4th Canadian Parliament

{{Short description|Government in Canada from 1879 to 1882}}

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| jurisdiction = CA

| # = 4th

| type = Majority

| houseimage = Chambre des Communes 1878.png

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| term-begin = 13 February 1879

| term-end = 18 May 1882

| sc = Joseph Godéric Blanchet

| scterm = 13 February 1879 – 7 February 1883

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| pm = Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald

| pm-begin = 1878-10-17

| pm-end = 1891-06-06

| lo = Alexander Mackenzie

| loterm = 17 October 1878 – 27 April 1880

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| loterm2 = 4 May 1880 – 2 June 1887

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| ss = The Hon. Robert Duncan Wilmot

| ssterm = 7 November 1878 – 10 February 1880

| ss2 = The Hon. Sir David Lewis Macpherson

| ssterm2 = 11 February 1880 – 15 February 1880

| ss3 = Amos Edwin Botsford

| ssterm3 = 16 February 1880 – 18 April 1880

| ss4 = The Hon. Sir David Lewis Macpherson

| ssterm4 = 19 April 1880 – 16 October 1883

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| party = Conservative Party
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| sessionbegin = 13 February 1879

| sessionend = 15 May 1879

| sessionbegin2 = 12 February 1880

| sessionend2 = 7 May 1880

| sessionbegin3 = 9 December 1880

| sessionend3 = 21 March 1881

| sessionbegin4 = 9 February 1882

| sessionend4 = 17 May 1882

| monarch = Victoria

| monarchterm = 1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901

| viceroy = The Earl of Dufferin

| viceroyterm = 25 June 1872 – 25 Nov. 1878

| viceroy2 = The Duke of Argyll

| viceroyterm2 = 25 Nov. 1878 – 23 Oct. 1883

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| members = 206 seats

| senators = 79 seats

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The 4th Canadian Parliament was in session from 13 February 1879 until 18 May 1882 (3 years and 94 days). The membership was set by the 1878 federal election on 17 September 1878. It was dissolved prior to the 1882 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, first led by Alexander Mackenzie, and then by Edward Blake.

The Speaker was Joseph Godéric Blanchet. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1873-1882 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were four sessions of the 4th Parliament:

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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

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fourth parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.

Party leaders are italicized.

Cabinet ministers are in boldface.

The Prime Minister is both.

The Speaker is indicated by "({{dagger}})".

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

=[[British Columbia]]=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2" |Electoral district

!Name

!Party

!First elected/previously elected

rowspan="2" style="width:20%;"|Cariboo

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Joshua Spencer Thompson (acclaimed)
died in office 20 December 1880

|Liberal-Conservative

|1871

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|James Reid from 31 March 1881

|Liberal-Conservative

|1881

rowspan=2|New Westminster

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|background}}|

|Thomas Robert McInnes, until appointed to Senate 24 December 1881

|Independent

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Joshua Homer (acclaimed) from 9 March 1882

|Liberal-Conservative

|1882

Vancouver

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Arthur Bunster

|Liberal

|1874

rowspan=2|Victoria*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Sir John A. Macdonald

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Amor De Cosmos

|Liberal

|1871

rowspan=2|Yale

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Edgar Dewdney (acclaimed), resigned 30 May 1879 to become Indian Commissioner of Manitoba and the North West Territories

|Conservative

|1872

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Francis Jones Barnard from 29 September 1879

|Conservative

|1879

=[[Manitoba]]=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2" |Electoral district

!Name

!Party

!First elected/previously elected

width=20%|Lisgar

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John Christian Schultz (acclaimed)

|Conservative

|1871

rowspan=2|Marquette

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Sir John A. Macdonald (acclaimed)

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Joseph O'Connell Ryan (acclaimed) from 30 November 1878

|Liberal

|1874

rowspan=2|Provencher

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Joseph Dubuc (acclaimed)

|Conservative

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Joseph Royal from 30 December 1879

|Conservative

|1879

rowspan=2|Selkirk

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Donald A. Smith

|Conservative

|1871

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Thomas Scott from 10 September 1880

|Conservative

|1880

=[[New Brunswick]]=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2" |Electoral district

