22nd Canadian Parliament

The 22nd Canadian Parliament was in session from November 12, 1953, until April 12, 1957. The membership was set by the 1953 federal election on August 10, 1953, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1957 election.

22nd Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
12 November 1953 – 12 April 1957
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	Louis St. Laurent 15 Nov 1948 – 21 Jun 1957
Cabinet	17th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	George A. Drew
	William Earl Rowe
	George A. Drew
	William Earl Rowe
	John Diefenbaker
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party
Opposition	Progressive Conservative Party
Crossbench	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
	Social Credit Party
	Liberal-Labour
	Liberal-Progressive
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Members	265 MP seats List of members
Sovereign
Monarch	Elizabeth II 6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022
Sessions
1st session 1953-11-12 – 1954-11-20
2nd session 1955-01-07 – 1955-07-28
3rd session 1956-01-10 – 1956-08-14
4th session 1956-11-26 – 1957-01-08
5th session 1957-01-08 – 1957-04-12
← 21st → 23rd

Louis St. Laurent was Prime Minister during the 22nd Canadian Parliament.

It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and the 17th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Progressive Conservative Party, led first by George Drew, and then by William Earl Rowe, George Drew (again), William Earl Rowe, and John Diefenbaker consecutively.

The Speaker was Louis-René Beaudoin. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1952-1966 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were five sessions of the 22nd Parliament.

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the twenty-second Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

Alberta

Electoral district		Name	Party
Acadia		Victor Quelch	Social Credit
Athabaska		Joseph Miville Dechene	Liberal
Battle River—Camrose		Robert Fair (died 11 November 1954)	Social Credit
		James Alexander Smith (by-election of 1955-06-20)	Social Credit
Bow River		Charles Edward Johnston	Social Credit
Calgary North		Douglas Harkness	Progressive Conservative
Calgary South		Carl Nickle	Progressive Conservative
Edmonton East		Ambrose Holowach	Social Credit
Edmonton—Strathcona		Richmond Francis Hanna	Liberal
Edmonton West		George Prudham	Liberal
Jasper—Edson		Charles Yuill	Social Credit
Lethbridge		John Horne Blackmore	Social Credit
Macleod		Ernest George Hansell	Social Credit
Medicine Hat		William Duncan Wylie	Social Credit
Peace River		Solon Earl Low	Social Credit
Red Deer		Frederick Davis Shaw	Social Credit
Vegreville		John Decore	Liberal
Wetaskiwin		Ray Thomas	Social Credit

British Columbia

Electoral district		Name	Party
Burnaby—Coquitlam		Erhart Regier	C.C.F.
Burnaby—Richmond		Tom Goode	Liberal
Cariboo		Bert Leboe	Social Credit
Coast—Capilano		James Sinclair	Liberal
Comox—Alberni		Thomas Speakman Barnett	C.C.F.
Esquimalt—Saanich		George Pearkes	Progressive Conservative
Fraser Valley		Alexander Bell Patterson	Social Credit
Kamloops		Davie Fulton	Progressive Conservative
Kootenay East		James Allen Byrne	Liberal
Kootenay West		Herbert Wilfred Herridge	C.C.F.
Nanaimo		Colin Cameron	C.C.F.
New Westminster		George Hahn	Social Credit
Okanagan Boundary		Owen Jones	C.C.F.
Okanagan—Revelstoke		George McLeod	Social Credit
Skeena		Edward Applewhaite	Liberal
Vancouver—Burrard		Lorne MacDougall	Liberal
Vancouver Centre		Ralph Campney	Liberal
Vancouver East		Harold Edward Winch	C.C.F.
Vancouver Kingsway		Angus MacInnis	C.C.F.
Vancouver Quadra		Howard Charles Green	Progressive Conservative
Vancouver South		Elmore Philpott	Liberal
Victoria		Francis Fairey	Liberal

