2nd Canadian Parliament

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2nd Canadian Parliament
Majority parliament
Mar. 5, 1873 – Jan. 2, 1874
Parliament leaders
Prime minister	Rt Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald Jul. 1, 1867 – Nov. 5, 1873
	Rt Hon. Alexander Mackenzie Nov. 7, 1873 – Oct. 8, 1878
Cabinets	1st Canadian Ministry 2nd Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	Alexander Mackenzie March 6, 1873 – November 5, 1873
	Sir John A. Macdonald November 6, 1873 – October 16, 1878
Party caucuses
Government	Conservative Party & Liberal-Conservative
Opposition	Liberal Party*
* The Liberal Party briefly formed government at the end of the 2nd Parliament.
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons	Hon. James Cockburn November 6, 1867 – March 5, 1874
Members	200 seats MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate	The Hon. Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau February 21, 1872 – January 8, 1874
Government Senate leader	Alexander Campbell July 1, 1867 – November 5, 1873
	Luc Letellier de St-Just November 5, 1873 – December 14, 1876
Opposition Senate leader	Alexander Campbell November 7, 1873 – October 8, 1878
Senators	79 seats senator seats List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch	Victoria 1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901
Governor general	The Earl of Dufferin 25 June 1872 – 25 Nov. 1878
Sessions
1st session March 5, 1873 – August 13, 1873
2nd session October 23, 1873 – November 7, 1873
← 1st → 3rd

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 two sessions of the 2nd Parliament:

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

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 "(†)".

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

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected	No. of terms
	Cariboo	Joshua Spencer Thompson	Liberal-Conservative	1871	2nd term
	New Westminster	Hugh Nelson	Liberal-Conservative	1871	2nd term
	Vancouver	Francis Hincks	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Victoria*	Henry Nathan Jr.	Liberal	1871	2nd term
		Amor De Cosmos	Liberal	1871	2nd term
	Yale	Edgar Dewdney	Conservative	1872	1st term

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected	No. of terms
	Lisgar	John Christian Schultz	Conservative	1871	2nd term
	Marquette	Robert Cunningham	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Provencher	The Honourable Sir George-Étienne Cartier (to May 20, 1873) (death)	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
		Louis Riel (from October 13, 1873)	Independent	1873	1st term
	Selkirk	Donald A. Smith	Independent Conservative	1871	2nd term

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected	No. of terms
	Albert	John Wallace	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Carleton	The Honourable Charles Connell	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Charlotte	John McAdam	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	City and County of St. John*	Isaac Burpee	Liberal	1872	1st term
		Acalus Lockwood Palmer	Liberal	1872	1st term
	City of St. John	The Honourable Samuel Leonard Tilley (to November 15, 1873) (named Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick)	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
		Jeremiah Smith Boies De Veber (from December 1, 1873)	Liberal	1873	1st term
	Gloucester	Timothy Warren Anglin	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Kent	Robert Barry Cutler	Liberal	1872	1st term
	King's	James Domville	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Northumberland	The Honourable Peter Mitchell	Independent	1872	1st term
	Queen's	John Ferris	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Restigouche	George Moffat	Conservative	1870	2nd term
	Sunbury	Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Victoria	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Westmorland	The Honourable Albert James Smith	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	York	John Pickard	Independent Liberal	1868	2nd term

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.

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected	No. of terms
	Annapolis	William Hallett Ray	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Antigonish	Hugh McDonald (to May 11, 1873) (appointed to Supreme Court of Nova Scotia)	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
		Angus McIsaac (from December 20, 1873)	Liberal	1873	1st term
	Cape Breton*	Newton LeGayet Mackay	Conservative	1872	1st term
		William McDonald	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Colchester	Frederick M. Pearson	Liberal	1870	2nd term
	Cumberland	Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Digby	Alfred William Savary	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Guysborough	Stewart Campbell	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Halifax*	William Johnston Almon	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
		Stephen Tobin	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Hants	Joseph Howe (to July 5, 1873)	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
		Monson Henry Goudge (from July 5, 1873)	Liberal	1873	1st term
	Inverness	Samuel McDonnell	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Kings	Leverett de Veber Chipman	Liberal	1870	2nd term
	Lunenburg	Charles Edward Church	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Pictou*	Robert Doull	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
		James McDonald	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Queens	James Fraser Forbes	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Richmond	Isaac Le Vesconte	Conservative	1869	2nd term
	Shelburne	Thomas Coffin	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
			Liberal
	Victoria	William Ross (to July 11, 1873) (appointment to cabinet)	Liberal	1867	2nd term
		William Ross (from December 20, 1873)	Liberal
	Yarmouth	Frank Killam	Liberal	1868	2nd term

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.

