6th Parliament of Ontario

The 6th Parliament of Ontario was in session from December 29, 1886, until April 26, 1890, just prior to the 1890 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Oliver Mowat.

Jacob Baxter served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Members of the Assembly

	Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected	Comments
	Addington	John Stewart Miller	Conservative	1886
	Algoma East	Robert Adam Lyon	Liberal	1878
	Algoma West	James Conmee	Liberal	1885
	Brant North	William Bruce Wood	Liberal	1886
	Brant South	Arthur Sturgis Hardy	Liberal	1873	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry until January 18, 1889; Commissioner of Crown Lands in Mowat ministry after January 18, 1889[2]
	Brockville	Christopher Finlay Fraser	Conservative	1872	Commissioner of Public Works in Mowat ministry[3]
	Bruce Centre	Walter MacMorris Dack	Liberal	1886
	Bruce North	John Walter Scott Biggar	Conservative	1886
	Bruce South	Hamilton Parke O'Connor	Liberal	1882
	Cardwell	William Henry Hammell	Conservative	1883
	Carleton	George William Monk	Conservative	1871
	Cornwall and Stormont	William Mack	Liberal	1879, 1886
	Dufferin	Falkner Cornwall Stewart	Conservative	1886
	Dundas	Theodore F. Chamberlain	Liberal	1886	unseated April 23, 1887 after an appeal[4]
	James Pliny Whitney (1888)	Conservative	1888	elected January 31, 1888[5]
	Durham East	Thomas Dixon Craig	Conservative	1886
	Durham West	James Wellington McLaughlin	Liberal	1879
	Elgin East	Thomas McIntyre Nairn	Liberal	1879, 1886	died June 1, 1888[6]
	James Charles Dance (1888)	Liberal	1888	elected October 26, 1888[7]
	Elgin West	Andrew B. Ingram	Conservative	1886
	Essex North	Gaspard Pacaud	Liberal	1886
	Essex South	William Douglas Balfour	Liberal	1882
	Frontenac	Henry Wilmot	Conservative	1883	died July 1, 1888[8]
	Hugh Smith (1888)	Conservative	1888	elected October 11, 1888[9]
	Glengarry	James Rayside	Liberal	1882
	Grenville	Frederick John French	Conservative	1879
	Grey Centre	Joseph Rorke	Conservative	1886
	Grey North	David Creighton	Conservative	1875
	Grey South	John Blythe	Conservative	1883
	Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal	1867	Speaker
	Halton	William Kerns	Conservative	1883
	Hamilton	John Morison Gibson	Liberal	1879	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Mowat ministry after January 18, 1889[10]
	Hastings East	William Parker Hudson	Conservative	1883
	Hastings North	Alpheus Field Wood	Conservative	1883
	Hastings West	Gilbert Wellington Ostrom	Conservative	1886
	Huron East	Thomas Gibson	Liberal	1871
	Huron South	Archibald Bishop	Liberal	1873
	Huron West	Alexander McLagan Ross	Liberal	1875	Treasurer in Mowat ministry; Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry until May 1, 1888[11]
	Kent East	Robert Ferguson	Liberal	1885
	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 until January 18, 1889;[12] died January 18, 1888
	Charles MacKenzie (1889)	Liberal	1889	elected October 19, 1889[13]
	Lanark North	Daniel Hilliard	Liberal	1886	died June 1, 1888[14]
	William Clyde Caldwell (1888)	Liberal	1872, 1879, 1888	elected August 23, 1888[15]
	Lanark South	William Lees	Conservative	1879
	Leeds	Robert Henry Preston	Conservative	1875, 1883
	Lennox	Walter William Meacham	Conservative	1886
	Lincoln	William Garson	Liberal	1886
	London	William Ralph Meredith	Conservative	1872	Leader of the Opposition
	Middlesex East	Richard Tooley	Conservative	1871, 1886
	Middlesex North	John Waters	Liberal	1879
	Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal	1883	Minister of Education in Mowat ministry[16]
	Monck	Richard Harcourt	Liberal	1879
	Muskoka	George Frederick Marter	Conservative	1886
	Norfolk North	John Bailey Freeman	Liberal	1879
	Norfolk South	William Morgan	Conservative	1879
	Northumberland East	William Arnson Willoughby	Conservative	1886	unseated February 1, 1888;[17]
		Richard Clarke (1888)	Liberal	1888	seated February 1, 1888; died August 7, 1888[18]
	William Arnson Willoughby (1888)	Conservative	1886, 1888	elected October 11, 1888[19]
	Northumberland West	Corelli Collard Field	Liberal	1886
	Ontario North	Isaac James Gould	Liberal	1883
	Ontario South	John Dryden	Liberal	1879
	Ottawa	Erskine Henry Bronson	Liberal	1886
	Oxford North	Oliver Mowat	Liberal	1872	Premier and Attorney General in Mowat ministry[20]
	Oxford South	Angus McKay	Liberal	1886
	Parry Sound	Samuel Armstrong	Independent	1886
	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	James Robert Stratton	Liberal	1886
	Prescott	Francis Eugene Alfred Evanturel	Liberal	1886
	Prince Edward	John Allison Sprague	Liberal	1886
	Renfrew North	Thomas Murray	Liberal	1869, 1879, 1883
	Renfrew South	John Alfred McAndrew	Liberal	1886
	Russell	Alexander Robillard	Liberal	1886
	Simcoe Centre	Orson James Phelps	Liberal	1883
	Simcoe East	Charles Alfred Drury	Liberal	1882	Commissioner of Agriculture in Mowat ministry after May 1, 1888[21]
	Simcoe West	Thomas Wylie	Conservative	1886
	Toronto[nb 1]	Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative	1886
	Toronto	Henry Edward Clarke	Conservative	1883
	Toronto	John Leys	Liberal	1886
	Victoria East	John Fell	Conservative	1883
	Victoria West	John Saunders Cruess	Conservative	1886
	Waterloo North	Elias Weber Bingeman Snider	Liberal	1881
	Waterloo South	Isaac Master	Liberal	1877, 1882
	Welland	James E. Morin	Liberal	1883
	Wellington East	Charles Clarke	Liberal	1871
	Wellington South	Donald Guthrie	Liberal	1886
	Wellington West	Absalom Shade Allan	Liberal	1886
	Wentworth North	James McMahon	Liberal	1875
	Wentworth South	Nicholas Awrey	Liberal	1879
	York East	George Byron Smith	Liberal	1886
	York North	Joseph Henry Widdifield	Liberal	1875	resigned March 5, 1888 after being appointed sheriff
	Elihu James Davis (1888)	Liberal	1888	elected May 23, 1888[22]
	York West	John Taylor Gilmour	Liberal	1886

Notes

1. Toronto district had 3 MPPs, elected through Limited Voting in a single contest.