# List of members of the Parliament of Canada who died in office (1867–1899)

The following is a list of members of the Canadian Parliament who died while they were serving their terms from Confederation in 1867 until 1899

## Senate

| Member | Party | Province/Division | Date of death | Age at death (years) | Cause |
| Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair | Liberal | Ontario (Ontario) | December 29, 1867 | 52 | |
| Benjamin Wier | Liberal | Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) | April 14, 1868 | 62 | |
| George Crawford | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | July 4, 1870 | 66-67 | |
| John Hawkins Anderson | Liberal | Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) | December 24, 1870 | 64-65 | |
| John Ross | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | January 31, 1871 | 52 | |
| Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay | Conservative | Quebec (Lauzon) | May 12, 1871 | 61 | |
| Caleb Rand Bill | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) | February 1, 1872 | 66 | |
| Roderick Matheson | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | January 13, 1873 | 79-80 | Stroke |
| Asa Allworth Burnham | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | May 10, 1873 | 65 | |
| James Leslie | Conservative | Quebec (Alma) | December 6, 1873 | 87 | |
| William Steeves | Liberal | New Brunswick (New Brunswick) | December 9, 1873 | 59 | |
| Oliver Blake | Liberal | Ontario (Ontario) | December 10, 1873 | 71 | |
| John Locke | Liberal | Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) | December 12, 1873 | 48 | |
| Samuel Sylvester Mills | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | January 14, 1874 | 67 | |
| Ezra Churchill | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) | May 8, 1874 | 67 | |
| Robert Leonard Hazen | Conservative | New Brunswick (New Brunswick) | August 15, 1874 | 65 | |
| Charles-Christophe Malhiot | Liberal | Quebec (De la Vallière) | November 9, 1874 | 66 | |
| Ebenezer Perry | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | May 1, 1876 | 83 | |
| John Holmes | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) | June 3, 1876 | 87 | |
| John Robertson | Liberal | New Brunswick (New Brunswick) | August 3, 1876 | 76-77 | |
| Charles Wilson | Conservative | Quebec (Rigaud) | May 4, 1877 | 69 | |
| James Shaw | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | February 6, 1878 | 79-80 | |
| Louis Lacoste | Conservative | Quebec (Montarville) | November 26, 1878 | 80 | |
| Donald McDonald | Liberal | Ontario (Ontario) | January 20, 1879 | 79-80 | |
| Jeremiah Northup | Liberal | Nova Scotia (Halifax) | April 10, 1879 | 62-63 | |
| Robert William Weir Carrall | Conservative | British Columbia (British Columbia) | September 19, 1879 | 42 | |
| Benjamin Seymour | Conservative | Ontario (Newcastle) | March 23, 1880 | 73-74 | |
| George Brown | Liberal | Ontario (Lambton) | May 9, 1880 | 61 | Assassination - shot |
| David Christie | Liberal | Ontario (Erie) | December 14, 1880 | 62 | Complications from gangrene |
| Harcourt Burland Bull | Conservative | Ontario (Hamilton) | August 12, 1881 | 57 | |
| William Henry Brouse | Reformer | Ontario (Prescott) | August 23, 1881 | 57 | |
| Edward Goff Penny | Liberal | Quebec (Alma) | October 11, 1881 | 61 | |
| Adam Hope | Liberal | Ontario (Hamilton) | August 7, 1882 | 69 | |