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected	No. of terms
	Addington	Schuyler Shibley	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Algoma	John Beverley Robinson	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Bothwell	David Mills	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Brant North	Gavin Fleming	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Brant South	William Paterson	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Brockville	Jacob Dockstader Buell	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Bruce North	John Gillies	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Bruce South	Edward Blake	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Cardwell	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Carleton	John Rochester	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Cornwall	Darby Bergin	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Dundas	William Gibson	Independent Liberal	1872	1st term
	Durham East	Lewis Ross	Liberal Reformer	1872	1st term
	Durham West	Edward Blake (to April 10, 1873) (dual election in Durham West and Bruce South)	Liberal	1867	2nd term
		Edmund Burke Wood (from April 10, 1873)	Liberal	1873	1st term
	Elgin East	William Harvey	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Elgin West	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Essex	John O'Connor	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Frontenac	George Airey Kirkpatrick	Conservative	1870	2nd term
	Glengarry	Donald Alexander Macdonald	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Grenville South	William Henry Brouse	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Grey East	William Kingston Flesher	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Grey North	George Snider	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Grey South	George Landerkin	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Haldimand	David Thompson	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Halton	John White	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Hamilton*	Daniel Black Chisholm	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
		Henry Buckingham Witton	Conservative Labour	1872	1st term
	Hastings East	John White	Conservative	1871	2nd term
	Hastings North	Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Hastings West	James Brown	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Huron Centre	Horace Horton	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Huron North	Thomas Farrow	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Huron South	Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Kent	Rufus Stephenson	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Kingston	The Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Lambton	Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Lanark North	Daniel Galbraith	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Lanark South	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Leeds North and Grenville North	Francis Jones	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Leeds South	Albert Norton Richards	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Lennox	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Lincoln	Thomas Rodman Merritt	Liberal	1868	2nd term
	London	John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Middlesex East	David Glass	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Middlesex North	Thomas Scatcherd	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Monck	James David Edgar	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Muskoka	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Niagara	Angus Morrison	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Norfolk North	John Charlton	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Norfolk South	William Wallace	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Northumberland East	Joseph Keeler	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Northumberland West	James Cockburn (†)	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Ontario North	William Henry Gibbs	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Ontario South	Thomas Nicholson Gibbs	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Ottawa (City of)*	John Bower Lewis	Conservative	1872	1st term
		Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Oxford North	Thomas Oliver	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Oxford South	Ebenezer Vining Bodwell	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Peel	Robert Smith	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Perth North	Thomas Mayne Daly	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Perth South	James Trow	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Peterborough East	Peregrine Maitland Grover	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Peterborough West	John Bertram	Liberal	1872	1st term
		William Cluxton (not elected candidate but designated by return)[1]	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Prescott	Albert Hagar	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Prince Edward	Walter Ross	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Renfrew North	James Findlay	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Renfrew South	James O'Reilly	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Russell	James Alexander Grant	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Simcoe North	Herman Henry Cook	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Simcoe South	William Carruthers Little	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Stormont	Cyril Archibald	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Toronto Centre	Robert Wilkes	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Toronto East	James Beaty	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Victoria North	Joseph Staples	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Victoria South	George Dormer	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Waterloo North	Isaac Erb Bowman	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Waterloo South	James Young	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Welland	Thomas Clark Street (died September 20, 1872, 22 days before the election)	Conservative	1867	2nd term
		William Alexander Thomson (from November 23, 1872)	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Wellington Centre	James Ross	Liberal	1869	2nd term
	Wellington North	Nathaniel Higinbotham	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Wellington South	David Stirton	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Wentworth North	Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Wentworth South	Joseph Rymal	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	West Toronto	John Willoughby Crawford (to November 4, 1873) (resigned)	Conservative	1872	1st term
		Thomas Moss (from December 18, 1873)	Liberal	1873	1st term
	York East	James Metcalfe	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	York North	Anson Dodge	Conservative	1872	1st term
	York West	David Blain	Liberal	1872	1st term

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.

