20th Canadian Parliament

The 20th Canadian Parliament was in session from 6 September 1945, until 30 April 1949. The membership was set by the 1945 federal election on 11 June 1945, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1949 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party minority first under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry, and later a majority under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and the 17th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the newly named Progressive Conservative Party, led first by John Bracken and later by George Drew.
The Speaker was Gaspard Fauteux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
In this parliament, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, led by M. J. Coldwell, overtook the Social Credit as third largest party.
There were five sessions of the 20th Parliament.

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the twentieth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.
Key:

Party leaders are italicized.
Parliamentary assistants is indicated by "".
Cabinet ministers are in boldface.
The Prime Minister is both.
The Speaker is indicated by "".

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk indicates that district was represented by two members.

[Alberta]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Acadia	Victor Quelch	Social Credit	1935	3rd term
Athabaska	Joseph Miville Dechene	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Battle River	Robert Fair	Social Credit	1935	3rd term
Bow River	Charles Edward Johnston	Social Credit	1935	3rd term
Calgary East	Douglas Harkness	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Calgary West	Arthur LeRoy Smith	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Camrose	James Alexander Marshall	Social Credit	1935	3rd term
Edmonton East	Patrick Harvey Ashby	Social Credit	1945	1st term
Edmonton West	James Angus MacKinnon	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Jasper—Edson	Walter Frederick Kuhl	Social Credit	1935	3rd term
Lethbridge	John Horne Blackmore	Social Credit	1935	3rd term
Macleod	Ernest George Hansell	Social Credit	1935	3rd term
Medicine Hat	William Duncan Wylie	Social Credit	1945	1st term
Peace River	Solon Earl Low	Social Credit	1945	1st term
Red Deer	Frederick Davis Shaw	Social Credit	1940	2nd term
Vegreville	Anthony Hlynka	Social Credit	1940	2nd term
Wetaskiwin	Norman Jaques	Social Credit	1935	3rd term

[British Columbia]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Cariboo	William Irvine	CCF	1921, 1926, 1945	4th term*
Comox—Alberni	John Lambert Gibson	Independent Liberal	1945	1st term
Fraser Valley	George Cruickshank	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Kamloops	Davie Fulton	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Kootenay East	James Herbert Matthews	CCF	1945	1st term
Kootenay West	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	Independent CCF	1945	1st term
Kootenay West	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	CCF	1945	1st term
Nanaimo	George Pearkes	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
New Westminster	Thomas Reid	Liberal	1930	4th term
Skeena	Harry Archibald	CCF	1945	1st term
Vancouver—Burrard	Charles Merritt	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Vancouver Centre	Ian Alistair Mackenzie	Liberal	1930	4th term
Vancouver Centre	Rodney Young	CCF	1948	1st term
Vancouver East	Angus MacInnis	CCF	1930	4th term
Vancouver North	James Sinclair	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Vancouver South	Howard Charles Green	Progressive Conservative	1935	3rd term
Victoria	Robert Mayhew	Liberal	1937	3rd term
Yale	Grote Stirling	Progressive Conservative	1924	7th term
Yale	Owen Jones	CCF	1948	1st term

[Manitoba]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Brandon	James Ewen Matthews	Liberal	1938	3rd term
Churchill	Ronald Stewart Moore	CCF	1945	1st term
Dauphin	Fred Zaplitny	CCF	1945	1st term
Lisgar	Howard Winkler	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Macdonald	William Gilbert Weir	Liberal-Progressive	1930	4th term
Marquette	James Allison Glen	Liberal	1926, 1935	4th term*
Marquette	Stuart Garson	Liberal	1948	1st term
Neepawa	John Bracken	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Portage la Prairie	Harry Leader	Liberal	1921, 1935	4th term*
Portage la Prairie	Calvert Charlton Miller	Progressive Conservative	1946	1st term
Provencher	René Jutras	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Selkirk	William Bryce	CCF	1943	2nd term
Souris	J. Arthur Ross	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Springfield	John Sinnott	Liberal	1945	1st term
St. Boniface	Fernand Viau	Liberal	1945	1st term
Winnipeg North	Alistair Stewart	CCF	1940	2nd term
Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Knowles	CCF	1942	2nd term
Winnipeg South	Leslie Mutch	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Winnipeg South Centre	Ralph Maybank	Liberal	1935	3rd term