| Léandre Dumouchel | Conservative | Quebec (Mille Isles) | September 24, 1882 | 71 | |
| John Hamilton | Conservative | Ontario (Kingston) | October 10, 1882 | 79-80 | |
| Jacques-Olivier Bureau | Liberal | Quebec (De Lorimier) | February 7, 1883 | 63 | |
| Thomas Nicholson Gibbs | Conservative | Ontario (Newmarket) | April 27, 1883 | 62 | |
| David Edward Price | Conservative | Quebec (The Laurentides) | August 22, 1883 | 57 | |
| John Bourinot | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) | January 19, 1884 | 69 | Stroke |
| James Skead | Conservative | Ontario (Rideau) | July 5, 1884 | 66 | Complications from a lung injury |
| Christian Henry Pozer | Nationalist | Quebec (Lauzon) | July 18, 1884 | 48 | |
| William Muirhead | Liberal | New Brunswick (Chatham) | December 29, 1884 | 65 | |
| James Rea Benson | Conservative | Ontario (Saint Catharines) | March 18, 1885 | 78 | |
| John Simpson | Liberal | Ontario (Bowmanville) | March 21, 1885 | 72 | |
| Jean-Charles Chapais | Conservative | Quebec (De La Durantaye) | July 17, 1885 | 73 | |
| Joseph Northwood | Conservative | Ontario (Lambton) | October 29, 1886 | 77 | |
| Charles Cormier | Liberal | Quebec (Kennebec) | May 7, 1887 | 73 | |
| William McMaster | Liberal | Ontario (Midland) | September 22, 1887 | 75 | |
| Louis Adélard Sénécal | Conservative | Quebec (Mille Isles) | October 7, 1887 | 58 | |
| Josiah Burr Plumb | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | March 12, 1888 | 71 | |
| Jean-Baptiste Rolland | Conservative | Quebec (Mille Isles) | March 22, 1888 | 73 | |
| James Ferrier | Conservative | Quebec (Shawinigan) | May 30, 1888 | 87 | |
| Pierre-Étienne Fortin | Conservative | Quebec (Kennebec) | June 15, 1888 | 64 | |
| John Ferguson | Conservative | New Brunswick (Bathurst) | August 21, 1888 | 74 | |
| James Gibb Ross | Conservative | Quebec (The Laurentides) | October 1, 1888 | 69 | |
| Thomas Ryan | Conservative | Quebec (Victoria) | May 25, 1889 | 84 | |
| James Turner | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | October 10, 1889 | 63 | |
| Richard Charles Hardisty | Conservative | Northwest Territories (Edmonton) | October 10, 1889 | 58 | Drowning |
| François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel | Conservative | Quebec (De Salaberry) | January 17, 1890 | 51 | |
| Charles-Séraphin Rodier | Conservative | Quebec (Mille Isles) | January 26, 1890 | 71 | |
| John Macdonald | Independent Liberal | Ontario (Ontario) | February 4, 1890 | 65 | |
| Thomas Dickson Archibald | Conservative | Nova Scotia (North Sydney) | October 18, 1890 | 77 | |
| Robert Poore Haythorne | Liberal | Prince Edward Island (Queen's) | May 7, 1891 | 75 | |
| Elijah Leonard | Liberal | Ontario (London) | May 14, 1891 | 76 | |
| William Hunter Odell | Conservative | New Brunswick (Rockwood) | July 25, 1891 | 79 | |
| Pierre Baillargeon | Liberal | Quebec (Stadacona) | December 15, 1891 | 79 | |
| Anselme Homère Pâquet | Liberal | Quebec (De la Vallière) | December 22, 1891 | 61 | |
| Gardner Green Stevens | Liberal | Quebec (Bedford) | April 15, 1892 | 77 | |
| Marc-Amable Girard | Conservative | Manitoba (Saint Boniface) | September 12, 1892 | 70 | |
| Robert Patterson Grant | Liberal | Nova Scotia (Pictou) | November 13, 1892 | 78 | |
| Donald Montgomery | Conservative | Prince Edward Island (Park Corner) | July 31, 1893 | 85 | |
