19th Canadian Parliament

The initial seat distribution of the 19th Canadian Parliament

William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister during the 18th Canadian Parliament.

The 19th Canadian Parliament was in session from May 16, 1940 until April 16, 1945. The membership was set by the 1940 federal election on March 26, 1940, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1945 election.

It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the so-called "National Government" party (the name which the Conservatives ran under in the 1940 election), led in the House by Richard Hanson and Gordon Graydon consecutively as the three successive national leaders of the party, Robert Manion, Arthur Meighen and John Bracken did not have seats in the House of Commons. With the selection of Bracken as national leader in December 1942, the party became known as the Progressive Conservatives.

The Speaker was James Allison Glen. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were six sessions of the 19th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	May 16, 1940	November 5, 1940
2nd	November 7, 1940	January 21, 1942
3rd	January 22, 1942	January 27, 1943
4th	January 28, 1943	January 26, 1944
5th	January 27, 1944	January 31, 1945
6th	March 19, 1945	April 16, 1945

List of members

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

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

Alberta

Electoral district		Name	Party
Acadia		Victor Quelch	Social Credit
Athabaska		Joseph Miville Dechene	Liberal
Battle River		Robert Fair	Social Credit
Bow River		Charles Edward Johnston	Social Credit
Calgary East		George Henry Ross	Liberal
Calgary West		Manley Justin Edwards	Liberal
Camrose		James Alexander Marshall	Social Credit
Edmonton East		Frederick Clayton Casselman (died 20 March 1941)	Liberal
		Cora Taylor Casselman (by-election of 1941-06-02)	Liberal
Edmonton West		James Angus MacKinnon	Liberal
Jasper—Edson		Walter Frederick Kuhl	New Democracy
Lethbridge		John Horne Blackmore	Social Credit
Macleod		Ernest George Hansell	Social Credit
Medicine Hat		Frederick William Gershaw	Liberal
Peace River		John Sissons	Liberal
Red Deer		Frederick Davis Shaw	Social Credit
Vegreville		Anthony Hlynka	Social Credit
Wetaskiwin		Norman Jaques	Social Credit

British Columbia

Electoral district		Name	Party
Cariboo		James Gray Turgeon	Liberal
Comox—Alberni		Alan Webster Neill	Independent
Fraser Valley		George Alexander Cruickshank	Liberal
Kamloops		Thomas James O'Neill	Liberal
Kootenay East		George Ernest Lawson Mackinnon	National Government
Kootenay West		William Kemble Esling	National Government
Nanaimo		Alan Chambers	Liberal
New Westminster		Thomas Reid	Liberal
Skeena		Olof Hanson	Liberal
Vancouver—Burrard		Gerald Grattan McGeer	Liberal
Vancouver Centre		Ian Alistair Mackenzie	Liberal
Vancouver East		Angus MacInnis	C.C.F.
Vancouver North		James Sinclair	Liberal
Vancouver South		Howard Charles Green	National Government
Victoria		Robert Wellington Mayhew	Liberal
Yale		Grote Stirling	National Government

Manitoba

Electoral district		Name	Party
Brandon		James Ewen Matthews	Liberal
Churchill		Thomas Crerar	Liberal
Dauphin		William John Ward	Liberal
Lisgar		Howard Waldemar Winkler	Liberal
Macdonald		William Gilbert Weir	Liberal-Progressive
Marquette		James Allison Glen	Liberal-Progressive
Neepawa		Frederick Donald Mackenzie	Liberal
Portage la Prairie		Harry Leader	Liberal
Provencher		René Jutras	Liberal
Selkirk		Joseph Thorarinn Thorson (until 6 October 1942 emoulment appointment)	Liberal
		William Bryce (by-election of 9 August 1943)	C.C.F.
Souris		James Arthur Ross	National Government
Springfield		John Mouat Turner	Liberal
St. Boniface		John Power Howden	Liberal
Winnipeg North Centre		James Shaver Woodsworth (died 21 March 1942)	C.C.F.
		Stanley Knowles (by-election of 1942-11-30)	C.C.F.
Winnipeg North		Charles Stephen Booth	Liberal
Winnipeg South		Leslie Alexander Mutch	Liberal
Winnipeg South Centre		Ralph Maybank	Liberal

