3rd Canadian Parliament

The 3rd Canadian Parliament was in session from March 26, 1874, until August 17, 1878. The membership was set by the 1874 federal election on January 22, 1874. It was dissolved prior to the 1878 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie and the 2nd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative/Liberal-Conservative, first led by Sir John A. Macdonald.
The Speaker of the [House of Commons of Canada|Speaker] was Timothy Warren Anglin. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1873-1882 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were five sessions of the 3rd Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	March 26, 1874	May 26, 1874
2nd	February 4, 1875	April 8, 1875
3rd	February 10, 1876	April 12, 1876
4th	February 8, 1877	April 28, 1877
5th	February 7, 1878	May 10, 1878

List of members

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

Party leaders are italicized.
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.

British Columbia

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Cariboo	Joshua Spencer Thompson	Liberal-Conservative	1871	3rd term
New Westminster	James Cunningham	Liberal	1874	1st term
New Westminster	Thomas Robert McInnes	Independent	1878	1st term
Vancouver	Arthur Bunster	Liberal	1874	1st term
Victoria	Francis James Roscoe	Independent Liberal	1874	1st term
Victoria	Amor De Cosmos	Liberal	1871	3rd term
Yale	Edgar Dewdney	Conservative	1872	2nd term

Manitoba

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Lisgar	John Christian Schultz	Conservative	1871	3rd term
Marquette	Robert Cunningham	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Marquette	Joseph O'Connell Ryan	Liberal	1874	1st term
Provencher	Louis Riel	Independent	1873	2nd term
Provencher	Andrew Bannatyne	Liberal	1875	1st term
Selkirk	Donald A. Smith	Independent Conservative	1871	3rd term

One MP recontested his seat in a byelection, and was reelected.

Louis Riel was reelected in Provencher on September 3, 1874, upon the passage of a motion expelling him from the House of Commons.

New Brunswick

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Albert	John Wallace	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Carleton	Stephen Burpee Appleby	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Charlotte	Arthur Hill Gillmor	Liberal	1874	1st term
City and County of St. John	Isaac Burpee	Liberal	1872	2nd term
City and County of St. John	Acalus Lockwood Palmer	Liberal	1872	2nd term
City of St. John	Jeremiah Smith Boies De Veber	Liberal	1873	2nd term
Gloucester	Timothy Warren Anglin	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Kent	George McLeod	Independent	1874	1st term
King's	James Domville	Conservative	1872	2nd term
Northumberland	Peter Mitchell	Independent	1872	2nd term
Queen's	John Ferris	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Restigouche	George Moffat	Conservative	1870	3rd term
Restigouche	George Haddow	Independent	1878	1st term
Sunbury	Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Victoria	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Westmorland	Albert James Smith	Liberal	1867	3rd term
York	John Pickard	Independent Liberal	1868	3rd term

Two MPs recontested their seats in a byelection, and were reelected:

Timothy Warren Anglin was reelected in Gloucester on July 2, 1877.
Peter Mitchell was reelected in Northumberland on February 5, 1878.

Nova Scotia

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Annapolis	William Hallett Ray	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Antigonish	Angus McIsaac	Liberal	1873	2nd term
Cape Breton	Newton LeGayet Mackay	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Cape Breton	William McDonald	Conservative	1872	2nd term
Colchester	Thomas McKay	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Cumberland	Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Digby	Edwin Randolph Oakes	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Digby	William Berrian Vail	Liberal	1874	1st term
Digby	John Chipman Wade	Independent	1878	1st term
Guysborough	John Angus Kirk	Liberal	1874	1st term
Halifax	Alfred Gilpin Jones	Independent	1867, 1874	2nd term*
Halifax	Patrick Power	Independent Liberal	1867, 1874	2nd term*
Hants	Monson Henry Goudge	Liberal	1873	2nd term
Inverness	Samuel McDonnell	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Kings	Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874	1st term
Lunenburg	Charles Edward Church	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Pictou*	James William Carmichael	Liberal	1867, 1874	2nd term*
Pictou*	John A. Dawson	Liberal	1874	1st term
Queens	James Fraser Forbes	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Richmond	Edmund Power Flynn	Liberal	1874	1st term
Shelburne	Thomas Coffin	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Victoria	William Ross	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Victoria	Charles James Campbell	Conservative	1874	1st term
Victoria	Barclay Edmund Tremaine	Liberal	1875	1st term
Victoria	Charles James Campbell	Conservative	1876	1st term
Yarmouth	Frank Killam	Liberal	1868	3rd term

Two MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected.

Thomas McKay was reelected in Colchester on December 17, 1874
Alfred Gilpin Jones was reelected in Halifax on January 29, 1878, on being named Minister of Militia and Defence.

