2nd Canadian Parliament

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Sir John A. Macdonald was Prime Minister during most of the 2nd Canadian Parliament.

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Alexander Mackenzie and his Liberal Party briefly took power at the end of the 2nd Parliament.

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 2 sessions of the 2nd Parliament:

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

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the second 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 "(Template:Dagger)".

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

British Columbia

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected
Cariboo	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joshua Spencer Thompson	Liberal-Conservative	1871
New Westminster	Template:Canadian party colour|	Hugh Nelson	Liberal-Conservative	1871
Vancouver	Template:Canadian party colour|	Francis Hincks	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Victoria*	Template:Canadian party colour|	Henry Nathan Jr.	Liberal	1871
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Amor De Cosmos	Liberal	1871
Yale	Template:Canadian party colour|	Edgar Dewdney	Conservative	1872

Manitoba

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected
Lisgar	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Christian Schultz	Conservative	1871
Marquette	Template:Canadian party colour|	Robert Cunningham	Liberal	1872
Provencher	Template:Canadian party colour|	The Honourable Sir George-Étienne Cartier to May 20, 1873 (death)	Liberal-Conservative	1872
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Louis Riel from October 13, 1873	Independent	1873
Selkirk	Template:Canadian party colour|	Donald A. Smith	Independent Conservative	1871

New Brunswick

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected
Albert	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Wallace	Liberal	1867
Carleton	Template:Canadian party colour|	The Honourable Charles Connell	Liberal	1867
Charlotte	Template:Canadian party colour|	John McAdam	Liberal-Conservative	1872
City and County of St. John*	Template:Canadian party colour|	Isaac Burpee	Liberal	1872
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Acalus Lockwood Palmer	Liberal	1872
City of St. John	Template:Canadian party colour|	The Honourable Samuel Leonard Tilley to November 15, 1873 (named Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick)	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Jeremiah Smith Boies De Veber from December 1, 1873	Liberal	1873
Gloucester	Template:Canadian party colour|	Timothy Warren Anglin	Liberal	1867
Kent	Template:Canadian party colour|	Robert Barry Cutler	Liberal	1872
King's	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Domville	Conservative	1872
Northumberland	Template:Canadian party colour|	The Honourable Peter Mitchell	Independent	1872
Queen's	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Ferris	Liberal	1867
Restigouche	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Moffat	Conservative	1870
Sunbury	Template:Canadian party colour|	Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867
Victoria	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Westmorland	Template:Canadian party colour|	The Honourable Albert James Smith	Liberal	1867
York	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Pickard	Independent Liberal	1868

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.

Nova Scotia

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected
Annapolis	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Hallett Ray	Liberal	1867
Antigonish	Template:Canadian party colour|	Hugh McDonald to May 11, 1873 (appointed to Supreme Court of Nova Scotia)	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Angus McIsaac from December 20, 1873	Liberal	1873
Cape Breton*	Template:Canadian party colour|	Newton LeGayet Mackay	Conservative	1872
	Template:Canadian party colour|	William McDonald	Conservative	1872
Colchester	Template:Canadian party colour|	Frederick M. Pearson	Liberal	1870
Cumberland	Template:Canadian party colour|	Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867
Digby	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alfred William Savary	Conservative	1867
Guysborough	Template:Canadian party colour|	Stewart Campbell	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Halifax*	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Johnston Almon	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Stephen Tobin	Liberal	1872
Hants	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Howe to July 5, 1873	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Monson Henry Goudge from July 5, 1873	Liberal	1873
Inverness	Template:Canadian party colour|	Samuel McDonnell	Conservative	1872
Kings	Template:Canadian party colour|	Leverett de Veber Chipman	Liberal	1870
Lunenburg	Template:Canadian party colour|	Charles Edward Church	Liberal	1872
Pictou*	Template:Canadian party colour|	Robert Doull	Liberal-Conservative	1872
	Template:Canadian party colour|	James McDonald	Conservative	1872
Queens	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Fraser Forbes	Liberal	1867
Richmond	Template:Canadian party colour|	Isaac Le Vesconte	Conservative	1869
Shelburne	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Coffin	Liberal-Conservative	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|		Liberal
Victoria	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Ross to July 11, 1873 (appointment to cabinet)	Liberal	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Ross from December 20, 1873	Liberal
Yarmouth	Template:Canadian party colour|	Frank Killam	Liberal	1868

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.

