8th Canadian Parliament

The 8th Canadian Parliament was in session from August 19, 1896, until October 9, 1900. The membership was set by the 1896 federal election on June 23, 1896. It was dissolved prior to the 1900 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the 8th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative/Liberal-Conservative, led by Charles Tupper.
The Speaker was first James David Edgar, and later Thomas Bain. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1892-1903 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were five sessions of the 8th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	August 19, 1896	October 5, 1896
2nd	March 25, 1897	June 29, 1897
3rd	February 3, 1898	June 13, 1898
4th	March 16, 1899	August 11, 1899
5th	February 1, 1900	July 18, 1900

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the eighth 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
Burrard	George Ritchie Maxwell	Liberal	1896	1st term
New Westminster	Aulay MacAulay Morrison	Liberal	1896	1st term
Vancouver	William Wallace Burns McInnes	Liberal	1896	1st term
Victoria*	Edward Gawler Prior	Conservative	1888	3rd term
Victoria*	Thomas Earle	Conservative	1889	3rd term
Yale—Cariboo	Hewitt Bostock	Liberal	1896	1st term

[Manitoba]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Brandon	Dalton McCarthy	Independent	1876	6th term
Brandon	Clifford Sifton	Liberal	1896	1st term
Lisgar	Robert Lorne Richardson	Liberal	1896	1st term
Macdonald	Nathaniel Boyd	Conservative	1892	2nd term
Macdonald	John Gunion Rutherford	Liberal	1897	1st term
Marquette	William James Roche	Conservative	1896	1st term
Provencher	Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière	Conservative	1889	3rd term
Selkirk	John Alexander MacDonell	Liberal	1896	1st term
Winnipeg	Hugh John Macdonald	Conservative	1891	2nd term
Winnipeg	Richard Willis Jameson	Liberal	1897	1st term
Winnipeg	Arthur Puttee	Labour	1900	1st term

[New Brunswick]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Albert	William James Lewis	Independent	1896	1st term
Carleton	Frederick Harding Hale	Liberal-Conservative	1887, 1896	2nd term*
Charlotte	Gilbert White Ganong	Liberal-Conservative	1896	1st term
City and County of St. John	Joseph John Tucker	Liberal	1896	1st term
City of St. John	John Valentine Ellis	Liberal	1887, 1896	2nd term*
Gloucester	Théotime Blanchard	Conservative	1894	2nd term*
Kent	George Valentine McInerney	Conservative	1892	2nd term
King's	James Domville	Liberal	1872, 1896	4th term*
Northumberland	James Robinson	Conservative	1896	2nd term
Restigouche	John McAlister	Liberal-Conservative	1891	2nd term
Sunbury—Queen's	George Gerald King	Liberal	1878, 1891	5th term*
Sunbury—Queen's	Andrew George Blair	Liberal	1896	1st term
Victoria	John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867	8th term
Westmorland	Henry Absalom Powell	Liberal-Conservative	1895	2nd term
York	George Eulas Foster	Conservative	1882	4th term

[Northwest Territories]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Alberta (Provisional District)	Frank Oliver	Liberal	1896	1st term
Assiniboia East	James Moffat Douglas	Liberal	1896	1st term
Assiniboia West	Nicholas Flood Davin	Liberal-Conservative	1887	3rd term
Saskatchewan (Provisional District)	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874	6th term
Saskatchewan (Provisional District)	Thomas Osborne Davis	Liberal	1896	1st term