!Name

!Party

!First elected/previously elected

width=20%|Albert

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Alexander Rogers

|Liberal

|1878

rowspan=2|Carleton

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|background}}|

|George Heber Connell

|Independent

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|David Irvine from 16 February 1881

|Liberal

|1881

Charlotte

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Arthur Hill Gillmor

|Liberal

|1874

rowspan=2|City and County of St. John*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Isaac Burpee

|Liberal

|1872

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Charles Wesley Weldon

|Liberal

|1878

City of St. John

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Samuel Leonard Tilley (acclaimed), re-elected 4 November 1878

|Liberal-Conservative

|1873, 1878

Gloucester

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Timothy Warren Anglin (acclaimed)

|Liberal

|1867

Kent

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Gilbert Anselme Girouard

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

King's

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|James Domville

|Conservative

|1872

Northumberland

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Jabez Bunting Snowball

|Liberal

|1878

Queen's

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|George Gerald King

|Liberal

|1878

Restigouche

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|background}}|

|George Haddow (acclaimed)

|Independent

|1878

Sunbury

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Charles Burpee

|Liberal

|1867

Victoria

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|John Costigan

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867

Westmorland

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Albert James Smith

|Liberal

|1867

York

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent Liberal|background}}|

|John Pickard

|Independent Liberal

|1868

=[[Nova Scotia]]=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2" |Electoral district

!Name

!Party

!First elected/previously elected

width=20%|Annapolis

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Avard Longley

|Conservative

|1878

Antigonish

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Angus McIsaac

|Liberal

|1873

rowspan=3|Cape Breton*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Hugh McLeod, died in office 5 August 1879

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|William McDonald

|Conservative

|1872

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|William Mackenzie McLeod from 23 October 1879

|Liberal-Conservative

|1879

rowspan=2|Colchester

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Thomas McKay

|Liberal-Conservative

|1874

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Archibald McLelan from 18 June 1881

|Conservative

|1881

Cumberland

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Charles Tupper (acclaimed), re-elected in by-election 4 November 1878

|Conservative

|1867

Digby

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John Chipman Wade

|Conservative

|1878

Guysborough

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Alfred Ogden

|Conservative

|1878

rowspan=2|Halifax*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Matthew Henry Richey

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Malachy Bowes Daly

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Hants

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|William Henry Allison

|Conservative

|1878

Inverness

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Samuel McDonnell

|Liberal

|1872

Kings

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Frederick William Borden

|Liberal

|1874

Lunenburg

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Charles Edwin Kaulbach

|Conservative

|1878

rowspan=3|Pictou*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|James McDonald, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878, ended term 19 May 1881

|Conservative

|1872, 1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Robert Doull

|Liberal-Conservative

|1872, 1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|John McDougald, acclaimed from 18 June 1881

|Liberal-Conservative

|1881

Queens

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Silas Tertius Rand Bill

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Richmond

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Edmund Power Flynn

|Liberal

|1874

Shelburne

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Thomas Robertson

|Liberal

|1878

Victoria

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Duncan McDonald

|Liberal

|1878

Yarmouth

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Frank Killam

|Liberal

|1868

=[[Ontario]]=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2" |Electoral district

!Name

!Party

!First elected/previously elected

width=20%|Addington

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John McRory

|Conservative

|1878

Algoma

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Simon James Dawson

|Conservative

|1878

Bothwell

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|David Mills

|Liberal

|1867

Brant North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Gavin Fleming

|Liberal

|1872

Brant South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|William Paterson

|Liberal

|1872

Brockville

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|William Fitzsimmons

|Conservative

|1878

Bruce North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|John Gillies

|Liberal

|1872

Bruce South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Alexander Shaw

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Cardwell

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Thomas White

|Conservative

|1878

Carleton

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John Rochester

|Conservative

|1872

Cornwall

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Darby Bergin, re-elected in by-election 27 January 1880

|Liberal-Conservative

|1872, 1878

Dundas

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|John Sylvester Ross

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1878

Durham East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams

|Conservative

|1878

rowspan=2|Durham West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Harvey William Burk until 10 October 1879

|Liberal

|1874

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Edward Dominick Blake, acclaimed from 17 November 1879

|Liberal

|1879

Elgin East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Thomas Arkell

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Elgin West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|George Elliott Casey

|Liberal

|1872

Essex

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|James Colebrooke Patterson

|Conservative

|1878

Frontenac

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|George Airey Kirkpatrick

|Conservative

|1870

Glengarry

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|John McLennan

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Grenville South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|John Philip Wiser

|Liberal

|1878

Grey East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Thomas Simpson Sproule