[New Brunswick]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Charlotte	A. Wesley Stuart	Liberal	1945	1st term
Gloucester	Clovis-Thomas Richard	Liberal	1945	1st term
Kent	Aurel Léger	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Northumberland	John William Maloney	Liberal	1945	1st term
Restigouche—Madawaska	Benoît Michaud	Liberal	1945	1st term
Royal	Alfred Johnson Brooks	Progressive Conservative	1935	3rd term
St. John—Albert	King Hazen	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Victoria—Carleton	Heber Harold Hatfield	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Westmorland	Henry Read Emmerson	Liberal	1935	3rd term
York—Sunbury	Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges	Liberal	1945	1st term
York—Sunbury	Milton Fowler Gregg	Liberal	1947	1st term

[Nova Scotia]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Antigonish—Guysborough	J. Ralph Kirk	Liberal	1936	3rd term
Cape Breton North and Victoria	Matthew MacLean	Liberal	1937	3rd term
Cape Breton South	Clarence Gillis	CCF	1940	2nd term
Colchester—Hants	Frank Thomas Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Cumberland	Percy Chapman Black	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Digby—Annapolis—Kings	James Lorimer Ilsley	Liberal	1926	5th term
Digby—Annapolis—Kings	George Nowlan	Progressive Conservative	1948	1st term
Halifax*	Gordon Benjamin Isnor	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Halifax*	William Chisholm Macdonald	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Halifax*	John Dickey	Liberal	1947	1st term
Inverness—Richmond	Moses Elijah McGarry	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Pictou	Henry Byron McCulloch	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Queens—Lunenburg	Robert Winters	Liberal	1945	1st term
Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare	Loran Ellis Baker	Liberal	1945	1st term

[Ontario]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Algoma East	Thomas Farquhar	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Algoma East	Lester B. Pearson	Liberal	1948	1st term
Algoma West	George E. Nixon	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Brantford City	William Ross Macdonald	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Brant	John A. Charlton	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Broadview	Thomas Langton Church	Progressive Conservative	1933	4th term
Bruce	Andrew Ernest Robinson	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Carleton	George Russell Boucher	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Carleton	George Drew	Progressive Conservative	1948	1st term
Cochrane	Joseph-Arthur Bradette	Liberal	1926	5th term
Danforth	Joseph Henry Harris	Progressive Conservative	1921	7th term
Davenport	John Ritchie MacNicol	Progressive Conservative	1930	4th term
Dufferin—Simcoe	William Earl Rowe	Progressive Conservative	1925	6th term
Durham	Charles Elwood Stephenson	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Eglinton	Donald Fleming	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Elgin	Charles Delmer Coyle	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Essex East	Paul Martin Sr.	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Essex South	Murray Clark	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Essex West	Donald Ferguson Brown	Liberal	1945	1st term
Fort William	Dan McIvor	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Frontenac—Addington	Wilbert Ross Aylesworth	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Glengarry	William MacDiarmid	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Glengarry	William Lyon Mackenzie King	Liberal	1908, 1919, 1926, 1945	9th term*
Greenwood	Denton Massey	Progressive Conservative	1935	3rd term
Grenville—Dundas	Arza Clair Casselman	Progressive Conservative	1921, 1925	7th term*
Grey—Bruce	Walter Harris	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Grey North	W. Garfield Case	Progressive Conservative	1945	2nd term
Haldimand	Mark Senn	Progressive Conservative	1921	7th term
Halton	Hughes Cleaver	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Hamilton East	Thomas Hambly Ross	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Hamilton West	Colin Gibson	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Hastings—Peterborough	George Stanley White	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Hastings South	George Henry Stokes	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
High Park	William Alexander McMaster	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Huron North	Elston Cardiff	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Huron—Perth	William Henry Golding	Liberal	1932	4th term
Kenora—Rainy River	William Moore Benidickson	Liberal	1945	1st term
Kent	Earl Desmond	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Kingston City	Thomas Kidd	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Lambton—Kent	Robert James Henderson	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Lambton West	Joseph Warner Murphy	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Lanark	William Gourlay Blair	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Leeds	George Webb	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Lincoln	Norman Lockhart	Progressive Conservative	1935	3rd term
London	Park Manross	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Middlesex East	Harry Oliver White	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Middlesex West	Robert McCubbin	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Muskoka—Ontario	James Macdonnell	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Nipissing	Léo Gauthier	Liberal	1945	1st term
Norfolk	Theobald Butler Barrett	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Northumberland	Earle Drope	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Ontario	W. E. N. Sinclair	Liberal	1945	1st term
Ontario	Arthur Henry Williams	CCF	1948	1st term
Ottawa East	Jean-Thomas Richard	Liberal	1945	1st term
Ottawa West	George McIlraith	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Oxford	Kenneth Daniel	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Parkdale	Herbert Alexander Bruce	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Parkdale	Harold Timmins	Progressive Conservative	1946	1st term
Parry Sound	Wilfred McDonald	Liberal	1945	1st term
Peel	Gordon Graydon	Progressive Conservative	1935	3rd term
Perth	Albert Bradshaw	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Peterborough West	Gordon Fraser	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Port Arthur	Clarence Decatur Howe	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Prescott	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	Liberal	1929	5th term
Prince Edward—Lennox	George Tustin	Progressive Conservative	1935	3rd term
Renfrew North	Ralph Warren	Liberal	1937	3rd term
Renfrew South	James Joseph McCann	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Rosedale	Harry Jackman	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Russell	Joseph-Omer Gour	Liberal	1945	1st term
St. Paul's	Douglas Ross	Progressive Conservative	1935	3rd term
Simcoe East	William Alfred Robinson	Liberal	1945	1st term
Simcoe North	Julian Ferguson	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Spadina	David Croll	Liberal	1945	1st term
Stormont	Lionel Chevrier	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Timiskaming	Walter Little	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Trinity	Larry Skey	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Victoria	Clayton Hodgson	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Waterloo North	Louis Orville Breithaupt	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Waterloo South	Karl Kenneth Homuth	Progressive Conservative	1938	3rd term
Welland	Humphrey Mitchell	Liberal	1931, 1942	3rd term*
Wellington North	Lewis Menary	Progressive Conservative	1945	1st term
Wellington South	Robert Gladstone	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Wentworth	Frank Lennard	Progressive Conservative	1935, 1945	2nd term*
York East	Robert Henry McGregor	Progressive Conservative	1926	5th term
York North	Jack Smith	Liberal	1945	1st term
York South	Alan Cockeram	Progressive Conservative	1940, 1945	2nd term*
York West	Agar Rodney Adamson	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term

