14th Parliament of Ontario

The 14th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 29, 1914, until September 23, 1919, just prior to the 1919 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Conservative Party led by Sir James P. Whitney.

William Howard Hearst became party leader and Premier after the death of James P. Whitney in September 1914.

David Jamieson served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Members of the Assembly

	Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected
	Addington	William David Black	Conservative	1911
	Algoma	Albert Grigg	Conservative	1908
	John Morrow Robb (1915)	Conservative	1915
	Brant	Thomas Scott Davidson	Liberal	1914
	Brant South	Joseph Henry Ham	Liberal	1914
	Brockville	Albert Edward Donovan	Conservative	1907
	Bruce North	William MacDonald	Liberal	1911
	Bruce South	Wellington David Cargill	Conservative	1914
	Bruce West	Charles Martin Bowman	Liberal	1898
	Carleton	Robert Herbert McElroy	Conservative	1907
	Cochrane	Malcolm Lang	Liberal	1914
	Dufferin	Charles Robert McKeown	Conservative	1907
	Dundas	James Pliny Whitney	Conservative	1888
	Irwin Foster Hilliard (1914)	Conservative	1914
	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	Severin Ducharme	Liberal	1914
	Essex South	Lambert Peter Wigle	Liberal	1914
	Fort William	Charles William Jarvis	Conservative	1911
	Frontenac	Anthony McGuin Rankin	Conservative	1911
	Glengarry	Hugh Munro	Liberal	1911
	Grenville	George Howard Ferguson	Conservative	1905
	Grey Centre	Isaac Benson Lucas	Conservative	1898
	Grey North	Colin Stewart Cameron	Conservative	1913
	Grey South	David Jamieson	Conservative	1898
	Haldimand	William Jaques	Conservative	1914
	Halton	Alfred Westland Nixon	Conservative	1905
	Hamilton East	Allan Studholme	Labour	1906
	Hamilton West	John Strathearn Hendrie	Conservative	1902
	John Allan (1914)	Conservative	1914
	Hastings East	Sandy Grant	Conservative	1911
	Hastings North	John Robert Cooke	Conservative	1911
	Hastings West	John Wesley Johnson	Conservative	1908
	Huron Centre	William Proudfoot	Liberal	1908
	Huron North	Armstrong Musgrove	Conservative	1908
	William Henry Fraser (1918)	Liberal	1918
	Huron South	Henry Eilber	Conservative	1898
	Kenora	Harold Arthur Clement Machin	Conservative	1908
	Kent East	Walter Renwick Ferguson	Liberal	1911
	Kent West	George William Sulman	Conservative	1908
	Kingston	Arthur Edward Ross	Conservative	1911
	Lambton East	John Burton Martyn	Conservative	1914
	Lambton West	William John Hanna	Conservative	1902
	Lanark North	Richard Franklin Preston	Conservative	1894, 1905
	Lanark South	Francis William Hall	Conservative	1914
	Leeds	John Robertson Dargavel	Conservative	1905
	Lennox	Thomas George Carscallen	Conservative	1902
	Reginald Amherst Fowler (1918)	Conservative	1918
	Lincoln	Thomas A. Marshall	Liberal	1898
	London	Adam Beck	Conservative	1902
	Manitoulin	Robert Roswell Gamey	Conservative	1902
	Beniah Bowman (1918)	United Farmers	1918
	Middlesex East	John McFarlan	Conservative	1913
	Middlesex North	John Grieve	Liberal	1914
	Middlesex West	John Campbell Elliott	Liberal	1908
	Muskoka	Samuel Henry Armstrong	Conservative	1912
	George Walter Ecclestone (1916)	Conservative	1916
	Niagara Falls	George Musgrove	Conservative	1914
	Nipissing	Henri Morel	Conservative	1908
	Norfolk North	Thomas Robert Atkinson	Liberal	1905, 1911
	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
	John Wesley Widdifield (1919)	United Farmers	1919
	Ontario South	Charles Calder	Conservative	1898, 1905, 1914
	Ottawa East	Joseph Albert Pinard	Liberal	1914
	Ottawa West	George Charles Hurdman	Liberal	1914
	Oxford North	Newton Wesley Rowell	Liberal	1911
	John Alexander Calder (1918)	Liberal	1918
	Oxford South	Victor Albert Sinclair	Conservative	1914
	Parkdale	William Herbert Price	Conservative	1914
	Parry Sound	Joseph Edgar	Conservative	1914
	Peel	James Robinson Fallis	Conservative	1913
	William James Lowe (1916)	Liberal	1916
	Perth North	James Torrance	Conservative	1905
	Francis Wellington Hay (1916)	Liberal	1916
	Perth South	John Benneweis	Conservative	1911
	Peterborough East	James Thompson	Conservative	1908
	Peterborough West	George Alexander Gillespie	Liberal	1914
	Port Arthur	Donald McDonald Hogarth	Conservative	1911
	Prescott	Gustave Évanturel	Independent-Liberal	1911
	Prince Edward	Nelson Parliament	Liberal	1914
	Rainy River	James Arthur Mathieu	Conservative	1911
	Renfrew North	Edward Arunah Dunlop	Conservative	1903, 1911
	Renfrew South	Thomas William McGarry	Conservative	1905
	Riverdale	Joseph Russell	Conservative	1914
	Russell	Damase Racine	Liberal	1905
	Sault Ste. Marie	William Howard Hearst	Conservative	1908
	Simcoe Centre	Alfred Burke Thompson	Conservative	1898, 1905
	Simcoe East	James Irwin Hartt	Conservative	1911
	Simcoe South	Alexander Ferguson	Conservative	1906
	Simcoe West	James Stoddart Duff	Conservative	1898
	William Torrance Allen (1917)	Conservative	1917
	St. Catharines	Elisha Jessop	Conservative	1898
	Frederick Raymond Parnell (1919)	Conservative	1919
	Stormont	Robert Austin Shearer	Conservative	1914
	Sturgeon Falls	Zotique Mageau	Liberal	1911
	Sudbury	Charles McCrea	Conservative	1911
	Timiskaming	Thomas Magladery	Conservative	1914
	Toronto Northeast - A	Robert Allan Pyne	Conservative	1898
	Henry John Cody (1918)	Conservative	1918
	Toronto Northeast - B	Mark Howard Irish	Conservative	1914
	Toronto Northwest - A	Thomas Crawford	Conservative	1894
	Toronto Northwest - B	William David McPherson	Conservative	1908
	Toronto Southeast - A	Edward William James Owens	Conservative	1911
	Toronto Southeast - B	Thomas Hook	Conservative	1914
	Toronto Southwest - A	James Joseph Foy	Conservative	1898
	Herbert Hartley Dewart (1916)	Liberal	1916
	Toronto Southwest - B	George Horace Gooderham	Conservative	1908
	Victoria North	Robert Mercer Mason	Conservative	1909
	Victoria South	John Carew	Conservative	1914
	Waterloo North	Charles Henry Mills	Conservative	1912
	Waterloo South	Zachariah Adam Hall	Conservative	1914
	Welland	Donald Sharpe	Conservative	1914
	Wellington East	Udney Richardson	Liberal	1911
	Wellington South	Samuel Carter	Liberal-Prohibitionist	1914
	Wellington West	William Clarke Chambers	Conservative	1911
	Wentworth North	Arthur Frederick Rykert	Conservative	1914
	Wentworth South	James Thomas Hammill Regan	Conservative	1911
	Windsor	James Craig Tolmie	Liberal	1914
	York East	George Stewart Henry	Conservative	1913
	York North	Thomas Herbert Lennox	Conservative	1905
	York West	Forbes Godfrey	Conservative	1907