Ontario

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Addington	Schuyler Shibley	Liberal-Conservative	1872	2nd term
Algoma	Edward Borron	Liberal	1874	1st term
Bothwell	David Mills	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Brant North	Gavin Fleming	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Brant South	William Paterson	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Brockville	Jacob Dockstader Buell	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Bruce North	John Gillies	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Bruce South	Edward Blake	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Cardwell	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Cardwell	Dalton McCarthy	Liberal-Conservative	1876	1st term
Carleton	John Rochester	Conservative	1872	2nd term
Cornwall	Alexander Francis Macdonald	Liberal	1874	1st term
Dundas	Liberal politician)\|William Gibson]	Independent Liberal	1872	2nd term
Durham East	Lewis Ross	Liberal Reformer	1872	2nd term
Durham West	Edmund Burke Wood	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Durham West	Harvey William Burk	Liberal	1874	1st term
Elgin East	William Harvey	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Elgin East	Colin MacDougall	Liberal	1874	1st term
Elgin West	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Essex	William McGregor	Liberal	1874	1st term
Frontenac	George Airey Kirkpatrick	Conservative	1870	3rd term
Glengarry	Donald Alexander MacDonald	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Glengarry	Archibald McNab	Liberal	1875	1st term
Grenville South	William Henry Brouse	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Grey East	William Kingston Flesher	Conservative	1872	2nd term
Grey North	George Snider	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Grey South	George Landerkin	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Haldimand	David Thompson	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Halton	Daniel Black Chisholm	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Halton	William McCraney	Liberal	1875	1st term
Hamilton	Aemilius Irving	Liberal	1874	1st term
Hamilton	Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	1874	1st term
Hastings East	John White	Conservative	1871	3rd term
Hastings North	Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Hastings West	James Brown	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Huron Centre	Horace Horton	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Huron North	Thomas Farrow	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Huron South	Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Huron South	Thomas Greenway	Independent	1875	1st term
Kent	Rufus Stephenson	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Kingston	Sir John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Lambton	Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Lanark North	Daniel Galbraith	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Lanark South	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872	2nd term
Leeds North and Grenville North	Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Leeds South	David Ford Jones	Conservative	1874	1st term
Lennox	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Lincoln	James Norris	Liberal	1874	1st term
London	John Walker	Liberal	1874	1st term
London	James Harshaw Fraser	Liberal-Conservative	1875	1st term
Middlesex East	Crowell Willson	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Middlesex East	Duncan Macmillan	Liberal-Conservative	1875	1st term
Middlesex North	Thomas Scatcherd	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Middlesex North	Robert Colin Scatcherd	Liberal	1876	1st term
Middlesex West	George William Ross	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Monck	Lachlin McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Muskoka	Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Niagara	Josiah Burr Plumb	Conservative	1874	1st term
Norfolk North	John M. Charlton	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Norfolk South	John Stuart	Liberal	1874	1st term
Norfolk South	William Wallace	Conservative	1874	1st term
Northumberland East	James Lyons Biggar	Independent Liberal	1874	1st term
Northumberland West	William Kerr	Liberal	1874	1st term
Ontario North	Adam Gordon	Liberal	1874	1st term
Ontario North	William Henry Gibbs	Conservative	1874	1st term
Ontario South	Malcolm Cameron	Liberal Party of Canada	1874	1st term
Ontario South	Thomas Nicholson Gibbs	Liberal-Conservative	1876	1st term
Ottawa (City of)*	Pierre St. Jean	Liberal	1874	1st term
Ottawa (City of)*	Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Oxford North	Thomas Oliver	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Oxford South	Ebenezer Vining Bodwell	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Oxford South	James Atchison Skinner	Liberal	1874	1st term
Peel	Robert Smith	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Perth North	Andrew Monteith	Conservative	1874	1st term
Perth South	James Trow	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Peterborough East	James Hall	Liberal	1874	1st term
Peterborough West	John Bertram	Liberal	1874	1st term
Prescott	Albert Hagar	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Prince Edward	Walter Ross	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Renfrew North	Peter White	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Renfrew North	William Murray	Liberal	1874	1st term
Renfrew North	Peter White	Liberal-Conservative	1876	1st term
Renfrew South	John Lorn McDougall	Liberal	1867, 1874	2nd term*
Russell	Robert Blackburn	Liberal	1874	1st term
Simcoe North	Hermon Henry Cook	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Simcoe South	William Carruthers Little	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Stormont	Cyril Archibald	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Toronto Centre	Robert Wilkes	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Toronto Centre	John Macdonald	Independent Liberal	1875	1st term
Toronto East	John O'Donohoe	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Toronto East	Samuel Platt	Independent	1875	1st term
Victoria North	James Maclennan	Liberal	1874	1st term
Victoria North	Hector Cameron	Conservative	1875	1st term
Victoria South	Arthur McQuade	Conservative	1874	1st term
Waterloo North	Isaac Erb Bowman	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Waterloo South	James Young	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Welland	William Alexander Thomson	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Wellington Centre	George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Wellington North	Nathaniel Higinbotham	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Wellington South	David Stirton	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Wellington South	Donald Guthrie	Liberal	1876	1st term
Wentworth North	Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Wentworth South	Joseph Rymal	Liberal	1867	3rd term
West Toronto	Thomas Moss	Liberal	1873	2nd term
West Toronto	John Beverley Robinson	Conservative	1875	1st term
York East	James Metcalfe	Liberal	1867	3rd term
York North	Alfred Hutchinson Dymond	Liberal	1874	1st term
York West	David Blain	Liberal	1872	2nd term

