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unusual facts about Canadian House of Commons



Agar Rodney Adamson

As a member of the historical Conservative Party of Canada then as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada he represented the riding of York West in the Canadian House of Commons.

Arms of Canada

In June 2008 MP Pat Martin introduced a motion into the House of Commons calling on the government to amend the coat of arms to incorporate symbols representing Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Arnold Malone

Arnold John Malone (born 9 December 1937 in Rosalind, Alberta) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry

He served as president of the Conservative Party Association of Quebec for several years and was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1878 as a Conservative representing Montmagny, Quebec.

Barry Mather

Born in Condor, Alberta, he was a journalist for the Vancouver News Herald and a columnist with The Vancouver Sun before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 federal election for the British Columbia riding of New Westminster.

Beaton Tulk

In 2002 Tulk resigned his provincial seat to run unsuccessfully for the federal Liberals for the Canadian House of Commons seat of Gander—Grand Falls in a by-election after George Baker was appointed to the Senate, but was defeated by Rex Barnes.

Benjamin Pearse

Allegations were brought against Pearse in May 1879 in the Canadian House of Commons by MPs Thomas Robert McInnes and Arthur Bunster over the construction of the British Columbia Penitentiary.

Bill Attewell

A corporate executive, Attewell was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Don Valley East defeating Liberal cabinet minister David Smith in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian Mulroney to power.

Canadian Action Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election

Tristan ran unsuccessfully for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2004 federal election in Trinity--Spadina riding in Toronto as a candidate for the Canadian Action Party - hoping to help the party meet pre-2004 party-status stipulations in its legal challenge against the minimum vote requirements in bill C-24.

Canadian heraldry

In June 2008, MP Pat Martin introduced a motion into the House of Commons calling on the government to amend the coat of arms to incorporate symbols representing Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Contempt of Parliament

On March 9, 2011, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons Peter Milliken made two Contempt of Parliament rulings: The first found that a Conservative Party cabinet minister, Bev Oda, could possibly be in contempt of Parliament.

Cypress County, Alberta

Cypress County is served by the Federal Electoral Division of Medicine Hat and represented in the Canadian House of Commons by Conservative MP LaVar Payne.

David Tilson

Tilson ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the federal election of 2004 and defeated incumbent Liberal Murray Calder by a margin of 43% to 39% in the new riding of Dufferin—Caledon.

Donald Watson Davis

Born in Londonderry, Vermont, Donald was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1887 Canadian federal election to be one of the first Members of Parliament to represent the Northwest Territories.

Exhaustive ballot

The exhaustive ballot is currently used, in different forms, to elect the members of the Swiss Federal Council, the First Minister of Scotland, the President of the European Parliament, and the speakers of the Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament.

Francis Alexander Anglin

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, one of 9 children of Parliamentarian Timothy Anglin, and elder brother to the renowned stage actress, Margaret Anglin, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa in 1887.

Francis LeBlanc

Francis G. LeBlanc (born 22 December 1953 in Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia) was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997.

Francis Nicholson Darke

Darke was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1925 federal election as a Liberal MP for Regina electoral district but resigned his seat in early 1926 in order to allow Saskatchewan Premier Charles Avery Dunning to enter the federal parliament in a by-election after he was appointed Finance Minister in the federal cabinet.

Frank Maine

Francis William (Frank) Maine (born 15 September 1937 at Hayes, Kent, England) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

George Gerald King

Born in Springfield, New Brunswick, the son of Malcolm King and Elizabeth Hickson, he was a businessman before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the New Brunswick riding of Queen's in the 1878 federal election.

Greater Napanee

Member of Parliament (MP) serving the electoral district of Toronto Centre in the Canadian House of Commons (1905 by-election and re-elected in 1908, 1911, 1917, 1921, and 1925).

Herman Maxwell Batten

Born in Bareneed, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1953 as a Member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of Humber—St. George's and re-elected in the elections of 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965 and he was defeated in the election of 1968 in the riding of Humber—St. George's—St. Barbe.

