Timiskaming (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal riding in Ontario. For other topics, see Timiskaming.

Timiskaming (later known as Timiskaming—French River) was a federal electoral district in the northeastern part of Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1925, and from 1935 to 1997.

Timiskaming

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1914, 1933
District abolished	1924, 1987
First contested	1917
Last contested	1984

It was created in 1914 from parts of Algoma East and Nipissing ridings.

Territorial evolution

The riding generally covered the Timiskaming District, but also incorporated parts of Nipissing District, Sudbury District, Algoma District and Cochrane District 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 and Timiskaming South 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 was renamed in 1993 to "Timiskaming—French River", and abolished in 1996 when it was incorporated into Timiskaming—Cochrane riding.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Timiskaming Riding created from Nipissing and Algoma East
13th	1917–1919†		Francis Cochrane	Government (Unionist)
	1920–1921		Angus McDonald	Independent
14th	1921–1925
Riding dissolved into Timiskaming North and Timiskaming South
Timiskaming Riding re-created from Timiskaming North and Timiskaming South
18th	1935–1940		Walter Little	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957		Ann Shipley
23rd	1957–1958		Arnold Peters	Co-operative Commonwealth
24th	1958–1961
	1961–1962			New Democratic
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1982†		Bruce Lonsdale	Liberal
	1982–1984		John MacDougall	Progressive Conservative
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
Timiskaming—French River
35th	1993–1997		Benoît Serré	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Timiskaming—Cochrane

Election results

Timiskaming, 1917–1925

By-election: On Mr. Cochrane's death, 7 April 1920

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Angus McDonald	5,797
	Liberal	Arthur Graeme Slaght	3,090
	Independent Conservative	Ernest Fleetwood Pullen	2,996

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Angus McDonald	5,797
	Liberal	Donald McEachren	5,703
	Conservative	Angus John Kennedy	5,130
	Independent	David Bertrand	197

Timiskaming, 1935–1993

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Little	5,905
	Conservative	Wesley Ashton Gordon	5,456
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Walter John Hill	4,185
	Reconstruction	Jack Percy Dransfield	168

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Little	10,455
	Liberal	Gerald Daniel O'Meara	4,906
	Farmer–Labour	Tommy Church	4,204
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Walter John Hill	2,481
	Unknown	Albert Edward Swift	110

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Little	7,818
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Colborne Campbell Ames	6,330
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Herbert Todd	4,373
	Labor–Progressive	William Garth Teeple	565

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Walter Little	8,528
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Colborne Campbell Ames	6,961
	Progressive Conservative	John Fenton Richardson Akehurst	5,512

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ann Shipley	7,497
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Colbert Campbell Ames	6,259
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Kenrick	4,611
	Labor–Progressive	Joseph Billings	335

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arnold Peters	6,936
	Liberal	Ann Shipley	6,896
	Progressive Conservative	C. Foster Rice	5,645

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Arnold Peters	7,544
	Progressive Conservative	C. Foster Rice	7,318
	Liberal	Ted J. Miron	6,118

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	7,055
	Progressive Conservative	Joseph Mavrinac	6,053
	Liberal	Ann Shipley	5,969
	Social Credit	Gérard Michaud	2,665

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	7,356
	Liberal	Mervyn Lavigne	6,763
	Progressive Conservative	John Cram	5,540
	Social Credit	Camil Samson	2,033

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	9,986
	Liberal	Mervyn Lavigne	5,885
	Progressive Conservative	Bruce Besley	3,823

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	8,482
	Liberal	Louis-R. Vannier	7,728
	Progressive Conservative	George L. Cassidy	4,443
	Social Credit	Alcide-J. Hamelin	288

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	11,327
	Liberal	Dick Duff	7,768
	Progressive Conservative	Alf Guppy	3,317
	Social Credit	Albert Breton	718

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	10,263
	Liberal	Guy Iannucci	6,598
	Progressive Conservative	Murray Watts	4,615
	Social Credit	Maurice Cure	492

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	11,595
	Liberal	Pierre Belanger	10,900
	Progressive Conservative	Grant Sirola	6,036

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bruce Lonsdale	11,135
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	10,661
	Progressive Conservative	Grant Sirola	4,901
	Marxist–Leninist	Claudia Irons	93

Canadian federal by-election, October 12, 1982: Timiskaming
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	John MacDougall	9,029	35.74
	Liberal	Pierre Bélanger	8,341	33.02
	New Democratic	Arnold Peters	7,654	30.30
	Independent	Richard Peever	236	0.93
Total valid votes			25,260	100.00
Total rejected ballots			111
Turnout			25,371	69.00
Electors on the lists			36,771
Called after Mr. Lonsdale's death.

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John MacDougall	15,359
	New Democratic	Jim Morrison	6,685
	Liberal	Lorraine Robazza	6,308
	Social Credit	Ken Sweigard	151

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	John MacDougall	11,230
	Liberal	Ben Serré	10,284
	New Democratic	Earl Evans	7,831
	Confederation of Regions	Fred Field	1,207
	Independent	Richard Peever	160

Timiskaming—French River, 1993–1997

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ben Serré	17,462
	Progressive Conservative	Bob Mantha	4,510
	Reform	Dan Louie	3,868
	New Democratic Party	Steve Yee	2,573
	Independent	Gary Whitman	483
	Natural Law	Anne Belanger	296

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

• Timiskaming, Ontario (1914 - 1924)
• Timiskaming, Ontario (1933 - 1993)