| 4thCanadian Parliament | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Majority parliament | |||
| Feb. 13, 1879 – May. 18, 1882 | |||
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| Parliament leaders | |||
| Prime minister | Rt. Hon. SirJohn A. Macdonald Oct. 17, 1878 – Jun. 6, 1891 | ||
| Cabinet | 3rd Canadian Ministry | ||
| Leader of the Opposition | Alexander Mackenzie 17 October 1878 – 27 April 1880 | ||
| Edward Blake 4 May 1880 – 2 June 1887 | |||
| Party caucuses | |||
| Government | Conservative Party &Liberal-Conservative | ||
| Opposition | Liberal Party | ||
| House of Commons | |||
 Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
| Speaker of the Commons | Joseph Godéric Blanchet 13 February 1879 – 7 February 1883 | ||
| Members | 206 seats MP seats List of members | ||
| Senate | |||
| Speaker of the Senate | The Hon.Robert Duncan Wilmot 7 November 1878 – 10 February 1880 | ||
| The Hon. SirDavid Lewis Macpherson 11 February 1880 – 15 February 1880 | |||
| Amos Edwin Botsford 16 February 1880 – 18 April 1880 | |||
| The Hon. Sir David Lewis Macpherson 19 April 1880 – 16 October 1883 | |||
| Government Senate leader | Alexander Campbell 18 October 1878 – 26 January 1887 | ||
| Opposition Senate leader | SirRichard William Scott 8 October 1878 – 27 April 1896 | ||
| Senators | 79 seats senator seats List of senators | ||
| Sovereign | |||
| Monarch | Victoria 1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901 | ||
| Governor general | The Earl of Dufferin 25 June 1872 – 25 Nov. 1878 | ||
| The Duke of Argyll 25 Nov. 1878 – 23 Oct. 1883 | |||
| Sessions | |||
| 1st session 13 February 1879 – 15 May 1879 | |||
| 2nd session 12 February 1880 – 7 May 1880 | |||
| 3rd session 9 December 1880 – 21 March 1881 | |||
| 4th session 9 February 1882 – 17 May 1882 | |||
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The4th Canadian Parliament was in session from 13 February 1879 until 18 May 1882 (3 years and 94 days). The membership was set by the1878 federal election on 17 September 1878. It was dissolved prior to the1882 election.
It was controlled by aConservative/Liberal-Conservative majority underPrime Minister SirJohn A. Macdonald and the3rd Canadian Ministry. TheOfficial Opposition was theLiberal Party, first led byAlexander Mackenzie, and then byEdward Blake.
TheSpeaker wasJoseph Godéric Blanchet. See alsoList of Canadian electoral districts 1873-1882 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were foursessions of the 4th Parliament:
| Session | Start | End |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 13 February 1879 | 15 May 1879 |
| 2nd | 12 February 1880 | 7 May 1880 |
| 3rd | 9 December 1880 | 21 March 1881 |
| 4th | 9 February 1882 | 17 May 1882 |
Following is a full list of members of the fourth parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.
Key:
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | No. of terms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cariboo | Joshua Spencer Thompson (acclaimed) (died in office 20 December 1880) | Liberal-Conservative | 1871 | 4th term | |
| James Reid (from 31 March 1881) | Liberal-Conservative | 1881 | 1st term | ||
| New Westminster | Thomas Robert McInnes (until appointed to Senate 24 December 1881) | Independent | 1878 | 1st term | |
| Joshua Homer (acclaimed) (from 9 March 1882) | Liberal-Conservative | 1882 | 1st term | ||
| Vancouver | Arthur Bunster | Liberal | 1874 | 2nd term | |
| Victoria* | SirJohn A. Macdonald | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 | 4th term | |
| Amor De Cosmos | Liberal | 1871 | 4th term | ||
| Yale | Edgar Dewdney (acclaimed) (resigned 30 May 1879 to become Indian Commissioner of Manitoba and the North West Territories) | Conservative | 1872 | 3rd term | |
| Francis Jones Barnard (from 29 September 1879) | Conservative | 1879 | 1st term |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | No. of terms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisgar | John Christian Schultz (acclaimed) | Conservative | 1871 | 4th term | |
| Marquette | SirJohn A. Macdonald (acclaimed) | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 | 4th term | |
| Joseph O'Connell Ryan (acclaimed) (from 30 November 1878) | Liberal | 1874 | 2nd term | ||
| Provencher | Joseph Dubuc (acclaimed) | Conservative | 1878 | 1st term | |
| Joseph Royal (from 30 December 1879) | Conservative | 1879 | 1st term | ||
| Selkirk | Donald A. Smith | Conservative | 1871 | 4th term | |
| Thomas Scott (from 10 September 1880) | Conservative | 1880 | 1st term |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | No. of terms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert | Alexander Rogers | Liberal | 1878 | 1st term | |
| Carleton | George Heber Connell | Independent | 1878 | 1st term | |
| David Irvine (from 16 February 1881) | Liberal | 1881 | 1st term | ||
| Charlotte | Arthur Hill Gillmor | Liberal | 1874 | 2nd term | |
| City and County of St. John* | Isaac Burpee | Liberal | 1872 | 3rd term | |
| Charles Wesley Weldon | Liberal | 1878 | 1st term | ||
| City of St. John | Samuel Leonard Tilley (acclaimed), (re-elected 4 November 1878) | Liberal-Conservative | 1873, 1878 | 2nd term* | |
| Gloucester | Timothy Warren Anglin (acclaimed) | Liberal | 1867 | 4th term | |
| Kent | Gilbert Anselme Girouard | Liberal-Conservative | 1878 | 1st term | |
| King's | James Domville | Conservative | 1872 | 3rd term | |
| Northumberland | Jabez Bunting Snowball | Liberal | 1878 | 1st term | |
| Queen's | George Gerald King | Liberal | 1878 | 1st term | |
| Restigouche | George Haddow (acclaimed) | Independent | 1878 | 1st term | |
| Sunbury | Charles Burpee | Liberal | 1867 | 4th term | |
| Victoria | John Costigan | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 | 4th term | |
| Westmorland | Albert James Smith | Liberal | 1867 | 4th term | |
| York | John Pickard | Independent Liberal | 1868 | 4th term |
| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected | No. of terms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's County* | Augustine Colin Macdonald | Liberal-Conservative | 1873, 1878 | 2nd term* | |
| Ephraim Bell Muttart | Conservative | 1878 | 1st term | ||
| Prince County* | James Yeo | Liberal | 1873 | 3rd term | |
| Edward Hackett | Liberal-Conservative | 1878 | 1st term | ||
| Queen's County* | James Colledge Pope (acclaimed in by-election 9 November 1878) | Conservative | 1876 | 2nd term | |
| Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken | Conservative | 1878 | 1st term |