24th Parliament of Ontario

The 24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from November 22, 1951, until May 2, 1955, just prior to the 1955 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by Leslie Frost.

M.C. Davies served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Members of the Assembly

Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected
Addington	John Abbott Pringle	Progressive Conservative	1943
Algoma—Manitoulin	John Arthur Fullerton	Progressive Conservative	1945
Beaches	William Henry Collings	Progressive Conservative	1951
Bellwoods	John Yaremko	Progressive Conservative	1951
Bracondale	Arthur George Frost	Progressive Conservative	1951
Brant	Harry Corwin Nixon	Liberal	1919
Brantford	George Thomas Gordon	Liberal	1948
Bruce	John Philemon Johnstone	Progressive Conservative	1945, 1951
Carleton	Donald Hugo Morrow	Progressive Conservative	1948
Cochrane North	Philip Kelly	Progressive Conservative	1951
Cochrane South	Bill Grummett	Co-operative Commonwealth	1943
Dovercourt	David Kerr	Progressive Conservative	1951
Dufferin—Simcoe	Alfred Wallace Downer	Progressive Conservative	1937
Durham	John Weir Foote	Progressive Conservative	1948
Eglinton	William James Dunlop	Progressive Conservative	1951
Elgin	Fletcher Stewart Thomas	Progressive Conservative	1945
Essex North	Arthur John Reaume	Liberal	1951
Essex South	William Murdoch	Progressive Conservative	1943
Fort William	Clare Edgar Mapledoram	Progressive Conservative	1951
Glengarry	Osie Villeneuve	Progressive Conservative	1948
Grenville—Dundas	George Holmes Challies	Progressive Conservative	1929
Grey North	Mackinnon Phillips	Progressive Conservative	1945
Grey South	Farquhar Robert Oliver	Liberal	1926^[a]
Haldimand—Norfolk	James Noble Allan	Progressive Conservative	1951
Halton	Stanley Leroy Hall	Progressive Conservative	1943
Hamilton Centre	William Kenneth Warrender	Progressive Conservative	1951
Hamilton East	Robert Ellsworth Elliott	Progressive Conservative	1945, 1951
Hamilton—Wentworth	Thomas Ray Connell	Progressive Conservative	1951
Hastings East	Roscoe Robson	Progressive Conservative	1943
Hastings West	Elmer Sandercock	Progressive Conservative	1948
High Park	Alfred Hozack Cowling	Progressive Conservative	1951
Huron	Thomas Pryde	Progressive Conservative	1948
Huron—Bruce	John William Hanna	Progressive Conservative	1943
Kenora	Albert Wren	Liberal-Labour	1951
Kent East	Andrew Thomas Ward	Progressive Conservative	1951
Kent West	George William Parry	Progressive Conservative	1945
Kingston	William McAdam Nickle	Progressive Conservative	1951
Lambton East	Charles Eusibius Janes	Progressive Conservative	1945
Lambton West	Bryan Lewis Cathcart	Progressive Conservative	1945
Lanark	George Henry Doucett	Progressive Conservative	1937
Leeds	Charles Gordon MacOdrum	Progressive Conservative	1951
Leeds	James Auld (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
Lincoln	Charles Daley	Progressive Conservative	1943
London	John Parmenter Robarts	Progressive Conservative	1951
Middlesex North	Thomas L. Patrick	Progressive Conservative	1943
Middlesex South	Harry Marshall Allen	Progressive Conservative	1945
Muskoka—Ontario	George Arthur Welsh	Progressive Conservative	1945
Niagara Falls	William Houck^[b]	Liberal	1934, 1948
Niagara Falls	Arthur Connaught Jolley (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
Nipissing	William Bruce Harvey	Progressive Conservative	1948
Nipissing	Jean Marc Chaput (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
Northumberland	William Arthur Goodfellow	Progressive Conservative	1943
Ontario	T.D. Thomas	Co-operative Commonwealth	1948
Ottawa East	Aurele Chartrand	Liberal	1948
Ottawa South	George Harrison Dunbar	Progressive Conservative	1937
Oxford	Thomas Roy Dent	Progressive Conservative	1943
Parkdale	William James Stewart	Progressive Conservative	1938, 1951
Parry Sound	Allister Johnston	Progressive Conservative	1948
Peel	Thomas Laird Kennedy	Progressive Conservative	1919, 1937
Perth	James Frederick Edwards	Progressive Conservative	1945
Peterborough	Harold Robinson Scott	Progressive Conservative	1943
Port Arthur	George Calvin Wardrope	Progressive Conservative	1951
Prescott	Louis-Pierre Cécile	Progressive Conservative	1948
Prince Edward—Lennox	Norris Eldon Howe Whitney	Progressive Conservative	1951
Rainy River	William George Noden	Progressive Conservative	1951
Renfrew North	Stanley Joseph Hunt	Progressive Conservative	1943
Renfrew South	James Shannon Dempsey	Progressive Conservative	1945
Riverdale	Robert William Macaulay	Progressive Conservative	1951
Russell	Joseph Daniel Nault^[c]	Progressive Conservative	1948
Russell	Gordon Lavergne (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
Sault Ste. Marie	Harry Lyons	Progressive Conservative	1951
Simcoe Centre	George Graham Johnston	Progressive Conservative	1943
Simcoe East	John Duncan McPhee	Progressive Conservative	1943
Simcoe East	Lloyd Averall Letherby (1954)	Progressive Conservative	1954
St. Andrew	Joseph Baruch Salsberg	Labour-Progressive	1943
St. David	Everett Weaver	Progressive Conservative	1951
St. George	Dana Harris Porter	Progressive Conservative	1943
St. Patrick	Archibald Kelso Roberts	Progressive Conservative	1943, 1951
Stormont	Peter Thomas Manley	Liberal	1951
Sudbury	Welland Stewart Gemmell	Progressive Conservative	1948
Timiskaming	Alexander Robert Herbert	Progressive Conservative	1951
Victoria	Leslie Miscampbell Frost	Progressive Conservative	1937
Waterloo North	Stanley Francis Leavine	Progressive Conservative	1951
Waterloo South	Raymond Munro Myers	Progressive Conservative	1951
Welland	Ellis Price Morningstar	Progressive Conservative	1951
Wellington North	John Henry Haines Root	Progressive Conservative	1951
Wellington South	William Ernest Hamilton	Progressive Conservative	1945
Wentworth	Arthur John Child	Progressive Conservative	1951
Windsor—Sandwich	William Griesinger	Progressive Conservative	1945
Windsor—Walkerville	M.C. Davies	Progressive Conservative	1945
Woodbine	Harold Ferguson Fishleigh	Progressive Conservative	1951
York East	Hollis Edward Beckett	Progressive Conservative	1951
York North	Addison Alexander MacKenzie	Progressive Conservative	1945
York South	William George Beech	Progressive Conservative	1951
York West	W. Elmer Brandon	Progressive Conservative	1951

Timeline

24th Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Movement in seats held (1951-1955)
Party		1951	Gain/(loss) due to				1955
Party		1951	Resignation as MPP	Death in office	Byelection gain	Byelection hold	1955
	Progressive Conservative	79		(4)	1	4	80
	Liberal	7	(1)				6
	Co-operative Commonwealth	2					2
	Labor–Progressive	1					1
	Liberal–Labour	1					1
Total		90	(1)	(4)	1	4	90

Changes in seats held (1951–1955)
Seat	Before				Change
Seat	Date	Member	Party	Reason	Date	Member	Party
Niagara Falls	July 22, 1953	William Houck	█ Liberal	Chose to stand in Niagara Falls in the 1953 federal election	October 26, 1953	Arthur Connaught Jolley	█ PC
Simcoe East	December 2, 1953	John Duncan McPhee	█ PC	Died in office	February 8, 1954	Lloyd Letherby	█ PC
Nipissing	March 1, 1954	William Bruce Harvey	█ PC	Died in office	September 16, 1954	Jean Marc Chaput	█ PC
Leeds	March 15, 1954	Charles MacOdrum	█ PC	Died in office	September 16, 1954	James Auld	█ PC
Russell	March 18, 1954	Joseph Daniel Nault	█ PC	Died in office	September 16, 1954	Gordon Lavergne	█ PC

Notes

^ First elected as United Farmers
^ elected to federal seat
^ died in 1954

References

^ "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-27.

External links

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[2] First elected as United Farmers

[3] ted to federal seat

[4] 1954

[1] "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-27.

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