Timiskaming (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Timiskaming was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

in the northeastern part of Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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from 1917 to 1925, and from 1935 to 1997.

It was created in 1914 from parts of Algoma East

Algoma East

Algoma East was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1968. It was created in 1903 from parts of Algoma riding....

and Nipissing

Nipissing (electoral district)

Nipissing was a federal electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 2004. It was located in the northeastern part of Ontario, Canada....

ridings.

Territorial evolution

The riding generally covered the Timiskaming District

Timiskaming District, Ontario

Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from parts of this district and parts of Thunder Bay...

, but also incorporated parts of Nipissing District

Nipissing District, Ontario

Nipissing District, Ontario is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1858. The district seat is North Bay.In 2006, the population was 84,688...

, Sudbury District

Sudbury District, Ontario

The Sudbury District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District....

, Algoma District

Algoma District, Ontario

Algoma District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1858 comprising territory as far west as Minnesota...

and Cochrane District

Cochrane District, Ontario

Cochrane District, Ontario is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1921 from parts of Timiskaming and Thunder Bay districts....

at various times.

In 1914, it consisted of the whole of the territorial district of Timiskaming and part of the territorial district of Algoma.

The electoral district was abolished in 1924 when it was divided into Timiskaming North

Timiskaming North

Timiskaming North was a Canadian electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1935. It was located in the northeastern part of the province of Ontario...

and Timiskaming South

Timiskaming South

Timiskaming South was a Canadian electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1935. It was located in the northeastern part of the province of Ontario...

ridings.

In 1933, the two ridings were re-united, and the new Timiskaming riding consisted of the territorial district of Timiskaming (excluding the township of Keefer and all townships east of Keefer and adjacent to the north boundary of Timiskaming district); and part of the territorial district of Nipissing. In 1947 and 1952, it was redefined to consist of the southern part of Timiskaming.

In 1966, it was redefined to consist of parts of the territorial districts of Timiskaming, Sudbury and Nipissing. In 1976, it was redefined to consist of the southeastern part of the Territorial District of Cochrane, the northern part of the Territorial District of Nipissing; and the Territorial District of Timiskaming (excluding that part lying westerly of the Townships of Cleaver and Fallon).

In 1987, it was redefined to consist of the southeastern part of the Territorial District of Cochrane; the northern part of the Territorial District of Nipissing; the eastern part of the Territorial District of Sudbury; and the Territorial District of Timiskaming (excluding the part lying west of the west boundary of the geographic Townships of Cleaver and Fallon.)

The electoral district's name was changed in 1993 to "Timiskaming—French River", and abolished in 1996, when it was incorporated into Timiskaming—Cochrane

Timiskaming—Cochrane

Timiskaming—Cochrane was a federal electoral district in Ontario that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003. It was located in the northeast part of Ontario...

riding.

Timiskaming

Francis Cochrane
Francis Cochrane
Francis 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...

, Unionist
Unionist Party (Canada)
The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament in Canada who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War....

/Conservative - 1917-1919
Angus McDonald
Angus McDonald (politician)
Angus McDonald was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1920 to 1925 after winning a by-election in 1920 and retaining his seat in the 1921 general election...

, Independent - 1920-1925

See Timiskaming North

Timiskaming North

Timiskaming North was a Canadian electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1935. It was located in the northeastern part of the province of Ontario...

and Timiskaming South

Timiskaming South

Timiskaming South was a Canadian electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1935. It was located in the northeastern part of the province of Ontario...

for 1925-1935.

Walter Little, Liberal
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...

- 1935-1954
Ann Shipley
Ann Shipley
Marie Ann Shipley was a Canadian politician.Born in Lawrence Station in Southwold, Ontario, she was educated at Ottawa's Lisgar Collegiate and married Manley Adair Shipley. They settled in Kirkland Lake where she was an administrative secretary for the Kirkland District Mines Medical Plans...

, Liberal
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...

- 1953-1957
Arnold Peters
Arnold Peters
William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

- 1957-1961, New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

1961-1980
Bruce Lonsdale
Bruce Lonsdale
Bruce Lonsdale was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1980 to 1982...

, Liberal
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...

- 1980-1982
John MacDougall
John Alexander Frances MacDougall
John Alexander Frances MacDougall is a former Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1982 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

- 1982-1993

Timiskaming

|-

|Government
|Hon. Francis COCHRANE

Francis Cochrane

Francis 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...

|align="right"|7,025

|Opposition

Laurier Liberals

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|Arthur Wentworth ROEBUCK

Arthur Roebuck

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Angus McDonald (politician)

Angus McDonald was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1920 to 1925 after winning a by-election in 1920 and retaining his seat in the 1921 general election...

|align="right"|5,797

|Liberal

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...

