# 15th Canadian Parliament

The 15th Canadian Parliament was in session from 7 January 1926, until 2 July 1926. The membership was set by the 1925 federal election on 29 October 1925, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1926 election.
Initially, it was controlled by a Liberal Party House minority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 12th Canadian Ministry. The Liberal caucus did not have a majority of seats in the House - it only had the second most seats - and was propped up by the Progressive Party of Canada MPs. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led by Arthur Meighen. When the Liberal government fell, Meighen's Conservatives were allowed to form government (the 13th Canadian Ministry), triggering the "King-Byng Affair". Quickly the 13th Ministry fell as well.
The Speaker was Rodolphe Lemieux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1924-1933 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 twice in Canadian history; the other occasion was in the 2nd Canadian parliament.
There was only one session of the 15th Parliament:
| Session | Start | End |
| 1st | 7 January 1926 | 2 July 1926 |

## List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fifteenth 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 "(†)".
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

### Alberta

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Acadia | Robert Gardiner | Progressive | 1921 |
| Athabaska | Charles Wilson Cross | Liberal | 1925 |
| Battle River | Henry Elvins Spencer | Progressive | 1921 |
| Bow River | Edward Joseph Garland | Progressive | 1921 |
| Calgary East | Fred Davis | Conservative | 1925 |
| Calgary West | Richard Bedford Bennett | Conservative | 1911, 1925 |
| Camrose | William Thomas Lucas | United Farmers of Alberta | 1921 |
| Edmonton East | Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury | Conservative | 1925 |
| Edmonton West | Charles Stewart | Liberal | 1925 |
| Lethbridge | Lincoln Henry Jelliff | Progressive | 1921 |
| Macleod | George Gibson Coote | Progressive | 1921 |
| Medicine Hat | Frederick William Gershaw | Liberal | 1925 |
| Peace River | Donald MacBeth Kennedy | Progressive | 1921 |
| Red Deer | Alfred Speakman | United Farmers of Alberta | 1921 |
| Vegreville | Arthur Moren Boutillier | Progressive | 1925 |
| Wetaskiwin | Stanley Gilbert Tobin | Liberal | 1925 |

### British Columbia

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Cariboo | John Anderson Fraser | Conservative | 1925 |
| Comox—Alberni | Alan Webster Neill | Independent | 1921 |
| Fraser Valley | Harry James Barber | Conservative | 1925 |
| Kootenay East | James Horace King | Liberal | 1922 |
| Kootenay West | William Kemble Esling | Conservative | 1925 |
| Nanaimo | Charles Herbert Dickie | Conservative | 1921 |
| New Westminster | William Garland McQuarrie | Conservative | 1917 |
| Skeena | Alfred Stork | Liberal | 1921 |
| Vancouver—Burrard | John Arthur Clark | Conservative | 1921 |
| Vancouver Centre | Henry Herbert Stevens | Conservative | 1911 |
| Vancouver North | Dugald Donaghy | Liberal | 1925 |
| Vancouver South | Leon Johnson Ladner | Conservative | 1921 |
| Victoria | Simon Fraser Tolmie | Conservative | 1917 |
| Yale | Grote Stirling | Conservative | 1924 |

### Manitoba

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Brandon | Robert Forke | Progressive | 1921 |
| Dauphin | William John Ward | Progressive | 1921 |
| Lisgar | John Livingstone Brown | Progressive | 1921 |
| Macdonald | William James Lovie | Progressive | 1921 |
| Marquette | Henry Alfred Mullins | Conservative | 1925 |
| Neepawa | Thomas Gerow Murphy | Conservative | 1925 |
| Nelson | Thomas William Bird | Progressive | 1921 |
| Portage la Prairie | Arthur Meighen | Conservative | 1908, 1922, 1925 |
| Provencher | Arthur-Lucien Beaubien | Progressive | 1921 |
| Selkirk | Hannes Marino Hannesson | Conservative | 1925 |
| Souris | James Steedsman | Progressive | 1921 |
| Springfield | Thomas Hay | Conservative | 1917, 1925 |
| St. Boniface | John Power Howden | Liberal | 1925 |
| Winnipeg North | Abraham Albert Heaps | Labour | 1925 |
| Winnipeg North Centre | James Shaver Woodsworth | Labour | 1921 |
| Winnipeg South | Robert Rogers | Conservative | 1911, 1925 |
| Winnipeg South Centre | William Walker Kennedy | Conservative | 1925 |

