6th Canadian Parliament

6th Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
7 April 1887 – 3 February 1891
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald 17 Oct 1878 – 6 Jun 1891
Cabinet	3rd Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	Wilfrid Laurier 23 June 1887 – 10 July 1896
Party caucuses
Government	Conservative Party & Liberal-Conservative
Opposition	Liberal Party
Crossbench	Nationalist Conservative
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons	George Airey Kirkpatrick 8 February 1883 – 12 July 1887
	Joseph-Aldric Ouimet 13 July 1887 – 28 July 1891
Members	215 MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate	The Hon. Josiah Burr Plumb 4 April 1887 – 12 March 1888
	The Hon. George Allan 17 March 1888 – 26 April 1891
Government Senate Leader	vacant 7 April 1887 – 11 May 1887
	Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 12 May 1887 – 6 June 1891
	vacant 7 June 1891 – 15 June 1891
	Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 16 June 1891 – 30 October 1893
Opposition Senate Leader	Sir Richard William Scott 8 October 1878 – 27 April 1896
Senators	81 senator seats List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch	Victoria 1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901
Governor General	The Marquess of Lansdowne 23 Oct. 1883 – 11 June 1888
	The Earl of Derby 11 June 1888 – 18 Sep. 1893
Sessions
1st session 13 April 1887 – 23 June 1887
2nd session 23 February 1888 – 22 May 1888
3rd session 31 January 1889 – 2 May 1889
4th session 16 January 1890 – 16 May 1890
← 5th → 7th

The 6th Canadian Parliament was in session from April 13, 1887, until February 3, 1891. The membership was set by the 1887 federal election on February 22, 1887. It was dissolved prior to the 1891 election.

It was controlled by a Conservative/Liberal-Conservative majority under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the 3rd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led first by Edward Blake, and later by Wilfrid Laurier.

The Speaker was Joseph-Aldric Ouimet. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1887-1892 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were four sessions of the 6th Parliament: