8th Parliament of Ontario

The 8th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from June 26, 1894, until January 28, 1898, just prior to the 1898 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Liberal Party led by Oliver Mowat. Arthur Sturgis Hardy succeeded Mowat as Premier in 1896 after Mowat entered federal politics. The Assembly also had significant groupings from the Patrons of Industry (representing farmers' interests) and the Protestant Protective Association (representing anti-Catholic sentiment, and associated with the Orange Order), each of which returned candidates either on their own or with local Liberal or Conservative support.

William Douglas Balfour served as Speaker for the assembly until he was named to cabinet on July 14, 1896. Alfred Évanturel succeeded him as Speaker.

Members elected to the Assembly
{{legend|#9999FF|Addington: James Reid}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Algoma East: Charles Franklin Farwell}} {{legend|#9999FF|Algoma West: James M. Savage}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Brant North: William Bruce Wood}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Brant South: Arthur Sturgis Hardy}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Brockville: George Augustus Dana}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Bruce Centre: John Stevenson McDonald (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#FF8000|Bruce North: Daniel McNaughton (Lib-PPA)}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Bruce South: Reuben Eldridge Truax}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Cardwell: 'Edward Alfred Little (Con-Pat)}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Carleton: George Nelson Kidd (Con-Pat)}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Dufferin: William Dynes}} {{legend|#9999FF|Dundas: James Pliny Whitney}} {{legend|#9999FF|Durham East: William Armstrong Fallis}} {{legend|#FF8000|Durham West: William Henry Reid (Con-PPA)}} {{legend|#9999FF|Elgin East: Charles Andrew Brower}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Elgin West: Donald Macnish (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Essex North: William J. McKee}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Essex South: William Douglas Balfour}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Frontenac: Joseph Longford Haycock (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Glengarry: David Murdoch McPherson (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#9999FF|Grenville: Orlando Bush}} {{legend|#FF8000|Grey Centre: Thomas Gamey}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Grey North: James Cleland}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Grey South: David McNicol}} {{legend|#9999FF|Haldimand: John Senn}} {{legend|#9999FF|Halton: William Kerns}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Hamilton East: James Taylor Middleton}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Hamilton West: John Morison Gibson}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Hastings East: Alexander McLaren (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Hastings North: James Haggerty}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Hastings West: William Hodgins Biggar}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Huron East: Thomas Gibson}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Huron South: Murdo Young McLean}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Huron West: James Thompson Garrow}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Kent East: Robert Ferguson}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Kent West: Thomas Letson Pardo (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#9999FF|Kingston: Edward H. Smythe}} {{legend|#DCDCDC|Lambton East: Peter Duncan McCallum (Ind-Con-PPA)}} {{legend|#FF8000|Lambton West: Alfred Thomas Gurd (Con-PPA)}} {{legend|#9999FF|Lanark North: Richard Franklin Preston}} {{legend|#9999FF|Lanark South: Arthur James Matheson}} {{legend|#9999FF|Leeds: Walter Beatty}} {{legend|#9999FF|Lennox: Walter William Meacham}} {{legend|#9999FF|Lincoln: James Hiscott}} {{legend|#9999FF|London: William Ralph Meredith}} {{legend|#FF8000|Middlesex East: William Shore (Lib-PPA)}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Middlesex North: William Taylor (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Middlesex West: George William Ross}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Monck: Richard Harcourt}} {{legend|#FF8000|Muskoka: George Edward Langford (Con-PPA)}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Nipissing: John Loughrin}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Norfolk North: Edwin Clarendon Carpenter}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Norfolk South: William Andrew Charlton}} {{legend|#9999FF|Northumberland East: William Arnson Willoughby}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Northumberland West: Corelli Collard Field}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Ontario North: Thomas William Chapple}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Ontario South: John Dryden}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Ottawa: George O. O'Keefe; Erskine Henry Bronson}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Oxford North: Oliver Mowat}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Oxford South: Angus McKay}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Parry Sound: William Rabb Beatty (Lib-Pat)}}

{{legend|#EA6D6A|Peel: John Smith}} {{legend|#9999FF|Perth North: Thomas Magwood}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Perth South: John McNeill (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Peterborough East: Thomas Blezard}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Peterborough West: James Robert Stratton}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Prescott: Alfred Evanturel}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Prince Edward: John Caven (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Renfrew North: Henry Barr}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Renfrew South: 'Robert Adam Campbell}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Russell: Alexander Robillard}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Simcoe Centre: Robert Paton}} {{legend|#9999FF|Simcoe East: Andrew Miscampbell}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Simcoe West: Archibald S. Currie (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#A52A2A|Stormont: John Bennett (Lib-Pat)}} {{legend|#FF8000|Toronto East: George Ryerson (Con-PPA)}} {{legend|#9999FF|Toronto North: George Frederick Marter}} {{legend|#9999FF|Toronto South: Oliver Aiken Howland}} {{legend|#9999FF|Toronto West: Thomas Crawford}} {{legend|#9999FF|Victoria East: John Hilliard Carnegie}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Victoria West: John McKay}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Waterloo North: Alexander Black Robertson}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Waterloo South: John Douglas Moore}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Welland: William Manley German}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wellington East: John Craig}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wellington South: John Mutrie}} {{legend|#FF8000|Wellington West: George Tucker (Con-PPA)}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wentworth North: John Ira Flatt}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|Wentworth South: Nicholas Awrey}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|York East: John Richardson}} {{legend|#EA6D6A|York North: Elihu James Davis}} {{legend|#9999FF|York West: Joseph Wesley St. John}}