1st Parliament of Ontario

The 1st Parliament of Ontario was in session from September 3, 1867, until February 25, 1871, just prior to the 1871 general election. This was the first session of the Legislature after Confederation succeeding the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (last session was the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada).

1st Parliament of Ontario
Coalition parliament
September 3, 1867 – February 25, 1871
Parliament leaders
Premier	John Sandfield Macdonald
Party caucuses
Government	Conservative Party
Opposition	Liberal Party
* Coalition government
Legislative Assembly
Speaker of the Assembly	John Stevenson
→ 2nd

The 1867 general election produced a virtual tie between the Conservative Party led by John Sandfield Macdonald and the Liberal Party led informally by Archibald McKellar. Macdonald ended up securing the Premiership by leading a coalition government with the support of moderate Liberals. His Cabinet, nicknamed the Patent Combination, included two conservatives (John Carling and Matthew Crooks Cameron), a coalition Grit (Edmund Burke Wood) and two old school Baldwinite Reformers (Sandfield Macdonald himself and Stephen Richards). The first ministry would survive the first parliament by less than a year, resigning in December 1871.

In the first several years of Confederation, individuals could be elected to both federal and provincial parliaments and serve as MPs and MPPs at the same time. In the first Parliament of Ontario, provincial cabinet ministers John Sandfield Macdonald, Edmund Burke Wood, and John Carling all sat in both parliaments, as did Edward Blake, Thomas Roberts Ferguson, John Lorn McDougall (after 1869) and Frederick William Cumberland (after 1871). Generally, they represented the same riding, but it was not necessarily so; for example, Edward Blake represented Bruce South in the provincial parliament but Durham West at the federal level.

John Stevenson served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Below is a list of members of Ontario's first parliament. Bolded names are cabinet ministers; Capitalized names also sat in federal parliament.