[Nova Scotia]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Annapolis	John Burpee Mills	Conservative	1887	3rd term
Antigonish	Colin Francis McIsaac	Liberal	1895	2nd term
Cape Breton*	Hector Francis McDougall	Liberal-Conservative	1884	3rd term
Cape Breton*	Charles Tupper	Conservative	1867, 1887, 1896	8th term*
Colchester	Wilbert David Dimock	Conservative	1896	1st term
Colchester	Firman McClure	Liberal	1897	1st term
Cumberland	Hance James Logan	Liberal	1896	1st term
Digby	Albert James Smith Copp	Liberal	1896	1st term
Guysborough	Duncan Cameron Fraser	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Halifax*	Robert Laird Borden	Conservative	1896	1st term
Halifax*	Benjamin Russell	Liberal	1896	1st term
Hants	Allen Haley	Liberal	1896	1st term
Inverness	Angus MacLennan	Liberal	1896	1st term
Kings	Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874, 1887	5th term*
Kings	Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874, 1887	5th term*
Lunenburg	Charles Edwin Kaulbach	Conservative	1882, 1883, 1891	4th term*
Pictou*	Adam Carr Bell	Conservative	1896	1st term
Pictou*	Charles Hibbert Tupper	Conservative	1882	4th term
Richmond	Joseph Alexander Gillies	Conservative	1891	2nd term
Shelburne and Queen's	Francis Gordon Forbes	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Shelburne and Queen's	William Stevens Fielding	Liberal	1896	1st term
Victoria	John Lemuel Bethune	Conservative	1896	1st term
Yarmouth	Thomas Barnard Flint	Liberal	1891	2nd term

