18th Canadian Parliament

18th Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
6 February 1936 – 25 January 1940
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	William Lyon Mackenzie King 23 Oct 1935 – 15 Nov 1948
Cabinet	16th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	R. B. Bennett 23 Oct 1935 – 6 Jul 1938
	Robert Manion 7 Jul 1938 – 13 May 1940
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party
Opposition	Conservative Party
Crossbench	Social Credit Party
	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
	Liberal-Progressive
	Reconstruction Party
	United Reform
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons	Pierre-François Casgrain 6 February 1936 – 10 May 1940
Members	245 MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate	Walter Edward Foster 11 January 1936 – 8 May 1940
Government Senate Leader	Raoul Dandurand 23 October 1935 – 11 March 1942
Opposition Senate Leader	Arthur Meighen 22 October 1935 – 16 January 1942
Senators	96 senator seats List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch	Edward VIII 20 Jan 1936 – 11 Dec 1936
	George VI 11 Dec 1936 – 6 Feb 1952
Governor General	John Buchan 2 Nov 1935 – 11 Feb 1940
Sessions
1st session 6 February 1936 – 23 June 1936
2nd session 14 January 1937 – 10 April 1937
3rd session 27 January 1938 – 1 July 1938
4th session 12 January 1939 – 3 June 1939
5th session 7 September 1939 – 13 September 1939
6th session 25 January 1940 – 25 January 1940
← 17th → 19th

The 18th Canadian Parliament was in session from 6 February 1936, until 25 January 1940. The membership was set by the 1935 federal election on 14 October 1935, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1940 election.

It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led first by Richard Bedford Bennett, and later by Robert Manion.

The Speaker was Pierre-François Casgrain. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

The Social Credit Party led by J. H. Blackmore made their first federal appearance in this parliament. It would be an important third party until 1980. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by J.S. Woodsworth also made their first appearance. It, and its successor party, the New Democratic Party, would become a major source of policies that would change the fabric of Canada.

There were six sessions of the 18th Parliament, though the last two were extremely short: