1st Parliament of Ontario

1st Parliament of Ontario
Coalition parliament
3 September 1867 – 25 February 1871
Parliament leaders
Premier	John Sandfield Macdonald
Party caucuses
Government	Conservative Party
Opposition	Liberal Party
* Coalition government
Legislative Assembly
Speaker of the Assembly	John Stevenson
→ 2nd

The 1st Parliament of Ontario was in session from September 3, 1867, until February 25, 1871, just prior to the 1871 general election. This was the first session of the Legislature after Confederation succeeding the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (last session was the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada).

The 1867 general election produced a virtual tie between the Conservative Party led by John Sandfield Macdonald and the Liberal Party led by Archibald McKellar. Macdonald ended up securing the Premiership by leading a coalition government with the support of moderate Liberals. His Cabinet, nicknamed the Patent Combination, included two conservatives (John Carling and Matthew Crooks Cameron), a coalition Grit (Edmund Burke Wood) and two old school Baldwinite Reformers (Sandfield Macdonald himself and Stephen Richards). The first ministry would survive the first parliament by less than a year, resigning in December 1871.

In the first several years of Confederation, individuals could be elected to both federal and provincial parliaments and serve as MPs and MPPs at the same time. In the first Parliament of Ontario, provincial cabinet ministers John Sandfield Macdonald, Edmund Burke Wood, and John Carling all sat in both parliaments, as did Edward Blake, Thomas Roberts Ferguson, John Lorn McDougall (after 1869) and Frederick William Cumberland (after 1871). Generally, they represented the same riding, but it was not necessarily so; for example, Edward Blake represented Bruce South in the provincial parliament but Durham West at the federal level.

John Stevenson served as speaker for the assembly.

Below is a list of members of Ontario's first parliament. Bolded names are cabinet ministers; Capitalized names also sat in federal parliament.

Western Ontario

Riding	Member	Party
Algoma	FREDERICK WILLIAM CAMERON	Conservative
Bothwell	Archibald McKellar	Liberal
Brant	Hugh Finlayson	Liberal
Brant South	EDMUND BURKE WOOD	Conservative
Bruce North	Donald Sinclair	Liberal
Bruce South	EDWARD BLAKE	Liberal
Cardwell	Thomas Swinarton	Conservative
Durham East	Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams	Conservative
Durham West	John McLeod	Liberal
Elgin East	Daniel Luton	Conservative
Elgin West	Nicol McColl	Conservative
Essex	Solomon Wigle	Conservative
Grey North	Thomas Scott	Conservative
Grey South	Abram William Lauder	Conservative
Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal
Halton	William Barber	Liberal
Hamilton	James Miller Williams	Liberal
Huron North	William Torrance Hays	Conservative
Huron South	Robert Gibbons	Conservative
	Isaac Carling (1868)	Liberal
Kent	John Smith	Liberal
Lambton	Timothy Blair Pardee	Liberal
Lincoln	John Charles Rykert	Conservative
London	JOHN CARLING	Conservative
Middlesex East	James Evans	Liberal
Middlesex North	James Sinclair Smith	Liberal
Middlesex West	Nathaniel Currie	Conservative
Monck	George Secord	Conservative
Niagara	Donald Robertson	Conservative
	Stephen Richards (1867)	Conservative
Norfolk North	James Wilson	Conservative
Norfolk South	Simpson McCall	Liberal
Northumberland East	John Eyre	Liberal
Northumberland West	Alexander Fraser	Liberal
Ontario North	Thomas Paxton	Liberal
Ontario South	William McGill	Liberal
Oxford North	George Perry	Liberal
Oxford South	Adam Oliver	Liberal
Peel	John Coyne	Conservative
Peterborough East	George Read	Conservative
Peterborough West	John Carnegie	Conservative
Simcoe North	William Lount	Liberal
Simcoe South	THOMAS ROBERTS FERGUSON	Conservative
Toronto East	Matthew Crooks Cameron	Conservative
Toronto West	John Wallis	Conservative
Victoria North	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal
Victoria South	Thomas Matchett	Liberal
Waterloo North	Moses Springer	Liberal
Waterloo South	Isaac Clemens	Liberal
Welland	William Beatty	Liberal
Wellington Centre	Alexander David Ferrier	Conservative
Wellington North	Robert McKim	Liberal
Wellington South	Peter Gow	Liberal
Wentworth North	Robert Christie	Liberal
Wentworth South	William Sexton	Liberal
York East	Hugh Powell Crosby	Liberal
York North	John McMurrich	Liberal
York West	Thomas Grahame	Conservative

Eastern Ontario

Riding	Member	Party
Addington	Edmund John Glyn Hooper	Conservative
Brockville and Elizabethtown	William Fitzsimmons	Conservative
Carleton	Robert Lyon	Liberal
Cornwall	JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD	Conservative-Liberal coalition
Dundas	Simon S. Cook	Liberal
Frontenac	Henry Smith	Conservative
	Delino Dexter Calvin (1868)	Conservative
Glengarry	James Craig	Conservative
Grenville South	Mcneil Clarke	Conservative
Hastings East	Henry Corby	Conservative
Hastings North	George Henry Boulter	Conservative
Hastings West	Ketchum Graham	Conservative
Kingston	Maxwell W. Strange	Conservative
Lanark North	Daniel Galbraith	Liberal
Lanark South	William McNairn Shaw	Conservative
	Abraham Code (1869)	Conservative
Leed North and Grenville North	Henry Dolphus Smith	Liberal
Leeds South	Benjamin Tett	Conservative
Lennox	John Stevenson	Conservative
Ottawa	Richard William Scott	Liberal
Perth North	Andrew Monteith	Conservative
Perth South	James Trow	Liberal
Prescott	James P. Boyd	Liberal
Prince Edward	Absalom Greeley	Conservative
	William Anderson (1870)	Liberal
Renfrew North	John Supple	Liberal
	Thomas Murray (1870)	Conservative
Renfrew South	JOHN LORN MCDOUGALL	Liberal
Russell	William Craig	Conservative
Stormont	William Colquhoun	Conservative

External links

• All Members serving in Parliament 1 Archived 2012-09-26 at the Wayback Machine