# 18th Canadian Parliament

The 18th Canadian Parliament was in session from 6 February 1936, until 25 January 1940. The membership was set by the 1935 federal election on 14 October 1935, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1940 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 Conservative Party, led first by Richard Bedford Bennett, and later by Robert Manion.
The Speaker was Pierre-François Casgrain. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
The Social Credit Party led by J. H. Blackmore made their first federal appearance in this parliament. It would be an important third party until 1980. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by J.S. Woodsworth also made their first appearance. It, and its successor party, the New Democratic Party, would become a major source of policies that would change the fabric of Canada.
There were six sessions of the 18th Parliament, though the last two were extremely short:
| Session | Start | End |
| 1st | 6 February 1936 | 23 June 1936 |
| 2nd | 14 January 1937 | 10 April 1937 |
| 3rd | 27 January 1938 | 1 July 1938 |
| 4th | 12 January 1939 | 3 June 1939 |
| 5th | 7 September 1939 | 13 September 1939 |
| 6th | 25 January 1940 | 25 January 1940 |

## List of members

Following is a full list of members of the eighteenth 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 | Percy John Rowe | Social Credit |
| Battle River | Robert Fair | Social Credit |
| Bow River | Charles Edward Johnston | Social Credit |
| Calgary East | John Landeryou | Social Credit |
| Calgary West | Richard Bedford Bennett (resigned 28 January 1939) | Conservative |
| Calgary West | Douglas Cunnington (by-election of 18 September 1939) | Conservative |
| Camrose | James Alexander Marshall | Social Credit |
| Edmonton East | William Samuel Hall (died 26 January 1938) | Social Credit |
| Edmonton East | Orvis A. Kennedy (by-election of 21 March 1938) | Social Credit |
| Edmonton West | James Angus MacKinnon | Liberal |
| Jasper—Edson | Walter Frederick Kuhl | Social Credit |
| Lethbridge | John Horne Blackmore | Social Credit |
| Macleod | Ernest George Hansell | Social Credit |
| Medicine Hat | Archibald Hugh Mitchell | Social Credit |
| Peace River | René-Antoine Pelletier | Social Credit |
| Red Deer | Eric Joseph Poole | Social Credit |
| Vegreville | William Hayhurst | 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 | Harry James Barber | Conservative |
| Kamloops | Thomas O'Neill | Liberal |
| Kootenay East | Henry Herbert Stevens | Reconstruction |
| Kootenay East | Henry Herbert Stevens | Conservative |
| Kootenay West | William Esling | Conservative |
| Nanaimo | James Samuel Taylor | C.C.F. |
| Nanaimo | James Samuel Taylor | Independent |
| New Westminster | Thomas Reid | Liberal |
| Skeena | Olof Hanson | Liberal |
| Vancouver—Burrard | Gerry McGeer | Liberal |
| Vancouver Centre | Ian Alistair Mackenzie | Liberal |
| Vancouver East | Angus MacInnis | C.C.F. |
| Vancouver North | Charles Grant MacNeil | C.C.F. |
| Vancouver South | Howard Charles Green | Conservative |
| Victoria | D'Arcy Plunkett (died 3 May 1936) | Conservative |
| Victoria | Simon Fraser Tolmie (by-election of 8 June 1936, died 13 October 1937) | Conservative |
| Victoria | Robert Mayhew (by-election of 29 November 1937) | Liberal |
| Yale | Grote Stirling | Conservative |

### Manitoba

| Electoral district | Name | Party |
| Brandon | David Wilson Beaubier (died 1 September 1938) | Conservative |
| Brandon | James Ewen Matthews (by-election of 14 November 1938) | Liberal |
| Churchill | Thomas Crerar | Liberal |
| Dauphin | William John Ward | Liberal |
| Lisgar | Howard 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 | Arthur-Lucien Beaubien | Liberal |
| Selkirk | Joseph Thorarinn Thorson | Liberal-Progressive |
| Souris | George William McDonald | Liberal-Progressive |
| Springfield | John Mouat Turner | Liberal |
| St. Boniface | John Power Howden | Liberal |
| Winnipeg North | Abraham Albert Heaps | C.C.F. |
| Winnipeg North Centre | James Shaver Woodsworth | C.C.F. |
| Winnipeg South | Leslie Mutch | Liberal |
| Winnipeg South Centre | Ralph Maybank | Liberal |