New Brunswick

Electoral district		Name	Party
Charlotte		Burton Maxwell Hill	Liberal
Gloucester		Clarence Joseph Veniot	Liberal
Kent		Aurel D. Léger	Liberal
Northumberland		Joseph Leonard O'brien	National Government
Restigouche—Madawaska		Joseph Enoil Michaud	Liberal
Royal		Alfred Johnson Brooks	National Government
St. John—Albert		Douglas King Hazen	National Government
Victoria—Carleton		Heber Harold Hatfield	National Government
Westmorland		Henry Read Emmerson	Liberal
York—Sunbury		Richard Hanson	National Government

Nova Scotia

Electoral district		Name	Party
Antigonish—Guysborough		James Ralph Kirk	Liberal
Cape Breton North and Victoria		Matthew Maclean	Liberal
Cape Breton South		Clarence Gillis	C.C.F.
Colchester—Hants		Gordon Timlin Purdy	Liberal
Cumberland		Percy Chapman Black	National Government
Digby—Annapolis—Kings		James Lorimer Ilsley	Liberal
Halifax*		Gordon Benjamin Isnor	Liberal
		William Chisholm Macdonald	Liberal
Inverness—Richmond		Moses Elijah McGarry	Liberal
Pictou		Henry Byron McCulloch	Liberal
Queens—Lunenburg		John James Kinley	Liberal
Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare		Vincent-Joseph Pottier	Liberal

Ontario

Electoral district		Name	Party
Algoma East		Thomas Farquhar	Liberal
Algoma West		George Ewart Nixon	Liberal
Brantford City		William Ross Macdonald	Liberal
Brant		George Ernest Wood	Liberal
Broadview		Thomas Langton Church	National Government
Bruce		William Rae Tomlinson	Liberal
Carleton		Alonzo Bowen Hyndman (died 9 April 1940)	National Government
		George Russell Boucher (by-election of 1940-08-19)	Conservative
Cochrane		Joseph-Arthur Bradette	Liberal
Danforth		Joseph Henry Harris	Conservative
Davenport		John Ritchie MacNicol	National Government
Dufferin—Simcoe		William Earl Rowe	National Government
Durham		Wilbert Franklin Rickard	Liberal
Eglinton		Frederick George Hoblitzell	Liberal
Elgin		Wilson Henry Mills	Liberal
Essex East		Paul Joseph James Martin	Liberal
Essex South		Stuart Murray Clark	Liberal
Essex West		Norman Alexander McLarty	Liberal
Fort William		Daniel McIvor	Liberal
Frontenac—Addington		Wilbert Ross Aylesworth	National Government
Glengarry		William Burton Macdiarmid	Liberal
Greenwood		Denton Massey	National Government
Grenville—Dundas		Arza Clair Casselman	National Government
Grey—Bruce		Walter Harris	Liberal
Grey North		William Pattison Telford, Jr. (resigned 9 December 1944 to allow Andrew McNaughton to campaign for seat, albeit unsuccessfully)	Liberal
		Wilfrid Garfield Case (by-election of 1945-02-05)	Progressive Conservative
Haldimand		Mark Cecil Senn	Conservative
Halton		Hughes Cleaver	Liberal
Hamilton East		Thomas Hambly Ross	Liberal
Hamilton West		Colin Gibson	Liberal
Hastings—Peterborough		George Stanley White	National Government
Hastings South		George Henry Stokes	National Government
High Park		Alexander James Anderson	National Government
Huron North		Lewis Elston Cardiff	National Government
Huron—Perth		William Henry Golding	Liberal
Kenora—Rainy River		Hugh Bathgate McKinnon	Liberal
Kent		Clayton Earl Desmond	National Government
Kingston City		Norman McLeod Rogers (died 10 June 1940)	Liberal
		Angus Lewis Macdonald (by-election of 1940-08-12)	Liberal
Lambton—Kent		Hugh Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal-Progressive
Lambton West		Ross Wilfred Gray	Liberal
Lanark		Bert H. Soper	Liberal
Leeds		George Taylor Fulford	Liberal
Lincoln		Norman James Macdonald Lockhart	Conservative
London		Allan Johnston	Liberal
Middlesex East		Duncan Graham Ross	Liberal
Middlesex West		Robert McCubbin	Liberal
Muskoka—Ontario		Stephen Joseph Furniss	Liberal
Nipissing		Raoul Hurtubise	Liberal
Norfolk		William Horace Taylor	Liberal
Northumberland		William Alexander Fraser	Liberal
Ontario		William Henry Moore	Liberal
Ottawa East		Joseph Albert Pinard	Liberal
Ottawa West		George McIlraith	Liberal
Oxford		Almon Secord Rennie	Liberal
Parkdale		Herbert Alexander Bruce	National Government
Parry Sound		Arthur Graeme Slaght	Liberal
Peel		Gordon Graydon	National Government
Perth		Frederick George Sanderson	Liberal
Peterborough West		Gordon Knapman Fraser	National Government
Port Arthur		Clarence Decatur Howe	Liberal
Prescott		Elie-Oscar Bertrand	Liberal
Prince Edward—Lennox		George James Tustin	National Government
Renfrew North		Ralph Melville Warren	Liberal
Renfrew South		James Joseph McCann	Liberal
Rosedale		Harry Jackman	National Government
Russell		Alfred Goulet	Liberal
Simcoe East		George Alexander McLean	Liberal
Simcoe North		Duncan Fletcher McCuaig	Liberal
Spadina		Samuel Factor	Liberal
Stormont		Lionel Chevrier	Liberal
St. Paul's		Douglas Ross	National Government
Timiskaming		Walter Little	Liberal
Trinity		Arthur Roebuck	Liberal
Victoria		Thomas Bruce McNevin	Liberal
Waterloo North		William Daum Euler (until Senate appointment)	Liberal
		Louis Orville Breithaupt (by-election of 1940-08-19)	Liberal
Waterloo South		Karl Kenneth Homuth	National Government
Welland		Arthur Byron Damude (died 15 September 1941)	Liberal
		Humphrey Mitchell (by-election of 1942-02-09)	Liberal
Wellington North		John Knox Blair	Liberal
Wellington South		Robert William Gladstone	Liberal
Wentworth		Ellis Hopkins Corman	Liberal
York East		Robert Henry McGregor	National Government
York North		William Pate Mulock	Liberal
York South		Alan Cockeram (resigned to allow Arthur Meighen to campaign for seat, albeit unsuccessfully)	National Government
		Joseph William Noseworthy (by-election of 1942-02-09)	C.C.F.
York West		Agar Rodney Adamson	Conservative

Prince Edward Island

Electoral district		Name	Party
King's		Thomas Vincent Grant	Liberal
Prince		James Layton Ralston	Liberal
Queen's*		James Lester Douglas	Liberal
		Cyrus Macmillan	Liberal

