19th Canadian Parliament

19th Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
16 May 1940 – 16 April 1945
Parliament leaders
Prime
Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King
23 Oct 1935 – 15 Nov 1948
Cabinet16th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the
Opposition
Richard Hanson
14 May 1940 – 1 January 1943
Gordon Graydon
1 January 1943 – 10 June 1945
Party caucuses
GovernmentLiberal Party
OppositionNational Government (Canada)
& Conservative Party
CrossbenchCo-operative Commonwealth Federation
Social Credit Party
Liberal-Progressive
House of Commons

Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the
Commons
James Allison Glen
16 May 1940 – 5 September 1945
Government
House Leader
Ian Alistair Mackenzie
14 October 1944 – 30 April 1948
Members245 MP seats
List of members
Senate
Speaker of the
Senate
Georges Parent
9 May 1940 – 14 December 1942
Thomas Vien
23 January 1943 – 23 August 1945
Government
Senate Leader
Raoul Dandurand
23 October 1935 – 11 March 1942
James Horace King
26 May 1942 – 24 August 1945
Opposition
Senate Leader
Arthur Meighen
22 October 1935 – 16 January 1942
Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne
16 January 1942 – 11 September 1945
Sovereign
MonarchGeorge VI
11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952
Governor
General
Alexander Cambridge
21 June 1940 – 12 April 1946
Sessions
1st session
16 May 1940 – 5 November 1940
2nd session
7 November 1940 – 21 January 1942
3rd session
22 January 1942 – 27 January 1943
4th session
28 January 1943 – 26 January 1944
5th session
27 January 1944 – 31 January 1945
6th session
19 March 1945 – 16 April 1945
← 18th → 20th
William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister during the 18th Canadian Parliament.

The 19th Canadian Parliament was in session from 16 May 1940, until 16 April 1945. The membership was set by the 1940 federal election on 26 March 1940, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1945 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 so-called "National Government" party (the name which the Conservatives ran under in the 1940 election), led in the House by Richard Hanson and Gordon Graydon consecutively as the three successive national leaders of the party, Robert Manion, Arthur Meighen and John Bracken did not have seats in the House of Commons. With the selection of Bracken as national leader in December 1942, the party became known as the Progressive Conservatives.

The Speaker was James Allison Glen. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933–1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were six sessions of the 19th Parliament:

Session Start End
1st 16 May 1940 5 November 1940
2nd 7 November 1940 21 January 1942
3rd 22 January 1942 27 January 1943
4th 28 January 1943 26 January 1944
5th 27 January 1944 31 January 1945
6th 19 March 1945 16 April 1945