Members

	Riding	Member	Party	First elected	Comments
	Addington	Edmund John Glyn Hooper	Conservative	1867
	Algoma	FREDERICK WILLIAM CAMERON	Conservative	1867
	Bothwell	Archibald McKellar	Liberal	1867	Informal Leader of the Opposition, 1867 to c. 1868
	Brant	Hugh Finlayson	Liberal	1867
	Brant South	EDMUND BURKE WOOD	Conservative	1867	Treasurer in Sandfield Macdonald ministry[2]
	Brockville and Elizabethtown	William Fitzsimmons	Conservative	1867
	Bruce North	Donald Sinclair	Liberal	1867
	Bruce South	EDWARD BLAKE	Liberal	1867	Informal Leader of the Opposition, c. 1868 to 1872
	Cardwell	Thomas Swinarton	Conservative	1867
	Carleton	Robert Lyon	Liberal	1867
	Cornwall	JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD	Conservative-Liberal coalition	1867	Premier and Attorney General in Sandfield Macdonald Ministry[3]
	Dundas	Simon S. Cook	Liberal	1867
	Durham East	Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams	Conservative	1867
	Durham West	John McLeod	Liberal	1867
	Elgin East	Daniel Luton	Conservative	1867
	Elgin West	Nicol McColl	Conservative	1867
	Essex	Solomon Wigle	Conservative	1867
	Frontenac	Henry Smith	Conservative	1867	died September 18, 1868[4]
	Delino Dexter Calvin (1868)	Conservative	1868	elected October 19, 1868[5]
	Glengarry	James Craig	Conservative	1867
	Grenville South	Mcneil Clarke	Conservative	1867
	Grey North	Thomas Scott	Conservative	1867
	Grey South	Abram William Lauder	Conservative	1867
	Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal	1867
	Halton	William Barber	Liberal	1867
	Hamilton	James Miller Williams	Liberal	1867
	Hastings East	Henry Corby	Conservative	1867
	Hastings North	George Henry Boulter	Conservative	1867
	Hastings West	Ketchum Graham	Conservative	1867
	Huron North	William Torrance Hays	Conservative	1867
	Huron South	Robert Gibbons	Conservative	1867	unseated December 9, 1868 on appeal of election results[6]
	Isaac Carling (1868)	Liberal	1868	elected 1868?[7]
	Kent	John Smith	Liberal	1867
	Kingston	Maxwell W. Strange	Conservative	1867
	Lambton	Timothy Blair Pardee	Liberal	1867
	Lanark North	Daniel Galbraith	Liberal	1867
	Lanark South	William McNairn Shaw	Conservative	1867	died January 6, 1869[8]
	Abraham Code (1869)	Conservative	1869	elected February 6, 1869[9]
	Leed North and Grenville North	Henry Dolphus Smith	Liberal	1867
	Leeds South	Benjamin Tett	Conservative	1867
	Lennox	John Stevenson	Conservative	1867	Speaker
	Lincoln	John Charles Rykert	Conservative	1867
	London	JOHN CARLING	Conservative	1867	Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works in Sandfield Macdonald ministry[10]
	Middlesex East	James Evans	Liberal	1867
	Middlesex North	James Sinclair Smith	Liberal	1867
	Middlesex West	Nathaniel Currie	Conservative	1867
	Monck	George Secord	Conservative	1867
	Niagara	Donald Robertson	Conservative	1867	resigned December 27, 1867 to allow Stephen Richards an opportunity to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly[11]
	Stephen Richards (1867)	Conservative	1867	elected December 11, 1867; Commissioner of Crown Lands in Sandfield Macdonald ministry[12]
	Norfolk North	James Wilson	Conservative	1867
	Norfolk South	Simpson McCall	Liberal	1867
	Northumberland East	John Eyre	Liberal	1867
	Northumberland West	Alexander Fraser	Liberal	1867
	Ontario North	Thomas Paxton	Liberal	1867
	Ontario South	William McGill	Liberal	1867
	Ottawa	Richard William Scott	Liberal	1867
	Oxford North	George Perry	Liberal	1867
	Oxford South	Adam Oliver	Liberal	1867
	Peel	John Coyne	Conservative	1867
	Perth North	Andrew Monteith	Conservative	1867
	Perth South	James Trow	Liberal	1867
	Peterborough East	George Read	Conservative	1867
	Peterborough West	John Carnegie	Conservative	1867
	Prescott	James P. Boyd	Liberal	1867
	Prince Edward	Absalom Greeley	Conservative	1867	resigned December 7, 1870[13]
	William Anderson (1870)	Liberal	1870	elected June 30, 1870[14]
	Renfrew North	John Supple	Liberal	1867	died October 22, 1869[15]
	Thomas Murray (1870)	Conservative	1869	elected December 5, 1869[16]
	Renfrew South	JOHN LORN MCDOUGALL	Liberal	1867
	Russell	William Craig	Conservative	1867
	Simcoe North	William Lount	Liberal	1867
	Simcoe South	THOMAS ROBERTS FERGUSON	Conservative	1867
	Stormont	William Colquhoun	Conservative	1867
	Toronto East	Matthew Crooks Cameron	Conservative	1867	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Sandfield Macdonald ministry[17]
	Toronto West	John Wallis	Conservative	1867
	Victoria North	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1867
	Victoria South	Thomas Matchett	Liberal	1867
	Waterloo North	Moses Springer	Liberal	1867
	Waterloo South	Isaac Clemens	Liberal	1867
	Welland	William Beatty	Liberal	1867
	Wellington Centre	Alexander David Ferrier	Conservative	1867
	Wellington North	Robert McKim	Liberal	1867
	Wellington South	Peter Gow	Liberal	1867
	Wentworth North	Robert Christie	Liberal	1867
	Wentworth South	William Sexton	Liberal	1867
	York East	Hugh Powell Crosby	Liberal	1867
	York North	John McMurrich	Liberal	1867
	York West	Thomas Grahame	Conservative	1867