### New Brunswick

| Electoral district | Name | Party |
| Charlotte | Burton Hill | Liberal |
| Gloucester | Peter Veniot (died 6 July 1936) | Liberal |
| Gloucester | Clarence Joseph Veniot (by-election of 17 August 1936) | Liberal |
| Kent | Louis-Prudent-Alexandre Robichaud | Liberal |
| Northumberland | John Patrick Barry | Liberal |
| Restigouche—Madawaska | Joseph-Enoil Michaud | Liberal |
| Royal | Alfred Johnson Brooks | Conservative |
| St. John—Albert | William Ryan (died 1 April 1938) | Liberal |
| St. John—Albert | Allan McAvity (by-election of 21 February 1938) | Liberal |
| Victoria—Carleton | Jack Patterson | Liberal |
| Westmorland | Henry Read Emmerson | Liberal |
| York—Sunbury | William George Clark | Liberal |

### Nova Scotia

| Electoral district | Name | Party |
| Antigonish—Guysborough | William Duff | Liberal |
| Antigonish—Guysborough | J. Ralph Kirk (by-election of 16 March 1936) | Liberal |
| Cape Breton North and Victoria | Daniel Alexander Cameron (died 4 September 1937) | Liberal |
| Cape Breton North and Victoria | Matthew MacLean (by-election of 18 October 1937) | Liberal |
| Cape Breton South | David James Hartigan | Liberal |
| Colchester—Hants | Gordon Purdy | Liberal |
| Cumberland | Kenneth Judson Cochrane | Liberal |
| Digby—Annapolis—Kings | James Lorimer Ilsley | Liberal |
| Halifax* | Robert Emmett Finn | Liberal |
| Halifax* | Gordon Benjamin Isnor | Liberal |
| Inverness—Richmond | Donald MacLennan | Liberal |
| Pictou | Henry Byron McCulloch | Liberal |
| Queens—Lunenburg | John James Kinley | Liberal |
| Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare | Vincent Pottier | Liberal |

