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	\| ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/edmund-burke-wood\|title=Edmund Burke Wood \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\| ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/edmund-burke-wood\|title=Edmund Burke Wood \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\| elected 1868?<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/isaac-carling\|title=Isaac Carling \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\| elected 1868?<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/isaac-carling\|title=Isaac Carling \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\| ] and ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/john-carling\|title=John Carling \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\| ] and ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/john-carling\|title=John Carling \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\|resigned December 27, 1867 to allow '''Stephen Richards''' an opportunity to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/donald-robertson\|title=Donald Robertson \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\|resigned December 27, 1867 to allow '''Stephen Richards''' an opportunity to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/donald-robertson\|title=Donald Robertson \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\|elected December 11, 1867;<br> ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/stephen-richards\|title=Stephen Richards \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=December 11, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\|elected December 11, 1867;<br> ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/stephen-richards\|title=Stephen Richards \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\| ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/matthew-crooks-cameron\|title=Matthew Crooks Cameron \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\| ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/matthew-crooks-cameron\|title=Matthew Crooks Cameron \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\| ] and ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/john-sandfield-macdonald\|title=John Sandfield Macdonald \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\| ] and ] in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/john-sandfield-macdonald\|title=John Sandfield Macdonald \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\| died September 18, 1868<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/henry-smith\|title=Henry Smith \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\| died September 18, 1868<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/henry-smith\|title=Henry Smith \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\|elected October 19, 1868<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/delino-dexter-calvin\|title=Delino Dexter Calvin \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=October 19, 1868~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\|elected October 19, 1868<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/delino-dexter-calvin\|title=Delino Dexter Calvin \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\|died January 6, 1869<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/william-mcnairn-shaw\|title=William McNairn Shaw \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\|died January 6, 1869<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/william-mcnairn-shaw\|title=William McNairn Shaw \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\|elected February 6, 1869<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/abraham-code\|title=Abraham Code \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=February 6, 1869~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\|elected February 6, 1869<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/abraham-code\|title=Abraham Code \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\|resigned December 7, 1870<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/absalom-greeley\|title=Absalom Greeley \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\|resigned December 7, 1870<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/absalom-greeley\|title=Absalom Greeley \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\|elected June 30, 1870<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/william-anderson\|title=William Anderson \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=June 30, 1870~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\|elected June 30, 1870<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/william-anderson\|title=William Anderson \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\| died October 22, 1869<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/john-supple\|title=John Supple \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=September 3, 1867~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\| died October 22, 1869<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/john-supple\|title=John Supple \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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	\|elected December 5, 1869<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/thomas-murray\|title=Thomas Murray \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario~~\|date=December 5, 1869~~\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>		\|elected December 5, 1869<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/thomas-murray\|title=Thomas Murray \| Legislative Assembly of Ontario\|website=www.ola.org}}</ref>
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1st Parliament of Ontario

Coalition parliament

3 September 1867 – 25 February 1871

Parliament leaders

Premier

John Sandfield Macdonald

Party caucuses

* Coalition government

Legislative Assembly

Speaker of the
Assembly

John Stevenson

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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).

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.

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

Western Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Bothwell	Archibald McKellar	Liberal	Informal Leader of the Opposition, 1867 to c. 1868
Brant	Hugh Finlayson	Liberal
Brant South	EDMUND BURKE WOOD	Conservative	Treasurer in Sandfield Macdonald ministry
Bruce North	Donald Sinclair	Liberal
Bruce South	EDWARD BLAKE	Liberal	Informal Leader of the Opposition, c. 1868 to 1872
Elgin East	Daniel Luton	Conservative
Elgin West	Nicol McColl	Conservative
Essex	Solomon Wigle	Conservative
Grey North	Thomas Scott	Conservative
Grey South	Abram William Lauder	Conservative
Haldimand	Jacob Baxter	Liberal
Huron North	William Torrance Hays	Conservative
Huron South	Robert Gibbons	Conservative	unseated December 9, 1868 on appeal of election results
Huron South	Isaac Carling (1868)	Liberal	elected 1868?
Kent	John Smith	Liberal
Lambton	Timothy Blair Pardee	Liberal
London	JOHN CARLING	Conservative	Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works in Sandfield Macdonald ministry
Middlesex East	James Evans	Liberal
Middlesex North	James Sinclair Smith	Liberal
Middlesex West	Nathaniel Currie	Conservative
Norfolk North	James Wilson	Conservative
Norfolk South	Simpson McCall	Liberal
Oxford North	George Perry	Liberal
Oxford South	Adam Oliver	Liberal
Perth North	Andrew Monteith	Conservative
Perth South	James Trow	Liberal
Waterloo North	Moses Springer	Liberal
Waterloo South	Isaac Clemens	Liberal
Wellington Centre	Alexander David Ferrier	Conservative
Wellington North	Robert McKim	Liberal
Wellington South	Peter Gow	Liberal
Wentworth North	Robert Christie	Liberal
Wentworth South	William Sexton	Liberal