### New Brunswick

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Charlotte | Robert Watson Grimmer | Conservative | 1921 |
| Gloucester | Jean George Robichaud | Liberal | 1922 |
| Kent | Alexandre-Joseph Doucet | Conservative | 1923 |
| Northumberland | Charles Elijah Fish | Conservative | 1925 |
| Restigouche—Madawaska | Arthur Culligan | Conservative | 1925 |
| Royal | George Burpee Jones | Conservative | 1921 |
| St. John—Albert* | Thomas Bell | Conservative | 1925 |
| St. John—Albert* | Murray Maclaren | Conservative | 1921 |
| Victoria—Carleton | James Kidd Flemming | Conservative | 1925 |
| Westmorland | Otto Baird Price | Conservative | 1925 |
| York—Sunbury | Richard Hanson | Conservative | 1921 |

### Nova Scotia

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Antigonish—Guysborough | Edward Mortimer Macdonald | Liberal | 1904, 1921 |
| Cape Breton North—Victoria | Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone | Conservative | 1925 |
| Cape Breton South | Finlay MacDonald | Conservative | 1925 |
| Colchester | George Taylor Macnutt | Conservative | 1925 |
| Cumberland | Robert Knowlton Smith | Conservative | 1925 |
| Digby—Annapolis | Harry Bernard Short | Conservative | 1925 |
| Halifax* | William Anderson Black | Conservative | 1923 |
| Halifax* | Felix Patrick Quinn | Conservative | 1925 |
| Hants—Kings | Arthur de Witt Foster | Conservative | 1911, 1925 |
| Inverness | Isaac Duncan MacDougall | Conservative | 1925 |
| Pictou | Thomas Cantley | Conservative | 1925 |
| Queens—Lunenburg | William Duff | Liberal | 1917 |
| Richmond—West Cape Breton | John Alexander MacDonald | Conservative | 1925 |
| Shelburne—Yarmouth | Paul Lacombe Hatfield | Liberal | 1921 |