### Ontario

| Electoral district | Name | Party |
| Algoma East | Thomas Farquhar | Liberal |
| Algoma West | Henry Sidney Hamilton | Liberal |
| Brantford City | William Ross Macdonald | Liberal |
| Brant | George Wood | Liberal |
| Broadview | Thomas Langton Church | Conservative |
| Bruce | William Rae Tomlinson | Liberal |
| Carleton | Alonzo Hyndman | Conservative |
| Cochrane | Joseph-Arthur Bradette | Liberal |
| Danforth | Joseph Henry Harris | Conservative |
| Davenport | John Ritchie MacNicol | Conservative |
| Dufferin—Simcoe | William Earl Rowe (resigned 28 September 1937 to campaign for Ontario provincial election) | Conservative |
| Dufferin—Simcoe | William Earl Rowe (by-election of 8 November 1937) | Conservative |
| Durham | Frank Rickard | Liberal |
| Eglinton | Richard Langton Baker | Conservative |
| Elgin | Wilson Mills | Liberal |
| Essex East | Paul Martin Sr. | Liberal |
| Essex South | Murray Clark | Liberal |
| Essex West | Norman Alexander McLarty | Liberal |
| Fort William | Dan McIvor | Liberal |
| Frontenac—Addington | Colin Campbell (resigned 28 September 1937 to campaign for Ontario provincial election) | Liberal |
| Frontenac—Addington | Angus Neil McCallum (by-election of 1 November 1937) | Liberal |
| Glengarry | John David MacRae | Liberal |
| Greenwood | Denton Massey | Conservative |
| Grenville—Dundas | Arza Clair Casselman | Conservative |
| Grey—Bruce | Agnes Macphail | United Farmers of Ontario-Labour |
| Grey North | William Pattison Telford, Jr. | Liberal |
| Haldimand | Mark Senn | Conservative |
| Halton | Hughes Cleaver | Liberal |
| Hamilton East | Albert A. Brown | Conservative |
| Hamilton West | Herbert Earl Wilton (died 1 February 1937) | Conservative |
| Hamilton West | John Allmond Marsh (by-election of 22 March 1937) | Conservative |
| Hastings—Peterborough | Rork Scott Ferguson | Liberal |
| Hastings South | John Charles Alexander Cameron | Liberal |
| High Park | Alexander James Anderson | Conservative |
| Huron North | Robert Deachman | Liberal |
| Huron—Perth | William Henry Golding | Liberal |
| Kenora—Rainy River | Hugh McKinnon | Liberal |
| Kent | James Rutherford (died 27 February 1939) | Liberal |
| Kent | Arthur Lisle Thompson (by-election of 11 December 1939) | Liberal |
| Kingston City | Norman McLeod Rogers | Liberal |
| Lambton—Kent | Hugh MacKenzie | Liberal |
| Lambton West | Ross Gray | Liberal |
| Lanark | Thomas Alfred Thompson | Conservative |
| Leeds | Hugh Alexander Stewart | Conservative |
| Lincoln | Norman Lockhart | Conservative |
| London | Frederick Cronyn Betts (died 7 May 1938) | Conservative |
| London | Robert James Manion (by-election of 14 November 1938) | Conservative |
| Middlesex East | Duncan Graham Ross | Liberal |
| Middlesex West | John Campbell Elliott | Liberal |
| Muskoka—Ontario | Stephen Furniss | Liberal |
| Nipissing | Raoul Hurtubise | Liberal |
| Norfolk | William Horace Taylor | Liberal |
| Northumberland | William Alexander Fraser | Liberal |
| Ontario | William Henry Moore | Liberal |
| Ottawa East | Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier (until judicial appointment) | Liberal |
| Ottawa East | Joseph Albert Pinard (by-election of 26 October 1936) | Liberal |
| Ottawa West | T. Franklin Ahearn | Liberal |
| Oxford | Almon Rennie | Liberal |
| Parkdale | David Spence | Conservative |
| Parry Sound | Arthur Slaght | Liberal |
| Peel | Gordon Graydon | Conservative |
| Perth | Fred Sanderson | Liberal |
| Peterborough West | Joseph James Duffus | Liberal |
| Port Arthur | Clarence Decatur Howe | Liberal |
| Prescott | Élie-Oscar Bertrand | Liberal |
| Prince Edward—Lennox | George Tustin | Conservative |
| Renfrew North | Matthew McKay (died in office) | Liberal |
| Renfrew North | Ralph Warren (by-election of 5 April 1937) | Liberal |
| Renfrew South | James Joseph McCann | Liberal |
| Rosedale | Harry Gladstone Clarke | Conservative |
| Russell | Alfred Goulet | Liberal |
| St. Paul's | Douglas Ross | Conservative |
| Simcoe East | George McLean | Liberal |
| Simcoe North | Duncan Fletcher McCuaig | Liberal |
| Spadina | Samuel Factor | Liberal |
| Stormont | Lionel Chevrier | Liberal |
| Timiskaming | Walter Little | Liberal |
| Trinity | Hugh Plaxton | Liberal |
| Victoria | Bruce McNevin | Liberal |
| Waterloo North | William Daum Euler | Liberal |
| Waterloo South | Alexander Edwards (died 3 June 1938) | Conservative |
| Waterloo South | Karl Kenneth Homuth (by-election of 14 November 1938) | Conservative |
| Welland | Arthur Damude | Liberal |
| Wellington North | John Knox Blair | Liberal |
| Wellington South | Robert Gladstone | Liberal |
| Wentworth | Frank Lennard | Conservative |
| York East | Robert Henry McGregor | Conservative |
| York North | William Pate Mulock | Liberal |
| York South | Earl Lawson | Conservative |
| York West | John Everett Lyle Streight | Liberal |