Manitoba

Electoral district		Name	Party
Brandon—Souris		Walter Dinsdale	Progressive Conservative
Churchill		George Weaver	Liberal
Dauphin		Fred Zaplitny	C.C.F.
Lisgar		William Albert Pommer	Liberal
Marquette		Stuart Garson	Liberal
Portage—Neepawa		William Gilbert Weir	Liberal-Progressive
Provencher		René Jutras	Liberal
Selkirk		Robert James Wood (died 8 August 1954)	Liberal
		William Bryce (by-election of 1954-11-08)	C.C.F.
Springfield		Anton Weselak	Liberal
St. Boniface		Fernand Viau	Liberal
Winnipeg North		Alistair Stewart	C.C.F.
Winnipeg North Centre		Stanley Knowles	C.C.F.
Winnipeg South		Owen Trainor	Progressive Conservative
Winnipeg South Centre		Gordon Churchill	Progressive Conservative

New Brunswick

Electoral district		Name	Party
Charlotte		A. Wesley Stuart	Liberal
Gloucester		Hédard Robichaud	Liberal
Kent		Hervé Michaud	Liberal
Northumberland		George Roy McWilliam	Liberal
Restigouche—Madawaska		Joseph Gaspard Boucher	Liberal
		Charles Van Horne (by-election of 1955-09-26)	Progressive Conservative
Royal		Alfred Johnson Brooks	Progressive Conservative
St. John—Albert		Thomas Miller Bell	Progressive Conservative
Victoria—Carleton		Gage Montgomery	Progressive Conservative
Westmorland		Henry Murphy	Liberal
York—Sunbury		Milton Fowler Gregg	Liberal

Newfoundland

Electoral district		Name	Party
Bonavista—Twillingate		Jack Pickersgill	Liberal
Burin—Burgeo		Chesley William Carter	Liberal
Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador		Thomas Gordon William Ashbourne	Liberal
Humber—St. George's		Herman Maxwell Batten	Liberal
St. John's East		Allan Fraser	Liberal
St. John's West		James Augustine Power	Liberal
Trinity—Conception		Leonard Stick	Liberal

Northwest Territories

Electoral district		Name	Party
Mackenzie River		Mervyn Arthur Hardie	Liberal

Nova Scotia

Electoral district		Name	Party
Antigonish—Guysborough		J. Ralph Kirk	Liberal
Cape Breton North and Victoria		William Murdoch Buchanan	Liberal
Cape Breton South		Clarence Gillis	C.C.F.
Colchester—Hants		Gordon Purdy	Liberal
Cumberland		Azel Randolph Lusby	Liberal
Digby—Annapolis—Kings		George Nowlan	Progressive Conservative
Halifax*		Samuel Rosborough Balcom	Liberal
		John Dickey	Liberal
Inverness—Richmond		Allan MacEachen	Liberal
Pictou		Henry Byron McCulloch	Liberal
Queens—Lunenburg		Robert Winters	Liberal
Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare		Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk	Liberal

