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.

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the eleventh Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district. 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.

Alberta

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Calgary		Maitland Stewart McCarthy	Conservative	1904
Edmonton		Frank Oliver	Liberal	1896
Macleod		John Herron	Liberal-Conservative	1904
Medicine Hat		Charles Alexander Magrath	Conservative	1908
Red Deer		Michael Clark	Liberal	1908
Strathcona		Wilbert McIntyre (died 21 July 1909)	Liberal	1906
		James McCrie Douglas (by-election of 1909-10-20)	Liberal	1909
Victoria		William Henry White	Liberal	1908

British Columbia

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Comox—Atlin		William Sloan (resigned 21 January 1909 to allow seat for Templeman)	Liberal	1904
		William Templeman (by-election of 1909-02-08)	Liberal	1906, 1909
Kootenay		Arthur Samuel Goodeve	Conservative	1908
Nanaimo		Ralph Smith	Liberal	1900
New Westminster		James Davis Taylor	Conservative	1908
Vancouver City		George Henry Cowan	Conservative	1908
Victoria City		George Henry Barnard	Conservative	1908
Yale—Cariboo		Martin Burrell	Conservative	1908

Manitoba

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Brandon		Clifford Sifton	Liberal	1896
Dauphin		Glenlyon Campbell	Conservative	1908
Lisgar		William Henry Sharpe	Conservative	1908
Macdonald		William D. Staples	Conservative	1904
Marquette		William James Roche	Conservative	1896
Portage la Prairie		Arthur Meighen	Conservative	1908
Provencher		John Patrick Molloy	Liberal	1908
Selkirk		George Henry Bradbury	Conservative	1908
Souris		Frederick Laurence Schaffner	Conservative	1904
Winnipeg		Alexander Haggart	Conservative	1908

New Brunswick

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Carleton		Frank Broadstreet Carvell	Liberal	1904
Charlotte		William Frederick Todd	Liberal	1908
City and County of St. John		William Pugsley	Liberal	1907
City of St. John		John Waterhouse Daniel	Conservative	1904
Gloucester		Onésiphore Turgeon	Liberal	1900
Kent		Olivier J. Leblanc	Liberal	1900
King's and Albert		Duncan Hamilton McAlister	Liberal	1908
Northumberland		William Stewart Loggie	Liberal	1904
Restigouche		James Reid	Liberal	1900
Sunbury—Queen's		Hugh Havelock McLean	Liberal	1908
Victoria		Pius Michaud	Liberal	1907
Westmorland		Henry Emmerson	Liberal	1900
York		Oswald Smith Crocket	Conservative	1904

Nova Scotia

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Annapolis		Samuel Walter Willet Pickup	Liberal	1904
Antigonish		William Chisholm	Liberal	1905
Cape Breton South		James William Maddin	Liberal-Conservative	1908
Colchester		John Stanfield	Conservative	1907
Cumberland		Edgar Nelson Rhodes	Conservative	1908
Digby		Clarence Jameson	Conservative	1908
Guysborough		John Howard Sinclair	Liberal	1904
Halifax*		Robert Laird Borden	Conservative	1896, 1905, 1908
		Adam Brown Crosby	Conservative	1908
Hants		Judson Burpee Black	Liberal	1904
Inverness		Alexander William Chisholm	Liberal	1908
Kings		Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874, 1887
Lunenburg		Alexander Kenneth Maclean (resigned 23 October 1909)	Liberal	1904
		John Drew Sperry (by-election of 1909-12-22)	Liberal	1909
North Cape Breton and Victoria		Daniel Duncan McKenzie	Liberal	1904, 1908
Pictou		Edward Mortimer Macdonald	Liberal	1904
Richmond		George William Kyte	Liberal	1908
Shelburne and Queen's		William Stevens Fielding	Liberal	1896
Yarmouth		Bowman Brown Law	Liberal	1902

