Bruce North (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Bruce North (provincial electoral district).

Bruce North was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1935 and was created by the British North America Act 1867, which divided the county of Bruce into two ridings: Bruce North and Bruce South.

Bruce North

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1933
First contested	1867
Last contested	1930

Geography

The North Riding of Bruce consisted initially of the Townships of Bury, Lindsay, Eastnor, Albemarle, Amabel, Arran, Bruce, Elderslie, and Saugeen, and the Village of Southampton.

In 1882, the riding was redefined to exclude the Townships of Bury, Bruce, and Saugeen, and include the township of St. Edmunds and the villages of Wiarton, Chesley, Tara, Paisley and Port Elgin. In 1892, it was redefined to include the Saugeen and Cape Croker Indian reserves.

In 1903, it was redefined as consisting of the townships of Albemarle, Amabel, Arran, Bruce, Eastnor, Kincardine, Lindsay, Saugeen and St. Edmunds, the towns of Kincardine and Wiarton, and the villages of Port Elgin, Southampton, Tara and Tiverton.

In 1924, it was redefined as consisting of the part of the county of Bruce lying north of and including the townships of Kincardine, Bruce, Saugeen and Arran.

The electoral district was abolished in 1933 when it was merged into Bruce riding.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
1st	1867–1872		Alexander Sproat	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874		John Gillies	Liberal
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887		Alexander McNeill	Liberal–Conservative
6th	1887–1891
7th	1891–1896
8th	1896–1900
9th	1900–1900
	1901–1904		James Halliday	Conservative
10th	1904–1906†		Leonard Thomas Bland	Liberal–Conservative
	1906–1908		John Tolmie	Liberal
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917		Hugh Clark	Conservative
13th	1917–1921			Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		James Malcolm	Liberal
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1926
	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
Riding dissolved into Bruce

Election results

1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Alexander Sproat	862
	Unknown	R. Douglas	852
Eligible voters			2,913
Source: Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1871[1]

1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Gillies	974
	Conservative	Alexander Sproat	951
Source: Canadian Elections Database[2]

1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Gillies	acclaimed

1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Gillies	1,705
	Conservative	Alexander Sproat	1,549
Source: Canadian Elections Database[3]

1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Alexander McNeill	1,250
	Liberal	John Gillies[4]	1,162

1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Alexander McNeill	1,796
	Liberal	Hector Alex Bonnar	1,683

1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Alexander McNeill	1,862
	Liberal	Hector Alex Bonnar	1,832

1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Alexander McNeill	1,702
	Liberal	Hector A. Bonnar	1,671
	Protestant Protective	Henry T. Potts	991

1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Alex McNeill	2,065
	Liberal	J. E. Campbell	2,064

On Mr. McNeill's election being declared void, 2 December 1900:

By-election on 20 March 1901
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	James Halliday	2,289
	Liberal	James E. Campbell	2,278

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	L. T. Bland	2,832
	Liberal	J. E. Campbell	2,725

On Mr. Bland's death, 19 August 1906:

By-election on 30 October 1906
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Tolmie	2,606
	Conservative	A. McLelland	2,135

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Tolmie	2,774
	Liberal–Conservative	Alexander McNeil	2,435

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hugh Clark	2,526
	Liberal	John Tolmie	2,444

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	Hugh Clark	4,269
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	John MacAulay	2,579

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	James Malcolm	4,178
	Progressive	Richmond Earl Stacey	3,704
	Conservative	Hugh Clark	2,553

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	James Malcolm	3,839
	Conservative	Hugh Clark	3,646
	Progressive	Nathan Stevenson Landon	2,351

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	James Malcolm	5,447
	Conservative	Hugh Clark	4,959
	Independent	William Smellie	53

On acceptance by James Malcolm of an office of emolument under the Crown, 22 October 1926:

By-election on 9 November 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Hon. James Malcolm	acclaimed

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Hon. James Malcolm	5,620
	Conservative	William Mitchell	5,543

See also

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