Timeline

14th Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Movement in seats held (1914-1919)

Party		1914	Gain/(loss) due to				1919
			Death in office	Resignation as MPP	Byelection gain	Byelection hold
	Conservative	84	(8)	(5)		8	79
	Liberal	24		(1)	3	1	27
	United Farmers	–			2		2
	Independent Liberal	1					1
	Labour	1					1
	Liberal-Temperance	1					1
Total		111	(8)	(6)	5	9	111

Changes in seats held (1914–1919)

Seat	Before				Change
	Date	Member	Party	Reason	Date	Member	Party
Hamilton West	September 25, 1914	John Strathearn Hendrie	█ Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant Governor	November 18, 1914	John Allan	█ Conservative
Dundas	September 25, 1914	James Pliny Whitney	█ Conservative	Died in office	December 7, 1914	Irwin Foster Hilliard	█ Conservative
Algoma	October 7, 1915	Albert Grigg	█ Conservative	Appointed Deputy Minister	February 24, 1916	John Morrow Robb	█ Conservative
Peel	January 28, 1916	James Robinson Fallis	█ Conservative	Resigned to contest by-election	February 24, 1916	William James Lowe	█ Liberal
Muskoka	May 15, 1916	Samuel Henry Armstrong	█ Conservative	Died in office	June 12, 1916	George Walter Ecclestone	█ Conservative
Perth North	June 13, 1916	James Torrance	█ Conservative	Accepted federal Customs appointment	July 10, 1916	Francis Wellington Hay	█ Liberal
Toronto Southwest - A	June 13, 1916	James Joseph Foy	█ Conservative	Died in office	August 21, 1916	Herbert Hartley Dewart	█ Liberal
Simcoe West	November 17, 1916	James Stoddart Duff	█ Conservative	Died in office	January 15, 1917	William Torrance Allen	█ Conservative
Lennox	March 15, 1917	Thomas George Carscallen	█ Conservative	Died in office	August 29, 1918	Reginald Amherst Fowler	█ Conservative
Manitoulin	March 19, 1917	Robert Roswell Gamey	█ Conservative	Died in office	October 24, 1918	Beniah Bowman	█ United Farmers
Toronto Northeast - A	May 23, 1918	Robert Allan Pyne	█ Conservative	Accepted municipal appointment	August 19, 1918	Henry John Cody	█ Conservative
Oxford North	September 6, 1918	Newton Wesley Rowell	█ Liberal	Entered federal politics	September 23, 1918	John Alexander Calder	█ Liberal
Ontario North	October 27, 1918	William Henry Hoyle	█ Conservative	Died in office	February 18, 1919	John Wesley Widdifield	█ United Farmers
St. Catharines	October 24, 1918	Elisha Jessop	█ Conservative	Died in office	February 15, 1919	Frederick Raymond Parnell	█ Conservative