11th Canadian Parliament

11th Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
20 January 1909 – 29 July 1911
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier 11 July 1896 – 6 October 1911
Cabinet	8th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	Hon. Robert Borden February 6, 1901 – October 9, 1911
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party
Opposition	Conservative Party & Liberal-Conservative
Crossbench	Labour
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons	Hon. Charles Marcil January 20, 1909 – November 14, 1911
Members	221 MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate	Hon. James Kerr January 14, 1909 – October 22, 1911
Government Senate Leader	Sir Richard John Cartwright 1909 – October 6, 1911
Opposition Senate Leader	Sir James Alexander Lougheed April 1, 1906 – October 6, 1911
Sovereign
Monarch	Edward VII 22 January 1901 – 6 May 1910
	George V 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
Governor General	The Earl Grey Dec. 10, 1904 – Oct. 13, 1911
Sessions
1st session January 20, 1909 – May 19, 1909
2nd session November 11, 1909 – May 4, 1910
3rd session November 17, 1910 – July 29, 1911
← 10th → 12th

Sir Wilfrid Laurier was Prime Minister during the 11th Canadian Parliament.

The 11th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 20, 1909, until July 29, 1911. The membership was set by the 1908 federal election on October 26, 1908, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1911 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 Robert Borden.

The Speaker was Charles Marcil. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1907-1914 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

Alberta

Electoral district		Name	Party
Calgary		Maitland Stewart McCarthy	Conservative
Edmonton		Frank Oliver	Liberal
Macleod		John Herron	Liberal-Conservative
Medicine Hat		Charles Alexander Magrath	Conservative
Red Deer		Michael Clark	Liberal
Strathcona		Wilbert McIntyre (died 21 July 1909)	Liberal
		James McCrie Douglas (by-election of 1909-10-20)	Liberal
Victoria		William Henry White	Liberal

British Columbia

Electoral district		Name	Party
Comox—Atlin		William Sloan (resigned 21 January 1909 to allow seat for Templeman)	Liberal
		William Templeman (by-election of 1909-02-08)	Liberal
Kootenay		Arthur Samuel Goodeve	Conservative
Nanaimo		Ralph Smith	Liberal
New Westminster		James Davis Taylor	Conservative
Vancouver City		George Henry Cowan	Conservative
Victoria City		George Henry Barnard	Conservative
Yale—Cariboo		Martin Burrell	Conservative

Manitoba

Electoral district		Name	Party
Brandon		Clifford Sifton	Liberal
Dauphin		Glenlyon Campbell	Conservative
Lisgar		William Henry Sharpe	Conservative
Macdonald		William D. Staples	Conservative
Marquette		William James Roche	Conservative
Portage la Prairie		Arthur Meighen	Conservative
Provencher		John Patrick Molloy	Liberal
Selkirk		George Henry Bradbury	Conservative
Souris		Frederick Laurence Schaffner	Conservative
Winnipeg		Alexander Haggart	Conservative

New Brunswick

Electoral district		Name	Party
Carleton		Frank Broadstreet Carvell	Liberal
Charlotte		William Frederick Todd	Liberal
City and County of St. John		William Pugsley	Liberal
City of St. John		John Waterhouse Daniel	Conservative
Gloucester		Onésiphore Turgeon	Liberal
Kent		Olivier J. Leblanc	Liberal
King's and Albert		Duncan Hamilton McAlister	Liberal
Northumberland		William Stewart Loggie	Liberal
Restigouche		James Reid	Liberal
Sunbury—Queen's		Hugh Havelock McLean	Liberal
Victoria		Pius Michaud	Liberal
Westmorland		Henry Emmerson	Liberal
York		Oswald Smith Crocket	Conservative