[Prince Edward Island]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's	Thomas Vincent Grant	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Prince	John Watson MacNaught	Liberal	1945	1st term
Queen's*	James Lester Douglas	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Queen's*	Chester McLure	Progressive Conservative	1930, 1945	2nd term*

[Quebec]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	Georges Héon	Independent Progressive Conservative	1938, 1945	2nd term*
Beauce	Ludger Dionne	Liberal	1945	1st term
Beauharnois—Laprairie	Maxime Raymond	Bloc populaire canadien	1925	6th term
Bellechasse	Louis-Philippe Picard	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Berthier—Maskinongé	Aldéric Laurendeau	Liberal	1945	1st term
Bonaventure	Bona Arsenault	Independent	1945	1st term
Brome—Missisquoi	Maurice Hallé	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Cartier	Fred Rose	Labor-Progressive	1943	2nd term
Cartier	Maurice Hartt	Liberal	1947	1st term
Chambly—Rouville	Roch Pinard	Liberal	1945	1st term
Champlain	Hervé-Edgar Brunelle	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Chapleau	David Gourd	Liberal	1945	1st term
Charlevoix—Saguenay	Frédéric Dorion	Independent	1942	2nd term
Châteauguay—Huntingdon	Donald Elmer Black	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Chicoutimi	Paul-Edmond Gagnon	Independent	1945	1st term
Compton	Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Dorchester	Léonard Tremblay	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Drummond—Arthabaska	Armand Cloutier	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Gaspé	Léopold Langlois	Liberal	1945	1st term
Hochelaga	Raymond Eudes	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Hull	Alphonse Fournier	Liberal	1930	4th term
Jacques Cartier	Elphège Marier	Liberal	1939	3rd term
Joliette—l'Assomption—Montcalm	Georges-Émile Lapalme	Liberal	1945	1st term
Kamouraska	Eugène Marquis	Liberal	1945	1st term
Labelle	Maurice Lalonde	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Lake St-John—Roberval	Joseph-Alfred Dion	Independent Liberal	1945	1st term
Laurier	Ernest Bertrand	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Laval—Two Mountains	Liguori Lacombe	Independent	1925, 1935	5th term*
Laval—Two Mountains	Léopold Demers	Liberal	1948	1st term
Lévis	Maurice Bourget	Independent Liberal	1940	2nd term
Lotbinière	Hugues Lapointe	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Maisonneuve—Rosemont	Sarto Fournier	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Matapédia—Matane	Philéas Côté	Independent Liberal	1945	1st term
Mégantic—Frontenac	Joseph Lafontaine	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Mercier	Joseph Jean	Liberal	1932	4th term
Montmagny—L'Islet	Jean Lesage	Liberal	1945	1st term
Mount Royal	Fred Whitman	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Nicolet—Yamaska	Lucien Dubois	Independent Liberal	1930	4th term
Nicolet—Yamaska	Renaud Chapdelaine	Progressive Conservative	1949	1st term
Outremont	Édouard Rinfret	Liberal	1945	1st term