### Prince Edward Island

| Electoral district | Name | Party |
| King's | Thomas Vincent Grant | Liberal |
| Prince | Alfred Edgar MacLean (died 28 October 1939) | Liberal |
| Prince | James Ralston (by-election of 2 January 1940) | Liberal |
| Queen's* | James Larabee (until 18 December 1935 fisheries appointment) | Liberal |
| Queen's* | Peter Sinclair | Liberal |
| Queen's* | Charles Avery Dunning (by-election of 30 December 1935) | Liberal |

### Quebec

| Electoral district | Name | Party |
| Argenteuil | George Halsey Perley (died in office 4 January 1938) | Conservative |
| Argenteuil | Georges Héon (by-election of 28 February 1938) | Independent Conservative |
| Beauce | Édouard Lacroix | Liberal |
| Beauharnois—Laprairie | Maxime Raymond | Liberal |
| Bellechasse | Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger | Liberal |
| Berthier—Maskinongé | J.-Émile Ferron | Liberal |
| Bonaventure | Charles Marcil (died 29 January 1937) | Liberal |
| Bonaventure | Pierre-Émile Côté (by-election of 22 March 1937) | Liberal |
| Brome—Missisquoi | Louis Gosselin | Liberal |
| Cartier | Samuel William Jacobs (died 21 August 1938) | Liberal |
| Cartier | Peter Bercovitch (by-election of 7 November 1938) | Liberal |
| Chambly—Rouville | Vincent Dupuis | Liberal |
| Champlain | Hervé-Edgar Brunelle | Liberal |
| Chapleau | François Blais | Independent Liberal |
| Charlevoix—Saguenay | Pierre-François Casgrain | Liberal |
| Chicoutimi | Alfred Dubuc | Liberal |
| Châteauguay—Huntingdon | Donald Elmer Black | Liberal |
| Compton | Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette | Liberal |
| Dorchester | Léonard Tremblay | Liberal |
| Drummond—Arthabaska | Wilfrid Girouard | Liberal |
| Gaspé | Maurice Brasset | Liberal |
| Hochelaga | Édouard-Charles St-Père | Liberal |
| Hull | Alphonse Fournier | Liberal |
| Jacques Cartier | Vital Mallette (died 17 April 1939) | Liberal |
| Jacques Cartier | Elphège Marier (by-election of 18 December 1939) | Liberal |
| Joliette—L'Assomption—Montcalm | Charles-Édouard Ferland | Liberal |
| Kamouraska | Joseph Georges Bouchard | Liberal |
| Labelle | Maurice Lalonde (politician) | Liberal |
| Lake St-John—Roberval | Armand Sylvestre | Liberal |
| Laurier | Ernest Bertrand | Liberal |
| Laval—Two Mountains | Liguori Lacombe | Liberal |
| Lévis | Joseph-Étienne Dussault | Liberal |
| Lotbinière | Joseph-Achille Verville (died 20 November 1937) | Liberal |
| Lotbinière | Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (by-election of 27 December 1937) | Liberal |
| Maisonneuve—Rosemont | Sarto Fournier | Liberal |
| Matapédia—Matane | Arthur-Joseph Lapointe | Liberal |
| Mégantic—Frontenac | Eusèbe Roberge | Liberal |
| Mercier | Joseph Jean | Liberal |
| Montmagny—L'Islet | Fernand Fafard | Liberal |
| Mount Royal | William Allen Walsh | Conservative |
| Nicolet—Yamaska | Lucien Dubois | Liberal |
| Outremont | Thomas Vien | Liberal |
| Pontiac | Wallace McDonald | Liberal |
| Portneuf | Lucien Cannon (until 15 January 1936 judicial appointment) | Liberal |
| Portneuf | Pierre Gauthier (by-election of 27 January 1936) | Liberal |
| Québec—Montmorency | Wilfrid Lacroix | Liberal |
| Quebec East | Ernest Lapointe | Liberal |
| Quebec South | Charles Gavan Power | Liberal |
| Quebec West and South | Charles Parent | Liberal |
| Richelieu—Verchères | Arthur Cardin | Liberal |
| Richmond—Wolfe | James Patrick Mullins | Liberal |
| Rimouski | Eugène Fiset | Liberal |
| St. Ann | William James Hushion | Liberal |
| St. Antoine—Westmount | Robert Smeaton White | Conservative |
| St. Denis | Azellus Denis | Liberal |
| St. Henry | Paul Mercier (until 30 November 1937 judicial appointment) | Liberal |
| St. Henry | Joseph-Arsène Bonnier (by-election of 17 January 1938) | Liberal |
| St. Hyacinthe—Bagot | Adélard Fontaine | Liberal |
| St. James | Fernand Rinfret (died 12 July 1939) | Liberal |
| St. James | Eugène Durocher (by-election of 18 December 1939) | Liberal |
| St. Johns—Iberville—Napierville | Martial Rhéaume | Liberal |
| St. Lawrence—St. George | Charles Cahan | Conservative |
| St. Mary | Hermas Deslauriers | Liberal |
| St-Maurice—Laflèche | Joseph-Alphida Crête | Liberal |
| Shefford | Joseph-Hermas Leclerc | Liberal |
| Sherbrooke | Charles Benjamin Howard | Liberal |
| Stanstead | Robert Davidson | Liberal |
| Témiscouata | Jean-François Pouliot | Liberal |
| Terrebonne | Louis-Étienne Parent | Liberal |
| Trois-Rivières | Wilfrid Gariépy | Liberal |
| Vaudreuil—Soulanges | Joseph Thauvette | Liberal |
| Verdun | Jules Wermenlinger | Conservative |
| Wright | Fizalam-William Perras (died 28 June 1936) | Liberal |
| Wright | Rodolphe Leduc (by-election of 3 August 1936) | Liberal |