Nova Scotia

Electoral district		Name	Party
Annapolis		Samuel Walter Willet Pickup	Liberal
Antigonish		William Chisholm	Liberal
Cape Breton South		James William Maddin	Liberal-Conservative
Colchester		John Stanfield	Conservative
Cumberland		Edgar Nelson Rhodes	Conservative
Digby		Clarence Jameson	Conservative
Guysborough		John Howard Sinclair	Liberal
Halifax*		Robert Laird Borden	Conservative
		Adam Brown Crosby	Conservative
Hants		Judson Burpee Black	Liberal
Inverness		Alexander William Chisholm	Liberal
Kings		Frederick William Borden	Liberal
Lunenburg		Alexander Kenneth Maclean (resigned 23 October 1909)	Liberal
		John Drew Sperry (by-election of 1909-12-22)	Liberal
North Cape Breton and Victoria		Daniel Duncan McKenzie	Liberal
Pictou		Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal
Richmond		George William Kyte	Liberal
Shelburne and Queen's		William Stevens Fielding	Liberal
Yarmouth		Bowman Brown Law	Liberal

Ontario

Electoral district		Name	Party
Algoma East		William Ross Smyth	Conservative
Algoma West		Arthur Cyril Boyce	Conservative
Brantford		Lloyd Harris	Liberal
Brant		William Paterson	Liberal
Brockville		George Perry Graham	Liberal
Bruce North		John Tolmie	Liberal
Bruce South		James J. Donnelly	Conservative
Carleton		Robert Laird Borden (resigned to maintain seat in Halifax)	Conservative
		Edward Kidd (by-election of 1909-02-22)	Conservative
Dufferin		John Barr (died 19 November 1909)	Conservative
		John Best (by-election of 1909-12-22)	Conservative
Dundas		Andrew Broder	Conservative
Durham		Charles Jonas Thornton	Conservative
Elgin East		David Marshall	Conservative
Elgin West		Thomas Wilson Crothers	Conservative
Essex North		Robert Franklin Sutherland (until 21 October 1909 judicial appointment)	Liberal
		Oliver James Wilcox (by-election of 1909-11-10)	Conservative
Essex South		Alfred Henry Clarke	Liberal
Frontenac		John Wesley Edwards	Conservative
Glengarry		John Angus McMillan	Liberal
Grenville		John Dowsley Reid	Conservative
Grey East		Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative
Grey North		William Sora Middlebro	Conservative
Grey South		Henry Horton Miller	Liberal
Haldimand		Francis Ramsey Lalor	Conservative
Halton		David Henderson	Conservative
Hamilton East		Samuel Barker	Conservative
Hamilton West		Thomas Joseph Stewart	Conservative
Hastings East		William Barton Northrup	Conservative
Hastings West		Edward Guss Porter	Conservative
Huron East		Thomas Chisholm	Conservative
Huron South		Murdo Young McLean	Liberal
Huron West		Edward Norman Lewis	Conservative
Kent East		David Alexander Gordon	Liberal
Kent West		Archibald Blake McCoig	Liberal
Kingston		William Harty	Liberal
Lambton East		Joseph Elijah Armstrong	Conservative
Lambton West		Frederick Forsyth Pardee	Liberal
Lanark North		William Thoburn	Conservative
Lanark South		John Graham Haggart	Conservative
Leeds		George Taylor	Conservative
Lennox and Addington		Uriah Wilson	Conservative
Lincoln		Edward Arthur Lancaster	Conservative
London		Thomas Beattie	Conservative
Middlesex East		Peter Elson	Conservative
Middlesex North		Alexander Wilson Smith	Liberal
Middlesex West		William Samuel Calvert (until 21 October 1909 railway appointment)	Liberal
		Duncan Campbell Ross (by-election of 1909-11-10)	Liberal
Muskoka		William Wright	Conservative
Nipissing		George Gordon	Conservative
Norfolk		Alexander McCall	Conservative
Northumberland East		Charles Lewis Owen	Conservative
Northumberland West		John B. McColl	Liberal
Ontario North		Samuel Simpson Sharpe	Conservative
Ontario South		Frederick Luther Fowke	Liberal
Ottawa (City of)*		Wilfrid Laurier (until resignation)	Liberal
		Harold Buchanan McGiverin	Liberal
		Albert Allard (by-election of 1910-01-29, replaces Laurier)	Liberal
Oxford North		Edward Walter Nesbitt	Liberal
Oxford South		Malcolm Smith Schell	Liberal
Parry Sound		James Arthurs	Conservative
Peel		Richard Blain	Conservative
Perth North		James Palmer Rankin	Liberal
Perth South		Gilbert Howard McIntyre	Liberal
Peterborough East		John Albert Sexsmith	Conservative
Peterborough West		James Robert Stratton	Liberal
Prescott		Edmond Proulx	Liberal
Prince Edward		Morley Currie	Liberal
Renfrew North		Gerald Verner White	Conservative
Renfrew South		Thomas Andrew Low	Liberal
Russell		Charles Murphy	Liberal
Simcoe East		Thomas Edward Manley Chew	Liberal
Simcoe North		John Allister Currie	Conservative
Simcoe South		Haughton Lennox	Conservative
Stormont		Robert Smith	Liberal
Thunder Bay and Rainy River		James Conmee	Liberal
Toronto Centre		Edmund James Bristol	Conservative
Toronto East		Joseph Russell	Independent
Toronto North		George Eulas Foster	Conservative
Toronto South		Angus Claude Macdonell	Conservative
Toronto West		Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative
Victoria		Sam Hughes	Liberal-Conservative
Waterloo North		William Lyon Mackenzie King (until ministerial appointment)	Liberal
		William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1909-06-21)	Liberal
Waterloo South		George Adam Clare	Conservative
Welland		William Manly German	Liberal
Wellington North		Alexander Munro Martin	Liberal
Wellington South		Hugh Guthrie	Liberal
Wentworth		William Oscar Sealey	Liberal
York Centre		Thomas George Wallace	Conservative
York North		Allen Bristol Aylesworth	Liberal
York South		William Findlay Maclean	Independent Conservative

