9th Canadian Ministry
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The Ninth Canadian Ministry was the first cabinet
chaired by Prime Minister
Sir Robert Borden. It governed Canada
from 10 October 1911 to 12 October 1917, including only the 12th Canadian Parliament
. The government was formed by the old Conservative Party of Canada
. The Conservatives governed in coalition
with the Liberal-Conservative Party
until 12 October 1916 when the last Liberal-Conservative cabinet minister, Sam Hughes
, was dismissed. Borden was also Prime Minister in the Tenth Canadian Ministry, which he formed for the coalition government
with the Liberals
.
Parliamentary Secretary of Militia and Defence
Solicitor-General
Cabinet of Canada
The Cabinet of Canada is a body of ministers of the Crown that, along with the Canadian monarch, and within the tenets of the Westminster system, forms the government of Canada...
chaired by Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...
Sir Robert Borden. It governed Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
from 10 October 1911 to 12 October 1917, including only the 12th Canadian Parliament
12th Canadian Parliament
The 12th Canadian Parliament was in session from 15 November 1911 until 6 October 1917. The membership was set by the 1911 federal election on 21 September 1911, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1917 election. At 5 years, 10...
. The government was formed by the old Conservative Party of Canada
Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...
. The Conservatives governed in coalition
Coalition government
A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament...
with the Liberal-Conservative Party
Liberal-Conservative Party
The Liberal-Conservative Party was the formal name of the Conservative Party of Canada until 1873, although some Conservative candidates continued to run under the label as late as the 1911 election and others ran as simple Conservatives prior to 1873...
until 12 October 1916 when the last Liberal-Conservative cabinet minister, Sam Hughes
Sam Hughes
For other people of the same name see Sam Hughes Sir Samuel Hughes, KCB, PC was the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence during World War I...
, was dismissed. Borden was also Prime Minister in the Tenth Canadian Ministry, which he formed for the coalition government
Coalition government
A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament...
with the Liberals
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
.
Cabinet
- Charles BallantyneCharles BallantyneCharles Colquhoun Ballantyne, PC was a Canadian politician.A prominent manufacturer, Ballantyne was appointed to Sir Robert Borden's World War I Union government. He served briefly as Minister of Public Works before becoming Minister of Marine and Fisheries and Minister of the Naval Service...
, Minister of Public Works 3-12 October 1917. - Pierre Édouard BlondinPierre Édouard BlondinPierre Édouard Blondin, PC was a Canadian politician.He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the Quebec riding of Champlain in 1908 and 1911...
, Minister of Inland Revenue 1914-1915; Secretary of State for Canada and Registrar-General 1915-1917; Minister of Mines 1915-1917; Postmaster-General January-October 1917. - Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister and Secretary of State for External Affairs 1911-1917; President of the Privy Council 1911-1917.
- Martin BurrellMartin BurrellMartin Burrell, was a Canadian politician.Born in Faringdon, Berkshire , Burrell emigrated to Canada as a young man, where he eventually became a fruit grower on a farm about two miles east of Grand Forks, British Columbia...
, Minister of Agriculture 1911-1917. - Thomas Chase-CasgrainThomas Chase-CasgrainThomas Chase-Casgrain, PC , also known as Thomas Casgrain, was a French Canadian lawyer and politician. As a young attorney he became famous for his participation in the prosecution of Louis Riel....
, Postmaster-General 1914-1916. - Francis CochraneFrancis CochraneFrancis Cochrane, PC was a Canadian politician.-Municipal career:A prosperous hardware merchant in Sudbury, Ontario, he was the first president of the town's board of trade and later served as mayor of the town in 1897, 1898 and 1902 after winning a council seat in 1896.Along with local...
, Minister of Railways and Canals 1911-1917. - Louis CoderreLouis CoderreLouis Coderre, was a Canadian politician.Born in St Ours, Canada East, he was a lawyer before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the Quebec riding of Hochelaga in the 1908 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1911...
, Secretary of State for Canada and Registrar-General 1912-1915; Minister of Mines 1913-1915. - Thomas Wilson CrothersThomas Wilson CrothersThomas Wilson Crothers, was a Canadian politician.Born in Northport, Canada West, he was a lawyer and teacher before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Ontario riding of Elgin West in the 1908 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1911 and as a Unionist in 1917...
, Minister of Labour 1911-1917. - Charles DohertyCharles DohertyCharles Joseph Doherty, PC, KC was a Canadian politician and jurist.Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Marcus Doherty, a judge of the Supreme Court for the Province of Quebec and Elizabeth Doherty, Doherty was educated at St...
, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General 1911-1917. - Sir George Eulas Foster, Minister of Trade and Commerce 1911-1917.
- John Douglas HazenJohn Douglas HazenSir John Douglas Hazen, PC, KCMG was a politician in New Brunswick, Canada.Known by his second name, Douglas, he entered politics in 1885 when he was elected as an alderman in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He became mayor in 1888.Hazen was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative...
, Minister of Marine and Fisheries and Minister of the Naval Service 1911-1917. - Sir Samuel Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence 1911-1916.
- Sir Albert Edward Kemp, Minister without Portfolio 1911-1916; Minister of Militia and Defence 1916-1917.
- Sir James Alexander Lougheed, Minister without Portfolio 1911-1917.
- Arthur MeighenArthur MeighenArthur Meighen, PC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921; and from June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding...
, Solicitor-General 1915-1917; Secretary of State for Canada and Registrar-General August-October 1917; Minister of Mines August-October 1917. - Frederick Debartzch MonkFrederick Debartzch MonkFrederick Debartzch Monk, PC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician.Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Samuel Cornwallis Monk and Caroline Debartzch , he received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1877 from McGill University and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1878...
, Minister of Public Works 1911-1912. - Wilfrid Bruno NantelWilfrid Bruno NantelWilfrid Bruno Nantel, was a Canadian politician.Born in Saint-Jérôme, Canada East, the son of Guillaume Nantel and Adélaïde Desjardins, he was a lawyer before first running unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative candidate in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne in the 1904...
, Minister of Inland Revenue 1911-1914; Minister of Mines 1911-1912. - Esioff-Léon PatenaudeEsioff-Léon PatenaudeEsioff-Léon Patenaude, PC, KC, often called E.L. Patenaude was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. Born in Saint-Isidore, Quebec, in 1875, he studied law at Université Laval and was called to the Quebec bar in 1899...
, Minister of Inland Revenue 1915-1917; Secretary of State for Canada and Registrar-General January-June 1917; Minister of Mines January-June 1917. - Louis-Philippe PelletierLouis-Philippe PelletierLouis-Philippe Pelletier, PC was a Canadian lawyer, journalist, newspaper owner, politician, professor, and judge.-Biography:...
, Postmaster-General 1911-1914. - Sir George Halsey Perley, Minister without Portfolio 1911-1916; Minister of the Overseas Military Forces 1916-1917.
- John Dowsley ReidJohn Dowsley ReidJohn Dowsley Reid, PC was a Canadian businessman, physician, and parliamentarian. A Conservative, he was a long-standing Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons for the Ontario Electoral district of Grenville South...
, Minister of Customs 1911-1917. - William James RocheWilliam James RocheWilliam James Roche, PC was a Canadian politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for the Manitoba riding of Marquette in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1917....
, Secretary of State for Canada and Registrar-General 1911-1912; Minister of the Interior and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs 1912-1917; Minister of Mines 1912-1913. - Robert RogersRobert Rogers (Manitoba politician)Robert Rogers, PC was a Canadian merchant and politician. He served as a cabinet minister at both the federal and provincial levels....
, Minister of the Interior and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs 1911-1912; Minister of Mines March-October 1912; Minister of Public Works 1912-1917. - Albert SévignyAlbert SévignyAlbert Sévigny, PC was a Canadian politician.Sévigny opened a law practice in Quebec City in 1905. Two years later, he was a candidate for the Quebec Conservative Party in a provincial by-election, but was defeated. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1911 federal election...
, Minister of Inland Revenue January-October 1917; Secretary of State for Canada and Registrar-General June-August 1917; Minister of Mines (acting) June-August 1917. - Sir William Thomas White, Minister of Finance and Receiver-General 1911-1917.
Offices not of the Cabinet
Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for External Affairs- Hugh ClarkHugh ClarkHugh Clark was a prominent English actor of the Caroline era. He worked in both of the main theatre companies of his time, Queen Henrietta's Men and the King's Men....
, 1916-1917.
Parliamentary Secretary of Militia and Defence
- Fleming Blanchard McCurdyFleming Blanchard McCurdyFleming Blanchard McCurdy, was a Canadian politician.Born in Old Barns, Nova Scotia, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Nova Scotia riding of Shelburne and Queen's in the 1911 election as a Conservative...
, 1916-1917.
Solicitor-General
- Arthur MeighenArthur MeighenArthur Meighen, PC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921; and from June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding...
, 1913-1915. - Hugh GuthrieHugh GuthrieHugh Guthrie, PC, KC was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister in the governments of Sir Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen and R. B. Bennett....
, 4-12 October 1917.