Ontario

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Algoma East		William Ross Smyth	Conservative	1908
Algoma West		Arthur Cyril Boyce	Conservative	1904
Brantford		Lloyd Harris	Liberal	1908
Brant		William Paterson	Liberal	1872
Brockville		George Perry Graham	Liberal	1907
Bruce North		John Tolmie	Liberal	1906
Bruce South		James J. Donnelly	Conservative	1904, 1908
Carleton		Robert Laird Borden (resigned to maintain seat in Halifax)	Conservative	1896, 1905
		Edward Kidd (by-election of 1909-02-22)	Conservative	1909
Dufferin		John Barr (died 19 November 1909)	Conservative	1904
		John Best (by-election of 1909-12-22)	Conservative	1909
Dundas		Andrew Broder	Conservative	1896
Durham		Charles Jonas Thornton	Conservative	1900, 1908
Elgin East		David Marshall	Conservative	1906
Elgin West		Thomas Wilson Crothers	Conservative	1908
Essex North		Robert Franklin Sutherland (until 21 October 1909 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1908
		Oliver James Wilcox (by-election of 1909-11-10)	Conservative	1909
Essex South		Alfred Henry Clarke	Liberal	1904
Frontenac		John Wesley Edwards	Conservative	1908
Glengarry		John Angus McMillan	Liberal	1908
Grenville		John Dowsley Reid	Conservative	1896
Grey East		Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878
Grey North		William Sora Middlebro	Conservative	1908
Grey South		Henry Horton Miller	Liberal	1904
Haldimand		Francis Ramsey Lalor	Conservative	1904
Halton		David Henderson	Conservative	1887, 1888
Hamilton East		Samuel Barker	Conservative	1900
Hamilton West		Thomas Joseph Stewart	Conservative	1908
Hastings East		William Barton Northrup	Conservative	1892, 1900
Hastings West		Edward Guss Porter	Conservative	1902
Huron East		Thomas Chisholm	Conservative	1904
Huron South		Murdo Young McLean	Liberal	1908
Huron West		Edward Norman Lewis	Conservative	1904
Kent East		David Alexander Gordon	Liberal	1904
Kent West		Archibald Blake McCoig	Liberal	1908
Kingston		William Harty	Liberal	1902
Lambton East		Joseph Elijah Armstrong	Conservative	1904
Lambton West		Frederick Forsyth Pardee	Liberal	1905
Lanark North		William Thoburn	Conservative	1908
Lanark South		John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Leeds		George Taylor	Conservative	1882
Lennox and Addington		Uriah Wilson	Conservative	1892
Lincoln		Edward Arthur Lancaster	Conservative	1900
London		Thomas Beattie	Conservative	1891, 1900
Middlesex East		Peter Elson	Conservative	1904
Middlesex North		Alexander Wilson Smith	Liberal	1908
Middlesex West		William Samuel Calvert (until 21 October 1909 railway appointment)	Liberal	1896
		Duncan Campbell Ross (by-election of 1909-11-10)	Liberal	1909
Muskoka		William Wright	Conservative	1904
Nipissing		George Gordon	Conservative	1908
Norfolk		Alexander McCall	Conservative	1908
Northumberland East		Charles Lewis Owen	Conservative	1907
Northumberland West		John B. McColl	Liberal	1900
Ontario North		Samuel Simpson Sharpe	Conservative	1908
Ontario South		Frederick Luther Fowke	Liberal	1908
Ottawa (City of)*		Wilfrid Laurier (until resignation)	Liberal	1874, 1877
		Harold Buchanan McGiverin	Liberal	1908
		Albert Allard (by-election of 1910-01-29, replaces Laurier)	Liberal	1910
Oxford North		Edward Walter Nesbitt	Liberal	1908
Oxford South		Malcolm Smith Schell	Liberal	1904
Parry Sound		James Arthurs	Conservative	1908
Peel		Richard Blain	Conservative	1900
Perth North		James Palmer Rankin	Liberal	1908
Perth South		Gilbert Howard McIntyre	Liberal	1904
Peterborough East		John Albert Sexsmith	Conservative	1908
Peterborough West		James Robert Stratton	Liberal	1908
Prescott		Edmond Proulx	Liberal	1904
Prince Edward		Morley Currie	Liberal	1908
Renfrew North		Gerald Verner White	Conservative	1906
Renfrew South		Thomas Andrew Low	Liberal	1908
Russell		Charles Murphy	Liberal	1904
Simcoe East		Thomas Edward Manley Chew	Liberal	1908
Simcoe North		John Allister Currie	Conservative	1908
Simcoe South		Haughton Lennox	Conservative	1900
Stormont		Robert Smith	Liberal	1908
Thunder Bay and Rainy River		James Conmee	Liberal	1904
Toronto Centre		Edmund James Bristol	Conservative	1905
Toronto East		Joseph Russell	Independent	1908
Toronto North		George Eulas Foster	Conservative	1882, 1904
Toronto South		Angus Claude Macdonell	Conservative	1904
Toronto West		Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative	1896
Victoria		Sam Hughes	Liberal-Conservative	1892
Waterloo North		William Lyon Mackenzie King (until ministerial appointment)	Liberal	1908
		William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1909-06-21)	Liberal
Waterloo South		George Adam Clare	Conservative	1900
Welland		William Manly German	Liberal	1891, 1900
Wellington North		Alexander Munro Martin	Liberal	1907
Wellington South		Hugh Guthrie	Liberal	1900
Wentworth		William Oscar Sealey	Liberal	1908
York Centre		Thomas George Wallace	Conservative	1908
York North		Allen Bristol Aylesworth	Liberal	1905
York South		William Findlay Maclean	Independent Conservative	1892

Prince Edward Island

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
King's		Austin Levi Fraser	Conservative	1908
Prince		James William Richards	Liberal	1908
Queen's*		Lemuel Ezra Prowse	Liberal	1908
		Alexander Bannerman Warburton	Liberal	1908

Quebec

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Argenteuil		George Halsey Perley	Conservative	1904
Bagot		Joseph Edmond Marcile	Liberal	1898
Beauce		Henri Sévérin Béland	Liberal	1902
Beauharnois		Louis-Joseph Papineau	Liberal	1908
Bellechasse		Onésiphore Ernest Talbot	Liberal	1896
Berthier		Arthur Ecrément	Liberal	1908
Bonaventure		Charles Marcil (†)	Liberal	1900
Brome		Sydney Arthur Fisher	Liberal	1896
Chambly—Verchères		Victor Geoffrion	Liberal	1900
Champlain		Pierre Édouard Blondin	Conservative	1908
Charlevoix		Joseph David Rodolphe Forget	Conservative	1904
Chicoutimi—Saguenay		Joseph Girard	Conservative	1900
Châteauguay		James Pollock Brown	Liberal	1891
Compton		Aylmer Byron Hunt	Liberal	1904
Dorchester		Joseph Alfred Ernest Roy	Liberal	1908
Drummond—Arthabaska		Louis Lavergne (until Senate appointment)	Liberal	1897
		Arthur Gilbert (by-election of 1910-11-03)	Nationaliste	1910
Gaspé		Rodolphe Lemieux	Liberal	1896
Hochelaga		Louis Alfred Adhémar Rivet	Liberal	1904
Huntingdon		James Alexander Robb	Liberal	1908
Jacques Cartier		Frederick Debartzch Monk	Conservative	1896
Joliette		Joseph Adélard Dubeau	Liberal	1904
Kamouraska		Ernest Lapointe	Liberal	1904
Labelle		Charles Beautrom Major	Liberal	1907
Laprairie—Napierville		Roch Lanctôt	Liberal	1904
L'Assomption		Paul-Arthur Séguin	Liberal	1908
Laval		Charles Avila Wilson	Liberal	1908
Lévis		Louis Auguste Carrier	Liberal	1905
L'Islet		Eugène Paquet	Conservative	1904
Lotbinière		Edmond Fortier (until election voided 29 September 1909)	Liberal	1900
		Edmond Fortier (by-election of 1909-10-26)	Liberal
Maisonneuve		Alphonse Verville	Labour	1906
Maskinongé		Hormidas Mayrand	Liberal	1903
Mégantic		François Théodore Savoie	Liberal	1904
Missisquoi		Daniel Bishop Meigs	Liberal	1888, 1896
Montcalm		François Octave Dugas (until 6 September 1909 judicial appointment)	Liberal	1900
		David Arthur Lafortune (by-election of 1909-09-25)	Independent Liberal	1909
Montmagny		Cyrias Roy	Liberal	1908
Montmorency		Georges Parent	Liberal	1904
Nicolet		Gustave Adolphe Turcotte	Liberal	1907
Pontiac		George Frederick Hodgins	Liberal	1908
Portneuf		Michel-Siméon Delisle	Liberal	1900
Quebec-Centre		Arthur Lachance	Liberal	1905
Quebec County		Joseph Pierre Turcotte	Liberal	1908
Quebec East		Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
Quebec West		William Price	Conservative	1908
Richelieu		Adélard Lanctôt	Liberal	1907
Richmond—Wolfe		Edmund William Tobin	Liberal	1900
Rimouski		Jean Auguste Ross	Liberal	1897
Rouville		Louis Philippe Brodeur	Liberal	1904
Shefford		Henry Edgarton Allen	Liberal	1908
Town of Sherbrooke		Arthur Norreys Worthington	Conservative	1904
Soulanges		Joseph Arthur Lortie	Conservative	1896
St. Anne		Charles Joseph Doherty	Conservative	1908
Stanstead		Charles Henry Lovell	Liberal	1907
St. Antoine		Herbert Brown Ames	Conservative	1904
St. Hyacinthe		Aimé Majorique Beauparlant	Liberal	1904
St. James		Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais	Liberal	1904
St. Johns—Iberville		Marie Joseph Demers	Liberal	1906
St. Lawrence		Robert Bickerdike	Liberal	1900
St. Mary		Médéric Martin	Liberal	1908
Terrebonne		Wilfrid Bruno Nantel	Conservative	1908
Three Rivers and St. Maurice		Jacques Bureau	Liberal	1900
Témiscouata		Charles Arthur Gauvreau	Liberal	1897
Two Mountains		Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier	Liberal	1896
Vaudreuil		Gustave Benjamin Boyer	Liberal	1904
Wright		Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin	Liberal	1904
Yamaska		Oscar Gladu	Liberal	1904

Saskatchewan

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Assiniboia		John Gillanders Turriff	Liberal	1904
Battleford		Albert Champagne	Liberal	1908
Humboldt		David Bradley Neely	Liberal	1908
Mackenzie		Edward L. Cash	Liberal	1904
Moose Jaw		William Erskine Knowles	Liberal	1908
Prince Albert		William Windfield Rutan	Liberal	1908
Qu'Appelle		Richard Stuart Lake	Conservative	1904
Regina		William Melville Martin	Liberal	1908
Saltcoats		Thomas MacNutt	Liberal	1908
Saskatoon		George Ewan McCraney	Liberal	1908

Yukon

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Yukon		Frederick Tennyson Congdon	Liberal	1908

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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