Angus McDonald (politician)

|align="right"| 5,797

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

| Donald MCEACHREN
|align="right"|5,703

|Conservative

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...

Liberal Party of Canada

|Walter LITTLE
|align="right"|5,905

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

|Hon. Wesley Ashton GORDON

Wesley Ashton Gordon

Wesley Ashton Gordon, was a Canadian politician.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, he was a barrister before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Timiskaming South in 1930. He was defeated by Walter Little in 1935. From 1930 to 1932, he was the Minister of Immigration and...

|align="right"|5,456

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

|Walter John HILL
|align="right"|4,185

|Reconstruction

Reconstruction Party of Canada

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Liberal Party of Canada

|Walter LITTLE
|align="right"|10,455

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Gerald Daniel O'MEARA
|align="right"|4,906

|Farmer-Labour

Labour candidates and parties in Canada

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|Tommy CHURCH
|align="right"|4,204

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Liberal Party of Canada

|Walter LITTLE
|align="right"|7,818

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|Colborne Campbell AMES
|align="right"|6,330

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

| Frank Herbert TODD
|align="right"|4,373

|Labour-Progressive

Communist Party of Canada

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Liberal Party of Canada

|Walter LITTLE
|align="right"| 8,528

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

| Colborne Campbell AMES
|align="right"|6,961

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

Liberal Party of Canada

|Ann SHIPLEY

Ann Shipley

Marie Ann Shipley was a Canadian politician.Born in Lawrence Station in Southwold, Ontario, she was educated at Ottawa's Lisgar Collegiate and married Manley Adair Shipley. They settled in Kirkland Lake where she was an administrative secretary for the Kirkland District Mines Medical Plans...

|align="right"|7,497

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|C.C. Doc AMES
|align="right"|6,259

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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|Ted KENRICK
|align="right"|4,611

|Labour-Progressive

Communist Party of Canada

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"|6,936

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Ann SHIPLEY

Ann Shipley

|align="right"|6,896

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"|7,544

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|C. Foster RICE
|align="right"|7,318

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

New Democratic Party

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|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"|7,055

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

| Joseph MAVRINAC
|align="right"|6,053

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Ann SHIPLEY

Ann Shipley

|align="right"|5,969

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

New Democratic Party

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"|7,356

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Mervyn LAVIGNE
|align="right"|6,763

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

| John CRAM
|align="right"| 5,540

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Camil SAMSON

Camil Samson

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|align="right"|2,033
|-

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"| 9,986

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Mervyn LAVIGNE
|align="right"| 5,885

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

New Democratic Party

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"| 8,482

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Louis-R. VANNIER
|align="right"| 7,728

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|George L. CASSIDY
|align="right"|4,443

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

New Democratic Party

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"|11,327

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Dick DUFF
|align="right"|7,768

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

| Alf GUPPY
|align="right"|3,317

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

New Democratic Party

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"|10,263

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Guy IANNUCCI
|align="right"|6,598

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Murray WATTS
|align="right"| 4,615

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

New Democratic Party

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"| 11,595

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Pierre BELANGER
|align="right"| 10,900

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

Liberal Party of Canada

|Bruce LONSDALE

Bruce Lonsdale

Bruce Lonsdale was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1980 to 1982...

|align="right"| 11,135

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

|align="right"|10,661

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Grant SIROLA
|align="right"|4,901

|Marxist-Leninist

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)

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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|John A. MACDOUGALL

John Alexander Frances MacDougall

John Alexander Frances MacDougall is a former Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1982 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....

|align="right"|9,029

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Pierre BÉLANGER
|align="right"| 8,341

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|Arnold PETERS

Arnold Peters

William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|John A. MACDOUGALL

John Alexander Frances MacDougall

|align="right"|15,359

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

| Jim MORRISON
|align="right"| 6,685

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Lorraine ROBAZZA
|align="right"| 6,308

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|Ken SWEIGARD

Ken Sweigard

Ken Sweigard was a Pentecostal evangelist from Grande Prairie, Alberta, and politician who led the Social Credit Party of Canada from 1983 to 1986....

|align="right"| 151
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|John A. MACDOUGALL

John Alexander Frances MacDougall

|align="right"|11,230

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Ben Serré
|align="right"|10,284

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

| Earl EVANS
|align="right"| 7,831

|Confederation of Regions

Confederation of Regions Party of Canada

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Timiskaming—French River

|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Ben Serré
|align="right"| 17,462

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Bob Mantha
|align="right"| 4,510

|Reform

Reform Party of Canada

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|Dan Louie
|align="right"| 3,868

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

Natural Law Party of Canada

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|Anne Belanger
|align="right"| 296

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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Territorial evolution

Timiskaming

Timiskaming

Timiskaming—French River

See also

External links