Pontiac	Wallace McDonald	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Pontiac	Réal Caouette	Social Credit	1946	1st term
Portneuf	Pierre Gauthier	Liberal	1936	3rd term
Québec—Montmorency	Wilfrid Lacroix	Independent Liberal	1935	3rd term
Quebec East	Louis St. Laurent	Liberal	1942	2nd term
Quebec South	Charles Gavan Power	Liberal	1917	8th term
Quebec West and South	Charles Parent	Independent Liberal	1935	3rd term
Richelieu—Verchères	Arthur Cardin	Independent	1911	9th term
Richelieu—Verchères	Gérard Cournoyer	Liberal	1946	1st term
Richmond—Wolfe	James Patrick Mullins	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Rimouski	Gleason Belzile	Liberal	1945	1st term
St. Ann	Thomas Healy	Liberal	1940	2nd term
St. Antoine—Westmount	Douglas Abbott	Liberal	1940	2nd term
St. Denis	Azellus Denis	Liberal	1935	3rd term
St. Henry	Joseph-Arsène Bonnier	Liberal	1938	3rd term
St. Hyacinthe—Bagot	Joseph Fontaine	Liberal	1945	1st term
St. James	Roland Beaudry	Liberal	1945	1st term
St. Johns—Iberville—Napierville	Alcide Côté	Liberal	1945	1st term
St. Lawrence—St. George	Brooke Claxton	Liberal	1940	2nd term
St. Mary	Gaspard Fauteux	Liberal	1942	2nd term
St-Maurice—Laflèche	René Hamel	Bloc populaire canadien	1945	1st term
Shefford	Marcel Boivin	Liberal	1945	1st term
Sherbrooke	Maurice Gingues	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Stanstead	John Thomas Hackett	Progressive Conservative	1930, 1945	2nd term*
Témiscouata	Jean-François Pouliot	Independent Liberal	1924	7th term
Témiscouata	Jean-François Pouliot	Liberal	1924	7th term
Terrebonne	Lionel Bertrand	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Trois-Rivières	Wilfrid Gariépy	Independent	1935, 1945	2nd term*
Vaudreuil—Soulanges	Louis-René Beaudoin	Liberal	1945	1st term
Verdun	Paul-Émile Côté	Liberal	1940	2nd term
Wright	Léon Raymond	Liberal	1945	1st term

[Saskatchewan]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Assiniboia	Edward McCullough	CCF	1945	1st term
Humboldt	Joseph William Burton	CCF	1935	3rd term
Kindersley	Frank Jaenicke	CCF	1945	1st term
Lake Centre	John Diefenbaker	Progressive Conservative	1940	2nd term
Mackenzie	Alexander Malcolm Nicholson	CCF	1940	2nd term
Maple Creek	Duncan John McCuaig	CCF	1945	1st term
Melfort	Percy Wright	CCF	1940	2nd term
Melville	James Garfield Gardiner	Liberal	1936	3rd term
Moose Jaw	Ross Thatcher	CCF	1945	1st term
North Battleford	Frederick Townley-Smith	CCF	1945	1st term
Prince Albert	Edward LeRoy Bowerman	CCF	1945	1st term
Qu'Appelle	Gladys Strum	CCF	1945	1st term
Regina City	John Probe	CCF	1945	1st term
Rosetown—Biggar	Major James Coldwell	CCF	1935	3rd term
Rosthern	Walter Tucker	Liberal	1935	3rd term
Rosthern	William Albert Boucher	Liberal	1948	1st term
Saskatoon City	Roy Knight	CCF	1945	1st term
Swift Current	Thomas John Bentley	CCF	1945	1st term
The Battlefords	Max Campbell	CCF	1945	1st term
Weyburn	Eric McKay	CCF	1945	1st term
Wood Mountain	Hazen Argue	CCF	1945	1st term
Yorkton	George Hugh Castleden	CCF	1940	2nd term

[Yukon]

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
	Yukon	George Black	Progressive Conservative	1921, 1940	6th term*