[Ontario]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Addington	John William Bell	Conservative	1882, 1896	3rd term*
Algoma	Albert Dyment	Liberal	1896	1st term
Bothwell	James Clancy	Conservative	1896	1st term
Brant South	Robert Henry	Conservative	1896	1st term
Brant South	Charles Bernhard Heyd	Liberal	1897	1st term
Brockville	John Fisher Wood	Liberal-Conservative	1882	4th term
Brockville	William Henry Comstock	Liberal	1899	1st term
Bruce East	Henry Cargill	Conservative	1892	2nd term
Bruce North	Alexander McNeill	Liberal-Conservative	1882	4th term
Bruce West	John Tolmie	Liberal	1896	1st term
Cardwell	William Stubbs	Independent Conservative	1895	2nd term
Carleton	William Thomas Hodgins	Conservative	1891	2nd term
Cornwall and Stormont	Darby Bergin	Liberal-Conservative	1872, 1878	6th term*
Cornwall and Stormont	John Goodall Snetsinger	Liberal	1896	1st term
Dundas	Andrew Broder	Conservative	1896	1st term
Durham East	Thomas Dixon Craig	Independent Conservative	1891	2nd term
Durham West	Robert Beith	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Elgin East	Andrew B. Ingram	Liberal-Conservative	1891	2nd term
Elgin West	George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1878	5th term
Essex North	William McGregor	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Essex South	Mahlon K. Cowan	Liberal	1896	1st term
Frontenac	David Dickson Rogers	Patrons of Industry	1896	1st term
Glengarry	Roderick R. McLennan	Conservative	1891	2nd term
Grenville South	John Dowsley Reid	Conservative	1891	2nd term
Grey East	Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878	5th term
Grey North	John Clark	Liberal	1896	1st term
Grey North	William Paterson	Liberal	1896	1st term
Grey South	George Landerkin	Liberal	1872, 1882	6th term*
Haldimand and Monck	Walter Humphries Montague	Conservative	1887, 1890	4th term*
Halton	David Henderson	Conservative	1887, 1888	4th term*
Hamilton*	Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	1874, 1896	2nd term*
Hamilton*	Thomas Henry Macpherson	Liberal	1896	1st term
Hastings East	Jeremiah M. Hurley	Liberal	1896	1st term
Hastings North	Alexander Augustus Williamson Carscallen	Conservative	1892	2nd term
Hastings West	Henry Corby	Conservative	1888	3rd term
Huron East	Peter Macdonald	Liberal	1887	3rd term
Huron South	John McMillan	Liberal	1882, 1887	4th term*
Huron West	Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	1867, 1891, 1896	8th term*
Huron West	Robert Holmes	Liberal	1899	1st term
Kent	Archibald Campbell	Liberal	1887	3rd term
Kingston	Byron Moffatt Britton	Liberal	1896	1st term
Lambton East	John Fraser	Liberal	1896	1st term
Lambton West	James Frederick Lister	Liberal	1882	4th term
Lambton West	Thomas George Johnston	Liberal	1898	1st term
Lanark North	Bennett Rosamond	Conservative	1891	2nd term
Lanark South	John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872	7th term
Leeds North and Grenville North	Francis Theodore Frost	Liberal	1896	1st term
Leeds South	George Taylor	Conservative	1882	4th term
Lennox	Uriah Wilson	Conservative	1892	2nd term
Lincoln and Niagara	William Gibson	Liberal	1891	2nd term
London	Thomas Beattie	Conservative	1896	1st term
Middlesex East	James Gilmour	Conservative	1896	1st term
Middlesex North	Valentine Ratz	Liberal	1896	1st term
Middlesex South	Malcolm McGugan	Liberal	1896	1st term
Middlesex West	William Samuel Calvert	Liberal	1896	1st term
Muskoka and Parry Sound	George McCormick	Liberal-Conservative	1896	1st term
Nipissing	James Bell Klock	Conservative	1896	1st term
Norfolk North	John Charlton	Liberal	1872	7th term
Norfolk South	David Tisdale	Conservative	1887	3rd term
Northumberland East	Edward Cochrane	Conservative	1887	3rd term
Northumberland West	George Guillet	Conservative	1891	2nd term
Ontario North	John Alexander McGillivray	Liberal-Conservative	1895	2nd term
Ontario North	Duncan Graham	Independent Liberal	1897	1st term
Ontario South	Leonard Burnett	Liberal	1896	1st term
Ontario West	James David Edgar	Liberal	1884	4th term
Ontario West	Isaac James Gould	Liberal	1900	1st term
Ottawa (City of)*	Napoléon Antoine Belcourt	Liberal	1896	1st term
Ottawa (City of)*	William H. Hutchison	Liberal	1896	1st term
Oxford North	James Sutherland	Liberal	1880	4th term
Oxford South	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867	8th term
Oxford South	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	1867	8th term
Peel	Joseph Featherston	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Perth North	Alexander Ferguson Maclaren	Conservative	1896	1st term
Perth South	Dilman Kinsey Erb	Liberal	1896	1st term
Peterborough East	John Lang	Independent Liberal	1896	1st term
Peterborough West	James Kendry	Conservative	1887	3rd term
Prescott	Isidore Proulx	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Prince Edward	William Varney Pettet	Patrons of Industry	1896	1st term
Renfrew North	Thomas Mackie	Liberal	1896	1st term
Renfrew South	John Ferguson	Independent Conservative	1887	3rd term
Russell	William Cameron Edwards	Liberal	1887	3rd term
Simcoe East	William Humphrey Bennett	Conservative	1892	2nd term
Simcoe East	William Humphrey Bennett	Conservative	1892	2nd term
Simcoe North	Dalton McCarthy	Independent	1887	3rd term
Simcoe North	Leighton Goldie McCarthy	Independent	1898	1st term
Simcoe South	Richard Tyrwhitt	Conservative	1882	4th term
Toronto Centre	William Lount	Liberal	1896	1st term
Toronto Centre	George Hope Bertram	Liberal	1897	1st term
Toronto East	John Ross Robertson	Independent Conservative	1896	1st term
Victoria North	Sam Hughes	Liberal-Conservative	1892	2nd term
Victoria South	George McHugh	Liberal	1896	1st term
Waterloo North	Joseph Emm Seagram	Conservative	1896	1st term
Waterloo South	James Livingston	Liberal	1882	4th term
Welland	William McCleary	Conservative	1896	1st term
Wellington Centre	Andrew Semple	Liberal	1887	3rd term
Wellington North	James McMullen	Liberal	1882	4th term
Wellington South	Christian Kloepfer	Conservative	1896	1st term
Wentworth North and Brant	James Somerville	Liberal	1882	4th term
Wentworth South	Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872	7th term
West Toronto*	Edmund Boyd Osler	Conservative	1896	1st term
West Toronto*	Edward Frederick Clarke	Conservative	1896	1st term
York East	William Findlay Maclean	Conservative	1892	2nd term
York North	William Mulock	Liberal	1882	4th term
York North	William Mulock	Liberal	1882	4th term
York West	Nathaniel Clarke Wallace	Conservative	1878	5th term