Prince Edward Island

Electoral district		Name	Party
King's		Austin Levi Fraser	Conservative
Prince		James William Richards	Liberal
Queen's*		Lemuel Ezra Prowse	Liberal
		Alexander Bannerman Warburton	Liberal

Quebec

Electoral district		Name	Party
Argenteuil		George Halsey Perley	Conservative
Bagot		Joseph Edmond Marcile	Liberal
Beauce		Henri Sévérin Béland	Liberal
Beauharnois		Louis-Joseph Papineau	Liberal
Bellechasse		Onésiphore Ernest Talbot	Liberal
Berthier		Arthur Ecrément	Liberal
Bonaventure		Charles Marcil	Liberal
Brome		Sydney Arthur Fisher	Liberal
Chambly—Verchères		Victor Geoffrion	Liberal
Champlain		Pierre Édouard Blondin	Conservative
Charlevoix		Joseph David Rodolphe Forget	Conservative
Chicoutimi—Saguenay		Joseph Girard	Conservative
Châteauguay		James Pollock Brown	Liberal
Compton		Aylmer Byron Hunt	Liberal
Dorchester		Joseph Alfred Ernest Roy	Liberal
Drummond—Arthabaska		Louis Lavergne (until Senate appointment)	Liberal
		Arthur Gilbert (by-election of 1910-11-03)	Nationaliste
Gaspé		Rodolphe Lemieux	Liberal
Hochelaga		Louis Alfred Adhémar Rivet	Liberal
Huntingdon		James Alexander Robb	Liberal
Jacques Cartier		Frederick Debartzch Monk	Conservative
Joliette		Joseph Adélard Dubeau	Liberal
Kamouraska		Ernest Lapointe	Liberal
Labelle		Charles Beautrom Major	Liberal
Laprairie—Napierville		Roch Lanctôt	Liberal
L'Assomption		Paul-Arthur Séguin	Liberal
Laval		Charles Avila Wilson	Liberal
Lévis		Louis Auguste Carrier	Liberal
L'Islet		Eugène Paquet	Conservative
Lotbinière		Edmond Fortier (until election voided 29 September 1909)	Liberal
		Edmond Fortier (by-election of 1909-10-26)	Liberal
Maisonneuve		Alphonse Verville	Labour
Maskinongé		Hormidas Mayrand	Liberal
Mégantic		François Théodore Savoie	Liberal
Missisquoi		Daniel Bishop Meigs	Liberal
Montcalm		François Octave Dugas (until 6 September 1909 judicial appointment)	Liberal
		David Arthur Lafortune (by-election of 1909-09-25)	Independent Liberal
Montmagny		Cyrias Roy	Liberal
Montmorency		Georges Parent	Liberal
Nicolet		Gustave Adolphe Turcotte	Liberal
Pontiac		George Frederick Hodgins	Liberal
Portneuf		Michel-Siméon Delisle	Liberal
Quebec-Centre		Arthur Lachance	Liberal
Quebec County		Joseph Pierre Turcotte	Liberal
Quebec East		Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal
Quebec West		William Price	Conservative
Richelieu		Adélard Lanctôt	Liberal
Richmond—Wolfe		Edmund William Tobin	Liberal
Rimouski		Jean Auguste Ross	Liberal
Rouville		Louis Philippe Brodeur	Liberal
Shefford		Henry Edgarton Allen	Liberal
Town of Sherbrooke		Arthur Norreys Worthington	Conservative
Soulanges		Joseph Arthur Lortie	Conservative
St. Anne		Charles Joseph Doherty	Conservative
Stanstead		Charles Henry Lovell	Liberal
St. Antoine		Herbert Brown Ames	Conservative
St. Hyacinthe		Aimé Majorique Beauparlant	Liberal
St. James		Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais	Liberal
St. Johns—Iberville		Marie Joseph Demers	Liberal
St. Lawrence		Robert Bickerdike	Liberal
St. Mary		Médéric Martin	Liberal
Terrebonne		Wilfrid Bruno Nantel	Conservative
Three Rivers and St. Maurice		Jacques Bureau	Liberal
Témiscouata		Charles Arthur Gauvreau	Liberal
Two Mountains		Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier	Liberal
Vaudreuil		Gustave Benjamin Boyer	Liberal
Wright		Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin	Liberal
Yamaska		Oscar Gladu	Liberal