Hilliard Beyerstein

Born in Meeting Creek, Alberta, Beyerstein first ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a Social Credit Party candidate in the 1949 federal election.

Jake Epp

Jake Epp was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1972 election for the riding of Provencher, which was the home of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's Whiteshell Laboratories.

Jim Maloway

He was then elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Winnipeg division of Elmwood—Transcona in the 2008 federal election as a member of the New Democratic Party, but was defeated by Conservative candidate Lawrence Toet in the 2011 federal election.

Liberal Party of Canada candidates, 1968 Canadian federal election

His father, Ernest Winch, was a prominent member of the British Columbia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and his brother Harold Winch led the same party in the 1940s and 1950s and was later a New Democratic Party parliamentarian in the Canadian House of Commons.

Maurice Harquail

Maurice James Harquail (born 2 December 1938 in Matapédia, Quebec) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Murray Dorin

Murray Dorin (born 21 May 1953 in Viking, Alberta) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Parliamentary immunity

In the run-up to the 2006 election in Canada, Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper denounced the ruling Liberal Party on the floor of the House of Commons, contending that the government ran "a massive corruption ring using organized crime to defraud taxpayers."

Peter Bevan-Baker

Bevan-Baker joined the Green Party of Canada in 1992, and has run as a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the elections of 1993, 1997 and 2000 in the riding of Leeds/Grenville in Ontario, and 2008 and 2011 in Malpeque, PEI.

Philip Petursson

He ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the federal election of 1949 in the riding of Norquay, but lost to Liberal Robert James Wood by almost 4000 votes.

Plympton–Wyoming

The town's first mayor was Patricia Davidson, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2006 federal election as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Sarnia—Lambton.

Quebec Liberal Party candidates, 2007 Quebec provincial election

He is not to be confused with the Montreal businessperson Daniel Fournier, who has run for the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative candidate.

Richard Décarie

Richard Décarie is a Strategy Communication Consultant who was Deputy Chief of Staff of the Leader of the Official Opposition Conservative Party of Canada, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, at the Canadian House of Commons.

Richard Marceau

A lawyer in both Québec and Ontario, Marceau was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1997 federal election for the Bloc Québécois in the riding of Charlesbourg at the age of 26.

Robert Fair

Born in Keelognes, parish of Turlough, County Mayo, Ireland, Fair ran as a Social Credit candidate was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 Canadian federal election defeating incumbent Member of Parliament Henry Elvins Spencer.

Roberta Jamieson

She was the first Aboriginal woman ever to earn a law degree in Canada, the first non-Parliamentarian to be appointed an ex officio member of a House of Commons committee, and the first woman appointed as Ontario Ombudsman.

Ronald McLelland

Ronald David McLelland (born 27 March 1926 at Loreburn, Saskatchewan) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Stranger to the House

In the Canadian House of Commons and its provinces' Legislative Assemblies (and possibly other Westminster systems), a Stranger to the House is anyone permitted to be on the floor of the House who is not either a Member of Parliament, an Officer of the House (such as the clerks or the Sergeant-at-Arms) or a parliamentary page.

The Presbyterian College, Montreal

W. G. Brown (1902) was a minister who fought for the continuation of the PCC from Red Deer, Alberta, where he served from 1907–1925, then moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where he re-organized the Presbyterian Minority groups into St. Andrew's Church in Saskatoon; and died after he was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1940.

Thomas Chapais

In 1891, he ran unsuccessfully as a Conservative for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Kamouraska.

Thomas Suluk

After working as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio announcer for a short period, Suluk gained election to the Canadian House of Commons at the 1984 federal election, representing the electoral district of Nunatsiaq (now Nunavut).

He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.

Truthiness

In 2006, Liberal Party of Canada leadership contender Ken Dryden used truthiness as an extensive theme in a speech in the House of Commons.