Ontario

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected
Addington	Template:Canadian party colour|	Schuyler Shibley	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Algoma	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Beverley Robinson	Conservative	1872
Bothwell	Template:Canadian party colour|	David Mills	Liberal	1867
Brant North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Gavin Fleming	Liberal	1872
Brant South	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Paterson	Liberal	1872
Brockville	Template:Canadian party colour|	Jacob Dockstader Buell	Liberal	1872
Bruce North	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Gillies	Liberal	1872
Bruce South	Template:Canadian party colour|	Edward Blake	Liberal	1872
Cardwell	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative	1867
Carleton	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Rochester	Conservative	1872
Cornwall	Template:Canadian party colour|	Darby Bergin	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Dundas	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Gibson	Independent Liberal	1872
Durham East	Template:Canadian party colour|	Lewis Ross	Liberal Reformer	1872
Durham West	Template:Canadian party colour|	Edward Blake to April 10, 1873 (dual election in Durham West and Bruce South)	Liberal	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Edmund Burke Wood from April 10, 1873	Liberal	1873
Elgin East	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Harvey	Liberal	1872
Elgin West	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872
Essex	Template:Canadian party colour|	John O'Connor	Conservative	1867
Frontenac	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Airey Kirkpatrick	Conservative	1870
Glengarry	Template:Canadian party colour|	Donald Alexander Macdonald	Liberal	1867
Grenville South	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Henry Brouse	Liberal	1872
Grey East	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Kingston Flesher	Conservative	1872
Grey North	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Snider	Liberal	1867
Grey South	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Landerkin	Liberal	1872
Haldimand	Template:Canadian party colour|	David Thompson	Liberal	1867
Halton	Template:Canadian party colour|	John White	Liberal	1867
Hamilton*	Template:Canadian party colour|	Daniel Black Chisholm	Liberal-Conservative	1872
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Henry Buckingham Witton	Conservative Labour	1872
Hastings East	Template:Canadian party colour|	John White	Conservative	1871
Hastings North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	1867
Hastings West	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Brown	Conservative	1867
Huron Centre	Template:Canadian party colour|	Horace Horton	Liberal	1872
Huron North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Farrow	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Huron South	Template:Canadian party colour|	Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	1867
Kent	Template:Canadian party colour|	Rufus Stephenson	Conservative	1867
Kingston	Template:Canadian party colour|	The Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Lambton	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal	1867
Lanark North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Daniel Galbraith	Liberal	1872
Lanark South	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Leeds North and Grenville North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Francis Jones	Conservative	1867
Leeds South	Template:Canadian party colour|	Albert Norton Richards	Liberal	1872
Lennox	Template:Canadian party colour|	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867
Lincoln	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Rodman Merritt	Liberal	1868
London	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Middlesex East	Template:Canadian party colour|	David Glass	Conservative	1872
Middlesex North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Scatcherd	Liberal	1867
Middlesex West	Template:Canadian party colour|	George William Ross	Liberal	1872
Monck	Template:Canadian party colour|	James David Edgar	Liberal	1872
Muskoka	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1872
Niagara	Template:Canadian party colour|	Angus Morrison	Conservative	1867
Norfolk North	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Charlton	Liberal	1872
Norfolk South	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Wallace	Conservative	1872
Northumberland East	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Keeler	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Northumberland West	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Cockburn Template:Tooltip	Conservative	1867
Ontario North	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Henry Gibbs	Conservative	1872
Ontario South	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Nicholson Gibbs	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Ottawa (City of)*	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Bower Lewis	Conservative	1872
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Oxford North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Oliver	Liberal	1867
Oxford South	Template:Canadian party colour|	Ebenezer Vining Bodwell	Liberal	1867
Peel	Template:Canadian party colour|	Robert Smith	Liberal	1872
Perth North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Mayne Daly	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Perth South	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Trow	Liberal	1872
Peterborough East	Template:Canadian party colour|	Peregrine Maitland Grover	Conservative	1867
Peterborough West	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Bertram	Liberal	1872
	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Cluxton (not elected candidate but designated by return)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Conservative	1872
Prescott	Template:Canadian party colour|	Albert Hagar	Liberal	1867
Prince Edward	Template:Canadian party colour|	Walter Ross	Liberal	1867
Renfrew North	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Findlay	Liberal	1872
Renfrew South	Template:Canadian party colour|	James O'Reilly	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Russell	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Alexander Grant	Conservative	1867
Simcoe North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Herman Henry Cook	Liberal	1872
Simcoe South	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Carruthers Little	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Stormont	Template:Canadian party colour|	Cyril Archibald	Liberal	1872
Toronto Centre	Template:Canadian party colour|	Robert Wilkes	Liberal	1872
Toronto East	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Beaty	Conservative	1867
Victoria North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Staples	Conservative	1872
Victoria South	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Dormer	Conservative	1872
Waterloo North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Isaac Erb Bowman	Liberal	1867
Waterloo South	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Young	Liberal	1867
Welland	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Clark Street (died September 20, 1872, 22 days before the election)	Conservative	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Alexander Thomson from November 23, 1872	Liberal	1872
Wellington Centre	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Ross	Liberal	1869
Wellington North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Nathaniel Higinbotham	Liberal	1872
Wellington South	Template:Canadian party colour|	David Stirton	Liberal	1867
Wentworth North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872
Wentworth South	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Rymal	Liberal	1867
West Toronto	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Willoughby Crawford to November 4, 1873 (resigned)	Conservative	1872
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas Moss from December 18, 1873	Liberal	1873
York East	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Metcalfe	Liberal	1867
York North	Template:Canadian party colour|	Anson Dodge	Conservative	1872
York West	Template:Canadian party colour|	David Blain	Liberal	1872

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.

Quebec

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected
Argenteuil	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Bagot	Template:Canadian party colour|	Pierre-Samuel Gendron	Conservative	1867
Beauce	Template:Canadian party colour|	Christian Pozer	Liberal	1867
Beauharnois	Template:Canadian party colour|	Ulysse-Janvier Robillard	Independent Conservative	1872
Bellechasse	Template:Canadian party colour|	Télesphore Fournier	Liberal	1870
Berthier	Template:Canadian party colour|	Anselme-Homère Pâquet	Liberal	1867
Bonaventure	Template:Canadian party colour|	Théodore Robitaille	Conservative	1867
Brome	Template:Canadian party colour|	Edward Carter	Conservative	1871
Chambly	Template:Canadian party colour|	Pierre Benoit	Conservative	1867
Champlain	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Jones Ross	Conservative	1867
Charlevoix	Template:Canadian party colour|	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal	1867
Châteauguay	Template:Canadian party colour|	Luther Hamilton Holton	Liberal	1867
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Evan Price	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Compton	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Henry Pope	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Dorchester	Template:Canadian party colour|	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	1867
Drummond—Arthabaska	Template:Canadian party colour|	Pierre-Nérée Dorion	Liberal	1872
Gaspé	Template:Canadian party colour|	Pierre Fortin	Conservative	1867
Hochelaga	Template:Canadian party colour|	Louis Beaubien	Conservative	1872
Huntingdon	Template:Canadian party colour|	Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869
Iberville	Template:Canadian party colour|	François Béchard	Liberal	1867
Jacques Cartier	Template:Canadian party colour|	Rodolphe Laflamme	Liberal	1872
Joliette	Template:Canadian party colour|	Louis François Georges Baby	Conservative	1872
Kamouraska	Template:Canadian party colour|	Charles Pelletier	Liberal	1869
Laprairie	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867
L'Assomption	Template:Canadian party colour|	Louis Archambeault	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Laval	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Bellerose to July 10, 1873 (called to the Senate)	Conservative	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet from October 28, 1873	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Lévis	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Blanchet	Liberal-Conservative	1867
L'Islet	Template:Canadian party colour|	Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872
Lotbinière	Template:Canadian party colour|	Henri Joly de Lotbinière	Liberal	1867
Maskinongé	Template:Canadian party colour|	Louis-Alphonse Boyer	Liberal	1872
Mégantic	Template:Canadian party colour|	Édouard-Émery Richard	Liberal	1872
Missisquoi	Template:Canadian party colour|	George Baker	Liberal-Conservative	1870
Montcalm	Template:Canadian party colour|	Firmin Dugas	Conservative	1871
Montmagny	Template:Canadian party colour|	Henri-Thomas Taschereau	Liberal	1872
Montmorency	Template:Canadian party colour|	Jean Langlois	Conservative	1867
Montreal Centre	Template:Canadian party colour|	Michael Patrick Ryan	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Montreal East	Template:Canadian party colour|	Louis-Amable Jetté	Liberal	1872
Montreal West	Template:Canadian party colour|	John Young	Liberal	1872
Napierville	Template:Canadian party colour|	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Liberal	1872
Nicolet	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Gaudet	Conservative	1867
Ottawa (County of)	Template:Canadian party colour|	Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Pontiac	Template:Canadian party colour|	William McKay Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Portneuf	Template:Canadian party colour|	Esdras Alfred de St-Georges	Liberal	1872
Quebec-Centre	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Conservative	1872
Quebec County	Template:Canadian party colour|	Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau to February 20, 1873 (called to the Senate)	Conservative	1867
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Adolphe-Philippe Caron from March 28, 1873	Conservative	1873
Quebec East	Template:Canadian party colour|	Adolphe Guillet dit Tourangeau	Conservative	1870
Quebec West	Template:Canadian party colour|	Thomas McGreevy	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Richelieu	Template:Canadian party colour|	Michel Mathieu	Conservative	1872
Richmond—Wolfe	Template:Canadian party colour|	William Hoste Webb	Conservative	1867
Rimouski	Template:Canadian party colour|	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal	1872
Rouville	Template:Canadian party colour|	Honoré Mercier	Liberal	1872
Saint Maurice	Template:Canadian party colour|	Élie Lacerte	Conservative	1868
Shefford	Template:Canadian party colour|	Lucius Huntington	Liberal	1867
Town of Sherbrooke	Template:Canadian party colour|	Edward Towle Brooks	Conservative	1872
Soulanges	Template:Canadian party colour|	Jacques-Philippe Lantier	Conservative	1872
St. Hyacinthe	Template:Canadian party colour|	Louis Delorme	Liberal	1870
St. John's	Template:Canadian party colour|	François Bourassa	Liberal	1867
Stanstead	Template:Canadian party colour|	Charles Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Témiscouata	Template:Canadian party colour|	Élie Mailloux	Conservative	1872
Terrebonne	Template:Canadian party colour|	Louis Masson	Conservative	1867
Three Rivers	Template:Canadian party colour|	William McDougall	Conservative	1868
Two Mountains	Template:Canadian party colour|	Wilfrid Prévost	Liberal	1872
Vaudreuil	Template:Canadian party colour|	Robert Harwood	Liberal-Conservative	1872
Verchères	Template:Canadian party colour|	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867
Yamaska	Template:Canadian party colour|	Joseph Duguay	Conservative	1872

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

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
King's County*	Template:Canadian party colour|	Daniel Davies	Conservative	1873
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Augustine Colin Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Prince County*	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Colledge Pope	Conservative	1873
	Template:Canadian party colour|	James Yeo	Liberal	1873
Queen's County*	Template:Canadian party colour|	David Laird	Liberal	1873
	Template:Canadian party colour|	Peter Sinclair Sr.	Liberal	1873

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