3rd Canadian Parliament

Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Template other 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 "(Template:Dagger)".

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

British Columbia

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cariboo	Joshua Spencer Thompson	Liberal-Conservative	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	New Westminster	James Cunningham	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Thomas Robert McInnes (from March 25, 1878)	Independent	1878
Template:Canadian party colour|	Vancouver	Arthur Bunster	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria	Francis James Roscoe	Independent Liberal	1874
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/previously elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lisgar	John Christian Schultz	Conservative	1871
Template:Canadian party colour|	Marquette	Robert Cunningham (died 4 July 1874)	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		Joseph O'Connell Ryan (from August 25, 1874)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Provencher	Louis Riel, expelled from the House of Commons, reelected, reexpelled and banished from Canada	Independent	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|		Andrew Bannatyne from March 31, 1875	Liberal	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	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

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Albert	John Wallace	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Carleton	Stephen Burpee Appleby	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Charlotte	Arthur Hill Gillmor	Liberal	1874
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	Jeremiah Smith Boies De Veber	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Gloucester	Timothy Warren Anglin (†)	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kent	George McLeod	Independent	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	King's	James Domville	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Northumberland	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|		George Haddow from January 12, 1878	Independent	1878
Template:Canadian party colour|	Sunbury	Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Westmorland	Albert James Smith	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	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

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Annapolis	William Hallett Ray	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Antigonish	Angus McIsaac	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cape Breton	Newton LeGayet Mackay	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cape Breton	William McDonald	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Colchester	Thomas McKay	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cumberland	Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Digby	Edwin Randolph Oakes	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		William Berrian Vail (from October 26, 1874)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		John Chipman Wade (from January 29, 1878)	Independent	1878
Template:Canadian party colour|	Guysborough	John Angus Kirk	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Halifax	Alfred Gilpin Jones	Independent	1867, 1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Halifax	Patrick Power	Independent Liberal	1867, 1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hants	Monson Henry Goudge	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Inverness	Samuel McDonnell	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kings	Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lunenburg	Charles Edward Church	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Pictou*	James William Carmichael	Liberal	1867, 1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		John A. Dawson	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Queens	James Fraser Forbes	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Richmond	Edmund Power Flynn	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Shelburne	Thomas Coffin	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria	William Ross	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Charles James Campbell (from December 17, 1874)	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Barclay Edmund Tremaine (from April 28, 1875)	Liberal	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|		Charles James Campbell (from September 21, 1876)	Conservative	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	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

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Addington	Schuyler Shibley	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Algoma	Edward Borron	Liberal	1874
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|		Dalton McCarthy (from December 14, 1876)	Liberal-Conservative	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	Carleton	John Rochester	Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Cornwall	Alexander Francis Macdonald	Liberal	1874
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	Edmund Burke Wood	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Harvey William Burk (from April 7, 1874)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Elgin East	William Harvey	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		Colin MacDougall (from August 11, 1874)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Elgin West	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Essex	William McGregor	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Frontenac	George Airey Kirkpatrick	Conservative	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|	Glengarry	Donald Alexander MacDonald	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Archibald McNab (from July 7, 1875)	Liberal	1875
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	Daniel Black Chisholm	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		William McCraney (from January 25, 1875)	Liberal	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hamilton	Aemilius Irving	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hamilton	Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	1874
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 (election overturned in 1875)	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Thomas Greenway (from 1875)	Independent	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kent	Rufus Stephenson	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Kingston	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	Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Leeds South	David Ford Jones	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lennox	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lincoln	James Norris	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	London	John Walker	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		James Harshaw Fraser (from February 18, 1875)	Liberal-Conservative	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Middlesex East	Crowell Willson (election successfully contested 1874)	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Duncan Macmillan (from January 28, 1875)	Liberal-Conservative	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Middlesex North	Thomas Scatcherd	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Robert Colin Scatcherd (from June 7, 1876)	Liberal	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Monck	Lachlin McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Muskoka	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Niagara	Josiah Burr Plumb	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Norfolk North	John M. Charlton	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Norfolk South	John Stuart	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		William Wallace (from December 16, 1874)	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Northumberland East	James Lyons Biggar	Independent Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Northumberland West	William Kerr	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Ontario North	Adam Gordon	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		William Henry Gibbs (from July 5, 1876)	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Ontario South	Malcolm Cameron	Liberal Party of Canada	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Thomas Nicholson Gibbs (from July 5, 1876)	Liberal-Conservative	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	Ottawa (City of)*	Pierre St. Jean	Liberal	1874
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 (until April 1874 when he became superintendent of the Welland Canal)	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		James Atchison Skinner (from May 23, 1874)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Peel	Robert Smith	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Perth North	Andrew Monteith	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Perth South	James Trow	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Peterborough East	James Hall	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Peterborough West	John Bertram	Liberal	1874
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	Peter White	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		William Murray (from November 4, 1874)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Peter White (from January 21, 1876)	Liberal-Conservative	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	Renfrew South	John Lorn McDougall	Liberal	1867, 1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Russell	Robert Blackburn	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Simcoe North	Hermon 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|		John Macdonald (from May 21, 1875)	Independent Liberal	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Toronto East	John O'Donohoe	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Samuel Platt (from January 18, 1875)	Independent	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria North	James Maclennan	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Hector Cameron (from September 17, 1875)	Conservative	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Victoria South	Arthur McQuade	Conservative	1874
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	William Alexander Thomson	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Wellington Centre	George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Wellington North	Nathaniel Higinbotham	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Wellington South	David Stirton	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Donald Guthrie (from July 5, 1876)	Liberal	1876
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	Thomas Moss	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|		John Beverley Robinson (from November 6, 1875)	Conservative	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	York East	James Metcalfe	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	York North	Alfred Hutchinson Dymond	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	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