Saskatchewan

Electoral district		Name	Party
Assiniboia		John Gillanders Turriff	Liberal
Battleford		Albert Champagne	Liberal
Humboldt		David Bradley Neely	Liberal
Mackenzie		Edward L. Cash	Liberal
Moose Jaw		William Erskine Knowles	Liberal
Prince Albert		William Windfield Rutan	Liberal
Qu'Appelle		Richard Stuart Lake	Conservative
Regina		William Melville Martin	Liberal
Saltcoats		Thomas MacNutt	Liberal
Saskatoon		George Ewan McCraney	Liberal

Yukon

Electoral district		Name	Party
Yukon		Frederick Tennyson Congdon	Liberal

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 11th Canadian Parliament

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
Drummond—Arthabaska	November 3, 1910	Louis Lavergne		Liberal	Arthur Gilbert		Nationalist	Called to the Senate	No
City of Ottawa	January 29, 1910	Sir Wilfrid Laurier		Liberal	Albert Allard		Liberal	Chose to sit for Quebec East.	Yes
Dufferin	December 22, 1909	John Barr		Conservative	John Best		Conservative	Death	Yes
Lunenburg	December 22, 1909	Alexander Kenneth Maclean		Liberal	John Drew Sperry		Liberal	Resignation	Yes
Middlesex West	November 20, 1909	William Samuel Calvert		Liberal	Duncan Campbell Ross		Liberal	Appointed to the National Transcontinental Railway Commission	Yes
Essex North	November 20, 1909	Robert Franklin Sutherland		Liberal	Oliver James Wilcox		Conservative	Appointed a judge	No
Lotbinière	October 26, 1909	Edmond Fortier		Liberal	Edmond Fortier		Liberal	Election declared void	Yes
Strathcona	October 20, 1909	Wilbert McIntyre		Liberal	James McCrie Douglas		Liberal	Death	Yes
Montcalm	September 25, 1909	François Octave Dugas		Liberal	David Arthur Lafortune		Independent Liberal	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	No
Waterloo North	June 21, 1909	William Lyon Mackenzie King		Liberal	William Lyon Mackenzie King		Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Labour.	Yes
Carleton	February 22, 1909	Robert Borden		Conservative	Edward Kidd		Conservative	Chose to sit for Halifax	Yes
Comox—Atlin	February 8, 1909	William Sloan		Liberal	William Templeman		Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Templeman	Yes

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