27th Canadian Parliament

The 27th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 18, 1966 until April 23, 1968. The membership was set by the 1965 federal election on November 8, 1965, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1968 election.
There were two sessions of the 27th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	January 18, 1966	May 8, 1967
2nd	May 8, 1967	April 23, 1968

Overview

It was controlled by a Liberal Party minority under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and the 19th Canadian Ministry. Pierre Trudeau succeeded Pearson as party leader and Prime Minister shortly before this Parliament ended for the 1968 national election.
The Official Opposition was the Progressive Conservative Party, led first by John Diefenbaker, and subsequently by Michael Starr.
The Speaker was Lucien Lamoureux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1952-1966 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were two sessions of the 27th Parliament.
Most of the MPs were elected as the single member for their district. Two represented Queen's and two represented Halifax.

Party standings

Distribution of seats at the beginning of the 27th Parliament

Notes:
"% change" refers to change from previous election
¹ "Previous" refers to the results of the previous election, not the party standings in the House of Commons prior to dissolution.

Major events

Pearson's retirement

On December 14th, 1967 Prime Minister Pearson announce that he would be retiring from politics. He remained in office until April 20, 1968, at which point Pierre Trudeau assumed the leadership of the country.

Legislation and motions

Act's which received royal assent under 27th Parliament

1st Session

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Public acts

Local and private acts

2nd Session

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Public acts

Parliamentarians

House of Commons

Following is a full list of members of the twenty-seventh Parliament listed first by province or territory, then by electoral district.
Key:

Party leaders are italicized.
Parliamentary secretaries 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	Jack Horner	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Athabaska	Jack Bigg	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Battle River—Camrose	Clifford Smallwood	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Bow River	Eldon Woolliams	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Calgary North	Douglas Harkness	Progressive Conservative	1945	8th term
Calgary South	Harold Raymond Ballard	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term
Edmonton East	William Skoreyko	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Edmonton—Strathcona	Terry Nugent	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Edmonton West	Marcel Lambert	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Jasper—Edson	Hugh Horner	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Jasper—Edson	Douglas Caston	Progressive Conservative	1967	1st term
Lethbridge	Deane Gundlock	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Macleod	Lawrence Kindt	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Medicine Hat	Bud Olson	Social Credit	1957, 1962	4th term*
Medicine Hat	Bud Olson	Liberal	1957, 1962	4th term*
Peace River	Ged Baldwin	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Red Deer	Robert N. Thompson	Social Credit	1962	3rd term
Red Deer	Robert N. Thompson	Progressive Conservative	1962	3rd term
Vegreville	Frank Fane	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Wetaskiwin	Harry Andrew Moore	Progressive Conservative	1962	3rd term

[British Columbia]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Burnaby—Coquitlam	Tommy Douglas	New Democratic	1935, 1962	5th term*
Burnaby—Richmond	Bob Prittie	New Democratic	1962	3rd term
Cariboo	Bert Leboe	Social Credit	1953, 1962	5th term*
Coast—Capilano	John (Jack) Davis	Liberal	1962	3rd term
Comox—Alberni	Thomas Speakman Barnett	New Democratic	1953, 1962	5th term*
Esquimalt—Saanich	George Chatterton	Progressive Conservative	1961	4th term
Fraser Valley	Alexander Bell Patterson	Social Credit	1953, 1962	5th term*
Kamloops	E. Davie Fulton	Progressive Conservative	1945, 1965	7th term*
Kootenay East	Jim Byrne	Liberal	1949, 1962	6th term*
Kootenay West	Herbert Wilfred Herridge	New Democratic	1945	8th term
Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands	Colin Cameron	New Democratic	1953, 1962	5th term*
New Westminster	Barry Mather	New Democratic	1962	3rd term
Okanagan Boundary	David Vaughan Pugh	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Okanagan—Revelstoke	Howard Earl Johnston	Social Credit	1965	1st term
Skeena	Frank Howard	New Democratic	1957	5th term
Vancouver—Burrard	Ron Basford	Liberal	1963	2nd term
Vancouver Centre	John Robert (Jack) Nicholson	Liberal	1962	3rd term
Vancouver East	Harold Winch	New Democratic	1953	6th term
Vancouver Kingsway	Grace MacInnis	New Democratic	1965	1st term
Vancouver Quadra	Grant Deachman	Liberal	1963	2nd term
Vancouver South	Arthur Laing	Liberal	1949, 1962	4th term*
Victoria	David Groos	Liberal	1963	2nd term

[Manitoba]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Brandon—Souris	Walter Dinsdale	Progressive Conservative	1951	7th term
Churchill	Robert Simpson	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Dauphin	Elmer Forbes	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Lisgar	George Muir	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Marquette	Nick Mandziuk	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Portage—Neepawa	Siegfried Enns	Progressive Conservative	1962	3rd term
Provencher	Warner Jorgenson	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Selkirk	Eric Stefanson Sr.	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Springfield	Edward Schreyer	New Democratic	1965	1st term
St. Boniface	Roger Teillet	Liberal	1962	3rd term
Winnipeg North	David Orlikow	New Democratic	1962	3rd term
Winnipeg North Centre	Stanley Knowles	New Democratic	1942, 1962	8th term*
Winnipeg South	Louis Ralph (Bud) Sherman	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term
Winnipeg South Centre	Gordon Churchill	Progressive Conservative	1951	7th term
Winnipeg South Centre	Gordon Churchill	Independent Progressive Conservative	1951	7th term