[Prince Edward Island]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
East Prince	John Yeo	Liberal	1891	2nd term
East Prince	John Howatt Bell	Liberal	1898	1st term
East Queen's	Alexander Martin	Conservative	1896	1st term
King's	Augustine Colin Macdonald	Conservative	1873, 1878, 1883, 1891	5th term*
West Prince	Edward Hackett	Liberal-Conservative	1878, 1896	3rd term*
West Prince	Stanislaus Francis Perry	Liberal	1874, 1887, 1897	4th term*
West Prince	Bernard Donald McLellan	Liberal	1896	1st term
West Queen's	Louis Henry Davies	Liberal	1882	4th term
West Queen's	Louis Henry Davies	Liberal	1882	4th term

[Quebec]

Electoral district	Name	Party	First elected/previously elected	No. of terms
Argenteuil	Thomas Christie	Liberal	1875, 1891	4th term*
Bagot	Flavien Dupont	Conservative	1882	4th term
Bagot	Joseph Edmond Marcile	Liberal	1898	1st term
Beauce	Joseph Godbout	Liberal	1887	3rd term
Beauharnois	Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron	Conservative	1882	4th term
Bellechasse	Onésiphore Ernest Talbot	Liberal	1896	1st term
Berthier	Cléophas Beausoleil	Liberal	1882	4th term
Berthier	Joseph Éloi Archambault	Liberal	1900	1st term
Bonaventure	William LeBoutillier Fauvel	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Bonaventure	Jean-François Guité	Liberal	1897	1st term
Brome	Sydney Arthur Fisher	Liberal	1896	1st term
Brome	Sydney Arthur Fisher	Liberal	1896	1st term
Chambly—Verchères	Christophe Alphonse Geoffrion	Liberal	1895	2nd term
Chambly—Verchères	Victor Geoffrion	Liberal	1900	1st term
Champlain	François Arthur Marcotte	Conservative	1896	1st term
Champlain	François Arthur Marcotte	Conservative	1896	1st term
Charlevoix	Louis Charles Alphonse Angers	Liberal	1896	2nd term
Châteauguay	James Pollock Brown	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Chicoutimi—Saguenay	Paul Vilmond Savard	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Compton	Rufus Henry Pope	Conservative	1889	3rd term
Dorchester	Jean-Baptiste Morin	Conservative	1896	1st term
Drummond—Arthabaska	Joseph Lavergne	Liberal	1882	4th term
Drummond—Arthabaska	Louis Lavergne	Liberal	1897	1st term
Gaspé	Rodolphe Lemieux	Liberal	1896	1st term
Hochelaga	Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore	Liberal	1896	1st term
Huntingdon	Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869	8th term
Jacques Cartier	Frederick Debartzch Monk	Conservative	1896	1st term
Joliette	Charles Bazinet	Liberal	1896	1st term
Kamouraska	Henry George Carroll	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Labelle	Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa	Liberal	1896	1st term
Labelle	Joseph Henri Napoléon Bourassa	Independent	1896	1st term
Laprairie—Napierville	Dominique Monet	Liberal	1891	2nd term
L'Assomption	Joseph Gauthier	Liberal	1892	2nd term
Laval	Thomas Fortin	Liberal	1896	1st term
Lévis	Pierre Malcom Guay	Liberal	1885	4th term
Lévis	Louis Julien Demers	Liberal	1899	1st term
L'Islet	Alphonse Arthur Miville Déchêne	Liberal	1896	1st term
Lotbinière	Côme Isaïe Rinfret	Liberal	1878	5th term
Lotbinière	Edmond Fortier	Liberal	1900	1st term