| John Abbott | Conservative | Quebec (Inkerman | October 30, 1893 | 72 | Brain cancer |
| Amos Edwin Botsford | Conservative | New Brunswick (New Brunswick) | March 19, 1894 | 89 | |
| Billa Flint | Liberal | Ontario (Trent) | June 15, 1894 | 89 | |
| John Glasier | Liberal | New Brunswick (Sunbury) | July 7, 1894 | 84 | Cholera |
| Joseph Tassé | Conservative | Quebec (De Salaberry | January 17, 1895 | 46 | |
| Kennedy Francis Burns | Conservative | New Brunswick (New Brunswick) | June 23, 1895 | 53 | Pneumonia |
| Edward Murphy | Conservative | Quebec (Victoria) | December 5, 1895 | 77 | |
| Henry Adolphus Newman Kaulback | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Lunenburg) | January 8, 1896 | 65 | |
| Robert Read | Conservative | Ontario (Quinté) | June 29, 1896 | 81 | |
| David Lewis Macpherson | Conservative | Ontario (Saugeen) | August 16, 1896 | 77 | |
| John Ferguson | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario) | September 22, 1896 | 57 | |
| François Béchard | Liberal | Quebec (De Lorimier) | April 13, 1897 | 66 | |
| Théodore Robitaille | Conservative | Quebec (Gulf) | August 17, 1897 | 63 | |
| Joseph Octave Arsenault | Conservative | Prince Edward Island (Prince Edward Island) | December 14, 1897 | 69 | |
| Pierre Antoine Deblois | Conservative | Quebec (La Salle) | June 21, 1898 | 82 | |
| Alexander Macfarlane | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Wallace) | December 14, 1898 | 80 | |
| Michael Adams | Conservative | New Brunswick (Northumberland) | January 2, 1899 | 53 | |
| Charles Arkoll Boulton | Conservative | Manitoba (Marquette) | May 15, 1899 | 58 | |
| William Eli Sanford | Conservative | Ontario (Hamilton) | July 10, 1899 | 60 | Drowning |
| Joseph Hyacinthe Bellerose | Conservative | Quebec (De Lanaudière) | August 13, 1899 | 79 | |
| Thomas Temple | Conservative | New Brunswick (York) | August 25, 1899 | 80 | |
| Evan John Price | Conservative | Quebec (The Laurentides) | August 31, 1899 | 59 | |

## House of Commons

| Member | Party | Province/Riding | Date of death | Age at death (years) | Cause |
| Thomas D'Arcy McGee | Conservative | Quebec (Montreal West) | April 7, 1868 | 42 | Assassinated - shot |
| Thomas Sutherland Parker | Liberal | Ontario (Wellington Centre) | October 24, 1868 | 39 | Fall |
| John Mercer Johnson | Liberal | New Brunswick (Northumberland) | November 8, 1868 | 50 | Stomach illness |
| Thomas Killam | Anti-Confederate | Nova Scotia (Yarmouth) | December 15, 1868 | 66 | |
| William Joseph Croke | Anti-Confederate | Nova Scotia (Richmond) | March 11, 1869 | 29 | |
| Thomas Kirkpatrick | Conservative | Ontario (Frontenac) | March 26, 1870 | 64 | |
| William Henry Chipman | Liberal | Nova Scotia (Kings) | April 10, 1870 | 62 | Smallpox |
| Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski | Liberal | Quebec (Saint-Hyacinthe) | August 4, 1870 | 53 | |
| Thomas McCarthy | Conservative | Quebec (Richelieu) | September 23, 1870 | 37-38 | |
| William Murray Caldwell | Liberal | New Brunswick (Restigouche) | September 29, 1870 | 38 | |
| John Sandfield Macdonald | Liberal | Ontario (Cornwall) | June 1, 1872 | 59 | |
| Robert MacFarlane | Liberal | Ontario (Perth South) | June 1, 1872 | 37 | |
| John Bolton | Liberal | New Brunswick (Charlotte) | July 14, 1872 | 47 | |
| Francis Henry Burton | Conservative | Ontario (Durham East) | July 18, 1872 | 54-55 | |
