List of Ontario senators

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This is a list of past and present Canadian senators representing the province of Ontario. Ontario has had 24 Senators since the time of Confederation. The province is also one of four regional senate divisions under Section 26 of the Constitution Act that allows for the expansion of two Senators by region.

[edit] Current

Name		Party	Division¹	Date appointed	Appointed by²	Mandatory retirement
	Norman Atkins	Progressive Conservative	Markham	July 2, 1986	Mulroney	June 27, 2009
	Anne Cools	non-aligned	Toronto Centre (1984.01.13-2001.02.14) Toronto Centre-York (2001.02.15- )	January 13, 1984	Trudeau	August 12, 2018
	Consiglio Di Nino	Conservative	Ontario	August 30, 1990	Mulroney	January 24, 2013
	Art Eggleton	Liberal	Toronto	March 24, 2005	Martin	September 29, 2018
	Trevor Eyton	Conservative	Ontario	September 23, 1990	Mulroney	July 12, 2009
	Jerry Grafstein	Liberal	Metro Toronto	January 13, 1984	Trudeau	January 2, 2010
	Mac Harb	Liberal	Ontario	September 9, 2003	Chrétien	November 10, 2028
	Colin Kenny	Liberal	Rideau	June 29, 1984	Trudeau	December 10, 2018
	Wilbert Keon³	Conservative	Ottawa	September 27, 1990	Mulroney	May 17, 2010
	Marjory LeBreton	Conservative	Ontario	June 18, 1993	Mulroney	July 4, 2015
	Frank Mahovlich	Liberal	Ontario	June 11, 1998	Chrétien	January 10, 2013
	Michael Meighen³	Conservative	St. Mary's	September 27, 1990	Mulroney	March 25, 2014
	Lorna Milne	Liberal	Brampton (1995.09.22-1999.11.01) Peel County (1999.11.02-)	September 22, 1995	Chrétien	December 13, 2009
	Jim Munson	Liberal	Ottawa/Rideau Canal	December 10, 2003	Chrétien	July 24, 2021
	Lowell Murray	Progressive Conservative	Pakenham	September 13, 1979	Clark	September 26, 2011
	Landon Pearson	Liberal	Ontario	September 15, 1994	Chrétien	November 16, 2005
	Michael Pitfield	Independent	Ottawa-Vanier	December 22, 1982	Trudeau	June 18, 2012
	Marie-Paule Poulin	Liberal	Northern Ontario	September 22, 1995	Jean Chrétien	June 21, 2020
	Vivienne Poy	Liberal	Toronto	September 17, 1998	Chrétien	May 15, 2016
	Nancy Ruth	Conservative	Toronto	March 24, 2005	Martin	January 6, 2017
	Hugh Segal	Conservative	Kingston-Frontenac-Leeds	August 2, 2005	Martin	October 13, 2025
	David Smith	Liberal	Cobourg	June 25, 2002	Chrétien	May 16, 2016
	Peter Stollery	Liberal	Bloor & Yonge/Toronto	July 2, 1981	Trudeau	November 29, 2010
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Notes:

¹ Senators are appointed to represent Ontario. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within Ontario as his or her division.

² Senators are appointed by the Governor-General of Canada in The Queen's name on the recommendation of the prime minister.

³ Two senators were appointed under a rarely used regional expansion clause by Brian Mulroney that increased the Senate seats from 104 to 112 on September 27, 1990. This included two seats each for the Western provinces, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.