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected	No. of terms
	Argenteuil	John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Bagot	Pierre-Samuel Gendron	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Beauce	Christian Pozer	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Beauharnois	Ulysse-Janvier Robillard	Independent Conservative	1872	1st term
	Bellechasse	Télesphore Fournier	Liberal	1870	2nd term
	Berthier	Anselme-Homère Pâquet	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Bonaventure	Théodore Robitaille	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Brome	Edward Carter	Conservative	1871	2nd term
	Chambly	Pierre Benoit	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Champlain	John Jones Ross	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Charlevoix	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Châteauguay	Luther Hamilton Holton	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Chicoutimi—Saguenay	William Evan Price	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Compton	John Henry Pope	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Dorchester	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Drummond—Arthabaska	Pierre-Nérée Dorion	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Gaspé	Pierre Fortin	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Hochelaga	Louis Beaubien	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Huntingdon	Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869	2nd term
	Iberville	François Béchard	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Jacques Cartier	Rodolphe Laflamme	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Joliette	Louis François Georges Baby	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Kamouraska	Charles Pelletier	Liberal	1869	2nd term
	Laprairie	Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	L'Assomption	Louis Archambeault	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Laval	Joseph Bellerose (to July 10, 1873) (called to the Senate)	Conservative	1867	2nd term
		Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (from October 28, 1873)	Liberal-Conservative	1873	1st term
	Lévis	Joseph Blanchet	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	L'Islet	Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Lotbinière	Henri Joly de Lotbinière	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Maskinongé	Louis-Alphonse Boyer	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Mégantic	Édouard-Émery Richard	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Missisquoi	George Baker	Liberal-Conservative	1870	2nd term
	Montcalm	Firmin Dugas	Conservative	1871	2nd term
	Montmagny	Henri-Thomas Taschereau	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Montmorency	Jean Langlois	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Montreal Centre	Michael Patrick Ryan	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Montreal East	Louis-Amable Jetté	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Montreal West	John Young	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Napierville	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Ottawa (County of)	Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Pontiac	William McKay Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Portneuf	Esdras Alfred de St-Georges	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Quebec-Centre	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Quebec County	Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (to February 20, 1873) (called to the Senate)	Conservative	1867	2nd term
		Adolphe-Philippe Caron (from March 28, 1873)	Conservative	1873	1st term
	Quebec East	Adolphe Guillet dit Tourangeau	Conservative	1870	2nd term
	Quebec West	Thomas McGreevy	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Richelieu	Michel Mathieu	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Richmond—Wolfe	William Hoste Webb	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Rimouski	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Rouville	Honoré Mercier	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Saint Maurice	Élie Lacerte	Conservative	1868	2nd term
	Shefford	Lucius Huntington	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Town of Sherbrooke	Edward Towle Brooks	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Soulanges	Jacques-Philippe Lantier	Conservative	1872	1st term
	St. Hyacinthe	Louis Delorme	Liberal	1870	2nd term
	St. John's	François Bourassa	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Stanstead	Charles Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Témiscouata	Élie Mailloux	Conservative	1872	1st term
	Terrebonne	Louis Masson	Conservative	1867	2nd term
	Three Rivers	William McDougall	Conservative	1868	2nd term
	Two Mountains	Wilfrid Prévost	Liberal	1872	1st term
	Vaudreuil	Robert Harwood	Liberal-Conservative	1872	1st term
	Verchères	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867	2nd term
	Yamaska	Joseph Duguay	Conservative	1872	1st term

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 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	No. of terms
	King's County*	Daniel Davies	Conservative	1873	1st term
		Augustine Colin Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1873	1st term
	Prince County*	James Colledge Pope	Conservative	1873	1st term
		James Yeo	Liberal	1873	1st term
	Queen's County*	David Laird	Liberal	1873	1st term
		Peter Sinclair Sr.	Liberal	1873	1st term

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