6th Saskatchewan Legislature

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The 6th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was elected in the Saskatchewan general election held in June 1925. The assembly sat from December 3, 1925, to May 11, 1929.{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Sessions-Dates.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Sessions of the Legislative Assembly and Their Duration |format=PDF |publisher=Saskatchewan Archive Board |access-date=2012-03-06}} The Liberal Party led by Charles Avery Dunning formed the government. After Dunning entered federal politics in 1926, James Garfield Gardiner became Liberal party leader and Premier.{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Premiers.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Premiers |access-date=2012-03-07 |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |format=PDF}} Charles Tran, the leader of the Progressive Party, and James Thomas Milton Anderson, the leader of the Conservative Party, shared the role of opposition leader in the assembly.{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Leaders-of-the-Opposition.pdf |format=PDF |title=Saskatchewan Leaders of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |access-date=2012-03-07}}

Walter George Robinson served as speaker for the assembly.{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Speakers.pdf |format=PDF |title=Saskatchewan Speakers of the Legislative Assembly |publisher=Saskatchewan Archive Board |access-date=2012-03-07}}

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1925:{{cite web|url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Membership-of-Legislatures.pdf |title=Membership of the Legislatures |format=PDF |publisher=Saskatchewan Archive Board |access-date=2012-03-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227192150/http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Membership-of-Legislatures.pdf |archive-date=2013-12-27 }}

class="wikitable sortable"

!

!Electoral district

!Member

!Party

!First elected / previously elected

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2|Arm River

|George Adam Scott

|1908

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Thomas Frederick Waugh (1928)

|1928

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Thomas Evan Gamble

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Robert Pelham Hassard

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Albert Edward Steele

|1924

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Progressive|row}}

|Joseph Albert McClure

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|CumberlandElection was held on July 21, 1925

|Deakin Alexander Hall

|1913, 1922

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|William Hamilton Dodds

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Henry Theodore Halvorson

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Wilbert Hagarty

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent|row}}

|James Forbes Creighton

|Independent

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Walter George Robinson

|1912

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Benjamin Franklin McGregor

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Progressive|row}}

|Reginald Stipe

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|John Joseph Keelan

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent Liberal|row}}

|Henry Mathies Therres

|Independent Liberal

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2|Île-à-la-Crosse

|Joseph Octave Nolin

|1908

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Jules Marion (1926)

|1926

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Jack Fish Lake

|Donald M. Finlayson

|1908

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2|Kerrobert

|John Albert Dowd

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Donald Laing (1926)

|1926

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Progressive|row}}

|Ebenezer Samuel Whatley

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Charles McIntosh

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Samuel John Latta

|1912

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Robert James Gordon

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Hugh Kerr Miller

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2|Maple Creek

|Peter Lawrence Hyde

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Liberal (1927)

|1917,{{efn|Notukeu}} 1927

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Olin Drake Hill

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Frederick Birthall Lewis

|1923

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent Labour|row}}

|rowspan=3 |Moose Jaw City

|William George Baker

|Labour-Liberal

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|William Erskine Knowles

|1918, 1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|William Gladstone Ross (1927)

|1927

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Moose Jaw County

|Charles Avery Dunning

|1916

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Thomas Waddell (1926)

|1926

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent|row}}

|John Louis Salkeld

|Independent

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Morse

|William Paris MacLachlan

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|William Gladstone Ross (1927)

|1927

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|North Qu'Appelle

|James Garfield Gardiner

|1914

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Notukeu

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Alexander Lothian Grant (1926)

|1926

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Progressive|row}}

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Pheasant Hills

|James Arthur Smith

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|William John Patterson

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Thomas Clayton Davis

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Progressive|row}}

|George Cockburn

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Regina City

|Donald Alexander McNiven

|1922

{{Canadian party colour|SK|PC|row}}

|Murdoch Alexander MacPherson

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|John Andrew Wilson

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|John Michael Uhrich

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|George William Sahlmark

|1918

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=3 |Saskatoon City

|Archibald Peter McNab

|1908

{{Canadian party colour|SK|PC|row}}

|James Thomas Milton Anderson

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|PC|row}}

|Howard McConnell (1927)

|1927

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Progressive|row}}

|Saskatoon County

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Edgar Sidney Clinch

|1915

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Jesse Pichard Tripp

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|South Qu'Appelle

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|David John Sykes

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|The Battlefords

|Allan Demetrius Pickel

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Robert Scott Donaldson

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|PC|row}}

|Walter Clutterbuck Buckle

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|John Mason Parker

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Archibald B. Gemmell

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|William Henry McKinnon

|1921

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Charles McGill Hamilton

|1919

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Robert Erie Nay

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|rowspan=2 |Willow Bunch

|Abel James Hindle

|1917

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|James Albert Cross

|1917, 1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|1925

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Wilhelm Hans Paulson

|1917, 1924

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|Thomas Henry Garry

|1905

Notes:

