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List of members of the Canadian Parliament who died in office (1867–1899)

The following is a list of members of the Canadian Parliament who died while they were serving their terms from Confederation in 1867 until 1899

Senate edit

Member Party
Province/Division
 Date of death Age at death (years) Cause
Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair   Liberal Ontario
(Ontario) 		December 29, 1867 52
Benjamin Wier   Liberal Nova Scotia
(Nova Scotia) 		April 14, 1868 62
George Crawford   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		July 4, 1870 66-67
John Hawkins Anderson   Liberal Nova Scotia
(Nova Scotia) 		December 24, 1870 64-65
John Ross   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		January 31, 1871 52
Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay   Conservative Quebec
(Lauzon) 		May 12, 1871 61
Caleb Rand Bill   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Nova Scotia) 		February 1, 1872 66
Roderick Matheson   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		January 13, 1873 79-80 Stroke
Asa Allworth Burnham   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		May 10, 1873 65
James Leslie   Conservative Quebec
(Alma) 		December 6, 1873[1] 87
William Steeves   Liberal New Brunswick
(New Brunswick) 		December 9, 1873 59
Oliver Blake   Liberal Ontario
(Ontario) 		December 10, 1873 71
John Locke   Liberal Nova Scotia
(Nova Scotia) 		December 12, 1873 48
Samuel Sylvester Mills   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		January 14, 1874 67
Ezra Churchill   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Nova Scotia) 		May 8, 1874 67
Robert Leonard Hazen   Conservative New Brunswick
(New Brunswick) 		August 15, 1874 65
Charles-Christophe Malhiot   Liberal Quebec
(De la Vallière) 		November 9, 1874 66
Ebenezer Perry   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		May 1, 1876 83[2]
John Holmes   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Nova Scotia) 		June 3, 1876 87
John Robertson   Liberal New Brunswick
(New Brunswick) 		August 3, 1876 76-77
Charles Wilson   Conservative Quebec
(Rigaud) 		May 4, 1877 69
James Shaw   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		February 6, 1878 79-80
Louis Lacoste   Conservative Quebec
(Montarville) 		November 26, 1878 80
Donald McDonald   Liberal Ontario
(Ontario) 		January 20, 1879 79-80
Jeremiah Northup   Liberal Nova Scotia
(Halifax) 		April 10, 1879 62-63
Robert William Weir Carrall   Conservative British Columbia
(British Columbia) 		September 19, 1879[3] 42
Benjamin Seymour   Conservative Ontario
(Newcastle) 		March 23, 1880 73-74
George Brown   Liberal Ontario
(Lambton) 		May 9, 1880 61 Assassination - shot[4]
David Christie   Liberal Ontario
(Erie) 		December 14, 1880 62 Complications from gangrene
Harcourt Burland Bull   Conservative Ontario
(Hamilton) 		August 12, 1881 57
William Henry Brouse   Reformer Ontario
(Prescott) 		August 23, 1881 57
Edward Goff Penny   Liberal Quebec
(Alma) 		October 11, 1881 61
Adam Hope   Liberal Ontario
(Hamilton) 		August 7, 1882 69
Léandre Dumouchel   Conservative Quebec
(Mille Isles) 		September 24, 1882 71
John Hamilton   Conservative Ontario
(Kingston) 		October 10, 1882 79-80
Jacques-Olivier Bureau   Liberal Quebec
(De Lorimier) 		February 7, 1883 63
Thomas Nicholson Gibbs   Conservative Ontario
(Newmarket) 		April 27, 1883 62
David Edward Price   Conservative Quebec
(The Laurentides) 		August 22, 1883 57
John Bourinot   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Nova Scotia) 		January 19, 1884 69 Stroke
James Skead   Conservative Ontario
(Rideau) 		July 5, 1884 66 Complications from a lung injury
Christian Henry Pozer   Nationalist Quebec
(Lauzon) 		July 18, 1884 48
William Muirhead   Liberal New Brunswick
(Chatham) 		December 29, 1884 65
James Rea Benson   Conservative Ontario
(Saint Catharines) 		March 18, 1885 78
John Simpson   Liberal Ontario
(Bowmanville) 		March 21, 1885 72
