24th Canadian Parliament
24th Parliament of Canada | |||
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Majority parliament | |||
12 May 1958 – 19 April 1962 | |||
Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | John Diefenbaker 21 Jun 1957 – 22 Apr 1963 | ||
Cabinet | 18th Canadian Ministry | ||
Leader of the Opposition | Lester B. Pearson | ||
Party caucuses | |||
Government | Progressive Conservative Party | ||
Opposition | Liberal Party | ||
Crossbench | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | ||
House of Commons | |||
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
Members | 265 MP seats List of members | ||
Sovereign | |||
Monarch | Elizabeth II | ||
Sessions | |||
1st session 1958-05-12 – 1958-09-06 | |||
2nd session 1959-01-15 – 1959-07-18 | |||
3rd session 1960-01-14 – 1960-08-10 | |||
4th session 1960-11-17 – 1961-09-29 | |||
5th session 1962-01-18 – 1962-04-19 | |||
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The 24th Canadian Parliament was in session from May 12, 1958, until April 19, 1962. The membership was set by the 1958 federal election on March 31, 1958, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1962 election.
It was controlled by a Progressive Conservative Party majority, which won the largest majority in Canadian history, under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and the 18th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led by Lester B. Pearson.
The Speaker was Roland Michener. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1952-1966 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were five sessions of the 24th Parliament.
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Following is a full list of members of the twenty-fourth Parliament listed first by province or territory, then by electoral district.
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Acadia | Jack Horner | Progressive Conservative | |
Athabaska | Jack Bigg | Progressive Conservative | |
Battle River—Camrose | Clifford Smallwood | Progressive Conservative | |
Bow River | Eldon Woolliams | Progressive Conservative | |
Calgary North | Douglas Harkness | Progressive Conservative | |
Calgary South | Arthur Ryan Smith | Progressive Conservative | |
Edmonton East | William Skoreyko | Progressive Conservative | |
Edmonton—Strathcona | Terry Nugent | Progressive Conservative | |
Edmonton West | Marcel Lambert | Progressive Conservative | |
Jasper—Edson | Hugh Horner | Progressive Conservative | |
Lethbridge | Deane Gundlock | Progressive Conservative | |
Macleod | Lawrence Kindt | Progressive Conservative | |
Medicine Hat | Edwin William Brunsden | Progressive Conservative | |
Peace River | Ged Baldwin | Progressive Conservative | |
Red Deer | Harris George Rogers | Progressive Conservative | |
Vegreville | Frank Fane | Progressive Conservative | |
Wetaskiwin | James Stanley Speakman | Progressive Conservative |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Brandon—Souris | Walter Dinsdale | Progressive Conservative | |
Churchill | Robert Simpson | Progressive Conservative | |
Dauphin | Richard Elmer Forbes | Progressive Conservative | |
Lisgar | George Robson Muir | Progressive Conservative | |
Marquette | Nick Mandziuk | Progressive Conservative | |
Portage—Neepawa | George Fairfield | Progressive Conservative | |
Provencher | Warner Herbert Jorgenson | Progressive Conservative | |
Selkirk | Eric Stefanson, Sr. | Progressive Conservative | |
Springfield | Val Yacula (died 24 September 1958) | Progressive Conservative | |
Joseph Slogan (by-election of 1958-12-15) | Progressive Conservative | ||
St. Boniface | Laurier Régnier | Progressive Conservative | |
Winnipeg North | Murray Smith | Progressive Conservative | |
Winnipeg North Centre | John MacLean | Progressive Conservative | |
Winnipeg South | Gordon Chown | Progressive Conservative | |
Winnipeg South Centre | Gordon Churchill | Progressive Conservative |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Charlotte | Caldwell Stewart | Progressive Conservative | |
Gloucester | Hédard-J. Robichaud | Liberal | |
Kent | Hervé Michaud | Liberal | |
Northumberland—Miramichi | George Roy Mcwilliam | Liberal | |
Restigouche—Madawaska | Charles Van Horne | Progressive Conservative | |
Edgar E. Fournier (by-election of 1961-05-29) | Progressive Conservative | ||
Royal | Alfred Johnson Brooks | Progressive Conservative | |
Hugh John Flemming (by-election of 1960-10-31) | Progressive Conservative | ||
St. John—Albert | Thomas Miller Bell | Progressive Conservative | |
Victoria—Carleton | Gage Montgomery | Progressive Conservative | |
Westmorland | William Creaghan | Progressive Conservative | |
York—Sunbury | John Chester MacRae | Progressive Conservative |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Bonavista—Twillingate | Jack Pickersgill | Liberal | |
Burin—Burgeo | Chesley William Carter | Liberal | |
Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador | Charles Granger | Liberal | |
Humber—St. George's | Herman Maxwell Batten | Liberal | |
St. John's East | James Aloysius McGrath | Progressive Conservative | |
St. John's West | William Joseph Browne | Progressive Conservative | |
Trinity—Conception | James Roy Tucker | Liberal |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Mackenzie River | Mervyn Arthur Hardie | Liberal |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Antigonish—Guysborough | Clement O'Leary | Progressive Conservative | |
Cape Breton North and Victoria | Robert Muir | Progressive Conservative | |
Cape Breton South | Donald MacInnis | Progressive Conservative | |
Colchester—Hants | Cyril Kennedy | Progressive Conservative | |
Cumberland | Robert Coates | Progressive Conservative | |
Digby—Annapolis—Kings | George Nowlan | Progressive Conservative | |
Halifax* | Robert Jardine McCleave | Progressive Conservative | |
Edmund Leverett Morris | Progressive Conservative | ||
Inverness—Richmond | Robert MacLellan | Progressive Conservative | |
Pictou | Howard Russell Macewan | Progressive Conservative | |
Queens—Lunenburg | Lloyd Crouse | Progressive Conservative | |
Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare | Felton Fenwick Legere | Progressive Conservative |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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King's | John Augustine Macdonald (died 4 January 1961) | Progressive Conservative | |
Margaret Mary Macdonald (by-election of 1961-05-29) | Progressive Conservative | ||
Prince | Orville Howard Phillips | Progressive Conservative | |
Queen's* | John Angus Maclean | Progressive Conservative | |
Heath MacQuarrie | Progressive Conservative |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Assiniboia | Hazen Argue | C.C.F. | |
New Democratic Party | |||
Liberal | |||
Humboldt—Melfort | Reynold Rapp | Progressive Conservative | |
Kindersley | Robert Hanbidge | Progressive Conservative | |
Mackenzie | Stanley Korchinski | Progressive Conservative | |
Meadow Lake | Bert Cadieu | Progressive Conservative | |
Melville | James Norris Ormiston | Progressive Conservative | |
Moose Jaw—Lake Centre | James Ernest Pascoe | Progressive Conservative | |
Moose Mountain | Richard Russell Southam | Progressive Conservative | |
Prince Albert | John Diefenbaker | Progressive Conservative | |
Qu'Appelle | Alvin Hamilton | Progressive Conservative | |
Regina City | Ken More | Progressive Conservative | |
Rosetown—Biggar | Clarence Owen Cooper | Progressive Conservative | |
Rosthern | Edward Nasserden | Progressive Conservative | |
Saskatoon | Henry Frank Jones | Progressive Conservative | |
Swift Current—Maple Creek | Jack McIntosh | Progressive Conservative | |
The Battlefords | Albert Ralph Horner | Progressive Conservative | |
Yorkton | Gordon Drummond Clancy | Progressive Conservative |
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
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Yukon | Erik Nielsen | Progressive Conservative |
Major Bills of the 24th Parliament
Important bills of the 24th parliament included:
By-elections
References
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