# 1st Parliament of Ontario

The 1st Parliament of Ontario was in session from September 3, 1867, until February 25, 1871, just prior to the 1871 general election. This was the first session of the Legislature after Confederation succeeding the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (last session was the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada).
The 1867 general election produced a virtual tie between the Conservative Party led by John Sandfield Macdonald and the Liberal Party led informally by Archibald McKellar. Macdonald ended up securing the Premiership by leading a coalition government with the support of moderate Liberals. His Cabinet, nicknamed the Patent Combination, included two conservatives (John Carling and Matthew Crooks Cameron), a coalition Grit (Edmund Burke Wood) and two old school Baldwinite Reformers (Sandfield Macdonald himself and Stephen Richards). The first ministry would survive the first parliament by less than a year, resigning in December 1871.
In the first several years of Confederation, individuals could be elected to both federal and provincial parliaments and serve as MPs and MPPs at the same time. In the first Parliament of Ontario, provincial cabinet ministers John Sandfield Macdonald, Edmund Burke Wood, and John Carling all sat in both parliaments, as did Edward Blake, Thomas Roberts Ferguson, John Lorn McDougall (after 1869) and Frederick William Cumberland (after 1871). Generally, they represented the same riding, but it was not necessarily so; for example, Edward Blake represented Bruce South in the provincial parliament but Durham West at the federal level.
John Stevenson served as speaker for the assembly.
Below is a list of members of Ontario's first parliament. Bolded names are cabinet ministers; Capitalized names also sat in federal parliament.

## Members

| Riding | Member | Party | First elected | Comments |
| Addington | Edmund John Glyn Hooper | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Algoma | FREDERICK WILLIAM CAMERON | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Bothwell | Archibald McKellar | Liberal | 1867 | Informal Leader of the Opposition, 1867 to c. 1868 |
| Brant | Hugh Finlayson | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Brant South | EDMUND BURKE WOOD | Conservative | 1867 | Treasurer in Sandfield Macdonald ministry |
| Brockville and Elizabethtown | William Fitzsimmons | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Bruce North | Donald Sinclair | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Bruce South | EDWARD BLAKE | Liberal | 1867 | Informal Leader of the Opposition, c. 1868 to 1872 |
| Cardwell | Thomas Swinarton | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Carleton | Robert Lyon | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Cornwall | JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD | Conservative-Liberal coalition | 1867 | Premier and Attorney General in Sandfield Macdonald Ministry |
| Dundas | Simon S. Cook | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Durham East | Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Durham West | John McLeod | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Elgin East | Daniel Luton | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Elgin West | Nicol McColl | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Essex | Solomon Wigle | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Frontenac | Henry Smith | Conservative | 1867 | died September 18, 1868 |
| Frontenac | Delino Dexter Calvin (1868) | Conservative | 1868 | elected October 19, 1868 |
| Glengarry | James Craig | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Grenville South | Mcneil Clarke | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Grey North | Thomas Scott | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Grey South | Abram William Lauder | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Haldimand | Jacob Baxter | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Halton | William Barber | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Hamilton | James Miller Williams | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Hastings East | Henry Corby | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Hastings North | George Henry Boulter | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Hastings West | Ketchum Graham | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Huron North | William Torrance Hays | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Huron South | Robert Gibbons | Conservative | 1867 | unseated December 9, 1868 on appeal of election results |
| Huron South | Isaac Carling (1868) | Liberal | 1868 | elected 1868? |
| Kent | John Smith | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Kingston | Maxwell W. Strange | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Lambton | Timothy Blair Pardee | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Lanark North | Daniel Galbraith | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Lanark South | William McNairn Shaw | Conservative | 1867 | died January 6, 1869 |
| Lanark South | Abraham Code (1869) | Conservative | 1869 | elected February 6, 1869 |
| Leed North and Grenville North | Henry Dolphus Smith | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Leeds South | Benjamin Tett | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Lennox | John Stevenson | Conservative | 1867 | Speaker |
| Lincoln | John Charles Rykert | Conservative | 1867 | |
| London | JOHN CARLING | Conservative | 1867 | Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works in Sandfield Macdonald ministry |
| Middlesex East | James Evans | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Middlesex North | James Sinclair Smith | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Middlesex West | Nathaniel Currie | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Monck | George Secord | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Niagara | Donald Robertson | Conservative | 1867 | resigned December 27, 1867 to allow Stephen Richards an opportunity to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly |
| Niagara | Stephen Richards (1867) | Conservative | 1867 | elected December 11, 1867; Commissioner of Crown Lands in Sandfield Macdonald ministry |
| Norfolk North | James Wilson | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Norfolk South | Simpson McCall | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Northumberland East | John Eyre | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Northumberland West | Alexander Fraser | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Ontario North | Thomas Paxton | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Ontario South | William McGill | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Ottawa | Richard William Scott | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Oxford North | George Perry | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Oxford South | Adam Oliver | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Peel | John Coyne | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Perth North | Andrew Monteith | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Perth South | James Trow | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Peterborough East | George Read | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Peterborough West | John Carnegie | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Prescott | James P. Boyd | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Prince Edward | Absalom Greeley | Conservative | 1867 | resigned December 7, 1870 |
| Prince Edward | William Anderson (1870) | Liberal | 1870 | elected June 30, 1870 |
| Renfrew North | John Supple | Liberal | 1867 | died October 22, 1869 |
| Renfrew North | Thomas Murray (1870) | Conservative | 1869 | elected December 5, 1869 |
| Renfrew South | JOHN LORN MCDOUGALL | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Russell | William Craig | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Simcoe North | William Lount | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Simcoe South | THOMAS ROBERTS FERGUSON | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Stormont | William Colquhoun | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Toronto East | Matthew Crooks Cameron | Conservative | 1867 | Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Sandfield Macdonald ministry |
| Toronto West | John Wallis | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Victoria North | Alexander Peter Cockburn | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Victoria South | Thomas Matchett | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Waterloo North | Moses Springer | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Waterloo South | Isaac Clemens | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Welland | William Beatty | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Wellington Centre | Alexander David Ferrier | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Wellington North | Robert McKim | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Wellington South | Peter Gow | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Wentworth North | Robert Christie | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Wentworth South | William Sexton | Liberal | 1867 | |
| York East | Hugh Powell Crosby | Liberal | 1867 | |
| York North | John McMurrich | Liberal | 1867 | |
| York West | Thomas Grahame | Conservative | 1867 |