Virginia Park, St. John's

The neighbourhood is represented by the Virginia Waters and Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi districts in the provincial House of Assembly, and is part of the St. John's East district in the Canadian House of Commons.

Wilbert McIntyre

Born in Rosedale, Ontario, Wilbert was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1906 by-election in the Strathcona electoral district by-election on April 5, 1906.

William H. Spinks

He campaigned for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 federal election as a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada, but lost to Liberal-Progressive candidate William Gilbert Weir.

Woodworth political family

They rose to prominence in the 19th century, serving in several states, in the United States House of Representatives, the Canadian House of Commons, and produced America's first Surgeon General.


see also

Adams State University

:*Myron Thompson, Member of Parliament (1993-2008) in the Canadian House of Commons

Arthur Thompson

Arthur Lisle Thompson (1884–1949), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Brian Gardiner

Brian L. Gardiner (born 1955), former member of the Canadian House of Commons

Broder

Andrew Broder (1845–1918), Ontario farmer and merchant, member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1911

Charles Power

Charlie Power (born 1948), member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1997–2000

Corriveau

Léopold Corriveau (born 1926), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Donald Munro

Donald W. Munro (1916–1998), Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons

École secondaire Cavelier-De LaSalle

Isabelle Morin, member of Parliament for the constituency of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, taught French in the Dramatic Arts program at the school before she was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the Canadian federal election, 2011.

Édouard-Louis Pacaud

Pacaud was the uncle of Gaspard Pacaud who served in the Ontario legislative assembly and the great uncle of Lucien Turcotte Pacaud who served in the Canadian House of Commons.

Fillion

Gilbert Fillion (1940–2007), member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997

Gordon Wilson

Gordon Crooks Wilson (1872–1937), Conservative and Unionist Party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Howard Johnston

Howard Earl Johnston (1928–2001), member of the Canadian House of Commons

Jaenicke

Frank Jaenicke (1892-1951), a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member of the Canadian House of Commons

James Byrne

James Allen Byrne (1911–1975), or Jim, Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons

James Carmichael

James William Carmichael (1819–1903), Member of the Canadian House of Commons

John Edmund Parry

In 1987, Parry was one of three New Democratic Party Members of Parliament (MPs) to heckle American President Ronald Reagan during an address by the president to the Canadian House of Commons (Toronto Star, 6 June 2004).

John Finlay

John Baird Finlay (1929–2010), Dominican Republic-born Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons 1993–2004

John McConville

His son Joseph Norbet Alfred served in the Quebec legislative assembly and his son Lewis Arthur served in the Canadian House of Commons.

John Thurston

John Jabez Thurston (1888–1960), independent member of the Canadian House of Commons

Malcolm Cameron

Malcolm Colin Cameron (1831–1898), businessman and member of the Canadian House of Commons

McLelland

Ronald McLelland (born 1926), Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Michael McLean

Michael Dalton McLean (1880–?), Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons

Palmarolle

Henri Tousignant (born August 20, 1937), a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Pierre Benoit

Pierre Basile Benoit (1837–1910), former member of the Canadian House of Commons

Public Accounts Committee

Public Accounts Committee (Canada) (officially Standing Committee on Public Accounts, PACP) of the Canadian House of Commons

Roy Graham

Royal Theodore Graham (1887–1965), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Sidney Robinson

Sidney Cecil Robinson (1870–1943), Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons

Stansell

John Lawrence Stansell (1875–1956), a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons

Thomas McBride

Thomas George McBride (1867–1950), Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Trevor Morgan

J. Trevor Morgan (1923–1989), member of the Canadian House of Commons

W. Gordon Brown

His maternal uncle was William Henry Moore, Member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1930 to 1945.

William H. Moore

William Henry Moore (1872–1960), Canadian lawyer, author and Member of the Canadian House of Commons

William Jarvis

William H. Jarvis (born 1930), former member of the Canadian House of Commons

William Nickle

William Folger Nickle (1869 - 1957), Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons and in the Ontario legislature

Wratten

Jack Wratten (1906–1996), Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons