17th Parliament of Ontario

The 17th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from December 1, 1926, until September 17, 1929, just prior to the 1929 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Conservative Party led by George Howard Ferguson.

William David Black served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Riding	Member	Party
Addington	William David Black	Conservative
Algoma	John Morrow Robb	Conservative
Beaches	Thomas Alexander Murphy	Conservative
Bellwoods	William Henry Edwards	Conservative
Bracondale	Arthur Russell Nesbitt	Conservative
Brant County	Harry Corwin Nixon	Progressive
Brantford	William George Martin	Conservative
Brockton	Frederick George McBrien	Conservative
Brockville	Hezekiah Allan Clark	Conservative
Bruce North	Alexander Patterson Mewhinney	Liberal
Bruce South	Malcolm Alex McCallum	Progressive
	Foster Graham Moffatt (1928)	Conservative
Carleton	Adam Holland Acres	Conservative
Cochrane North	Albert Victor Waters	Conservative
Cochrane South	Alfred Franklin Kenning	Conservative
Dovercourt	Samuel Thomas Wright	Conservative
Dufferin	Thomas Kerr Slack	Progressive
Dundas	George Smyth	Liberal-Prohibitionist
Durham	William John Bragg	Liberal
Eglinton	Herbert Henry Ball	Conservative
Elgin East	Edward Blake Miller	Liberal
Elgin West	Findlay George MacDiarmid	Conservative
Essex North	Paul Poisson	Conservative
Essex South	Charles George Fletcher	Liberal
Fort William	Franklin Harford Spence	Conservative
Frontenac—Lennox	Edward Ming	Liberal
Glengarry	Angus McGillis	Conservative
Greenwood	George Joseph Smith	Conservative
Grenville	George Howard Ferguson	Conservative
Grey North	David James Taylor	Progressive
Grey South	Farquhar Robert Oliver	United Farmers^{[nb 1]}
Haldimand	Robert Francis Miller	Liberal
Halton	George Hillmer	Conservative
Hamilton Centre	Thomas William Jutten	Conservative
Hamilton East	Leeming Carr	Conservative
	William Morrison (1928)	Conservative
Hamilton West	Frederick Thomas Smye	Conservative
Hastings East	James Ferguson Hill	Conservative
Hastings North	John Robert Cooke	Conservative
Hastings West	William Henry Ireland	Conservative
High Park	William Alexander Baird	Conservative
Huron North	Charles Alexander Robertson	Liberal
Huron South	William George Medd	United Farmers^{[nb 2]}
Kenora	Joseph Pattulo Earngey	Conservative
Kent East	Christopher Gardiner	Progressive
Kent West	Archibald Clement Calder	Conservative
Kingston	Thomas Ashmore Kidd	Conservative
Lambton East	Leslie Warner Oke	United Farmers^{[nb 1]}
Lambton West	Wilfred Smith Haney	Conservative
Lanark North	Thomas Alfred Thompson	Conservative
Lanark South	Egerton Reuben Stedman	Conservative
Leeds	Frederick James Skinner	Conservative
Lincoln	Robert Henry Kemp	Progressive
London North	James Percy Moore	Conservative
London South	John Cameron Wilson	Conservative
Manitoulin	Thomas Farquhar	United Farmers^{[nb 1]}
Middlesex North	Alexander Daniel McLean	Independent-Progressive
Middlesex West	John Giles Lethbridge	Progressive
Muskoka	George Walter Ecclestone	Conservative
Niagara Falls	William Gore Willson	Conservative
Nipissing	Henri Morel	Conservative
Norfolk	John Strickler Martin	Conservative
Northumberland	William George Robertson	Liberal
Ontario North	John Wesley Widdifield	United Farmers^{[nb 2]}
Ontario South	William Edmund Newton Sinclair	Liberal
Ottawa East	Joseph Albert Pinard	Liberal
Ottawa North	Albert Edwin Honeywell	Conservative
Ottawa South	Thomas Miles Birkett	Conservative
Oxford North	David Munroe Ross	Liberal-Progressive
Oxford South	Merton Elvin Scott	Liberal-Progressive
Parkdale	William Herbert Price	Conservative
Parry Sound	George Vernon Harcourt	Conservative
Peel	Thomas Laird Kennedy	Conservative
Perth North	Joseph Dunsmore Monteith	Conservative
Perth South	Albert Alexander Colquhoun	Conservative
Peterborough City	William Herbert Bradburn	Conservative
Peterborough County	William Alfred Anderson	Liberal
Port Arthur	Donald McDonald Hogarth	Conservative
Prescott	Edmond Proulx	Independent-Liberal
Prince Edward	William Edgar Raney ^{[nb 3]}	United Farmers^{[nb 2]}
	Horace Stanley Colliver (1928)	Conservative
Rainy River	James Arthur Mathieu	Conservative
Renfrew North	Alexander Stuart	Conservative
	Edward Arunah Dunlop (1929)	Conservative
Renfrew South	Thomas Moore Costello	Conservative
Riverdale	George Oakley	Conservative
Russell	Aurélien Bélanger	Liberal
Sault Ste. Marie	James Lyons	Conservative
Simcoe Centre	Charles Ernest Wright	Conservative
Simcoe East	William Finlayson	Conservative
Simcoe Southwest	John Henry Mitchell	Liberal-Progressive
St. Andrew	William Robertson Flett	Conservative
St. Catharines	Edwin Cyrus Graves	Conservative
St. David	Joseph Elijah Thompson	Conservative
St. George	Henry Scholfield	Conservative
St. Patrick	John Allister Currie	Conservative
Stormont	Duncan Alexander McNaughton	Conservative
Sturgeon Falls	Théodore Legault	Independent-Liberal
Sudbury	Charles McCrea	Conservative
Timiskaming	Angus John Kennedy	Conservative
Victoria North	William Newman	Liberal
Victoria South	Frederick George Sandy	Liberal-Progressive
Waterloo North	William George Weichel	Conservative
Waterloo South	Karl Kenneth Homuth	Labour
Welland	Marshall Vaughan	Conservative
Wellington Northeast	George Alexander McQuibban	Liberal
Wellington South	Lincoln Goldie	Conservative
Wentworth North	Alex Laurence Shaver	Conservative
Wentworth South	Thomas Joseph Mahony	Conservative
Windsor East	Frank Worthington Wilson	Conservative
Windsor West	John Frederick Reid	Conservative
Woodbine	George Sylvester Shields	Conservative
York East	George Stewart Henry	Conservative
York North	Peter William Pearson	Liberal
York South	Leopold Macaulay	Conservative
York West	Forbes Godfrey	Conservative

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Oliver, Farquhar and Oke sat as their own UFO faction. Other United Farmer MLAs belonged to the Progressive caucus
^ ^a ^b ^c Sat with the Progressive caucus
^ appointed judge

References

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^ "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-27.

[a-2] Oliver, Farquhar and Oke sat as their own UFO faction. Other United Farmer MLAs belonged to the Progressive caucus

[b-3] Sat with the Progressive caucus

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[1] "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-27.

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