| Thomas Clark Street | Conservative | Ontario (Welland) | September 6, 1872 | 57-58 | |
| George-Étienne Cartier | Conservative | Manitoba (Provencher) | May 20, 1873 | 58 | Bright's Disease |
| Charles Connell | Liberal | New Brunswick (Carleton) | June 28, 1873 | 64 | |
| John Bower Lewis | Conservative | Ontario (City of Ottawa) | January 24, 1874 | 56 | |
| William Harvey | Liberal | Ontario (Elgin East) | June 14, 1874 | 53 | Smallpox |
| Robert Cunningham | Liberal | Manitoba (Provencher) | July 4, 1874 | 38 | |
| Thomas Scatcherd | Liberal | Ontario (Middlesex North) | April 15, 1876 | 52 | |
| Adam Gordon | Liberal | Ontario (Ontario North) | May 28, 1876 | 44 | |
| Malcolm Cameron | Liberal | Ontario (Ontario South) | June 1, 1876 | 68 | |
| John Hillyard Cameron | Conservative | Ontario (Cardwell) | November 14, 1876 | 59 | Heart attack |
| Michael Cayley | Liberal | Quebec (Beauharnois) | December 2, 1878 | 36 | |
| Pierre-Alexis Tremblay | Liberal | Quebec (Charlevoix) | January 4, 1879 | 51 | |
| Hugh McLeod | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Cape Breton) | August 5, 1879 | 36 | |
| Daniel Galbraith | Liberal | Ontario (Lanark North) | December 17, 1879 | 66 | |
| Luther Hamilton Holton | Liberal | Quebec (Châteauguay) | March 14, 1880 | 63 | |
| Edmund Leavens Chandler | Liberal | Quebec (Brome) | August 21, 1880 | 50 | |
| Thomas Oliver | Liberal | Ontario (Oxford North) | November 8, 1880 | 59 | |
| Joshua Spencer Thompson | Conservative | British Columbia (Cariboo) | December 20, 1880 | 51-52 | |
| Joseph Keeler | Conservative | Ontario (Northumberland East) | January 21, 1881 | 56 | |
| George Heber Connell | Independent | New Brunswick (Carleton) | February 15, 1881 | 45 | |
| William Carruthers Little | Conservative | Ontario (Simcoe South) | December 31, 1881 | 61 | |
| Jacques-Philippe Lantier | Conservative | Quebec (Soulanges) | September 15, 1882 | 68 | |
| John Pickard | Independent Liberal | New Brunswick (Carleton) | December 17, 1883 | 59 | |
| Frédéric Houde | Nationalist Conservative | Quebec (Maskinongé) | November 15, 1884 | 37 | Tuberculosis |
| Isaac Burpee | Liberal | New Brunswick (City and County of Saint John) | March 1, 1885 | 59 | |
| William Thomas Benson | Conservative | Ontario (Grenville South) | June 8, 1885 | 61 | |
| Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams | Conservative | Ontario (Durham East) | July 4, 1885 | 48 | Fever |
| David Thompson | Liberal | Ontario (Haldimand) | April 18, 1886 | 49 | |
| Joshua Attwood Reynolds Homer | Conservative | British Columbia (New Westminster) | September 20, 1886 | 59 | |
| Robert Moffat | Conservative | New Brunswick (Restigouche) | April 25, 1887 | 43 | |
| John Campbell | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Digby) | May 25, 1887 | 37 | |
| Robert Campbell | Liberal | Ontario (Renfrew South) | June 14, 1887 | 69 | |
| Simon-Xavier Cimon | Conservative | Quebec (Charlevoix) | June 26, 1887 | 57 | Apoplexy |
| Henri-Jules Juchereau Duchesnay | Nationalist Conservative | Quebec (Dorchester) | July 6, 1887 | 42 | Typhoid fever |
| Jean-Baptiste Labelle | Conservative | Quebec (Richelieu) | August 3, 1887 | 51 | |
| Alexander Robertson | Conservative | Ontario (Hastings West) | February 29, 1888 | 49 | |
| George Clayes | Liberal | Quebec (Missisquoi) | March 3, 1888 | 57 | |
| Thomas White | Conservative | Ontario (Cardwell) | April 21, 1888 | 57 | Pneumonia |
