25th Parliament of Ontario

The 25th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 9, 1955, until May 4, 1959, just prior to the 1959 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by Leslie Frost.

Alfred Wallace Downer served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

Members elected to the Assembly

Riding	Member	Party	First elected / previously elected
Algoma—Manitoulin	John Arthur Fullerton	Progressive Conservative	1943
Beaches	William Henry Collings	Progressive Conservative	1951
Bellwoods	John Yaremko	Progressive Conservative	1951
Bracondale	Arthur George Frost	Progressive Conservative	1951
Brant County	Harry Corwin Nixon	Liberal	1919
Brantford	George Thomas Gordon	Liberal	1948
Bruce	Ross MacKenzie Whicher	Liberal	1955
Carleton	William Erskine Johnston	Progressive Conservative	1955
Cochrane North	Philip Kelly	Progressive Conservative	1951
Cochrane North	René Brunelle (1958)	Progressive Conservative	1958
Cochrane South	Wilf Spooner	Progressive Conservative	1955
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
Elgin	Ronald Keith McNeil (1958)	Progressive Conservative	1958
Essex North	Arthur John Reaume	Liberal	1951
Essex South	William Murdoch	Progressive Conservative	1943
Fort William	Clare Edgar Mapledoram	Progressive Conservative	1951
Frontenac—Addington	David John Rankin	Progressive Conservative	1955
Glengarry	Osie Villeneuve^[a]	Progressive Conservative	1948
Glengarry	Fernand Guindon (1957)	Progressive Conservative	1957
Grenville—Dundas	Frederick McIntosh Cass	Progressive Conservative	1955
Grey North	Mackinnon Phillips	Progressive Conservative	1945
Grey South	Farquhar Robert Oliver	Liberal	1926^[b]
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 East	Lloyd Harrison Price (1958)	Progressive Conservative	1958
Hastings West	Elmer Sandercock	Progressive Conservative	1948
High Park	Alfred Hozack Cowling	Progressive Conservative	1951
Huron	Thomas Pryde	Progressive Conservative	1948
Huron	Charles Steel MacNaughton (1958)	Progressive Conservative	1958
Huron—Bruce	John William Hanna	Progressive Conservative	1943
Kenora	Albert Wren	Liberal-Labour	1951
Kent East	John Purvis Spence	Liberal	1955
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^[a]	Progressive Conservative	1937
	John Arthur McCue (1957)	Progressive Conservative	1957
	George Ellis Gomme (1958)	Progressive Conservative	1958
Leeds	James Auld	Progressive Conservative	1954
Lincoln	Charles Daley	Progressive Conservative	1943
London North	John Parmenter Robarts	Progressive Conservative	1951
London South	George Ernest Jackson	Progressive Conservative	1955
Middlesex North	Thomas L. Patrick	Progressive Conservative	1943
Middlesex North	William Atcheson Stewart (1957)	Progressive Conservative	1957
Middlesex South	Harry Marshall Allen	Progressive Conservative	1945
Muskoka	Robert James Boyer	Progressive Conservative	1955
Niagara Falls	Arthur Connaught Jolley	Progressive Conservative	1954
Nickel Belt	Rhéal Bélisle	Progressive Conservative	1955
Nipissing	Jean Marc Chaput	Progressive Conservative	1954
Northumberland	William Arthur Goodfellow	Progressive Conservative	1943
Ontario	Matthew Bulloch Dymond	Progressive Conservative	1955
Oshawa	T.D. Thomas	Co-operative Commonwealth	1948
Ottawa East	Jules Morin	Progressive Conservative	1955
Ottawa South	George Harrison Dunbar	Progressive Conservative	1937
Ottawa West	Donald Hugo Morrow	Progressive Conservative	1948
Oxford	Gordon William Innes	Liberal	1955
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 North	Maurice Hamilton (1958)	Progressive Conservative	1958
Renfrew South	James Shannon Dempsey^[c]	Independent PC	1945
Renfrew South	James Anthony Maloney (1956)	Progressive Conservative	1956
Riverdale	Robert William Macaulay	Progressive Conservative	1951
Russell	Gordon Lavergne	Progressive Conservative	1954
Sault Ste. Marie	Harry Lyons	Progressive Conservative	1951
Simcoe Centre	George Graham Johnston	Progressive Conservative	1943
Simcoe East	Lloyd Averall Letherby	Progressive Conservative	1954
St. Andrew	Allan Grossman	Progressive Conservative	1955
St. David	Henry James Price	Progressive Conservative	1955
St. George	Dana Harris Porter^[d]	Progressive Conservative	1943
St. George	Allan Frederick Lawrence (1958)	Progressive Conservative	1958
St. Patrick	Archibald Kelso Roberts	Progressive Conservative	1943, 1951
Stormont	Peter Thomas Manley	Liberal	1951
Sudbury	Gerald Joseph Monaghan	Progressive Conservative	1955
Timiskaming	Alexander Robert Herbert	Progressive Conservative	1951
Victoria	Leslie Miscampbell Frost	Progressive Conservative	1937
Waterloo North	John Joseph Wintermeyer	Liberal	1955
Waterloo South	Raymond Munro Myers	Progressive Conservative	1951
Welland	Ellis Price Morningstar	Progressive Conservative	1951
Wellington South	Harry A. Worton	Liberal	1955
Wellington—Dufferin	John Henry Haines Root	Progressive Conservative	1951
Wentworth	Arthur John Child	Progressive Conservative	1951
Wentworth East	Reg Gisborn	Co-operative Commonwealth	1955
Windsor—Sandwich	William Griesinger	Progressive Conservative	1945
Windsor—Walkerville	M.C. Davies	Progressive Conservative	1945
Woodbine	Harold Ferguson Fishleigh	Progressive Conservative	1951
York Centre	Thomas Graham	Progressive Conservative	1955
York East	Hollis Edward Beckett	Progressive Conservative	1951
York North	Addison Alexander MacKenzie	Progressive Conservative	1945
York South	Donald Cameron MacDonald	Co-operative Commonwealth	1955
York West	W. Elmer Brandon^[c]	Progressive Conservative	1951
York West	Leslie Rowntree (1956)	Progressive Conservative	1956
York—Humber	William Beverley Lewis	Progressive Conservative	1955
York—Scarborough	Richard Edward Sutton	Progressive Conservative	1955

Timeline

25th Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Movement in seats held (1955-1959)
Party		1955	Gain/(loss) due to				1959
Party		1955	Resignation as MPP	Death in office	Byelection gain	Byelection hold	1959
	Progressive Conservative	83	(6)	(5)	1	11	84
	Liberal	10					10
	Co-operative Commonwealth	3					3
	Liberal–Labour	1					1
	Independent PC	1		(1)			–
Total		98	(6)	(6)	1	11	98

Changes in seats held (1955-1959)
Seat	Before				Change
Seat	Date	Member	Party	Reason	Date	Member	Party
Renfrew South	October 24, 1955	James Shannon Dempsey	█ Independent PC	Died in office	January 12, 1956	James Maloney	█ PC
York West	July 2, 1956	Elmer Brandon	█ PC	Died in office	October 18, 1956	Leslie Rowntree	█ PC
Middlesex North	January 10, 1957	Thomas Patrick	█ PC	Died in office	September 5, 1957	William Atcheson Stewart	█ PC
Glengarry	May 25, 1957	Osie Villeneuve	█ PC	Resigned to contest the House of Commons seat of Glengarry—Prescott in the 1957 election	September 5, 1957	Fernand Guindon	█ PC
Lanark	August 14, 1957	George Henry Doucett	█ PC	Resigned to contest the House of Commons seat of Lanark in a byelection, upon the death of William Gourlay Blair	October 24, 1957	John Arthur McCue	█ PC
Lanark	May 26, 1958	John Arthur McCue	█ PC	Died in office	August 28, 1958	George Gomme	█ PC
Elgin	November 9, 1957	Fletcher Stewart Thomas	█ PC	Died in office	January 30, 1958	Ron McNeil	█ PC
Huron	January 5, 1958	Thomas Pryde	█ PC	Died in office	May 12, 1958	Charles MacNaughton	█ PC
Cochrane North	January 22, 1958	Philip Kelly	█ PC	Resigned from seat, after previously being ordered to resign as Minister of Mines	May 12, 1958	René Brunelle	█ PC
St. George	January 30, 1958	Dana Porter	█ PC	Appointed as Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal	May 12, 1958	Allan Lawrence	█ PC
Renfrew North	March 1, 1958	Stanley Joseph Hunt	█ PC	Resigned to contest the House of Commons seat of Renfrew North in the 1958 election	May 12, 1958	Maurice Hamilton	█ PC
Hastings East	July 30, 1958	Roscoe Robson	█ PC	Accepted an appointment as Sheriff of Hastings County	August 28, 1958	Lloyd Price	█ PC

External links

Members in Parliament 25

Notes

^ ^a ^b Elected to federal seat.
^ First elected as United Farmers
^ ^a ^b Died in office, 1956.
^ Appointed to Ontario Court of Appeal.

References

^ "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-29.

[federal-2] Elected to federal seat.

[3] First elected as United Farmers

[died-4] Died in office, 1956.

[5] Appointed to Ontario Court of Appeal.

[1] "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-29.

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