22 MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected

William McGregor was reelected in Essex on October 22, 1874.
John Lorn McDougall was reelected in Renfrew South on October 24, 1874, and again on February 20, 1875.
Schuyler Shibley was reelected in Addington on October 28, 1874.
William Kerr was reelected in Northumberland West on November 17, 1874.
James Norris was reelected in Lincoln on November 17, 1874, and May 9, 1877.
James Lyons Biggar was reelected in Northumberland East on December 12, 1874.
George Turner Orton was reelected in Wellington Centre on December 13, 1874.
Charles Frederick Ferguson was reelected in Leeds North and Grenville North on December 16, 1874.
James MacLennan was reelected in Victoria North on December 22, 1874.
Josiah Burr Plumb was reelected in Niagara on December 22, 1874.
Herman Henry Cook was reelected in Simcoe North on December 26, 1874.
Sir John A. Macdonald was reelected in Kingston on December 29, 1874.
Nathaniel Higinbotham was reelected in Wellington North on March 18, 1875.
Aemilius Irving was reelected in Hamilton on May 20, 1875.
Andrew Trew Wood was reelected in Hamilton on May 20, 1875.
Edward Blake was reelected in Bruce South on June 2, 1875, after being named Minister of Justice.
Lachlan McCallum was reelected in Monck on June 22, 1875.
Alfred Hutchison Dymond was reelected in York North on June 29, 1875.
Andrew Monteith was reelected in Perth North on July 7, 1875.
Archibald McNab was reelected in Glengarry on July 31, 1876.
David Mills was reelected in Bothwell on November 15, 1876, after being named Minister of the Interior.
Joseph Merrill Currier was reelected in Ottawa on May 9, 1877.

Prince Edward Island

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
King's County*	Daniel Davies	Conservative	1873	2nd term
King's County*	Peter Adolphus McIntyre	Liberal	1874	1st term
Prince County*	Stanislaus Francis Perry	Liberal	1874	1st term
Prince County*	James Yeo	Liberal	1873	2nd term
Queen's County*	David Laird	Liberal	1873	2nd term
Queen's County*	Peter Sinclair	Liberal	1873	2nd term
Queen's County*	James Colledge Pope	Conservative	1876	1st term

