# 14th Parliament of Ontario

The 14th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 29, 1914, until September 23, 1919, just prior to the 1919 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Conservative Party led by Sir James P. Whitney.
William Howard Hearst became party leader and Premier after the death of James P. Whitney in September 1914.
David Jamieson served as speaker for the assembly.

## Members of the Assembly

| Riding | Member | Party | First elected / previously elected |
| Addington | William David Black | Conservative | 1911 |
| Algoma | Albert Grigg | Conservative | 1908 |
| Algoma | John Morrow Robb (1915) | Conservative | 1915 |
| Brant | Thomas Scott Davidson | Liberal | 1914 |
| Brant South | Joseph Henry Ham | Liberal | 1914 |
| Brockville | Albert Edward Donovan | Conservative | 1907 |
| Bruce North | William MacDonald | Liberal | 1911 |
| Bruce South | Wellington David Cargill | Conservative | 1914 |
| Bruce West | Charles Martin Bowman | Liberal | 1898 |
| Carleton | Robert Herbert McElroy | Conservative | 1907 |
| Cochrane | Malcolm Lang | Liberal | 1914 |
| Dufferin | Charles Robert McKeown | Conservative | 1907 |
| Dundas | James Pliny Whitney | Conservative | 1888 |
| Dundas | Irwin Foster Hilliard (1914) | Conservative | 1914 |
| Durham East | Josiah Johnston Preston | Conservative | 1902 |
| Durham West | John Henry Devitt | Conservative | 1905 |
| Elgin East | Charles Andrew Brower | Conservative | 1894 |
| Elgin West | Findlay George MacDiarmid | Conservative | 1898, 1900 |
| Essex North | Severin Ducharme | Liberal | 1914 |
| Essex South | Lambert Peter Wigle | Liberal | 1914 |
| Fort William | Charles William Jarvis | Conservative | 1911 |
| Frontenac | Anthony McGuin Rankin | Conservative | 1911 |
| Glengarry | Hugh Munro | Liberal | 1911 |
| Grenville | George Howard Ferguson | Conservative | 1905 |
| Grey Centre | Isaac Benson Lucas | Conservative | 1898 |
| Grey North | Colin Stewart Cameron | Conservative | 1913 |
| Grey South | David Jamieson | Conservative | 1898 |
| Haldimand | William Jaques | Conservative | 1914 |
| Halton | Alfred Westland Nixon | Conservative | 1905 |
| Hamilton East | Allan Studholme | Labour | 1906 |
| Hamilton West | John Strathearn Hendrie | Conservative | 1902 |
| Hamilton West | John Allan (1914) | Conservative | 1914 |
| Hastings East | Sandy Grant | Conservative | 1911 |
| Hastings North | John Robert Cooke | Conservative | 1911 |
| Hastings West | John Wesley Johnson | Conservative | 1908 |
| Huron Centre | William Proudfoot | Liberal | 1908 |
| Huron North | Armstrong Musgrove | Conservative | 1908 |
| Huron North | William Henry Fraser (1918) | Liberal | 1918 |
| Huron South | Henry Eilber | Conservative | 1898 |
| Kenora | Harold Arthur Clement Machin | Conservative | 1908 |
| Kent East | Walter Renwick Ferguson | Liberal | 1911 |
| Kent West | George William Sulman | Conservative | 1908 |
| Kingston | Arthur Edward Ross | Conservative | 1911 |
| Lambton East | John Burton Martyn | Conservative | 1914 |
| Lambton West | William John Hanna | Conservative | 1902 |
| Lanark North | Richard Franklin Preston | Conservative | 1894, 1905 |
| Lanark South | Francis William Hall | Conservative | 1914 |
| Leeds | John Robertson Dargavel | Conservative | 1905 |
| Lennox | Thomas George Carscallen | Conservative | 1902 |
| Lennox | Reginald Amherst Fowler (1918) | Conservative | 1918 |
| Lincoln | Thomas A. Marshall | Liberal | 1898 |
| London | Adam Beck | Conservative | 1902 |
| Manitoulin | Robert Roswell Gamey | Conservative | 1902 |
| Manitoulin | Beniah Bowman (1918) | United Farmers | 1918 |
| Middlesex East | John McFarlan | Conservative | 1913 |
| Middlesex North | John Grieve | Liberal | 1914 |
| Middlesex West | John Campbell Elliott | Liberal | 1908 |
| Muskoka | Samuel Henry Armstrong | Conservative | 1912 |
| Muskoka | George Walter Ecclestone (1916) | Conservative | 1916 |
| Niagara Falls | George Musgrove | Conservative | 1914 |
| Nipissing | Henri Morel | Conservative | 1908 |
| Norfolk North | Thomas Robert Atkinson | Liberal | 1905, 1911 |
| Norfolk South | Arthur Clarence Pratt | Conservative | 1905 |
| Northumberland East | Samuel Greerson Nesbitt | Conservative | 1908 |
| Northumberland West | Samuel Clarke | Liberal | 1898 |
| Ontario North | William Henry Hoyle | Conservative | 1898 |
| Ontario North | John Wesley Widdifield (1919) | United Farmers | 1919 |
| Ontario South | Charles Calder | Conservative | 1898, 1905, 1914 |
| Ottawa East | Joseph Albert Pinard | Liberal | 1914 |
| Ottawa West | George Charles Hurdman | Liberal | 1914 |
| Oxford North | Newton Wesley Rowell | Liberal | 1911 |
| Oxford North | John Alexander Calder (1918) | Liberal | 1918 |
| Oxford South | Victor Albert Sinclair | Conservative | 1914 |
| Parkdale | William Herbert Price | Conservative | 1914 |
| Parry Sound | Joseph Edgar | Conservative | 1914 |
| Peel | James Robinson Fallis | Conservative | 1913 |
| Peel | William James Lowe (1916) | Liberal | 1916 |
| Perth North | James Torrance | Conservative | 1905 |
| Perth North | Francis Wellington Hay (1916) | Liberal | 1916 |
| Perth South | John Benneweis | Conservative | 1911 |
| Peterborough East | James Thompson | Conservative | 1908 |
| Peterborough West | George Alexander Gillespie | Liberal | 1914 |
| Port Arthur | Donald McDonald Hogarth | Conservative | 1911 |
| Prescott | Gustave Évanturel | Independent-Liberal | 1911 |
| Prince Edward | Nelson Parliament | Liberal | 1914 |
| Rainy River | James Arthur Mathieu | Conservative | 1911 |
| Renfrew North | Edward Arunah Dunlop | Conservative | 1903, 1911 |
| Renfrew South | Thomas William McGarry | Conservative | 1905 |
| Riverdale | Joseph Russell | Conservative | 1914 |
| Russell | Damase Racine | Liberal | 1905 |
| Sault Ste. Marie | William Howard Hearst | Conservative | 1908 |
| Simcoe Centre | Alfred Burke Thompson | Conservative | 1898, 1905 |
| Simcoe East | James Irwin Hartt | Conservative | 1911 |
| Simcoe South | Alexander Ferguson | Conservative | 1906 |
| Simcoe West | James Stoddart Duff | Conservative | 1898 |
| Simcoe West | William Torrance Allen (1917) | Conservative | 1917 |
| St. Catharines | Elisha Jessop | Conservative | 1898 |
| St. Catharines | Frederick Raymond Parnell (1919) | Conservative | 1919 |
| Stormont | Robert Austin Shearer | Conservative | 1914 |
| Sturgeon Falls | Zotique Mageau | Liberal | 1911 |
| Sudbury | Charles McCrea | Conservative | 1911 |
| Timiskaming | Thomas Magladery | Conservative | 1914 |
| Toronto Northeast - A | Robert Allan Pyne | Conservative | 1898 |
| Toronto Northeast - A | Henry John Cody (1918) | Conservative | 1918 |
| Toronto Northeast - B | Mark Howard Irish | Conservative | 1914 |
| Toronto Northwest - A | Thomas Crawford | Conservative | 1894 |
| Toronto Northwest - B | William David McPherson | Conservative | 1908 |
| Toronto Southeast - A | Edward William James Owens | Conservative | 1911 |
| Toronto Southeast - B | Thomas Hook | Conservative | 1914 |
| Toronto Southwest - A | James Joseph Foy | Conservative | 1898 |
| Toronto Southwest - A | Herbert Hartley Dewart (1916) | Liberal | 1916 |
| Toronto Southwest - B | George Horace Gooderham | Conservative | 1908 |
| Victoria North | Robert Mercer Mason | Conservative | 1909 |
| Victoria South | John Carew | Conservative | 1914 |
| Waterloo North | Charles Henry Mills | Conservative | 1912 |
| Waterloo South | Zachariah Adam Hall | Conservative | 1914 |
| Welland | Donald Sharpe | Conservative | 1914 |
| Wellington East | Udney Richardson | Liberal | 1911 |
| Wellington South | Samuel Carter | Liberal-Prohibitionist | 1914 |
| Wellington West | William Clarke Chambers | Conservative | 1911 |
| Wentworth North | Arthur Frederick Rykert | Conservative | 1914 |
| Wentworth South | James Thomas Hammill Regan | Conservative | 1911 |
| Windsor | James Craig Tolmie | Liberal | 1914 |
| York East | George Stewart Henry | Conservative | 1913 |
| York North | Thomas Herbert Lennox | Conservative | 1905 |
| York West | Forbes Godfrey | Conservative | 1907 |

## Timeline

14th Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Movement in seats held (1914-1919) :
| Party | Party | 1914 | Gain/(loss) due to | Gain/(loss) due to | Gain/(loss) due to | Gain/(loss) due to | 1919 |
| Party | Party | 1914 | Death in office | Resignation as MPP | Byelection gain | Byelection hold | 1919 |
| | Conservative | 84 | (8) | (5) | | 8 | 79 |
| | Liberal | 24 | | (1) | 3 | 1 | 27 |
| | United Farmers | – | | | 2 | | 2 |
| | Independent Liberal | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| | Labour | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| | Liberal-Temperance | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| Total | Total | 111 | (8) | (6) | 5 | 9 | 111 |
Changes in seats held (1914–1919) :
| Seat | Before | Before | Before | Before | Change | Change | Change |
| Seat | Date | Member | Party | Reason | Date | Member | Party |
| Hamilton West | September 25, 1914 | John Strathearn Hendrie | █ Conservative | Appointed Lieutenant Governor | November 18, 1914 | John Allan | █ Conservative |
| Dundas | September 25, 1914 | James Pliny Whitney | █ Conservative | Died in office | December 7, 1914 | Irwin Foster Hilliard | █ Conservative |
| Algoma | October 7, 1915 | Albert Grigg | █ Conservative | Appointed Deputy Minister | February 24, 1916 | John Morrow Robb | █ Conservative |
| Peel | January 28, 1916 | James Robinson Fallis | █ Conservative | Resigned to contest by-election | February 24, 1916 | William James Lowe | █ Liberal |
| Muskoka | May 15, 1916 | Samuel Henry Armstrong | █ Conservative | Died in office | June 12, 1916 | George Walter Ecclestone | █ Conservative |
| Perth North | June 13, 1916 | James Torrance | █ Conservative | Accepted federal Customs appointment | July 10, 1916 | Francis Wellington Hay | █ Liberal |
| Toronto Southwest - A | June 13, 1916 | James Joseph Foy | █ Conservative | Died in office | August 21, 1916 | Herbert Hartley Dewart | █ Liberal |
| Simcoe West | November 17, 1916 | James Stoddart Duff | █ Conservative | Died in office | January 15, 1917 | William Torrance Allen | █ Conservative |
| Lennox | March 15, 1917 | Thomas George Carscallen | █ Conservative | Died in office | August 29, 1918 | Reginald Amherst Fowler | █ Conservative |
| Manitoulin | March 19, 1917 | Robert Roswell Gamey | █ Conservative | Died in office | October 24, 1918 | Beniah Bowman | █ United Farmers |
| Toronto Northeast - A | May 23, 1918 | Robert Allan Pyne | █ Conservative | Accepted municipal appointment | August 19, 1918 | Henry John Cody | █ Conservative |
| Oxford North | September 6, 1918 | Newton Wesley Rowell | █ Liberal | Entered federal politics | September 23, 1918 | John Alexander Calder | █ Liberal |
| Ontario North | October 27, 1918 | William Henry Hoyle | █ Conservative | Died in office | February 18, 1919 | John Wesley Widdifield | █ United Farmers |
| St. Catharines | October 24, 1918 | Elisha Jessop | █ Conservative | Died in office | February 15, 1919 | Frederick Raymond Parnell | █ Conservative |