### Ontario

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Algoma East | George Brecken Nicholson | Conservative | 1925 |
| Algoma West | Thomas Edward Simpson | Conservative | 1917 |
| Brantford City | Robert Edwy Ryerson | Conservative | 1925 |
| Brant | Franklin Smoke | Conservative | 1925 |
| Bruce North | James Malcolm | Liberal | 1921 |
| Bruce South | Walter Allan Hall | Liberal | 1925 |
| Carleton | William Foster Garland | Conservative | 1912, 1921 |
| Dufferin—Simcoe | William Earl Rowe | Conservative | 1925 |
| Durham | Fred Wellington Bowen | Conservative | 1921 |
| Elgin West | Hugh Cummings McKillop | Conservative | 1921 |
| Essex East | Raymond Ducharme Morand | Conservative | 1925 |
| Essex South | Eccles James Gott | Conservative | 1925 |
| Essex West | Sidney Cecil Robinson | Conservative | 1925 |
| Fort William | Robert James Manion | Conservative | 1917 |
| Frontenac—Addington | John Wesley Edwards | Conservative | 1908, 1925 |
| Glengarry | Archibald John Macdonald | Liberal | 1925 |
| Grenville—Dundas | Arza Clair Casselman | Conservative | 1921, 1925 |
| Grey North | Matthew Robert Duncan | Conservative | 1921 |
| Grey Southeast | Agnes Campbell Macphail | Progressive | 1921 |
| Haldimand | Mark Cecil Senn | Conservative | 1921 |
| Halton | Robert King Anderson | Conservative | 1917 |
| Hamilton East | Sydney Chilton Mewburn | Conservative | 1917 |
| Hamilton West | Charles William Bell | Conservative | 1925 |
| Hastings—Peterborough | Alexander Thomas Embury | Conservative | 1925 |
| Hastings South | William Ernest Tummon | Conservative | 1925 |
| Huron North | John Warwick King | Progressive | 1921 |
| Huron South | Thomas McMillan | Liberal | 1925 |
| Kenora—Rainy River | Peter Heenan | Liberal | 1925 |
| Kent | Alexander Dew Chaplin | Conservative | 1925 |
| Kingston City | Arthur Edward Ross | Conservative | 1921 |
| Lambton East | Joseph Elijah Armstrong | Conservative | 1904, 1925 |
| Lambton West | William Thomas Goodison | Liberal | 1925 |
| Lanark | Richard Franklin Preston | Conservative | 1922 |
| Leeds | Hugh Alexander Stewart | Conservative | 1921 |
| Lincoln | James Dew Chaplin | Conservative | 1917 |
| London | John Franklin White | Conservative | 1921 |
| Middlesex East | Adam King Hodgins | Conservative | 1925 |
| Middlesex West | John Campbell Elliott (until 8 March 1926 ministerial appointment) | Liberal | 1925 |
| Middlesex West | John Campbell Elliott (by-election of 1926-03-29) | Liberal | 1925 |
| Muskoka—Ontario | Peter McGibbon | Conservative | 1925 |
| Nipissing | Edmond Lapierre | Liberal | 1921 |
| Norfolk—Elgin | John Lawrence Stansell | Conservative | 1921 |
| Northumberland | Milton Edgar Maybee | Conservative | 1921 |
| Ontario | Thomas Erlin Kaiser | Conservative | 1925 |
| Ottawa (City of)* | John Léo Chabot | Conservative | 1911, 1925 |
| Ottawa (City of)* | Stewart McClenaghan | Conservative | 1925 |
| Oxford North | Donald Matheson Sutherland | Conservative | 1925 |
| Oxford South | Donald Sutherland | Conservative | 1911 |
| Parkdale | David Spence | Conservative | 1921 |
| Parry Sound | James Arthurs | Conservative | 1908 |
| Peel | Samuel Charters | Conservative | 1917 |
| Perth North | David McKenzie Wright | Conservative | 1925 |
| Perth South | Frederick George Sanderson | Liberal | 1925 |
| Peterborough West | Edward Armour Peck | Conservative | 1925 |
| Port Arthur—Thunder Bay | William Fitzgerald Langworthy | Conservative | 1925 |
| Prescott | Gustave Evanturel | Liberal | 1925 |
| Prince Edward—Lennox | John Hubbs | Conservative | 1921 |
| Renfrew North | Ira Delbert Cotnam | Conservative | 1925 |
| Renfrew South | Martin James Maloney | Conservative | 1925 |
| Russell | Alfred Goulet | Liberal | 1925 |
| Simcoe East | Alfred Burke Thompson | Conservative | 1925 |
| Simcoe North | William Alves Boys | Conservative | 1921 |
| Stormont | Charles James Hamilton | Conservative | 1925 |
| Timiskaming North | John Raymond O'Neill | Conservative | 1925 |
| Timiskaming South | Ernest Frederick Armstrong | Conservative | 1925 |
| Toronto East | Edmond Baird Ryckman | Conservative | 1921 |
| Toronto East Centre | Edmund James Bristol | Conservative | 1905 |
| Toronto—High Park | Alexander James Anderson | Conservative | 1925 |
| Toronto Northeast | Richard Langton Baker | Conservative | 1925 |
| Toronto Northwest | Thomas Langton Church | Conservative | 1921 |
| Toronto—Scarborough | Joseph Henry Harris | Conservative | 1921 |
| Toronto South | George Reginald Geary | Conservative | 1925 |
| Toronto West Centre | Horatio Clarence Hocken | Conservative | 1917 |
| Victoria | Thomas Hubert Stinson | Conservative | 1925 |
| Waterloo North | William Daum Euler | Liberal | 1917 |
| Waterloo South | Alexander McKay Edwards | Conservative | 1925 |
| Welland | George Hamilton Pettit | Conservative | 1925 |
| Wellington North | Duncan Sinclair | Conservative | 1925 |
| Wellington South | Hugh Guthrie | Conservative | 1900 |
| Wentworth | Gordon Crooks Wilson | Conservative | 1911 |
| York North | Thomas Herbert Lennox | Conservative | 1925 |
| York South | William Findlay Maclean | Independent Conservative | 1892 |
| York West | Henry Lumley Drayton | Conservative | 1919 |