| Athanase Gaudet | Nationalist Conservative | Quebec (Nicolet) | April 29, 1888 | 39 | |
| Charles-Joseph Coursol | Conservative | Quebec (Nicolet) | August 4, 1888 | 68 | |
| John Henry Pope | Conservative | Quebec (Compton) | April 1, 1889 | 69 | |
| William Goodhue Perley | Conservative | Ontario (Ottawa) | April 1, 1890 | 69 | |
| Donald Chisholm | Conservative | British Columbia (New Westminster) | April 5, 1890 | 67-68 | |
| Adam Hudspeth | Conservative | Ontario (Victoria South) | May 5, 1890 | 53 | |
| Joseph Esdras Alfred de Saint-Georges | Liberal | Quebec (Portneuf) | June 19, 1890 | 40 | |
| Alexis Dessaint | Liberal | Quebec (Kamouraska) | December 18, 1890 | 43 | Train accident |
| John A. Macdonald | Conservative | Ontario (Kingston) | June 6, 1891 | 76 | Stroke |
| Jean-Baptiste Daoust | Conservative | Quebec (Two Mountains) | December 28, 1891 | 74 | |
| Samuel Barton Burdett | Liberal | Ontario (Hastings East) | January 20, 1892 | 48 | |
| Alexander Mackenzie | Liberal | Ontario (York East) | April 17, 1892 | 70 | Stroke caused by a fall |
| Édouard H. Léger | Conservative | New Brunswock (Kent) | August 8, 1892 | 26 | |
| James Armstrong | Liberal | Ontario (Middlesex South) | January 26, 1893 | 62 | |
| David William Gordon | Conservative | British Columbia (Vancouver) | February 19, 1893 | 60 | |
| John Hearn | Conservative | Quebec (Quebec West) | May 17, 1894 | 67 | Tuberculosis |
| Félix Geoffrion | Liberal | Quebec (Verchères) | August 7, 1894 | 61 | |
| John Sparrow David Thompson | Conservative | Nova Scotia (Antigonish) | December 12, 1894 | 49 | Heart attack |
| Frank Madill | Conservative | Ontario (Ontario North) | October 25, 1895 | 42 | |
| Henry Simard | Liberal | Quebec (Charlevoix) | November 6, 1895 | 59 | |
| John Bryson | Conservative | Quebec (Pontiac) | January 20, 1896 | 46 | |
| Guillaume Amyot | Nationalist Conservative | Quebec (Bellechasse) | March 30, 1896 | 53 | |
| Frederick Charles Denison | Conservative | Ontario (Toronto West) | April 15, 1896 | 49 | Stomach cancer |
| John Clark | Liberal | Ontario (Grey North) | July 27, 1896 | 60-61 | Typhoid fever, peritonitis |
| Darby Bergin | Conservative | Ontario (Cornwall and Stormont) | October 22, 1896 | 70 | |
| William Le Boutillier Fauvel | Liberal | Quebec (Bonaventure) | February 8, 1897 | 47 | |
| Charles-Eugène Pouliot | Liberal | Quebec (Témiscouata) | June 24, 1897 | 40 | |
| Fabien Boisvert | Independent Conservative | Quebec (Nicolet) | November 12, 1897 | 58 | |
| Stanislaus Francis Perry | Liberal | Prince Edward Island (Prince) | February 24, 1898 | 74 | |
| Flavien Dupont | Conservative | Quebec (Bagot) | March 12, 1898 | 51 | |
| Dalton McCarthy | McCarthyite | Ontario (Simcoe North) | May 11, 1898 | 61 | Carriage accident |
| Pierre Malcom Guay | Liberal | Quebec (Lévis) | February 19, 1899 | 50 | |
| Richard Willis Jameson | Liberal | Manitoba (Winnipeg) | February 21, 1899 | 47 | Accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound |
| John Fisher Wood | Conservative | Ontario (Brockville) | March 14, 1899 | 46 | Heart failure |
| William Bullock Ives | Conservative | Quebec (Town of Sherbrooke) | July 15, 1899 | 57 | |
| Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion | Liberal | Quebec (Verchères) | July 18, 1899 | 55 | |
| James David Edgar | Liberal | Ontario (Ontario West) | July 31, 1899 | 57 | |