### Saskatchewan

| Electoral district | Name | Party |
| Assiniboia | Robert McKenzie (until 9 December 1935 Canadian Farm Loan Board appointment) | Liberal |
| Assiniboia | James Garfield Gardiner (by-election of 6 January 1936) | Liberal |
| Humboldt | Harry Raymond Fleming | Liberal |
| Kindersley | Otto Buchanan Elliott | Social Credit |
| Lake Centre | John Frederick Johnston | Liberal |
| Mackenzie | John Angus MacMillan | Liberal |
| Maple Creek | Charles Evans | Liberal |
| Melfort | Malcolm McLean | Liberal |
| Melville | William Richard Motherwell | Liberal |
| Moose Jaw | J. Gordon Ross | Liberal |
| North Battleford | Cameron Ross McIntosh | Liberal |
| Prince Albert | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Liberal |
| Qu'Appelle | Ernest Perley | Conservative |
| Regina City | Donald McNiven | Liberal |
| Rosetown—Biggar | Major James Coldwell | C.C.F. |
| Rosthern | Walter Tucker | Liberal |
| Saskatoon City | Alexander MacGillivray Young (died 9 July 1939) | Liberal |
| Saskatoon City | Walter George Brown (by-election of 18 December 1939) | United Reform |
| Swift Current | Charles Edward Bothwell | Liberal |
| The Battlefords | Joseph Needham | Social Credit |
| Weyburn | Tommy Douglas | C.C.F. |
| Wood Mountain | Thomas Donnelly | Liberal |
| Yorkton | George Washington McPhee | Liberal |

### Yukon

| Electoral district | Electoral district | Name | Party |
| Yukon | | Martha Black | Independent Conservative |