Central and Northern Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Algoma	FREDERICK WILLIAM CAMERON	Conservative
Cardwell	Thomas Swinarton	Conservative
Durham East	Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams	Conservative
Durham West	John McLeod	Liberal
Halton	William Barber	Liberal
Hamilton	James Miller Williams	Liberal
Lincoln	John Charles Rykert	Conservative
Monck	George Secord	Conservative
Niagara	Donald Robertson	Conservative	resigned December 27, 1867 to allow Stephen Richards an opportunity to win a seat in the Legislative Assembly
Niagara	Stephen Richards (1867)	Conservative	elected December 11, 1867; Commissioner of Crown Lands in Sandfield Macdonald ministry
Northumberland East	John Eyre	Liberal
Northumberland West	Alexander Fraser	Liberal
Ontario North	Thomas Paxton	Liberal
Ontario South	William McGill	Liberal
Peel	John Coyne	Conservative
Peterborough East	George Read	Conservative
Peterborough West	John Carnegie	Conservative
Simcoe North	William Lount	Liberal
Simcoe South	THOMAS ROBERTS FERGUSON	Conservative
Toronto East	Matthew Crooks Cameron	Conservative	Provincial Secretary and Registrar in Sandfield Macdonald ministry
Toronto West	John Wallis	Conservative
Victoria North	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal
Victoria South	Thomas Matchett	Liberal
Welland	William Beatty	Liberal
York East	Hugh Powell Crosby	Liberal
York North	John McMurrich	Liberal
York West	Thomas Grahame	Conservative

Eastern Ontario

Riding	Member	Party	Comments
Addington	Edmund John Glyn Hooper	Conservative
Brockville and Elizabethtown	William Fitzsimmons	Conservative
Carleton	Robert Lyon	Liberal
Cornwall	JOHN SANDFIELD MACDONALD	Conservative-Liberal coalition	Premier and Attorney General in Sandfield Macdonald Ministry
Dundas	Simon S. Cook	Liberal
Frontenac	Henry Smith	Conservative	died September 18, 1868
Frontenac	Delino Dexter Calvin (1868)	Conservative	elected October 19, 1868
Glengarry	James Craig	Conservative
Grenville South	Mcneil Clarke	Conservative
Hastings East	Henry Corby	Conservative
Hastings North	George Henry Boulter	Conservative
Hastings West	Ketchum Graham	Conservative
Kingston	Maxwell W. Strange	Conservative
Lanark North	Daniel Galbraith	Liberal
Lanark South	William McNairn Shaw	Conservative	died January 6, 1869
Lanark South	Abraham Code (1869)	Conservative	elected February 6, 1869
Leed North and Grenville North	Henry Dolphus Smith	Liberal
Leeds South	Benjamin Tett	Conservative
Lennox	John Stevenson	Conservative	Speaker
Ottawa	Richard William Scott	Liberal
Prescott	James P. Boyd	Liberal
Prince Edward	Absalom Greeley	Conservative	resigned December 7, 1870
Prince Edward	William Anderson (1870)	Liberal	elected June 30, 1870
Renfrew North	John Supple	Liberal	died October 22, 1869
Renfrew North	Thomas Murray (1870)	Conservative	elected December 5, 1869
Renfrew South	JOHN LORN MCDOUGALL	Liberal
Russell	William Craig	Conservative
Stormont	William Colquhoun	Conservative

References

"Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
"Edmund Burke Wood | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Robert Gibbons | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org. March 21, 1871.
"Isaac Carling | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"John Carling | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Donald Robertson | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Stephen Richards | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Matthew Crooks Cameron | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"John Sandfield Macdonald | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Henry Smith | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Delino Dexter Calvin | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"William McNairn Shaw | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Abraham Code | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Absalom Greeley | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"William Anderson | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"John Supple | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.
"Thomas Murray | Legislative Assembly of Ontario". www.ola.org.

Notes

External links

All Members serving in Parliament 1 Archived 2012-09-26 at the Wayback Machine

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