19th Canadian Parliament
The 19th Canadian Parliament was in session from May 16, 1940, until April 16, 1945. The membership was set by the 1940 federal election on March 26, 1940, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1945 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 so-called "National Government" party (the name which the Conservatives ran under in the 1940 election), led in the House by Richard Hanson and Gordon Graydon consecutively as the three successive national leaders of the party, Robert Manion, Arthur Meighen and John Bracken did not have seats in the House of Commons. With the selection of Bracken as national leader in December 1942, the party became known as the Progressive Conservatives.
The Speaker was James Allison Glen. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were six sessions of the 19th Parliament:
Session | Start | End |
---|---|---|
1st | May 16, 1940 | November 5, 1940 |
2nd | November 7, 1940 | January 21, 1942 |
3rd | January 22, 1942 | January 27, 1943 |
4th | January 28, 1943 | January 26, 1944 |
5th | January 27, 1944 | January 31, 1945 |
6th | March 19, 1945 | April 16, 1945 |
List of members
Following is a full list of members of the nineteenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
Alberta
British Columbia
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
Cariboo | James Gray Turgeon | Liberal | |
Comox—Alberni | Alan Webster Neill | Independent | |
Fraser Valley | George Alexander Cruickshank | Liberal | |
Kamloops | Thomas James O'Neill | Liberal | |
Kootenay East | George Ernest Lawson Mackinnon | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
Kootenay West | William Kemble Esling | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
Nanaimo | Alan Chambers | Liberal | |
New Westminster | Thomas Reid | Liberal | |
Skeena | Olof Hanson | Liberal | |
Vancouver—Burrard | Gerald Grattan McGeer | Liberal | |
Vancouver Centre | Ian Alistair Mackenzie | Liberal | |
Vancouver East | Angus MacInnis | C.C.F. | |
Vancouver North | James Sinclair | Liberal | |
Vancouver South | Howard Charles Green | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
Victoria | Robert Wellington Mayhew | Liberal | |
Yale | Grote Stirling | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative |
Manitoba
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
Brandon | James Ewen Matthews | 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 | René Jutras | Liberal | |
Selkirk | Joseph Thorarinn Thorson (until 6 October 1942 emoulment appointment) | Liberal | |
William Bryce (by-election of 9 August 1943) | C.C.F. | ||
Souris | James Arthur Ross | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
Springfield | John Mouat Turner | Liberal | |
St. Boniface | John Power Howden | Liberal | |
Winnipeg North Centre | James Shaver Woodsworth (died 21 March 1942) | C.C.F. | |
Stanley Knowles (by-election of 1942-11-30) | C.C.F. | ||
Winnipeg North | Charles Stephen Booth | Liberal | |
Winnipeg South | Leslie Alexander Mutch | Liberal | |
Winnipeg South Centre | Ralph Maybank | Liberal |
New Brunswick
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
Charlotte | Burton Maxwell Hill | Liberal | |
Gloucester | Clarence Joseph Veniot | Liberal | |
Kent | Aurel D. Léger | Liberal | |
Northumberland | Joseph Leonard O'Brien | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
Restigouche—Madawaska | Joseph Enoil Michaud | Liberal | |
Royal | Alfred Johnson Brooks | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
St. John—Albert | Douglas King Hazen | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
Victoria—Carleton | Heber Harold Hatfield | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
Westmorland | Henry Read Emmerson | Liberal | |
York—Sunbury | Richard Hanson | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative |
Nova Scotia
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
Antigonish—Guysborough | James Ralph Kirk | Liberal | |
Cape Breton North and Victoria | Matthew Maclean | Liberal | |
Cape Breton South | Clarence Gillis | C.C.F. | |
Colchester—Hants | Gordon Timlin Purdy | Liberal | |
Cumberland | Percy Chapman Black | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative | |||
Digby—Annapolis—Kings | James Lorimer Ilsley | Liberal | |
Halifax* | Gordon Benjamin Isnor | Liberal | |
William Chisholm Macdonald | Liberal | ||
Inverness—Richmond | Moses Elijah McGarry | Liberal | |
Pictou | Henry Byron McCulloch | Liberal | |
Queens—Lunenburg | John James Kinley | Liberal | |
Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare | Vincent-Joseph Pottier | Liberal |
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
King's | Thomas Vincent Grant | Liberal | |
Prince | James Layton Ralston | Liberal | |
Queen's* | James Lester Douglas | Liberal | |
Cyrus Macmillan | Liberal |
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Yukon
Electoral district | Name | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
Yukon | George Black | National Government | |
Progressive Conservative |
By-elections
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