Quebec

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Argenteuil	Lemuel Cushing	Liberal	1874	1st term
Argenteuil	Thomas Christie	Liberal	1875	1st term
Bagot	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau	Conservative	1874	1st term
Beauce	Christian Pozer	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Beauce	Joseph Bolduc	Conservative	1876	1st term
Beauharnois	Ulysse-Janvier Robillard	Independent Conservative	1872	2nd term
Bellechasse	Télesphore Fournier	Liberal	1870	3rd term
Bellechasse	Joseph-Goderic Blanchet	Conservative	1875	1st term
Berthier	Anselme Homère Pâquet	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Berthier	Edward Octavian Cuthbert	Conservative	1875	1st term
Bonaventure	Théodore Robitaille	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Brome	Nathaniel Pettes	Liberal	1874	1st term
Chambly	Amable Jodoin	Liberal	1874	1st term
Chambly	Pierre-Basile Benoit	Conservative	1876	1st term
Champlain	Hippolyte Montplaisir	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Charlevoix	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Charlevoix	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	1876	1st term
Châteauguay	Luther Hamilton Holton	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Ernest Cimon	Conservative	1874	1st term
Compton	John Henry Pope	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Dorchester	François Fortunat Rouleau	Conservative	1874	1st term
Drummond—Arthabaska	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874	1st term
Drummond—Arthabaska	Désiré Olivier Bourbeau	Conservative	1877	1st term
Gaspé	Louis George Harper	Conservative	1874	1st term
Gaspé	John Short	Conservative	1875	1st term
Hochelaga	Alphonse Desjardins	Conservative	1874	1st term
Huntingdon	Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869	3rd term
Iberville	François Béchard	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Jacques Cartier	Rodolphe Laflamme	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Joliette	Louis François Georges Baby	Conservative	1872	2nd term
Kamouraska	Charles Pelletier	Liberal	1869	3rd term
Kamouraska	Charles-François Roy	Conservative	1877	1st term
Laprairie	Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867	3rd term
L'Assomption	Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative	1874	1st term
Laval	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	Liberal-Conservative	1873	2nd term
Lévis	Louis-Honoré Fréchette	Liberal	1874	1st term
L'Islet	Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Lotbinière	Henri Bernier	Liberal	1874	1st term
Maskinongé	Louis-Alphonse Boyer	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Mégantic	Édouard-Émery Richard	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Missisquoi	William Donahue	Liberal	1874	1st term
Montcalm	Firmin Dugas	Conservative	1871	3rd term
Montmagny	Henri-Thomas Taschereau	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Montmorency	Jean Langlois	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Montreal Centre	Michael Patrick Ryan	Liberal-Conservative	1872	2nd term
Montreal Centre	Bernard Devlin	Liberal	1875	1st term
Montreal East	Louis-Amable Jetté	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Montreal West	Frederick Mackenzie	Liberal	1874	1st term
Montreal West	Thomas Workman	Liberal	1875	1st term
Napierville	Antoine-Aimé Dorion	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Napierville	Sixte Coupal dit la Reine	Liberal	1874	1st term
Nicolet	Joseph Gaudet	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Nicolet	François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot	Independent Conservative	1877	1st term
Ottawa (County of)	Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Pontiac	William McKay Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1872	2nd term
Portneuf	Esdras Alfred de St-Georges	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Quebec-Centre	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	Conservative	1872	2nd term
Quebec-Centre	Jacques Malouin	Independent	1877	1st term
Quebec County	Joseph-Philippe-René-Adolphe Caron	Conservative	1873	2nd term
Quebec East	Isidore Thibaudeau	Liberal	1874	1st term
Quebec East	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874	1st term
Quebec West	Thomas McGreevy	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Richelieu	Georges Isidore Barthe	Independent Conservative	1870, 1874	2nd term*
Richmond—Wolfe	Henry Aylmer	Liberal	1874	1st term
Rimouski	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Rouville	Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques	Liberal	1867, 1874	2nd term*
Saint Maurice	Charles Gérin-Lajoie	Liberal	1874	1st term
Shefford	Lucius Huntington	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Town of Sherbrooke	Edward Towle Brooks	Conservative	1872	2nd term
Soulanges	Jacques-Philippe Lanthier	Conservative	1872	2nd term
St. Hyacinthe	Louis Delorme	Liberal	1870	3rd term
St. John's	François Bourassa	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Stanstead	Charles Carroll Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867	3rd term
Témiscouata	Jean-Baptiste Pouliot	Liberal	1874	1st term
Terrebonne	Louis Masson	Conservative	1867	3rd term
Three Rivers	William McDougall	Conservative	1868	3rd term
Two Mountains	Wilfrid Prévost	Liberal	1872	2nd term
Two Mountains	Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky	Independent	1875	1st term
Two Mountains	Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Conservative	1876	1st term
Vaudreuil	Robert Harwood	Liberal-Conservative	1872	2nd term
Verchères	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867	3rd term
Yamaska	Charles Gill	Conservative	1874	1st term

Twelve MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected:

Félix Geoffrion was reelected in Verchères on July 25, 1874, after being named Minister of Inland Revenue.
Henry Aylmer was reelected in Richmond—Wolfe on December 4, 1874, after being named Receiver-General.
Louis François George Baby was reelected in Joliette on December 10, 1874.
Frederick Mackenzie was reelected in Montreal West on December 10, 1874.
Amable Jodoin was reelected in Chambly on December 30, 1874.
Hilaire Hurteau was reelected in L'Assomption on January 16, 1875.
Sixte Coupal dit la Reine was reelected in Napierville on June 19, 1875.
Bernard Devlin was reelected in Montreal Centre on November 26, 1875.
François Fortunat Rouleau was reelected in Dorchester on December 14, 1875.
Joseph-Édouard Cauchon was reelected in Quebec Centre on December 27, 1875, after being named President of the Privy Council.
Rodolphe Laflamme was reelected in Jacques Cartier on December 28, 1876, after being named Minister of Inland Revenue.
Hector-Louis Langevin was reelected in Charlevoix on March 23, 1877.