[New Brunswick]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Charlotte	Allan M.A. McLean	Liberal	1962	3rd term
Gloucester	Hédard Robichaud	Liberal	1953	6th term
Kent	Guy Crossman	Liberal	1962	3rd term
Northumberland—Miramichi	George Roy McWilliam	Liberal	1949	7th term
Restigouche—Madawaska	Jean-Eudes Dubé	Liberal	1962	3rd term
Royal	Gordon Fairweather	Progressive Conservative	1962	3rd term
St. John—Albert	Thomas Miller Bell	Progressive Conservative	1953	6th term
Victoria—Carleton	Hugh John Flemming	Progressive Conservative	1960	4th term
Westmorland	Margaret Rideout	Liberal	1964	2nd term
York—Sunbury	John Chester MacRae	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term

Newfoundland">Newfoundland and Labrador">Newfoundland

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Bonavista—Twillingate	Jack Pickersgill	Liberal	1953	6th term
Bonavista—Twillingate	Charles Granger	Liberal	1958, 1967	5th term*
Burin—Burgeo	Chesley William Carter	Liberal	1949	7th term
Burin—Burgeo	Don Jamieson	Liberal	1966	1st term
Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador	Charles Granger ¹	Liberal	1958	4th term
Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador	Andrew Chatwood	Liberal	1966	1st term
Humber—St. George's	Herman Maxwell Batten	Liberal	1953	6th term
St. John's East	Joseph O'Keefe	Liberal	1963	2nd term
St. John's West	Richard Cashin	Liberal	1962	3rd term
Trinity—Conception	James Roy Tucker	Liberal	1958	4th term

¹Granger resigned the seat of Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador in August 1966 to contest a seat in the Newfoundland House of Assembly and was succeeded by Andrew Chatwood of the Liberals. Granger became Minister of Labrador Affairs in the provincial cabinet. He resigned his provincial office in September 1967 to contest the federal seat of Bonavista—Twillingate vacated by Jack Pickersgill. Granger was successful and became Minister without portfolio in Pearson's Cabinet.

[Northwest Territories]

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
	Northwest Territories	Robert Orange	Liberal	1965	1st term

[Nova Scotia]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Antigonish—Guysborough	John Benjamin Stewart	Liberal	1962	3rd term
Cape Breton North and Victoria	Robert Muir	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Cape Breton South	Donald MacInnis	Progressive Conservative	1957, 1963	4th term*
Colchester—Hants	Cyril Kennedy	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Colchester—Hants	Robert Stanfield	Progressive Conservative	1967	1st term
Cumberland	Robert Coates	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Digby—Annapolis—Kings	Pat Nowlan	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term
Halifax*	Michael Forrestall	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term
Halifax*	Robert McCleave	Progressive Conservative	1957, 1965	4th term*
Inverness—Richmond	Allan MacEachen	Liberal	1953, 1962	5th term*
Pictou	Russell MacEwan	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Queens—Lunenburg	Lloyd Crouse	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare	John Oates Bower	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term

[Prince Edward Island]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's	Melvin McQuaid	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term
Prince	David MacDonald	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term
Queen's*	Angus MacLean	Progressive Conservative	1951	7th term
Queen's*	Heath MacQuarrie	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term

[Saskatchewan]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Assiniboia	Lawrence Watson	Progressive Conservative	1963	2nd term
Humboldt—Melfort—Tisdale	Reynold Rapp	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Kindersley	Reg Cantelon	Progressive Conservative	1963	2nd term
Mackenzie	Stanley Korchinski	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Meadow Lake	Bert Cadieu	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Melville	James Ormiston	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Moose Jaw—Lake Centre	J. Ernest Pascoe	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Moose Mountain	Richard Southam	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Prince Albert	John Diefenbaker	Progressive Conservative	1940	9th term
Qu'Appelle	Alvin Hamilton	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term
Regina City	Ken More	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Rosetown—Biggar	Ronald McLelland	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term
Rosthern	Edward Nasserden	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Saskatoon	Lewis Brand	Progressive Conservative	1965	1st term
Swift Current—Maple Creek	Jack McIntosh	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
The Battlefords	Albert Horner	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term
Yorkton	G. Drummond Clancy	Progressive Conservative	1958	4th term

[Yukon]

	Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
	Yukon	Erik Nielsen	Progressive Conservative	1957	5th term

Ministry

The 19th Canadian Ministry began at the beginning of the 26th Canadian Parliament and lasted until near the end of the 27th Canadian Parliament. The 20th Canadian Ministry began near the end of the 27th Canadian Parliament and governed throughout the 28th Canadian Parliament, 29th Canadian Parliament, and 30th Canadian Parliament.