Maisonneuve	Joseph Raymond Fournier Préfontaine	Liberal	1886	4th term
Maskinongé	Joseph Hormidas Legris	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Mégantic	Georges Turcot	Liberal	1887, 1896	2nd term*
Missisquoi	Daniel Bishop Meigs	Liberal	1888, 1896	2nd term*
Montcalm	Joseph Louis Euclide Dugas	Conservative	1891	2nd term
Montmagny	Philippe-Auguste Choquette	Liberal	1887	3rd term
Montmagny	Pierre-Raymond-Léonard Martineau	Liberal	1898	1st term
Montmorency	Thomas Chase Casgrain	Conservative	1896	1st term
Nicolet	Fabien Boisvert	Conservative	1888, 1896	2nd term*
Nicolet	Joseph Hector Leduc	Liberal	1897	1st term
Pontiac	William Joseph Poupore	Conservative	1896	1st term
Portneuf	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Liberal	1867, 1896	3rd term*
Portneuf	Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Liberal	1867, 1896	3rd term*
Quebec-Centre	François Charles Stanislas Langelier	Liberal	1882	4th term
Quebec-Centre	Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin	Liberal	1898	1st term
Quebec County	Charles Fitzpatrick	Liberal	1896	1st term
Quebec County	Charles Fitzpatrick	Liberal	1896	1st term
Quebec East	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874	6th term
Quebec East	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874	6th term
Quebec West	Richard Reid Dobell	Liberal	1896	1st term
Richelieu	Arthur Aimé Bruneau	Liberal	1892	2nd term
Richmond—Wolfe	Michael Thomas Stenson	Liberal	1896	1st term
Rimouski	Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal	1872, 1887, 1896	5th term*
Rimouski	Jean Auguste Ross	Liberal	1897	1st term
Rouville	Louis Philippe Brodeur	Liberal	1878	5th term
St. Anne	Michael Joseph Francis Quinn	Conservative	1896	1st term
St. Antoine	Thomas George Roddick	Conservative	1896	1st term
St. Hyacinthe	Michel Esdras Bernier	Liberal	1882	4th term
St. Hyacinthe	Michel Esdras Bernier	Liberal	1882	4th term
St. James	Odilon Desmarais	Liberal	1896	1st term
St. Johns—Iberville	François Béchard	Liberal	1867	8th term
St. Johns—Iberville	Joseph Israël Tarte	Liberal	1891, 1893, 1896	3rd term*
St. Lawrence	Edward Goff Penny	Liberal	1896	1st term
St. Mary	Hercule Dupré	Liberal	1896	1st term
Shefford	Charles Henry Parmelee	Liberal	1896	1st term
Town of Sherbrooke	William Bullock Ives	Conservative	1882	4th term
Town of Sherbrooke	John McIntosh	Conservative	1900	1st term
Soulanges	Augustin Bourbonnais	Liberal	1896	1st term
Stanstead	Alvin Head Moore	Conservative	1896	1st term
Témiscouata	Charles Eugène Pouliot	Liberal	1896	1st term
Témiscouata	Charles Arthur Gauvreau	Liberal	1897	1st term
Terrebonne	Léon Adolphe Chauvin	Conservative	1896	1st term
Three Rivers and St. Maurice	Joseph Philippe René Adolphe Caron	Conservative	1867	8th term
Two Mountains	Joseph Arthur Calixte Éthier	Liberal	1896	1st term
Vaudreuil	Henry Stanislas Harwood	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Wright	Charles Ramsay Devlin	Liberal	1891	2nd term
Wright	Louis Napoléon Champagne	Liberal	1897	1st term
Yamaska	Roch Moïse Samuel Mignault	Liberal	1891	2nd term