Ontario

Electoral district		Name	Party
Algoma East		Lester B. Pearson	Liberal
Algoma West		George E. Nixon	Liberal
Brantford		James Elisha Brown	Liberal
Brant—Haldimand		John A. Charlton	Progressive Conservative
Broadview		George Hees	Progressive Conservative
Bruce		Andrew Ernest Robinson	Progressive Conservative
Carleton		George Drew	Progressive Conservative
Cochrane		Joseph-Anaclet Habel	Liberal
Danforth		Robert Hardy Small	Progressive Conservative
Davenport		Paul Hellyer	Liberal
Dufferin—Simcoe		William Earl Rowe	Progressive Conservative
Durham		John James	Liberal
Eglinton		Donald Fleming	Progressive Conservative
Elgin		Charles Delmer Coyle (died 19 January 1954)	Progressive Conservative
		James Alexander McBain (by-election of 22 March 1954)	Progressive Conservative
Essex East		Paul Martin Sr.	Liberal
Essex South		Murray Clark	Liberal
Essex West		Donald Ferguson Brown	Liberal
Fort William		Dan McIvor	Liberal
Glengarry—Prescott		Raymond Bruneau	Liberal
Greenwood		James MacKerras Macdonnell	Progressive Conservative
Grenville—Dundas		Arza Clair Casselman	Progressive Conservative
Grey—Bruce		Walter Harris	Liberal
Grey North		Colin Emerson Bennett	Liberal
Halton		Sybil Bennett	Progressive Conservative
Hamilton East		Thomas Hambly Ross	Liberal
Hamilton South		Russell Reinke	Liberal
Hamilton West		Ellen Fairclough	Progressive Conservative
Hastings—Frontenac		George Stanley White	Progressive Conservative
Hastings South		Frank Follwell	Liberal
High Park		Pat Cameron	Liberal
Huron		Elston Cardiff	Progressive Conservative
Kenora—Rainy River		William Moore Benidickson	Liberal-Labour
Kent		Blake Huffman	Liberal
Kingston		William Henderson	Liberal
Lambton—Kent		Hugh MacKenzie	Liberal
Lambton West		Joseph Warner Murphy	Progressive Conservative
Lanark		William Gourlay Blair	Progressive Conservative
Leeds		Hayden Stanton	Progressive Conservative
Lincoln		Harry Cavers	Liberal
London		Robert Weld Mitchell	Progressive Conservative
Middlesex East		Harry Oliver White	Progressive Conservative
Middlesex West		Robert McCubbin	Liberal
Niagara Falls		William Houck	Liberal
Nickel Belt		Léo Gauthier	Liberal
Nipissing		Jack Garland	Liberal
Norfolk		Raymond Elmer Anderson	Liberal
Northumberland		Frederick Robertson	Liberal
Ontario		Michael Starr	Progressive Conservative
Ottawa East		Jean-Thomas Richard	Liberal
Ottawa West		George McIlraith	Liberal
Oxford		Wally Nesbitt	Progressive Conservative
Parkdale		John Hunter	Liberal
Parry Sound—Muskoka		Wilfred McDonald	Liberal
Peel		Gordon Graydon (died in office)	Progressive Conservative
		John Pallett (by-election of 22 March 1954)	Progressive Conservative
Perth		Jay Monteith	Progressive Conservative
Peterborough		Gordon Fraser	Progressive Conservative
Port Arthur		Clarence Decatur Howe	Liberal
Prince Edward—Lennox		George Tustin	Progressive Conservative
Renfrew North		James Forgie	Liberal
Renfrew South		James Joseph McCann	Liberal
Rosedale		Charles Henry	Liberal
Russell		Joseph-Omer Gour	Liberal
St. Paul's		Roland Michener	Progressive Conservative
Simcoe East		William Alfred Robinson	Liberal
Simcoe North		Julian Ferguson	Progressive Conservative
Spadina		David Croll (until Senate appointment)	Liberal
		Charles Edward Rea (by-election of 24 October 1955)	Progressive Conservative
Stormont		Lionel Chevrier (until Saint Lawrence Seaway appointment)	Liberal
		Albert Lavigne (by-election of 8 November 1954)	Liberal
Sudbury		Rodger Mitchell	Liberal
Timiskaming		Ann Shipley	Liberal
Timmins		Karl Eyre	Liberal
Trinity		Lionel Conacher (died in office)	Liberal
		Donald Carrick (by-election of 8 November 1954)	Liberal
Victoria		Clayton Hodgson	Progressive Conservative
Waterloo North		Norman Schneider	Liberal
Waterloo South		Arthur White	Liberal
Welland		William Hector McMillan	Liberal
Wellington—Huron		Marvin Howe	Progressive Conservative
Wellington South		Henry Alfred Hosking	Liberal
Wentworth		Frank Lennard	Progressive Conservative
York Centre		Al Hollingworth	Liberal
York East		Robert Henry McGregor	Progressive Conservative
York—Humber		Margaret Aitken	Progressive Conservative
York North		Jack Smith	Liberal
York—Scarborough		Frank Enfield	Liberal
York South		Joseph W. Noseworthy	C.C.F.
York West		Agar Rodney Adamson	Progressive Conservative
		John Borden Hamilton (by-election of 8 November 1954)	Progressive Conservative

Prince Edward Island

Electoral district		Name	Party
King's		Thomas Joseph Kickham	Liberal
Prince		John Watson MacNaught	Liberal
Queen's*		Angus MacLean	Progressive Conservative
		Neil Matheson	Liberal