## By-elections

| By-election | Date | Incumbent | Party | Winner | Party | Cause | Retained |
| Prince | January 2, 1940 | Alfred Edgar MacLean | Liberal | James Layton Ralston | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Saskatoon City | December 18, 1939 | Alexander MacGillivray Young | Liberal | Walter George Brown | United Reform Movement | Death | No |
| St. James | December 18, 1939 | Fernand Rinfret | Liberal | Eugène Durocher | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Jacques Cartier | December 18, 1939 | Vital Mallette | Liberal | Elphège Marier | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Kent | December 11, 1939 | James Rutherford | Liberal | Arthur Lisle Thompson | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Calgary West | September 18, 1939 | R. B. Bennett | Conservative | Douglas Cunnington | Conservative | Resignation | Yes |
| Brandon | November 14, 1938 | David Wilson Beaubier | Conservative | James Ewen Matthews | Liberal | Death | No |
| London | November 14, 1938 | Frederick Cronyn Betts | Conservative | Robert James Manion | Conservative | Death | Yes |
| Waterloo South | November 14, 1938 | Alexander Edwards | Conservative | Karl Homuth | Conservative | Death | Yes |
| Cartier | November 7, 1938 | Samuel William Jacobs | Liberal | Peter Bercovitch | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Edmonton East | March 21, 1938 | William Samuel Hall | Social Credit | Orvis A. Kennedy | Social Credit | Death | Yes |
| Argenteuil | February 28, 1938 | George H. Perley | Conservative | Georges Héon | Independent Conservative | Death | No |
| St. John—Albert | February 21, 1938 | William Ryan | Liberal | Allan McAvity | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| St. Henry | January 17, 1938 | Paul Mercier | Liberal | Joseph Arsène Bonnier | Liberal | Appointed a Circuit Court Judge of Montreal | Yes |
| Lotbinière | December 27, 1937 | Joseph-Achille Verville | Liberal | Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Victoria | November 29, 1937 | Simon Fraser Tolmie | Conservative | Robert Mayhew | Liberal | Death | No |
| Dufferin—Simcoe | November 8, 1937 | William Earl Rowe | Conservative | William Earl Rowe | Conservative | Resignation | Yes |
| Frontenac—Addington | November 1, 1937 | Colin Campbell | Liberal | Angus Neil McCallum | Liberal | Resignation | Yes |
| Cape Breton North and Victoria | October 18, 1937 | Daniel Alexander Cameron | Liberal | Matthew Maclean | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Renfrew North | April 5, 1937 | Matthew McKay | Liberal | Ralph Warren | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Hamilton West | March 22, 1937 | Herbert Earl Wilton | Conservative | John Allmond Marsh | Conservative | Death | Yes |
| Bonaventure | March 22, 1937 | Charles Marcil | Liberal | Pierre-Emile Cote | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Ottawa East | October 26, 1936 | Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier | Liberal | Joseph Albert Pinard | Liberal | Appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of Ontario | Yes |
| Gloucester | August 17, 1936 | Peter Veniot | Liberal | Clarence Joseph Veniot | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Wright | August 3, 1936 | Fizalam-William Perras | Liberal | Rodolphe Leduc | Liberal | Death | Yes |
| Victoria | June 8, 1936 | D'Arcy Plunkett | Conservative | Simon Tolmie | Conservative | Death | Yes |
| Antigonish—Guysborough | March 16, 1936 | William Duff | Liberal | J. Ralph Kirk | Liberal | Called to the Senate | Yes |
| Portneuf | January 27, 1936 | Lucien Cannon | Liberal | Pierre Gauthier | Liberal | Appointed a Superior Court Judge of Quebec | Yes |
| Assiniboia | January 6, 1936 | Robert McKenzie | Liberal | James Garfield Gardiner | Liberal | Resignation to provide a seat for Gardiner | Yes |
| Queen's | December 30, 1935 | J. James Larabee | Liberal | Charles Avery Dunning | Liberal | Appointed a Fisheries Protection Officer | Yes |