### Prince Edward Island

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| King's | John Alexander Macdonald | Conservative | 1925 |
| Prince | Alfred Edgar MacLean | Liberal | 1921 |
| Queen's* | Robert Harold Jenkins | Liberal | 1925 |
| Queen's* | John Albert Messervy | Conservative | 1925 |

### Quebec

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Argenteuil | George Halsey Perley | Conservative | 1904, 1925 |
| Bagot | Joseph Edmond Marcile (died in office) | Liberal | 1898 |
| Bagot | Georges Dorèze Morin (by-election of 1925-12-07) | Liberal | 1925 |
| Beauce | Édouard Lacroix | Liberal | 1925 |
| Beauharnois | Maxime Raymond | Liberal | 1925 |
| Bellechasse | Charles Alphonse Fournier | Liberal | 1917 |
| Berthier—Maskinongé | Joseph-Charles-Théodore Gervais | Liberal | 1917 |
| Bonaventure | Charles Marcil | Liberal | 1900 |
| Brome—Missisquoi | William Frederic Kay | Liberal | 1911 |
| Cartier | Samuel William Jacobs | Liberal | 1917 |
| Chambly—Verchères | Aimé Langlois | Liberal | 1925 |
| Champlain | Arthur Lesieur Desaulniers | Liberal | 1917 |
| Charlevoix—Saguenay | Pierre-François Casgrain | Liberal | 1917 |
| Châteauguay—Huntingdon | James Alexander Robb | Liberal | 1908 |
| Chicoutimi | Julien-Édouard-Alfred Dubuc | Independent Liberal | 1917 |
| Compton | Joseph Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just | Liberal | 1925 |
| Dorchester | Lucien Cannon | Liberal | 1917 |
| Drummond—Arthabaska | Wilfrid Girouard | Liberal | 1925 |
| Gaspé | Rodolphe Lemieux (†) | Liberal | 1896 |
| Hochelaga | Édouard-Charles St-Père | Liberal | 1921 |
| Hull | Joseph-Éloi Fontaine | Liberal | 1917 |
| Jacques Cartier | Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume | Liberal | 1922 |
| Joliette | Jean-Joseph Denis | Liberal | 1917 |
| Kamouraska | Joseph Georges Bouchard | Liberal | 1922 |
| Labelle | Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa | Independent | 1896, 1925 |
| Lake St. John | Armand Sylvestre | Liberal | 1925 |
| Laprairie—Napierville | Roch Lanctôt | Liberal | 1904 |
| L'Assomption—Montcalm | Paul-Arthur Séguin | Liberal | 1908 |
| Laurier—Outremont | Joseph-Alexandre Mercier | Liberal | 1925 |
| Laval—Two Mountains | Liguori Lacombe | Liberal | 1925 |
| Lévis | Joseph-Étienne Dussault | Liberal | 1925 |
| L'Islet | Joseph-Fernand Fafard | Liberal | 1917 |
| Lotbinière | Joseph-Achille Verville | Liberal | 1925 |
| Maisonneuve | Clément Robitaille | Liberal | 1921 |
| Matane | Georges-Léonidas Dionne | Liberal | 1925 |
| Mégantic | Eusèbe Roberge | Liberal | 1922 |
| Montmagny | Léo Kemner Laflamme | Liberal | 1925 |
| Mount Royal | Robert Smeaton White | Conservative | 1888, 1925 |
| Nicolet | Joseph-Félix Descoteaux | Liberal | 1923 |
| Pontiac | Frank S. Cahill | Liberal | 1917 |
| Portneuf | Michel-Siméon Delisle | Liberal | 1900 |
| Québec—Montmorency | Henri-Edgar Lavigueur | Liberal | 1917 |
| Quebec East | Ernest Lapointe | Liberal | 1904 |
| Quebec South | Charles Gavan Power | Liberal | 1917 |
| Quebec West | Georges Parent | Liberal | 1904, 1917 |
| Richelieu | Arthur Cardin | Liberal | 1911 |
| Richmond—Wolfe | Edmund William Tobin | Liberal | 1900 |
| Rimouski | Eugène Fiset | Liberal | 1924 |
| St. Ann | James John Edmund Guérin | Liberal | 1925 |
| St. Antoine | Leslie Gordon Bell | Conservative | 1925 |
| St. Denis | Joseph-Arthur Denis | Liberal | 1921 |
| St. Henri | Paul Mercier | Liberal | 1921 |
| St. Hyacinthe—Rouville | René Morin | Liberal | 1921 |
| St. James | Fernand Rinfret | Liberal | 1920 |
| St. Johns—Iberville | Aldéric-Joseph Benoit | Liberal | 1922 |
| St. Lawrence—St. George | Charles Cahan | Conservative | 1925 |
| St. Mary | Hermas Deslauriers | Liberal | 1917 |
| Shefford | Georges Henri Boivin | Liberal | 1911 |
| Sherbrooke | Charles Benjamin Howard | Liberal | 1925 |
| Stanstead | Willis Keith Baldwin | Liberal | 1917 |
| Témiscouata | Jean-François Pouliot | Liberal | 1924 |
| Terrebonne | Jules-Édouard Prévost | Liberal | 1917 |
| Three Rivers—St. Maurice | Arthur Bettez | Liberal | 1925 |
| Vaudreuil—Soulanges | Lawrence Alexander Wilson | Liberal | 1925 |
| Wright | Fizalam-William Perras | Liberal | 1925 |
| Yamaska | Aimé Boucher | Liberal | 1921 |