Quebec

Electoral district		Name	Party
Argenteuil		James Wright McGibbon	Liberal
Beauce		Édouard Lacroix	Liberal
Beauharnois—Laprairie		Maxime Raymond	Liberal
Bellechasse		Louis-Philippe Picard	Liberal
Berthier—Maskinongé		J. Émile Ferron	Liberal
Bonaventure		Joseph Alphée Poirier	Liberal
Brome—Missisquoi		Maurice Hallé	Liberal
Cartier		Peter Bercovitch (died 26 December 1942)	Liberal
		Fred Rose (by-election of 1943-08-09)	Labor Progressive
Chambly—Rouville		Vincent Dupuis	Liberal
Champlain		Hervé-Edgar Brunelle	Liberal
Chapleau		Hector Authier	Liberal
Charlevoix—Saguenay		Pierre-François Casgrain (until 15 December 1941 emoulment appointment)	Liberal
		Frédéric Dorion (by-election of 1942-11-30)	Independent
Châteauguay—Huntingdon		Donald Elmer Black	Liberal
Chicoutimi		Julien-Édouard-Alfred Dubuc	Liberal
Compton		Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette	Liberal
Dorchester		Léonard-David Sweezey Tremblay	Liberal
Drummond—Arthabaska		Armand Cloutier	Liberal
Gaspé		Joseph Sasseville Roy	Independent Conservative
Hochelaga		Raymond Eudes	Liberal
Hull		Alphonse Fournier	Liberal
Jacques Cartier		Elphège Marier	Liberal
Joliette—l'Assomption—Montcalm		Charles-Édouard Ferland	Liberal
Kamouraska		Louis Philippe Lizotte	Liberal
Labelle		Maurice Lalonde (politician)	Liberal
Lake St-John—Roberval		Armand Sylvestre	Liberal
Laurier		Ernest Bertrand	Liberal
Laval—Two Mountains		Liguori Lacombe	Independent Liberal
Lévis		Maurice Bourget	Liberal
Lotbinière		Hugues Lapointe	Liberal
Maisonneuve—Rosemont		Sarto Fournier	Liberal
Matapédia—Matane		Arthur-Joseph Lapointe	Liberal
Mégantic—Frontenac		Joseph Lafontaine	Liberal
Mercier		Joseph Jean	Liberal
Montmagny—L'Islet		Leo Kemner Laflamme	Liberal
Mount Royal		Frederick Primrose Whitman	Liberal
Nicolet—Yamaska		Lucien Dubois	Liberal
Outremont		Thomas Vien (resigned 5 October 1942)	Liberal
		Léo Richer Laflèche (by-election of 1942-11-30)	Liberal
Pontiac		Wallace Reginald McDonald	Liberal
Portneuf		Pierre Gauthier	Liberal
Québec—Montmorency		Wilfrid Lacroix	Liberal
Quebec East		Ernest Lapointe (died 26 November 1941)	Liberal
		Louis St. Laurent (by-election of 1942-02-09)	Liberal
Quebec South		Charles Gavan Power	Liberal
Quebec West and South		Charles Eugène Parent	Liberal
Richelieu—Verchères		Pierre-Joseph-Arthur Cardin	Liberal
Richmond—Wolfe		James Patrick Mullins	Liberal
Rimouski		Joseph-Émile-Stanislas-Émmanuel D'Anjou	Liberal
St. Ann		Thomas Patrick Healy	Liberal
St. Antoine—Westmount		Douglas Abbott	Liberal
St. Denis		Azellus Denis	Liberal
St. Henry		Joseph-Arsène Bonnier	Liberal
St. Hyacinthe—Bagot		Joseph-Théophile-Adélard Fontaine	Liberal
St. James		Eugène Durocher	Liberal
St. Johns—Iberville—Napierville		Pierre Auguste Martial Rhéaume	Liberal
St. Lawrence—St. George		Brooke Claxton	Liberal
St. Mary		Hermas Deslauriers (died 28 May 1941)	Liberal
		Gaspard Fauteux (by-election of 1942-02-09)	Liberal
St-Maurice—Laflèche		Joseph-Alphida Crête	Liberal
Shefford		Joseph-Hermas Leclerc	Liberal
Sherbrooke		Maurice Gingues	Liberal
Stanstead		Robert Greig Davidson (until election voided 24 May 1943)	Liberal
		Joseph Armand Choquette (by-election of 1943-08-09)	Bloc populaire canadien
Terrebonne		Lionel Bertrand	Independent Liberal
Trois-Rivières		Robert Ryan	Liberal
Témiscouata		Jean-François Pouliot	Liberal
Vaudreuil—Soulanges		Joseph Thauvette	Liberal
Verdun		Paul-Émile Côté	Liberal
Wright		Rodolphe Leduc	Liberal

