5th Parliament of Ontario

The 5th Parliament of Ontario was in session from February 27, 1883, until November 15, 1886, just prior to the 1886 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Oliver Mowat.

Charles Clarke served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Members of the Assembly

	Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected	Comments
	Addington	George Denison	Conservative	1883
	Algoma[a]	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal	1878
	Algoma East	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal	1878
	Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal	1885	elected June 26, 1885[2]
	Brant	James Young	Liberal	1879	Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry from June 2 to November 2, 1883[3]
	Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal	1873	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry[4]
	Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative	1872	Commissioner of Public Works in Mowat ministry[5]
	Bruce North	John Gillies	Independent-Liberal	1883
	Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal	1882
	Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative	1883
	Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative	1871
	Cornwall	Alexander Peter Ross	Conservative	1883
	Dufferin	Robert McGhee	Conservative	1883
	Dundas	Andrew Broder	Conservative	1875
	Durham East	Charles Herbert Brereton	Conservative	1882
	Durham West	James Wellington McLaughlin	Liberal	1879
	Elgin East	Charles Oaks Ermatinger	Conservative	1883
	Elgin West	John Cascaden	Liberal	1879
	Essex North	Solomon White	Conservative	1878
	Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal	1882
	Frontenac	Henry Wilmot	Conservative	1883
	Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal	1882
	Grenville South	Frederick John French	Conservative	1879
	Grey East	Abram William Lauder	Conservative	1867	died February 20, 1884[6] (his first name may be Abraham)
	Neil McColman (1884)	Conservative	1884	elected March 18, 1884[7]
	Grey North	David Creighton	Conservative	1875
	Grey South	John Blythe	Conservative	1883
	Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal	1867
	Halton	William Kerns	Conservative	1883
	Hamilton	John Morison Gibson	Liberal	1879
	Hastings East	William Parker Hudson	Conservative	1883
	Hastings North	Alpheus Field Wood	Conservative	1883
	Hastings West	Ephraim George Sills	Liberal	1883
	Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal	1871
	Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal	1873
	Huron West	Alexander McLagan Ross	Liberal	1875	Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry after November 2, 1883[8]
	Kent East	Daniel McCraney	Liberal	1875	died February 28, 1885[9]
	Robert Ferguson (1885)	Liberal	1885	elected June 20, 1885[10]
	Kent West	James Clancy	Conservative	1883
	Kingston	James Henry Metcalfe	Conservative	1879
	Lambton East	Peter Graham	Liberal	1875
	Lambton West	Timothy Blair Pardee	Liberal	1867	Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry[11]
	Lanark North	William Clyde Caldwell	Liberal	1872, 1879
	Lanark South	William Lees	Independent	1879
	Leeds North and Grenville North	Henry Merrick	Conservative	1871
	Leeds South	Robert Henry Preston	Conservative	1875, 1883
	Lennox	Alexander Hall Roe	Liberal	1883	died July 12, 1884[12]
	George Douglas Hawley (1884)	Liberal	1879, 1884	elected August 25, 1884[13]
	Lincoln	Sylvester Neelon	Liberal	1875, 1879
	London	William Ralph Meredith	Conservative	1872	Leader of the Opposition
	Middlesex East	Donald MacKenzie	Liberal	1883
	Middlesex North	John Waters	Liberal	1879
	Middlesex West	Alexander Johnston	Conservative	1883	unseated November 15, 1883(?) after an appeal[14]
	George William Ross (1883)	Liberal	1883	elected December 14, 1883 Minister of Education in Mowat ministry after November 23, 1883[15]
	Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal	1879
	Muskoka and Parry Sound	Frederick G. Fauquier	Conservative	1883	unseated November 15, 1883(?) after an appeal[16]
	Jacob William Dill (1884)	Liberal	1884	elected July 23, 1884[17]
	Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman	Liberal	1879
	Norfolk South	William Morgan	Conservative	1879
	Northumberland East	James Marshall Ferris	Liberal	1875
	Northumberland West	Robert Mulholland	Conservative	1883
	Ontario North	Isaac James Gould	Liberal	1883
	Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal	1879
	Ottawa	Patrick Baskerville	Conservative	1879
	Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal	1872	Premier and Attorney General in Mowat ministry[18]
	Oxford South	Adam Crooks	Liberal	1871,[b] 1875	Minister of Education in Mowat ministry until November 23, 1883[19] resigned from legislative assembly February 14, 1884
	George Atwell Cooke (1884)	Liberal	1884	elected March 5, 1884[20]
	Peel	Kenneth Chisholm	Liberal	1873
	Perth North	John George Hess	Conservative	1883
	Perth South	Thomas Ballantyne	Liberal	1875
	Peterborough East	Thomas Blezard	Liberal	1879
	Peterborough West	John Carnegie	Conservative	1867, 1883
	Prescott	Albert Peter Hagar	Liberal	1881
	Prince Edward	James Hart	Independent-Liberal	1883
	Renfrew North	Thomas Murray	Liberal	1869, 1879, 1883
	Renfrew South	John Francis Dowling	Liberal	1883
	Russell	Honoré Robillard	Liberal-Conservative	1883
	Simcoe East	Charles Alfred Drury	Liberal	1882
	Simcoe South	George Prevost McKay	Conservative	1883
	Simcoe West	Orson James Phelps	Liberal	1883
	Stormont	Joseph Kerr	Conservative	1879
	Toronto East	Alexander Morris	Conservative	1879
	Toronto West	Henry Edward Clarke	Conservative	1883
	Victoria North	John Fell	Conservative	1883
	Victoria South	Duncan John McIntyre	Liberal	1883
	Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal	1881
	Waterloo South	Isaac Master	Liberal	1877, 1882
	Welland	James E. Morin	Liberal	1883
	Wellington Centre	Charles Clarke	Liberal	1871	Speaker
	Wellington South	James Laidlaw	Liberal	1879
	Wellington West	Robert McKim	Liberal	1867,[c] 1879
	Wentworth North	James McMahon	Liberal	1875
	Wentworth South	Nicholas Awrey	Liberal	1879
	York East	George Badgerow	Liberal	1879
	York North	Joseph Henry Widdifield	Liberal	1875
	York West	John Gray	Conservative	1883

Notes

1. Algoma split into Algoma East and West on February 1, 1885
2. Toronto West
3. Wellington North