Parry Sound (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Parry Sound (provincial electoral district).

Parry Sound was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1949. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was first created in 1903 from parts of Muskoka and Parry Sound riding.

Parry Sound

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1903
District abolished	1947
First contested	1904
Last contested	1945

It consisted of the territorial district of Parry Sound.

In 1933, it was expanded to include, in the territorial district of Nipissing, the townships of Ballantyne, Wilkes, Pentland, Boyd, Paxton, Biggar, Osler, Lister, Butt, Devine, Bishop, Freswick, McCraney, Hunter, McLaughlin, Bower, Finlayson, Peck, Canisbay and Sproule.

The electoral district was abolished in 1947 when it was merged into Parry Sound-Muskoka riding.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Muskoka and Parry Sound
10th	1904–1908		Robert James Watson	Liberal
11th	1908–1911		James Arthurs	Conservative
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921			Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925			Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940		Arthur Slaght	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949		Wilfred McDonald
Riding dissolved into Parry Sound-Muskoka

Election results

1904 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Robert James Watson	2,410
	Conservative	James S. Freeborn	2,035

1908 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James Arthurs	2,932
	Liberal	Robert James Watson	2,135

1911 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James Arthurs	2,976
	Liberal	George Morrison	1,918

1917 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	James Arthurs	5,182
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Norman Cecil Hocken	2,043

1921 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James Arthurs	3,229
	Independent	William Robert Mason	3,157
	Progressive	Augustus Wellington Partridge	2,784

1925 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James Arthurs	5,224
	Liberal	William Robert Mason	3,922

1926 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James Arthurs	5,418
	Liberal	James Ludgate	4,358

1930 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James Arthurs	5,504
	Liberal	Joseph Hilliar	4,365

1935 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Arthur Slaght	6,230
	Conservative	Milton Henry Limbert	3,965
	Reconstruction	William Robert Mason	1,245

1940 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Arthur Slaght	5,850
	National Government	A. Coulter McLean	4,159
	New Democracy (Canada)	Clarence E. Culbert	786

1945 Canadian federal election: Parry Sound
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Wilfred McDonald	5,301
	Progressive Conservative	A. Coulter McLean	4,909
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Earle Torrie Taylor	1,951

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Website of the Parliament of Canada