Saskatchewan

Electoral district		Name	Party
Assiniboia		Jesse Pickard Tripp	Liberal
Humboldt		Harry Raymond Fleming (died 5 November 1942)	Liberal
		Joseph William Burton (by-election of 1943-08-09)	C.C.F.
Kindersley		Charles Albert Henderson	Liberal
Lake Centre		John Diefenbaker	Conservative
Mackenzie		Alexander Malcolm Nicholson	C.C.F.
Maple Creek		Charles Robert Evans	Liberal
Melfort		Percy Ellis Wright	C.C.F.
Melville		James Garfield Gardiner	Liberal
Moose Jaw		John Gordon Ross	Liberal
North Battleford		Dorise Nielsen	Unity
Prince Albert		William Lyon Mackenzie King	Liberal
Qu'Appelle		Ernest Edward Perley	National Government
Regina City		Donald Alexander McNiven	Liberal
Rosetown—Biggar		Major James Coldwell	C.C.F.
Rosthern		Walter Adam Tucker	Liberal
Saskatoon City		Walter George Brown (died 1 April 1940)	United Reform
		Alfred Henry Bence (by-election of 1940-08-19)	Conservative
Swift Current		Roy Theodore Graham	Liberal
The Battlefords		John Albert Gregory	Liberal
Weyburn		Tommy Douglas	C.C.F.
Wood Mountain		Thomas F. Donnelly	Liberal
Yorkton		George Hugh Castleden	C.C.F.

Yukon

Electoral district		Name	Party
Yukon		George Black	National Government

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 19th Canadian Parliament

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
Grey North	February 5, 1945	William Pattison Telford, Jr.		Liberal	W. Garfield Case		Progressive Conservative	Resignation to provide a seat for Andrew McNaughton	No
Cartier	August 9, 1943	Peter Bercovitch		Liberal	Fred Rose		Labor Progressive	Death	No
Stanstead	August 9, 1943	Robert Greig Davidson		Liberal	Joseph-Armand Choquette		Bloc populaire Canadien	Election declared void	No
Humboldt	August 9, 1943	Harry Raymond Fleming		Liberal	Joseph William Burton		C. C. F.	Death	No
Selkirk	August 9, 1943	Joseph Thorarinn Thorson		Liberal	William Bryce		C. C. F.	Appointed President of the Exchequer Court of Canada	No
Charlevoix—Saguenay	November 30, 1942	Pierre-François Casgrain		Liberal	Frédéric Dorion		Independent	Appointed a Superior Court Judge of Quebec	No
Winnipeg North Centre	November 30, 1942	J. S. Woodsworth		C. C. F.	Stanley Knowles		C. C. F.	Death	Yes
Outremont	November 30, 1942	Thomas Vien		Liberal	Léo Richer Laflèche		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
St. Mary	February 9, 1942	Hermas Deslauriers		Liberal	Gaspard Fauteux		Liberal	Death	Yes
Welland	February 9, 1942	Arthur Damude		Liberal	Humphrey Mitchell		Liberal	Death	Yes
York South	February 9, 1942	Alan Cockeram		National Government	Joseph W. Noseworthy		C. C. F.	Resignation to provide a seat for Arthur Meighen	No
Quebec East	February 9, 1942	Ernest Lapointe		Liberal	Louis St. Laurent		Liberal	Death	Yes
Edmonton East	June 2, 1941	Frederick Clayton Casselman		Liberal	Cora Taylor Casselman		Liberal	Death	Yes
Saskatoon City	August 19, 1940	Walter George Brown		United Reform Movement	Alfred Henry Bence		Conservative	Death	No
Carleton	August 19, 1940	Alonzo Hyndman		National Government	George Russell Boucher		Conservative	Death	Yes
Waterloo North	August 19, 1940	William Daum Euler		Liberal	Louis Orville Breithaupt		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Kingston City	August 12, 1940	Norman McLeod Rogers		Liberal	Angus Lewis Macdonald		Liberal	Death	Yes