David Blain	Liberal	1872

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

• Thomas Nicholson Gibbs was reelected in Ontario South on July 7, 1873.
• Alexander Mackenzie was reelected in Lambton on November 25, 1873.
• Donald Alexander MacDonald was reelected in Glengarry on November 26, 1873.
• Richard John Cartwright was reelected in Lennox on December 3, 1873.
• Edward Blake was reelected in Bruce South on December 4, 1873.

Quebec

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Argenteuil	John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bagot	Pierre-Samuel Gendron	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Beauce	Christian Pozer	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Beauharnois	Ulysse-Janvier Robillard	Independent Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bellechasse	Télesphore Fournier	Liberal	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	Berthier	Anselme-Homère Pâquet	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bonaventure	Théodore Robitaille	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Brome	Edward Carter	Conservative	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	Chambly	Pierre Benoit	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Champlain	John Jones Ross	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Charlevoix	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Châteauguay	Luther Hamilton Holton	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Chicoutimi—Saguenay	William Evan Price	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Compton	John Henry Pope	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Dorchester	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Drummond—Arthabaska	Pierre-Nérée Dorion	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Gaspé	Pierre Fortin	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hochelaga	Louis Beaubien	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Huntingdon	Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869
Template:Canadian party colour|	Iberville	François Béchard	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Jacques Cartier	Rodolphe Laflamme	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Joliette	Louis François Georges Baby	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kamouraska	Charles Pelletier	Liberal	1869
Template:Canadian party colour|	Laprairie	Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	L'Assomption	Louis Archambeault	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Laval	Joseph Bellerose (to July 10, 1873) (called to the Senate)	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (from October 28, 1873)	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lévis	Joseph Blanchet	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	L'Islet	Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lotbinière	Henri Joly de Lotbinière	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Maskinongé	Louis-Alphonse Boyer	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Mégantic	Édouard-Émery Richard	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Missisquoi	George Baker	Liberal-Conservative	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	Montcalm	Firmin Dugas	Conservative	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	Montmagny	Henri-Thomas Taschereau	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Montmorency	Jean Langlois	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Montreal Centre	Michael Patrick Ryan	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Montreal East	Louis-Amable Jetté	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Montreal West	John Young	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Napierville	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Ottawa (County of)	Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Pontiac	William McKay Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Portneuf	Esdras Alfred de St-Georges	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Quebec-Centre	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Quebec County	Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (to February 20, 1873) (called to the Senate)	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Adolphe-Philippe Caron (from March 28, 1873)	Conservative	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Quebec East	Adolphe Guillet dit Tourangeau	Conservative	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	Quebec West	Thomas McGreevy	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Richelieu	Michel Mathieu	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Richmond—Wolfe	William Hoste Webb	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Rimouski	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Rouville	Honoré Mercier	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Saint Maurice	Élie Lacerte	Conservative	1868
Template:Canadian party colour|	Shefford	Lucius Huntington	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Town of Sherbrooke	Edward Towle Brooks	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Soulanges	Jacques-Philippe Lantier	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	St. Hyacinthe	Louis Delorme	Liberal	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	St. John's	François Bourassa	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Stanstead	Charles Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Témiscouata	Élie Mailloux	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Terrebonne	Louis Masson	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Three Rivers	William McDougall	Conservative	1868
Template:Canadian party colour|	Two Mountains	Wilfrid Prévost	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Vaudreuil	Robert Harwood	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Verchères	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Yamaska	Joseph Duguay	Conservative	1872

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

• Télesphore Fournier was reelected in Bellechasse on November 27, 1873, after being named Minister of Inland Revenue.
• Théodore Robitaille was reelected in Bonaventure on February 15, 1873, after being named Receiver-General.
• Antoine Aimé Dorion was reelected in Napierville on November 27, 1873, after being named Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island joined Canada on July 1, 1873. By-elections for the House of Commons were held on September 29, 1873.

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	King's County*	Daniel Davies	Conservative	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|		Augustine Colin Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Prince County*	James Colledge Pope	Conservative	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|		James Yeo	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Queen's County*	David Laird	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|		Peter Sinclair Sr.	Liberal	1873