|Conservative

|1878

Grey North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Samuel Johnathan Lane

|Conservative

|1878

Grey South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|George Jackson

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1878

Haldimand

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|David Thompson

|Liberal

|1867

Halton

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|William McDougall

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867,{{efn|Lanark North}} 1878

rowspan=2|Hamilton*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Francis Edwin Kilvert

|Conservative

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Thomas Robertson

|Liberal

|1878

Hastings East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John White, re-elected in by-election 25 February 1879

|Conservative

|1871

Hastings North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Mackenzie Bowell, acclaimed in by-election 6 November 1878

|Conservative

|1867

Hastings West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|James Brown

|Conservative

|1867

rowspan=2|Huron Centre

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Horace Horton until 10 October 1878

|Liberal

|1872

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Richard John Cartwright from 2 November 1878

|Liberal

|1878

Huron North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Thomas Farrow

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867

Huron South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Malcolm Colin Cameron

|Liberal

|1867, 1878

Kent

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Rufus Stephenson

|Conservative

|1867

Kingston

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Alexander Gunn

|Liberal

|1878

Lambton

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Alexander Mackenzie

|Liberal

|1867

rowspan=2|Lanark North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Daniel Galbraith, died in office 17 December 1879

|Liberal

|1872

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Donald Greenfield MacDonell from 22 January 1880

|Liberal

|1880

Lanark South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John Graham Haggart

|Conservative

|1872

Leeds North and Grenville North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Charles Frederick Ferguson

|Liberal-Conservative

|1874

Leeds South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|David Ford Jones

|Conservative

|1874

Lennox

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Edmund Hooper

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Lincoln

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John Charles Rykert

|Conservative

|1878

London

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|John Carling

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1878

Middlesex East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Duncan Macmillan

|Liberal-Conservative

|1875

Middlesex North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Timothy Coughlin

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Middlesex West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|George William Ross

|Liberal

|1872

Monck

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Lachlin McCallum

|Liberal-Conservative

|1874

Muskoka

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Alexander Peter Cockburn

|Liberal

|1872

rowspan=2|Niagara

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Patrick Hughes, defeated in by-election 20 March 1879

|Liberal

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Josiah Burr Plumb from 20 March 1879

|Conservative

|1879

Norfolk North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|John Charlton

|Liberal

|1872

Norfolk South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|William Wallace

|Conservative

|1874

rowspan=2|Northumberland East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Joseph Keeler, died in office 21 January 1881

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent Liberal|background}}|

|Darius Crouter, acclaimed from 25 March 1881

|Independent Liberal

|1881

rowspan=2|Northumberland West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|James Cockburn until 14 November 1881

|Conservative

|1867, 1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|George Guillet from 19 December 1881

|Conservative

|1881

Ontario North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|George Wheler, until 10 June 1880, re-elected 28 August 1880

|Liberal

|1878

Ontario South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Francis Wayland Glen

|Liberal

|1878

rowspan=2|Ottawa (City of)*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Joseph Merrill Currier

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Joseph Tassé

|Conservative

|1878

rowspan=2|Oxford North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Thomas Oliver, died in office 8 November 1880

|Liberal

|1867

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|James Sutherland from 9 December 1880

|Liberal

|1880

Oxford South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|James Atchison Skinner

|Liberal

|1874

Peel

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|William Elliott

|Conservative

|1878

Perth North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Samuel Rollin Hesson

|Conservative

|1878

Perth South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|James Trow

|Liberal

|1872

Peterborough East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John Burnham

|Conservative

|1878

Peterborough West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|George Hilliard

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Prescott

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Félix Routhier

|Conservative

|1878

Prince Edward

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|James Simeon McCuaig

|Conservative

|1878

Renfrew North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Peter White

|Conservative

|1876

Renfrew South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|William Bannerman

|Conservative

|1878

Russell

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John O'Connor, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878

|Conservative

|1867, 1878

Simcoe North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Dalton McCarthy

|Conservative

|1872

rowspan=2|Simcoe South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|William Carruthers Little, died in office 31 December 1881