Jean-Charles Chapais   Conservative Quebec
(De La Durantaye) 		July 17, 1885 73
Joseph Northwood   Conservative Ontario
(Lambton) 		October 29, 1886 77
Charles Cormier   Liberal Quebec
(Kennebec) 		May 7, 1887 73
William McMaster   Liberal Ontario
(Midland) 		September 22, 1887 75
Louis Adélard Sénécal   Conservative Quebec
(Mille Isles) 		October 7, 1887 58
Josiah Burr Plumb   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		March 12, 1888 71
Jean-Baptiste Rolland   Conservative Quebec
(Mille Isles) 		March 22, 1888 73
James Ferrier   Conservative Quebec
(Shawinigan) 		May 30, 1888 87
Pierre-Étienne Fortin   Conservative Quebec
(Kennebec) 		June 15, 1888 64
John Ferguson   Conservative New Brunswick
(Bathurst) 		August 21, 1888 74
James Gibb Ross   Conservative Quebec
(The Laurentides) 		October 1, 1888 69
Thomas Ryan   Conservative Quebec
(Victoria) 		May 25, 1889 84
James Turner   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		October 10, 1889 63[5]
Richard Charles Hardisty   Conservative Northwest Territories
(Edmonton) 		October 10, 1889 58 Drowning
François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel   Conservative Quebec
(De Salaberry) 		January 17, 1890[6] 51
Charles-Séraphin Rodier   Conservative Quebec
(Mille Isles) 		January 26, 1890 71
John Macdonald   Independent Liberal Ontario
(Ontario) 		February 4, 1890 65
Thomas Dickson Archibald   Conservative Nova Scotia
(North Sydney) 		October 18, 1890 77
Robert Poore Haythorne   Liberal Prince Edward Island
(Queen's) 		May 7, 1891 75
Elijah Leonard   Liberal Ontario
(London) 		May 14, 1891 76
William Hunter Odell   Conservative New Brunswick
(Rockwood) 		July 25, 1891 79
Pierre Baillargeon   Liberal Quebec
(Stadacona) 		December 15, 1891 79
Anselme Homère Pâquet   Liberal Quebec
(De la Vallière) 		December 22, 1891 61
Gardner Green Stevens   Liberal Quebec
(Bedford) 		April 15, 1892 77
Marc-Amable Girard   Conservative Manitoba
(Saint Boniface) 		September 12, 1892 70
Robert Patterson Grant   Liberal Nova Scotia
(Pictou) 		November 13, 1892 78
Donald Montgomery   Conservative Prince Edward Island
(Park Corner) 		July 31, 1893 85
John Abbott   Conservative Quebec
(Inkerman 		October 30, 1893[7] 72 Brain cancer
Amos Edwin Botsford   Conservative New Brunswick
(New Brunswick) 		March 19, 1894 89
Billa Flint   Liberal Ontario
(Trent) 		June 15, 1894 89
John Glasier   Liberal New Brunswick
(Sunbury) 		July 7, 1894 84 Cholera
Joseph Tassé   Conservative Quebec
(De Salaberry 		January 17, 1895 46
Kennedy Francis Burns   Conservative New Brunswick
(New Brunswick) 		June 23, 1895 53 Pneumonia
Edward Murphy   Conservative Quebec
(Victoria) 		December 5, 1895 77
Henry Adolphus Newman Kaulback   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Lunenburg) 		January 8, 1896 65[8]
Robert Read   Conservative Ontario
(Quinté) 		June 29, 1896 81[9]
David Lewis Macpherson   Conservative Ontario
(Saugeen) 		August 16, 1896 77
John Ferguson   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario) 		September 22, 1896 57
François Béchard   Liberal Quebec
(De Lorimier) 		April 13, 1897[10] 66
Théodore Robitaille   Conservative Quebec
(Gulf) 		August 17, 1897 63[11]
Joseph Octave Arsenault   Conservative Prince Edward Island
(Prince Edward Island) 		December 14, 1897 69
Pierre Antoine Deblois   Conservative Quebec
(La Salle) 		June 21, 1898 82
Alexander Macfarlane   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Wallace) 		December 14, 1898 80
Michael Adams   Conservative New Brunswick
(Northumberland) 		January 2, 1899 53[12]
Charles Arkoll Boulton   Conservative Manitoba
(Marquette) 		May 15, 1899 58[13]
William Eli Sanford   Conservative Ontario
(Hamilton) 		July 10, 1899 60 Drowning
Joseph Hyacinthe Bellerose   Conservative Quebec
(De Lanaudière) 		August 13, 1899 79
Thomas Temple   Conservative New Brunswick
(York) 		August 25, 1899 80[14]
Evan John Price   Conservative Quebec
(The Laurentides) 		August 31, 1899 59[15]

House of Commons edit

Member Party
Province/Riding
 Date of death Age at death (years) Cause
Thomas D'Arcy McGee   Conservative Quebec
(Montreal West) 		April 7, 1868 42 Assassinated - shot[16]
Thomas Sutherland Parker   Liberal Ontario
(Wellington Centre) 		October 24, 1868 39 Fall[17]
John Mercer Johnson   Liberal New Brunswick
(Northumberland) 		November 8, 1868 50 Stomach illness[18]
Thomas Killam   Anti-Confederate Nova Scotia
(Yarmouth) 		December 15, 1868 66
William Joseph Croke   Anti-Confederate Nova Scotia
(Richmond) 		March 11, 1869 29
Thomas Kirkpatrick   Conservative Ontario
(Frontenac) 		March 26, 1870 64
William Henry Chipman   Liberal Nova Scotia
(Kings) 		April 10, 1870 62 Smallpox
Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski   Liberal Quebec
(Saint-Hyacinthe) 		August 4, 1870 53
Thomas McCarthy   Conservative Quebec
(Richelieu) 		September 23, 1870 37-38
William Murray Caldwell   Liberal New Brunswick
(Restigouche) 		September 29, 1870 38
John Sandfield Macdonald   Liberal Ontario
(Cornwall) 		June 1, 1872 59
Robert MacFarlane   Liberal Ontario
(Perth South) 		June 1, 1872 37
John Bolton   Liberal New Brunswick
(Charlotte) 		July 14, 1872 47
Francis Henry Burton   Conservative Ontario
(Durham East) 		July 18, 1872 54-55
Thomas Clark Street   Conservative Ontario
(Welland) 		September 6, 1872 57-58
George-Étienne Cartier   Conservative Manitoba
(Provencher) 		May 20, 1873 58 Bright's Disease
Charles Connell   Liberal New Brunswick
(Carleton) 		June 28, 1873 64[19]
John Bower Lewis   Conservative Ontario
(City of Ottawa) 		January 24, 1874 56
William Harvey   Liberal Ontario
(Elgin East) 		June 14, 1874 53 Smallpox
Robert Cunningham   Liberal Manitoba
(Provencher) 		July 4, 1874 38
Thomas Scatcherd   Liberal Ontario
(Middlesex North) 		April 15, 1876 52
Adam Gordon   Liberal Ontario
(Ontario North) 		May 28, 1876 44[20]
Malcolm Cameron   Liberal Ontario
(Ontario South) 		June 1, 1876 68
John Hillyard Cameron   Conservative Ontario
(Cardwell) 		November 14, 1876 59 Heart attack
Michael Cayley   Liberal Quebec
(Beauharnois) 		December 2, 1878 36[20]
Pierre-Alexis Tremblay   Liberal Quebec
(Charlevoix) 		January 4, 1879 51
Hugh McLeod   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Cape Breton) 		August 5, 1879 36
Daniel Galbraith   Liberal Ontario
(Lanark North) 		December 17, 1879 66
Luther Hamilton Holton   Liberal Quebec
(Châteauguay) 		March 14, 1880 63
Edmund Leavens Chandler   Liberal Quebec
(Brome) 		August 21, 1880 50
Thomas Oliver   Liberal Ontario
(Oxford North) 		November 8, 1880 59
Joshua Spencer Thompson   Conservative British Columbia
(Cariboo) 		December 20, 1880 51-52
Joseph Keeler   Conservative Ontario
(Northumberland East) 		January 21, 1881 56
George Heber Connell   Independent New Brunswick
(Carleton) 		February 15, 1881 45
William Carruthers Little   Conservative Ontario
(Simcoe South) 		December 31, 1881 61
Jacques-Philippe Lantier   Conservative Quebec
(Soulanges) 		September 15, 1882 68
John Pickard   Independent Liberal New Brunswick
(Carleton) 		December 17, 1883 59
Frédéric Houde   Nationalist Conservative Quebec
(Maskinongé) 		November 15, 1884 37 Tuberculosis[21]
Isaac Burpee   Liberal New Brunswick
(City and County of Saint John) 		March 1, 1885 59
William Thomas Benson   Conservative Ontario
(Grenville South) 		June 8, 1885 61
Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams   Conservative Ontario
(Durham East) 		July 4, 1885 48 Fever
David Thompson   Liberal Ontario
(Haldimand) 		April 18, 1886 49
Joshua Attwood Reynolds Homer   Conservative British Columbia
(New Westminster) 		September 20, 1886 59
Robert Moffat   Conservative New Brunswick
(Restigouche) 		April 25, 1887 43