Quebec

Electoral district		Name	Party
Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes		Philippe Valois	Liberal
Beauce		Raoul Poulin	Independent
Beauharnois—Salaberry		Robert Cauchon	Liberal
Bellechasse		Louis-Philippe Picard (until resignation)	Liberal
		Ovide Laflamme (by-election of 26 September 1955)	Liberal
Berthier—Maskinongé—delanaudière		Joseph Langlois	Liberal
Bonaventure		Bona Arsenault	Liberal
Brome—Missisquoi		Joseph-Léon Deslières	Liberal
Cartier		Leon David Crestohl	Liberal
Chambly—Rouville		Roch Pinard	Liberal
Champlain		Joseph Irenée Rochefort	Liberal
Chapleau		David Gourd	Liberal
Charlevoix		Auguste Maltais	Liberal
Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie		Jean Boucher	Liberal
Chicoutimi		Paul-Edmond Gagnon	Independent
Compton—Frontenac		Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette	Liberal
Dollard		Guy Rouleau	Liberal
Dorchester		Robert Perron	Progressive Conservative
Drummond—Arthabaska		Armand Cloutier	Liberal
Gaspé		Léopold Langlois	Liberal
Gatineau		Joseph-Célestin Nadon (died 17 December 1953)	Liberal
		Rodolphe Leduc (by-election of 22 March 1954)	Liberal
Hochelaga		Raymond Eudes	Liberal
Hull		Alexis Caron	Liberal
Îles-de-la-Madeleine		Charles Cannon	Liberal
Jacques-Cartier—Lasalle		Edgar Leduc	Liberal
Joliette—l'Assomption—Montcalm		Maurice Breton	Liberal
Kamouraska		Arthur Massé	Independent Liberal
Labelle		Gustave Roy	Liberal
Lac-Saint-Jean		André Gauthier	Liberal
Lafontaine		J.-Georges Ratelle	Liberal
Lapointe		Fernand Girard	Independent
Laurier		J.-Eugène Lefrançois	Liberal
Laval		Léopold Demers	Liberal
Lévis		Maurice Bourget	Liberal
Longueuil		Auguste Vincent	Liberal
Lotbinière		Hugues Lapointe	Liberal
Maisonneuve—Rosemont		Jean-Paul Deschatelets	Liberal
Matapédia—Matane		Léandre Thibault	Liberal
Mégantic		Joseph Lafontaine	Liberal
Mercier		Marcel Monette	Liberal
Montmagny—L'Islet		Jean Lesage	Liberal
Mount Royal		Alan Macnaughton	Liberal
Nicolet—Yamaska		Maurice Boisvert	Liberal
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce		William McLean Hamilton	Progressive Conservative
Outremont—St-Jean		Romuald Bourque	Liberal
Papineau		Adrien Meunier	Independent Liberal
Pontiac—Témiscamingue		Hugh Proudfoot	Liberal
Portneuf		Pierre Gauthier	Liberal
Québec—Montmorency		Wilfrid Lacroix	Liberal
Quebec East		Louis St. Laurent	Liberal
Quebec South		Charles Gavan Power (until 28 July 1955 Senate appointment)	Liberal
		Francis (Frank) Gavan Power (by-election of 26 September 1955)	Liberal
Quebec West		J.-Wilfrid Dufresne	Progressive Conservative
Richelieu—Verchères		Lucien Cardin	Liberal
Richmond—Wolfe		Ernest-Omer Gingras	Liberal
Rimouski		Gérard Légaré	Liberal
Roberval		Georges Villeneuve	Liberal
Saguenay		Lomer Brisson	Liberal
St. Ann		Thomas Healy	Liberal
Saint-Antoine—Westmount		Douglas Abbott (until 1 July 1954 emoulment appointment)	Liberal
		George Carlyle Marler (by-election of 8 November 1954)	Liberal
Saint-Denis		Azellus Denis	Liberal
Saint-Henri		Joseph-Arsène Bonnier	Liberal
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot		Joseph Fontaine	Liberal
Saint-Jacques		Roland Beaudry	Liberal
Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville		Alcide Côté (died 7 August 1955)	Liberal
		J.-Armand Ménard (by-election of 19 December 1955)	Liberal
St. Lawrence—St. George		Brooke Claxton (resigned 31 July 1954)	Liberal
		Claude Richardson (by-election of 8 November 1954)	Liberal
Sainte-Marie		Hector Dupuis	Liberal
Saint-Maurice—Laflèche		Joseph-Adolphe Richard	Liberal
Shefford		Marcel Boivin	Liberal
Sherbrooke		Maurice Gingues	Liberal
Stanstead		Louis-Édouard Roberge	Liberal
Témiscouata		Jean-François Pouliot (until 28 July 1955 Senate appointment)	Liberal
		Jean-Paul St. Laurent (by-election of 26 September 1955)	Liberal
Terrebonne		Lionel Bertrand	Liberal
Trois-Rivières		Léon Balcer	Progressive Conservative
Vaudreuil—Soulanges		Louis-René Beaudoin	Liberal
Verdun		Paul-Émile Côté (until 1 January 1954 emoulment appointment)	Liberal
		Yves Leduc (by-election of 22 March 1954)	Liberal
Villeneuve		Armand Dumas	Liberal