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Richard Tyrwhitt, acclaimed from 16 February 1882

|Conservative

|1882

Stormont

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Oscar Fulton

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Toronto Centre

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Robert Hay

|Liberal

|1878

Toronto East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|background}}|

|Samuel Platt

|Independent

|1875

Victoria North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Hector Cameron

|Conservative

|1875

Victoria South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Arthur McQuade

|Conservative

|1874

Waterloo North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Hugo Kranz

|Conservative

|1878

Waterloo South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Samuel Merner

|Conservative

|1878

Welland

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Christopher William Bunting

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Wellington Centre

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|George Turner Orton

|Liberal-Conservative

|1874

Wellington North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|George Alexander Drew

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1878

Wellington South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Donald Guthrie

|Liberal

|1876

Wentworth North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Thomas Bain

|Liberal

|1872

Wentworth South

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Joseph Rymal

|Liberal

|1867

rowspan=2|West Toronto

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John Beverley Robinson until 30 June 1880

|Conservative

|1875

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|James Beaty, Jr. from 28 August 1880

|Conservative

|1880

York East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Alfred Boultbee

|Conservative

|1878

York North

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Frederick William Strange

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

York West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Nathaniel Clarke Wallace

|Conservative

|1878

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=[[Prince Edward Island]]=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2" style="width:23%;"|Electoral district

!Name

!Party

!First elected/previously elected

style="width:20%;" rowspan="2"|King's County*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Augustine Colin Macdonald

|Liberal-Conservative

|1873, 1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Ephraim Bell Muttart

|Conservative

|1878

rowspan=2|Prince County*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|James Yeo

|Liberal

|1873

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Edward Hackett

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

rowspan=2|Queen's County*

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|James Colledge Pope, acclaimed in by-election 9 November 1878

|Conservative

|1876

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken

|Conservative

|1878

=[[Quebec]]=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2" |Electoral district

!Name

!Party

!First elected/previously elected

style="width:20%;" rowspan="2"|Argenteuil

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Thomas Christie, defeated in by-election 12 February 1880

|Liberal

|1875

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|John Joseph Caldwell Abbott from 12 February 1880, acclaimed in by-election 17 August 1881

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1880

Bagot

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, acclaimed in by-election 20 November 1880

|Conservative

|1874

Beauce

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Joseph Bolduc

|Conservative

|1876

rowspan=2|Beauharnois

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Michael Cayley, died in office 3 December 1878

|Conservative

|1867, 1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron from 9 January 1879

|Conservative

|1879

rowspan=2|Bellechasse

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Achille Larue until 11 February 1881

|Liberal

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Guillaume Amyot from 19 March 1881

|Conservative

|1881

Berthier

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Edward Octavian Cuthbert

|Conservative

|1875

rowspan=2|Bonaventure

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Théodore Robitaille

|Conservative

|1867

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Pierre-Clovis Beauchesne, acclaimed from 26 August 1879

|Conservative

|1879

rowspan=2|Brome

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Edmund Leavens Chandler

|Liberal

|1878

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|David Ames Manson from 18 October 1880

|Liberal-Conservative

|1880

Chambly

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Pierre Basile Benoit

|Conservative

|1876

Champlain

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Hippolyte Montplaisir

|Liberal-Conservative

|1874

rowspan=3|Charlevoix

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Pierre Alexis Tremblay, died in office 5 January 1879

|Liberal

|1876

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Joseph-Stanislas Perrault from 13 February 1879

|Conservative

|1879

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Simon-Xavier Cimon from 19 March 1881

|Conservative

|1881

rowspan=2|Châteauguay

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Luther Hamilton Holton, died in office 14 March 1880

|Liberal

|1867

{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Edward Holton from 17 April 1880

|Liberal

|1880

Chicoutimi—Saguenay

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Marie Honorius Ernest Cimon

|Conservative

|1874

Compton

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|John Henry Pope, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867

Dorchester

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|François Fortunat Rouleau

|Liberal-Conservative

|1874

Drummond – Arthabaska

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Désiré Olivier Bourbeau

|Conservative

|1877

Gaspé

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Pierre Fortin

|Conservative

|1867, 1878

Hochelaga

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Alphonse Desjardins

|Conservative

|1874

Huntingdon

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Julius Scriver (acclaimed)

|Liberal

|1869

Iverbville

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|François Béchard

|Liberal

|1867

Jacques Cartier

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Désiré Girouard

|Conservative

|1878

rowspan=2|Joliette

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Louis François Georges Baby, acclaimed in by-election 14 November 1878

|Conservative

|1872

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Lewis Arthur McConville from 9 December 1880

|Conservative

|1880

Kamouraska

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Joseph Dumont

|Liberal

|1878

L'Assomption

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Hilaire Hurteau

|Liberal-Conservative

|1874

L'Islet

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Philippe Baby Casgrain

|Liberal

|1872

Laprairie

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Alfred Pinsonneault

|Conservative

|1867

Laval

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (acclaimed)

|Liberal-Conservative

|1873

Lévis

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Joseph-Goderic Blanchet {{tooltip|(†)|Speaker}}