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	King's County*	Daniel Davies	Conservative	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|		Peter Adolphus McIntyre	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Prince County*	Stanislaus Francis Perry	Liberal	1874
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	Liberal	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|		James Colledge Pope (from November 22, 1876)	Conservative	1876

Quebec

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Template:Canadian party colour|	Argenteuil	John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Lemuel Cushing (from November 4, 1874)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Thomas Christie (from December 31, 1875)	Liberal	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bagot	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Beauce	Christian Pozer	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Joseph Bolduc (from October 18, 1876)	Conservative	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	Beauharnois	Ulysse-Janvier Robillard	Independent Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bellechasse	Télesphore Fournier	Liberal	1870
Template:Canadian party colour|		Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (from November 23, 1875)	Conservative	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Berthier	Anselme Homère Pâquet	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Edward Octavian Cuthbert (from February 27, 1875)	Conservative	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Bonaventure	Théodore Robitaille	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Brome	Nathaniel Pettes	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Chambly	Amable Jodoin	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Pierre-Basile Benoit (from January 7, 1876)	Conservative	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	Champlain	Hippolyte Montplaisir	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Charlevoix	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		Hector-Louis Langevin (from January 22, 1876)	Conservative	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	Châteauguay	Luther Hamilton Holton	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Ernest Cimon	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Compton	John Henry Pope	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Dorchester	François Fortunat Rouleau	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Drummond—Arthabaska	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Désiré Olivier Bourbeau (from October 27, 1877)	Conservative	1877
Template:Canadian party colour|	Gaspé	Louis George Harper	Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		John Short (from July 10, 1875)	Conservative	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Hochelaga	Alphonse Desjardins	Conservative	1874
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|		Charles-François Roy (from February 19, 1877)	Conservative	1877
Template:Canadian party colour|	Laprairie	Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	L'Assomption	Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Laval	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lévis	Louis-Honoré Fréchette	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	L'Islet	Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Lotbinière	Henri Bernier	Liberal	1874
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	William Donahue	Liberal	1874
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|		Bernard Devlin (from November 26, 1875)	Liberal	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Montreal East	Louis-Amable Jetté	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Montreal West	Frederick Mackenzie	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Thomas Workman (from October 30, 1875)	Liberal	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|	Napierville	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|		Sixte Coupal dit la Reine (from August 4, 1874)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|		François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot (from December 18, 1877)	Independent Conservative	1877
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|		Jacques Malouin (from November 3, 1877)	Independent	1877
Template:Canadian party colour|	Quebec County	Joseph-Philippe-René-Adolphe Caron	Conservative	1873
Template:Canadian party colour|	Quebec East	Isidore Thibaudeau	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|		Wilfrid Laurier (from November 28, 1877)	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Quebec West	Thomas McGreevy	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Richelieu	Georges Isidore Barthe	Independent Conservative	1870, 1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Richmond—Wolfe	Henry Aylmer	Liberal	1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Rimouski	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Rouville	Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques	Liberal	1867, 1874
Template:Canadian party colour|	Saint Maurice	Charles Gérin-Lajoie	Liberal	1874
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 Lanthier	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 Carroll Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	Témiscouata	Jean-Baptiste Pouliot	Liberal	1874
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|		Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky (from February 26, 1875)	Independent	1875
Template:Canadian party colour|		Jean-Baptiste Daoust (from March 11, 1876)	Conservative	1876
Template:Canadian party colour|	Vaudreuil	Robert Harwood	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Template:Canadian party colour|	Verchères	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867
Template:Canadian party colour|	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

By-elections to the 3rd Canadian Parliament