[edit] Historic

	Party	Division¹	Date appointed	Appointed by²	End of Term
James Cox Aikins	Liberal-Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867 January 7, 1896	Royal Proclamation Bowell	May 30, 1882 August 6, 1904
John Black Aird	Liberal	Toronto	November 10, 1964	Pearson	November 28, 1974
George Alexander	Conservative	Woodstock	May 30, 1873	MacDonald	May 29, 1891
George Allan	Liberal-Conservative	York	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	July 24, 1901
James Arthurs	Conservative	Ontario	July 20, 1935	Bennett	October 7, 1937
Allen Aylesworth	Liberal	North York	January 11, 1923	King	February 13, 1952
Robert Beith	Liberal	Bowmanville	January 15, 1907	Laurier	January 26, 1922
Napoléon Belcourt	Liberal	Ottawa	November 22, 1907	Laurier	August 7, 1932
Rhéal Bélisle	Progressive Conservative	Sudbury	February 4, 1963	Diefenbaker	November 3, 1992
John Bench	Liberal	Lincoln	November 19, 1942	King	December 9, 1947
William Benidickson	Liberal	Kenora-Rainy River	July 7, 1965	Pearson	April 1, 1985
William Bennett	Conservative	Simcoe East	November 13, 1917	Borden	March 15, 1925
James Rea Benson	Liberal-Conservative	St. Catharines	March 14, 1868	Macdonald	March 18, 1885
Florence Bird	Liberal	Carleton	March 23, 1978	Trudeau	January 15, 1983
Charles Bishop	Liberal	Ottawa	April 18, 1945	King	September 23, 1966
Richard Blain	Conservative	Peel	July 26, 1917	Borden	November 27, 1926
Adam Blair	Liberal	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	December 29, 1867
Oliver Blake	Liberal	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	December 10, 1873
Peter Bosa	Liberal	York-Caboto	April 5, 1977	Trudeau	December 10, 1998
Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	Hastings	December 5, 1892	Thompson	December 10, 1917
Joseph-Arthur Bradette	Liberal	Cochrane	June 12, 1953	St. Laurent	September 12, 1961
William Brouse	Independent Reformer	Prescott	August 9, 1878	Mackenzie	August 23, 1881
George Brown	Liberal	Lambton	December 16, 1873	Mackenzie	May 9, 1880
William Brunt	Progressive Conservative	Hanover	October 12, 1957	Diefenbaker	July 7, 1962
Harcourt Bull	Conservative	Hamilton	February 24, 1879	Macdonald	August 12, 1881
Asa Burnham	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	May 10, 1873
Alexander Campbell	Conservative	Cataraqui	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	February 7, 1887
Archibald Campbell	Liberal	Toronto West	November 22, 1907	Laurier	January 15, 1913
Gordon Peter Campbell	Liberal	Toronto	February 19, 1943	King	January 16, 1964
John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	London	April 27, 1891 April 23, 1896	Macdonald Bowell	February 17, 1892 November 6, 1911
Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	Oxford	September 20, 1904	Laurier	September 24, 1912
Charles Casgrain	Conservative	Windsor	January 12, 1887	Macdonald	March 8, 1907
Lionel Choquette	Progressive Conservative	Ottawa East	January 31, 1958	Diefenbaker	March 6, 1981
David Christie	Liberal	Erie	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	December 15, 1880
Francis Clemow	Conservative	Rideau	February 3, 1885	Macdonald	May 28, 1902
Thomas Coffey	Liberal	London	March 12, 1903	Laurier	June 8, 1914
John Joseph Connolly	Liberal	Ottawa West	June 12, 1953	St. Laurent	October 31, 1981
Henry Corby	Conservative	Belleville	October 17, 1912	Borden	April 23, 1917
Louis Côté	Conservative	Ottawa East	December 30, 1933	Bennett	February 2, 1943
George Albertus Cox	Liberal	Saugeen	November 13, 1896	Laurier	January 16, 1914
George Crawford	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	July 4, 1870
David Croll	Liberal	Toronto-Spadina	July 28, 1955	St. Laurent	June 11, 1991
Thomas Crothers	Conservative	Ontario	October 3, 1921	Meighen	December 10, 1921
Keith Davey	Liberal	York	February 24, 1966	Pearson	July 1, 1996
William Davies	Liberal	Kingston	November 19, 1942	King	March 11, 1967
Robert de Cotret	Progressive Conservative	Ottawa	June 5, 1879	Clark	January 14, 1980
Daniel Derbyshire	Liberal	Brockville	November 22, 1907	Laurier	June 18, 1916
Jean Noël Desmarais	Progressive Conservative	Sudbury	June 4, 1993	Mulroney	July 25, 1995
Walter Dickson (Canadian Senator)	Conservative	Niagara	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	February 19, 1884
John Dobson	Conservative	Lindsay	February 23, 1892	Abbott	January 27, 1907
James Donnelly	Conservative	South Bruce	May 26, 1913	Borden	October 20, 1948
Richard Doyle	Progressive Conservative	North York	March 19, 1985	Mulroney	March 10, 1998
Joseph Duffus	Liberal	Peterborough West	February 15, 1940	King	February 7, 1957
William Edwards	Liberal	Russell	March 17, 1903	Laurier	September 17, 1921
John Elliot	Liberal	Middlesex	January 29, 1940	King	December 20, 1941
William Euler	Liberal	Waterloo	May 11, 1940	King	July 15, 1941
Iva Fallis	Conservative	Peterborough	May 11, 1940	Bennett	July 15, 1941
Thomas Farquhar	Liberal	Algoma	September 10, 1948	King	September 27, 1962
John Ferguson	Conservative	Ontario	October 1, 1892	Abbott	September 22, 1896
Isobel Finnerty	Liberal	Ontario	September 2, 1999	Chrétien	July 15, 2005
John Fisher	Conservative	Ontario	July 26, 1917	Borden	December 1, 1933
Billa Flint	Liberal	Trent	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	June 14, 1894
James Fogo	Liberal	Carleton	January 25, 1949	St. Laurent	July 6, 1952
Eugene Forsey	Liberal	Nepean	October 7, 1970	Trudeau	May 29, 1979
George Foster	Conservative	Toronto	September 22, 1921	Meighen	December 30, 1931
William Fraser	Liberal	Trenton	June 25, 1949	St. Laurent	October 26, 1962
Alfred Fripp	Conservative	Toronto	December 30, 1933	Bennett	March 25, 1938
Royce Frith	Liberal	Glen Tay	April 5, 1977	Trudeau	August 29, 1994
Francis Theodore Frost	Liberal	Leeds and Grenville	March 12, 1903	Laurier	August 26, 1908
George Taylor Fulford	Liberal	Brockville	1900.01.29	Laurier	1905.10.15
Jean-Robert Gauthier	Liberal	Ontario (1994.11.23-2001.12.03) Ottawa-Vanier (2001.12.04-2004.10.22)	November 23, 1994	Chrétien	October 22, 2004
Thomas Nicholson Gibbs	Liberal-Conservative	Newmarket	1880.04.03	Macdonald	1883.04.07
William Gibson	Liberal	Lincoln	February 11, 1902	Laurier	May 4, 1914
Robert William Gladstone	Liberal	Wellington South	September 7, 1949	St. Laurent	June 1, 1951
John Morrow Godfrey	Liberal	Rosedale	October 5, 1973	Trudeau	June 28, 1987
William Henry Golding	Liberal	Huron-Perth	1949.06.25	St. Laurent	1961.12.31
George Gordon	Conservative	Nipissing	1912.10.17	Borden	1942.02.03
James Robert Gowan	Liberal-Conservative	Barrie	1885.01.29	Macdonald	1907.02.01
George Perry Graham	Liberal	Eganville	1926.12.20	King	1943.01.01