Saskatchewan

Electoral district		Name	Party
Assiniboia		Hazen Argue	C.C.F.
Humboldt—Melfort		Hugh Alexander Bryson	C.C.F.
Kindersley		Merv Johnson	C.C.F.
Mackenzie		Alexander Malcolm Nicholson	C.C.F.
Meadow Lake		John Harrison	Liberal
Melville		James Garfield Gardiner	Liberal
Moose Jaw—Lake Centre		Ross Thatcher	C.C.F.
			Independent
Moose Mountain		Edward McCullough	C.C.F.
Prince Albert		John Diefenbaker	Progressive Conservative
Qu'Appelle		Henry Mang	Liberal
Regina City		Claude Ellis	C.C.F.
Rosetown—Biggar		Major James Coldwell	C.C.F.
Rosthern		Walter Tucker	Liberal
Saskatoon		Roy Knight	C.C.F.
Swift Current—Maple Creek		Irvin Studer	Liberal
The Battlefords		Max Campbell	C.C.F.
Yorkton		George Hugh Castleden	C.C.F.

Yukon

Electoral district		Name	Party
Yukon		James Aubrey Simmons	Liberal

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 22nd Canadian Parliament

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville	December 19, 1955	Alcide Côté		Liberal	J.-Armand Ménard		Liberal	Death	Yes
Spadina	October 24, 1955	David A. Croll		Liberal	Charles E. Rea		Progressive Conservative	Called to the Senate	No
Restigouche—Madawaska	September 26, 1955	Joseph Gaspard Boucher		Liberal	Joseph Charles Van Horne		Progressive Conservative	Death	No
Bellechasse	September 26, 1955	L.-Philippe Picard		Liberal	Ovide Laflamme		Liberal	Resignation	Yes
Quebec South	September 26, 1955	Charles G. Power		Liberal	Frank G. Power		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Témiscouata	September 26, 1955	Jean-François Pouliot		Liberal	Jean-Paul St-Laurent		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Battle River—Camrose	June 20, 1955	Robert Fair		Social Credit	James A. Smith		Social Credit	Death	Yes
Selkirk	November 8, 1954	Robert James Wood		Liberal	Scottie Bryce		C. C. F.	Death	No
Stormont	November 8, 1954	Lionel Chevrier		Liberal	Albert Peter Lavigne		Liberal	Appointed President of the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority	Yes
Trinity	November 8, 1954	Lionel Conacher		Liberal	Donald D. Carrick		Liberal	Death	Yes
York West	November 8, 1954	Agar Rodney Adamson		Progressive Conservative	John B. Hamilton		Progressive Conservative	Death	Yes
Saint-Antoine—Westmount	November 8, 1954	Douglas Charles Abbott		Liberal	George C. Marler		Liberal	Appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada	Yes
St. Lawrence—St. George	November 8, 1954	Brooke Claxton		Liberal	Claude Richardson		Liberal	Resignation	Yes
Elgin	March 22, 1954	Charles Delmer Coyle		Progressive Conservative	James A. McBain		Progressive Conservative	Death	Yes
Peel	March 22, 1954	Gordon Graydon		Progressive Conservative	John Pallett		Progressive Conservative	Death	Yes
Gatineau	March 22, 1954	Joseph-Célestin Nadon		Liberal	Rodolphe Leduc		Liberal	Death	Yes
Verdun	March 22, 1954	Paul-Émile Côté		Liberal	Yves Leduc		Liberal	Appointed a Superior Court Judge of Quebec	Yes

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