John Campbell   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Digby) 		May 25, 1887 37
Robert Campbell   Liberal Ontario
(Renfrew South) 		June 14, 1887 69
Simon-Xavier Cimon   Conservative Quebec
(Charlevoix) 		June 26, 1887 57 Apoplexy
Henri-Jules Juchereau Duchesnay   Nationalist Conservative Quebec
(Dorchester) 		July 6, 1887 42 Typhoid fever
Jean-Baptiste Labelle   Conservative Quebec
(Richelieu) 		August 3, 1887 51
Alexander Robertson   Conservative Ontario
(Hastings West) 		February 29, 1888 49
George Clayes   Liberal Quebec
(Missisquoi) 		March 3, 1888 57
Thomas White   Conservative Ontario
(Cardwell) 		April 21, 1888 57 Pneumonia
Athanase Gaudet   Nationalist Conservative Quebec
(Nicolet) 		April 29, 1888 39
Charles-Joseph Coursol   Conservative Quebec
(Nicolet) 		August 4, 1888 68
John Henry Pope   Conservative Quebec
(Compton) 		April 1, 1889 69
William Goodhue Perley   Conservative Ontario
(Ottawa) 		April 1, 1890 69
Donald Chisholm   Conservative British Columbia
(New Westminster) 		April 5, 1890 67-68
Adam Hudspeth   Conservative Ontario
(Victoria South) 		May 5, 1890 53
Joseph Esdras Alfred de Saint-Georges   Liberal Quebec
(Portneuf) 		June 19, 1890 40[20]
Alexis Dessaint   Liberal Quebec
(Kamouraska) 		December 18, 1890 43 Train accident[22]
John A. Macdonald   Conservative Ontario
(Kingston) 		June 6, 1891 76 Stroke[23]
Jean-Baptiste Daoust   Conservative Quebec
(Two Mountains) 		December 28, 1891 74
Samuel Barton Burdett   Liberal Ontario
(Hastings East) 		January 20, 1892 48
Alexander Mackenzie   Liberal Ontario
(York East) 		April 17, 1892[24] 70 Stroke caused by a fall
Édouard H. Léger   Conservative New Brunswock
(Kent) 		August 8, 1892 26
James Armstrong   Liberal Ontario
(Middlesex South) 		January 26, 1893 62
David William Gordon   Conservative British Columbia
(Vancouver) 		February 19, 1893 60
John Hearn   Conservative Quebec
(Quebec West) 		May 17, 1894 67 Tuberculosis
Félix Geoffrion   Liberal Quebec
(Verchères) 		August 7, 1894 61
John Sparrow David Thompson   Conservative Nova Scotia
(Antigonish) 		December 12, 1894 49 Heart attack[25]
Frank Madill   Conservative Ontario
(Ontario North) 		October 25, 1895 42
Henry Simard   Liberal Quebec
(Charlevoix) 		November 6, 1895 59
John Bryson   Conservative Quebec
(Pontiac) 		January 20, 1896 46
Guillaume Amyot   Nationalist Conservative Quebec
(Bellechasse) 		March 30, 1896 53
Frederick Charles Denison   Conservative Ontario
(Toronto West) 		April 15, 1896 49 Stomach cancer[26]
John Clark   Liberal Ontario
(Grey North) 		July 27, 1896 60-61 Typhoid fever, peritonitis[27]
Darby Bergin   Conservative Ontario
(Cornwall and Stormont) 		October 22, 1896 70
William Le Boutillier Fauvel   Liberal Quebec
(Bonaventure) 		February 8, 1897 47
Charles-Eugène Pouliot   Liberal Quebec
(Témiscouata) 		June 24, 1897 40
Fabien Boisvert   Independent Conservative Quebec
(Nicolet) 		November 12, 1897 58
Stanislaus Francis Perry   Liberal Prince Edward Island
(Prince) 		February 24, 1898 74
Flavien Dupont   Conservative Quebec
(Bagot) 		March 12, 1898 51
Dalton McCarthy   McCarthyite Ontario
(Simcoe North) 		May 11, 1898 61 Carriage accident
Pierre Malcom Guay   Liberal Quebec
(Lévis) 		February 19, 1899 50
Richard Willis Jameson   Liberal Manitoba
(Winnipeg) 		February 21, 1899 47 Accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound[28]
John Fisher Wood   Conservative Ontario
(Brockville) 		March 14, 1899 46 Heart failure
William Bullock Ives   Conservative Quebec
(Town of Sherbrooke) 		July 15, 1899[29] 57
Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion   Liberal Quebec
(Verchères) 		July 18, 1899 55
James David Edgar   Liberal Ontario
(Ontario West) 		July 31, 1899 57

See also edit

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