16th Parliament of Canada | |||
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Minority parliament | |||
9 December 1926 – 30 May 1930 | |||
Parliament leaders | |||
Prime Minister | William Lyon Mackenzie King 25 Sep 1926 – 7 Aug 1930 | ||
Cabinet | 14th Canadian Ministry | ||
Leader of the Opposition | Hugh Guthrie 11 October 1926 – 11 October 1927 | ||
Richard Bedford Bennett 12 October 1927 – 6 August 1930 | |||
Party caucuses | |||
Government | Liberal Party | ||
Opposition | Conservative Party | ||
Crossbench | Progressive Party | ||
United Farmers of Alberta | |||
Labour | |||
House of Commons | |||
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons | |||
Speaker of the Commons | Rodolphe Lemieux 8 March 1922 – 2 June 1930 | ||
Members | 245 MP seats List of members | ||
Senate | |||
Speaker of the Senate | Hewitt Bostock 7 February 1922 – 12 May 1930 | ||
Arthur Charles Hardy 13 May 1930 – 2 September 1930 | |||
Government Senate Leader | Raoul Dandurand 25 September 1926 – 6 August 1930 | ||
Opposition Senate Leader | William Benjamin Ross 31 December 1926 – 10 January 1929 | ||
Wellington Bartley Willoughby 11 January 1929 – 7 August 1930 | |||
Sovereign | |||
Monarch | George V 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936 | ||
Governor General | Freeman Freeman-Thomas 2 October 1926 – 4 April 1931 | ||
Sessions | |||
1st session 9 December 1926 – 14 April 1927 | |||
2nd session 26 January 1928 – 11 June 1928 | |||
3rd session 7 February 1929 – 14 June 1929 | |||
4th session 20 February 1930 – 30 May 1930 | |||
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The 16th Canadian Parliament was in session from 9 December 1926, until 30 May 1930. The membership was set by the 1926 federal election on 14 September 1926, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1930 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party minority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 14th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led briefly by Hugh Guthrie, and then by Richard Bedford Bennett.
The Speaker was Rodolphe Lemieux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1924-1933 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were four sessions of the 16th Parliament:
Session | Start | End |
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1st | 9 December 1926 | 14 April 1927 |
2nd | 26 January 1928 | 11 June 1928 |
3rd | 7 February 1929 | 14 June 1929 |
4th | 20 February 1930 | 30 May 1930 |