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867, 1878

Lotbinière

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Côme Isaïe Rinfret

|Liberal

|1878

Maskinongé

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Nationalist Conservative|background}}|

|Frédéric Houde

|Nationalist Conservative

|1878

Mégantic

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Louis-Éphrem Olivier

|Liberal

|1878

Missisquoi

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|George Barnard Baker

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Montcalm

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Firmin Dugas

|Conservative

|1871

Montmagny

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry

|Conservative

|1878

rowspan=2|Montmorency

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Pierre-Vincent Valin until 9 January 1880, re-elected 9 December 1880

|Conservative

|1878, 1880

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Auguste-Réal Angers from 14 February 1880 until 12 November 1880

|Conservative

|1880

Montreal Centre

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Michael Patrick Ryan

|Liberal-Conservative

|1868

Montreal East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Charles-Joseph Coursol

|Conservative

|1878

Montreal West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Matthew Hamilton Gault

|Conservative

|1878

Napierville

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Sixte Coupal dit la Reine

|Liberal

|1874

Nicolet

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|François Xavier Ovide Méthot

|Independent Conservative

|1877

Ottawa (County of)

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Alonzo Wright

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867

Pontiac

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|John Poupore

|Conservative

|1878

Portneuf

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Roch-Pamphile Vallée

|Conservative

|1878

Quebec County

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Joseph-Philippe-René-Adolphe Caron, acclaimed in by-election 20 November 1880

|Conservative

|1873

Quebec East

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Wilfrid Laurier

|Liberal

|1874

Quebec West

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Thomas McGreevy (acclaimed)

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867

Quebec-Centre

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|background}}|

|Jacques Malouin

|Independent

|1877

Richelieu

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Louis Huet Massue

|Liberal-Conservative

|1878

Richmond—Wolfe

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|William Bullock Ives

|Conservative

|1878

Rimouski

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset

|Liberal

|1872

Rouville

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|George-Auguste Gigault

|Conservative

|1878

Saint Maurice

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Louis-Léon Lesieur Désaulniers

|Conservative

|1867, 1878

Shefford

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Lucius Seth Huntington

|Liberal

|1867

Town of Sherbrooke

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Edward Towle Brooks (acclaimed)

|Conservative

|1872

Soulanges

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Jacques-Philippe Lanthier

|Conservative

|1872

St. Hyacinthe

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Louis Tellier

|Conservative

|1878

St. John's

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|François Bourassa

|Liberal

|1867

Stanstead

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal-Conservative|background}}|

|Charles Carroll Colby

|Liberal-Conservative

|1867

Témiscouata

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Paul-Étienne Grandbois

|Conservative

|1878

Terrebonne

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Louis-Rodrigue Masson, acclaimed in by-election 6 November 1878

|Conservative

|1867

rowspan=2|Three Rivers

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|William McDougall

|Conservative

|1868

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Hector-Louis Langevin, acclaimed from 21 November 1878

|Conservative

|1878

Two Mountains

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Jean-Baptiste Daoust

|Conservative

|1876

Vaudreuil

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Jean-Baptiste Mongenais

|Conservative

|1878

Verchères

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|background}}|

|Félix Geoffrion

|Liberal

|1867

rowspan=2|Yamaska

|{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Charles Gill

|Conservative

|1874

{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|background}}|

|Fabien Vanasse dit Vertefeuille from 7 July 1879

|Conservative

|1879

{{CanHOC}}

By-elections

{{Main|By-elections to the 4th Canadian Parliament}}

{{:By-elections to the 4th Canadian Parliament}}

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  • {{cite web|publisher=Library of Parliament, Government of Canada |title=Leaders of the Opposition in the House of Commons |url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/house/OppLeader.asp?lang=E&Hist=Y |access-date=12 May 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311060420/http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/house/OppLeader.asp?lang=E&Hist=Y |archive-date=11 March 2007 }}
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