# 12th Parliament of Ontario

The 12th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 8, 1908, until November 13, 1911, just prior to the 1911 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Conservative Party led by Sir James P. Whitney.
Thomas Crawford served as speaker for the assembly.

## Members of the Assembly

| Riding | Member | Party | First elected / previously elected | Comments |
| Addington | William James Paul | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Algoma | William Ross Smyth | Conservative | 1902 | |
| Algoma | Albert Grigg (1908) | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Brant | John Henry Fisher | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Brant South | Willoughby Staples Brewster | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Brockville | Albert Edward Donovan | Conservative | 1907 | |
| Bruce Centre | Hugh Clark | Conservative | 1902 | |
| Bruce North | Charles Martin Bowman | Liberal | 1898 | |
| Bruce South | Reuben Eldridge Truax | Liberal | 1894, 1908 | |
| Carleton | Robert Herbert McElroy | Conservative | 1907 | |
| Dufferin | Charles Robert McKeown | Conservative | 1907 | |
| Dundas | James Pliny Whitney | Conservative | 1888 | Premier in Whitney ministry |
| 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 | Joseph Octave Reaume | Conservative | 1902 | Minister of Public Works in Whitney ministry |
| Essex South | Charles N. Anderson | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Fort William | Thomas Smellie | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Frontenac | John S. Gallagher | Conservative | 1898 | |
| Glengarry | Donald Robert McDonald | Conservative | 1898, 1908 | |
| Grenville | George Howard Ferguson | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Grey Centre | Isaac Benson Lucas | Conservative | 1898 | |
| Grey North | Alexander Grant MacKay | Liberal | 1902 | Leader of the Opposition |
| Grey South | David Jamieson | Conservative | 1898 | |
| Haldimand | Jacob Kohler | Liberal | 1905 | |
| Halton | Alfred Westland Nixon | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Hamilton East | Allan Studholme | Labour | 1906 | |
| Hamilton West | John Strathearn Hendrie | Conservative | 1902 | |
| Hastings East | Amos Augustus Richardson | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Hastings North | Josiah Williams Pearce | Conservative | 1902 | |
| Hastings West | John Wesley Johnson | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Huron Centre | William Proudfoot | Liberal | 1908 | |
| Huron North | Armstrong Musgrove | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Huron South | Henry Eilber | Conservative | 1898 | |
| Kenora | Harold Arthur Clement Machin | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Kent East | Philip Henry Bowyer | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Kent West | George William Sulman | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Kingston | William Folger Nickle | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Lambton East | Robert John McCormick | Liberal | 1908 | |
| Lambton West | William John Hanna | Conservative | 1902 | Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Whitney ministry |
| Lanark North | Richard Franklin Preston | Conservative | 1894, 1905 | |
| Lanark South | Arthur James Matheson | Conservative | 1894 | Treasurer in Whitney ministry |
| Leeds | John Robertson Dargavel | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Lennox | Thomas George Carscallen | Conservative | 1902 | |
| Lincoln | Elisha Jessop | Conservative | 1898 | |
| London | Adam Beck | Conservative | 1902 | |
| Manitoulin | Robert Roswell Gamey | Conservative | 1902 | |
| Middlesex East | George Wesley Neely | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Middlesex North | Duncan Campbell Ross | Liberal | 1907 | |
| Middlesex North | James William Doyle (1909) | Conservative | 1909 | |
| Middlesex West | John Campbell Elliott | Liberal | 1908 | |
| Monck | James Alway Ross | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Muskoka | Arthur Arnold Mahaffy | Conservative | 1903 | |
| Nipissing | Henri Morel | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Norfolk North | Hugh Paterson Innes | Conservative | 1908 | |
| 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 South | Charles Calder | Conservative | 1898, 1905 | |
| Ottawa East | Donald Joseph McDougal | Liberal | 1905 | |
| Ottawa West | Alfred Ernest Fripp | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Oxford North | Andrew MacKay | Liberal | 1908 | |
| Oxford South | Thomas Richard Mayberry | Liberal | 1908 | |
| Parry Sound | John Galna | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Peel | Samuel Charters | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Perth North | James Torrance | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Perth South | Valentine Stock | Liberal | 1902, 1908 | |
| Peterborough East | James Thompson | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Peterborough West | Thomas Evans Bradburn | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Port Arthur | John James Carrick | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Prescott | George Hector Pharand | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Prince Edward | Robert Addison Norman | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Rainy River | William Alfred Preston | Conservative | 1907 | |
| Renfrew North | Norman Reid | Liberal | 1908 | |
| Renfrew South | Thomas William McGarry | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Russell | Damase Racine | Liberal | 1905 | |
| Sault Ste. Marie | William Howard Hearst | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Simcoe Centre | Alfred Burke Thompson | Conservative | 1898, 1905 | |
| Simcoe East | James Brockett Tudhope | Liberal | 1902 | |
| Simcoe South | Alexander Ferguson | Conservative | 1906 | |
| Simcoe West | James Stoddart Duff | Conservative | 1898 | Ministry of Agriculture in Whitney ministry |
| Stormont | William John McCart | Liberal | 1902, 1908 | |
| Sturgeon Falls | Azaire Adulphe Aubin | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Sudbury | Francis Cochrane | Conservative | 1905 | Minister of Lands, Mines and Forests in Whitney ministry |
| Timiskaming | Robert Taylor Shillington | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Toronto East - A | Robert Allan Pyne | Conservative | 1898 | |
| Toronto East - B | Thomas Richard Whitesides | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Toronto North - A | William Kirkpatrick McNaught | Conservative | 1906 | |
| Toronto North - B | John Shaw | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Toronto South - A | J.J. Foy | Conservative | 1898 | Attorney General in Whitney ministry |
| Toronto South - B | George Horace Gooderham | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Toronto West - A | Thomas Crawford | Conservative | 1894 | Speaker |
| Toronto West - B | William David McPherson | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Victoria East | John Hilliard Carnegie | Conservative | 1894 | |
| Victoria East | Robert Mercer Mason (1909) | Conservative | 1909 | |
| Victoria West | Samuel John Fox | Conservative | 1898 | |
| Waterloo North | Henry George Lackner | Conservative | 1898, 1902 | |
| Waterloo South | George Pattinson | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Welland | Evan Eugene Fraser | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Wellington East | James J. Craig | Conservative | 1905 | |
| Wellington South | Joseph Patrick Downey | Conservative | 1902 | |
| Wellington South | John Ransom Howitt (1910) | Conservative | 1910 | |
| Wellington West | James McEwing | Liberal | 1908 | |
| Wentworth North | Gordon Crooks Wilson | Conservative | 1908 | |
| Wentworth South | Daniel Reed | Liberal | 1905 | |
| York East | Alexander McCowan | Conservative | 1905 | |
| York North | Thomas Herbert Lennox | Conservative | 1905 | |
| York West | Forbes Godfrey | Conservative | 1907 |