Party Standings

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" | Affiliation

! Members

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Liberal|row}}

|align="right" |50

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Progressive|row-name}}

|align="right" |6

{{Canadian party colour|SK|PC|row}}

|Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

|align="right" |3

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent|row}}

|Independent

|align="right" |2

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent Labour|row}}

|Independent Liberal-Labour

|align="right" |1

{{Canadian party colour|SK|Independent Liberal|row-name}}

|align="right" |1

colspan="2" rowspan="1" | Total

|align="right" |63

colspan="2" rowspan="1" | Government Majority

|align="right" |37

Notes:

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

class="wikitable sortable"

!Electoral district

!Member elected

!Party

!Election date

!Reason

|James Albert Cross

|August 31, 1925

|A Hindle resigned seat to allow Cross to be elected to assembly{{cite news |url=http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/PDW/1925/08/19/1/Ar00101.html |newspaper=Le patriote de l'Ouest |date=August 19, 1925 |page=1 |title=Le deputé de Willow-Bunch démissionne en faveur de l'Hon. J. A. Cross |access-date=2012-03-16|language=fr}}

|William John Patterson

|March 18, 1926

|WJ Patterson ran for reelection after being named to cabinet{{cite web |url=http://sain.scaa.sk.ca/collections/index.php/w-j-patterson-fonds%3Brad |title=W.J. Patterson fonds |publisher=Saskatchewan Archival Information Network |access-date=2012-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304201410/http://sain.scaa.sk.ca/collections/index.php/w-j-patterson-fonds;rad |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}

|Thomas Clayton Davis

|March 18, 1926

|TC Davis ran for reelection after being named to cabinet{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/davis_thomas_clayton_1889-1960.html |title=Davis, Thomas Clayton (1889–1960) |last=Quiring |first=Brett |publisher=University of Regina |access-date=2012-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525104110/http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/davis_thomas_clayton_1889-1960.html |archive-date=2013-05-25 |url-status=dead }}

Île-à-la-Crosse

|A. Jules Marion

|April 26, 1926

|JO Nolin died in office in December 1925{{cite book |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=3618480&qryID=c03bb14d-173b-4735-a8ac-4c09a69bd613 |title=Tales and trails of the following school districts : Blackfoot, Daysville, Lake Russell, Minnehaha, Parkdale, Picnic Lake, 1893-1978 |page=35 |author=Minnehaha Co-op. Women's Auxiliary |year=1979 |access-date=2012-03-15 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Moose Jaw County

|Thomas Waddell

|May 25, 1926

|CA Dunning ran for federal seat{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=b7bab241-2a80-47dc-b8e0-c1334a0b5abb|2=Charles Avery Dunning|nolist=yes}}

|Alexander Lothian Grant

|June 1, 1926

|G Spence ran for federal seat{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=69b40009-2672-40cc-a92a-9325a27a9458|2=George Spence|nolist=yes}}

|November 9, 1926

|JA Dowd resigned seat{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |last=Normandin |first=A L |year=1926}}

|Howard McConnell

|January 21, 1927

|AP McNab named to local government board{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/mcnab_archibald_peter_1864-1945.html |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |title=McNab, Archibald Peter (1864–1945) |first=Holden |last=Stoffel |access-date=2012-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207022210/http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/mcnab_archibald_peter_1864-1945.html |archive-date=2012-02-07 |url-status=dead }}

|William Gladstone Ross

|May 17, 1927

|WE Knowles named to bench{{cite news |url=http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/EPE/1928/01/19/4/Ar00418.html |title=Saskatchewan Assembly |newspaper=Empress Express |date=January 19, 1928 |page=4 |access-date=2012-03-16}}

|Duncan Morris Robertson

|August 15, 1927

|WP MacLachlan died in office{{cite web|url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Membership-of-Legislatures.pdf |title=Members of the Legislative Assembly, Saskatchewan |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |access-date=2012-03-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227192150/http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Membership-of-Legislatures.pdf |archive-date=2013-12-27 }}

|December 1, 1927

|PL Hyde resigned seat

|Thomas Frederick Waugh

|October 25, 1928

|GA Scott resigned after being named income tax inspector{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y746xOWGfcUC&pg=PA207 |title=Saskatchewan Politicians: Lives Past and Present |page=207 |last=Quiring |first=Brett |publisher=Canadian Plains Research Center Press |ISBN=0889771650 |year=2004 |access-date=2012-04-13}}

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