### Saskatchewan

| Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Assiniboia | Robert McKenzie | Liberal | 1925 |
| Humboldt | Albert Frederick Totzke | Liberal | 1925 |
| Kindersley | Archibald M. Carmichael | Progressive | 1921 |
| Last Mountain | William Russell Fansher | Progressive | 1925 |
| Long Lake | John Frederick Johnston | Progressive | 1917 |
| Long Lake | John Frederick Johnston | Liberal | 1917 |
| Mackenzie | Milton Neil Campbell | Progressive | 1921 |
| Maple Creek | George Spence | Liberal | 1925 |
| Melfort | Malcolm McLean | Liberal | 1925 |
| Melville | William Richard Motherwell | Liberal | 1921 |
| Moose Jaw | John Gordon Ross | Liberal | 1925 |
| North Battleford | Cameron Ross McIntosh | Liberal | 1925 |
| Prince Albert | Charles McDonald (until 15 January 1926 resignation to allow seat for Mackenzie King) | Liberal | 1925 |
| Prince Albert | William Lyon Mackenzie King (by-election of 1926-02-15) | Liberal | 1908, 1919, 1921, 1926 |
| Qu'Appelle | John Millar | Progressive | 1921 |
| Regina | Francis Nicholson Darke (resigned 20 February 1926 to allow seat for Dunning) | Liberal | 1925 |
| Regina | Charles Avery Dunning (by-election of 1926-03-16) | Liberal | 1926 |
| Rosetown | John Evans | Progressive | 1921 |
| Saskatoon | Alexander MacGillivray Young | Liberal | 1925 |
| South Battleford | John Vallance | Liberal | 1925 |
| Swift Current | Charles Edward Bothwell | Liberal | 1925 |
| Weyburn | Edward James Young | Liberal | 1925 |
| Willow Bunch | Thomas F. Donnelly | Liberal | 1925 |
| Yorkton | George Washington McPhee | Liberal | 1925 |

### Yukon

| Riding | Riding | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Yukon | | George Black | Conservative | 1921 |

## By-elections

| By-election | Date | Incumbent | Party | Winner | Party | Cause | Retained |
| Middlesex West | March 29, 1926 | John Campbell Elliott | Liberal | John Campbell Elliott | Liberal | Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Labour | Yes |
| Regina | March 16, 1926 | Francis Nicholson Darke | Liberal | Charles Avery Dunning | Liberal | Resignation to provide a seat for Dunning | Yes |
| Prince Albert | February 15, 1926 | Charles McDonald | Liberal | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Liberal | Resignation to provide a seat for Mackenzie King | Yes |
| Bagot | December 7, 1925 | Joseph Edmond Marcile | Liberal | Georges Dorèze Morin | Liberal | Death | Yes |