John James Greene	Liberal	Niagara	September 1, 1972	Trudeau	October 23, 1978
Allister Grosart	Progressive Conservative	Pickering	1962.09.24	Diefenbaker	1981.12.13
Stanley Haidasz	Liberal	Toronto-Parkdale	1978.03.23	Trudeau	1998.03.04
John Hamilton	Conservative	Kingston	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1882.10.10
Arthur Charles Hardy	Liberal	Leeds	1922.02.10	King	1962.03.13
Salter Adrian Hayden	Liberal	Toronto	1940.02.09	King	1983.11.01
Andrew Haydon	Liberal	Ottawa	1924.03.10	King	1932.11.10
Horatio Clarence Hocken	Conservative	Toronto	1933.12.30	Bennett	1937.02.18
Adam Hope	Liberal	Hamilton	January 3, 1877	MacKenzie	August 7, 1882
Henry Herbert Horsey	Liberal	Prince Edward	1928.12.14	King	1942.01.06
Joseph Hurtubise	Liberal	Nipissing	1945.06.09	King	1955.01.31
Robert Jaffray	Liberal	Toronto	March 8, 1906	Laurier	December 16, 1914
Lyman Melvin Jones	Liberal	Toronto	January 21, 1901	Laurier	April 15, 1917
James Kelleher	Conservative	Ontario	September 23, 1990	Mulroney	October 2, 2005
William McDonough Kelly	Progressive Conservative	Port Severn	December 23, 1982	Trudeau	July 21, 2000
Albert Edward Kemp	Conservative	Toronto	1921.11.04	Meighen	1929.08.12
Betty Kennedy	Liberal	Ontario	2000.06.20	Chrétien	2001.01.04
James Kirkpatrick Kerr	Liberal	Toronto	1903.03.12	Laurier	1916.12.04
William Kerr	Liberal	Northcumberland	1899.03.15	Laurier	1906.11.22
Mary Elizabeth Kinnear	Liberal	Welland	1967.04.06	Pearson	1973.04.03
Joseph-Henri-Gustave Lacasse	Liberal	Essex	1928.01.10	King	1953.01.18
John Keith McBroom Laird	Liberal	Windsor	1967.04.06	Pearson	1982.01.12
Norman Platt Lambert	Liberal	Ottawa	1938.01.20	King	1965.11.04
George Landerkin	Liberal	Grey	February 16, 1901	Laurier	October 10, 1903
Daniel Aiken Lang	Liberal	South York	February 14, 1964	Pearson	June 13, 1994
Laurier LaPierre	Liberal	Ontario	2001.06.13	Chrétien	2004.11.21
Elijah Leonard	Liberal	London	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1891.05.14
Thomas D'Arcy Leonard	Liberal	Toronto-Rosedale	1955.07.28	St. Laurent	1970.04.29
John Lewis	Liberal	East Toronto	1925.09.05	King	1935.05.18
Edgar Sydney Little	Liberal	London	1928.01.10	King	1943.12.22
George Lynch-Staunton	Conservative	Hamilton	1917.01.20	Borden	1940.03.19
John Macdonald	Independent Liberal	Ontario	1887.11.09	Macdonald	1890.02.04
William Ross Macdonald	Liberal	Brantford	1953.06.12	St. Laurent	1967.12.22
Angus Claude Macdonell	Conservative	Toronto South	1917.08.01	Borden	1921.01.01
Archibald Hayes Macdonell	Conservative	Toronto South	November 7, 1921	Meighen	November 12, 1939
Donald MacInnes	Liberal-Conservative	Burlington	1881.12.24	Macdonald	1900.12.02
David Lewis Macpherson	Conservative	Saugeen	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1896.08.16
Duncan Kenneth MacTavish	Liberal	Ontario	1963.06.11	Pearson	1963.11.15
Marian Maloney	Liberal	Surprise Lake	1998.06.11	Chrétien	1999.08.16
Lorna Marsden	Liberal	Toronto-Taddle Creek	1984.01.24	Trudeau	1992.08.31
Duncan Marshall	Liberal	Peel	1938.01.20	King	1946.01.16
Paul Joseph James Martin	Liberal	Windsor-Walkerville	1968.04.20	Trudeau	1974.10.30
James Mason	Conservative	Toronto	1913.05.26	Borden	1918.07.16
Roderick Matheson	Conservative	Ontario	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1873.01.13
Alexander McCall	Conservative	Simcoe	1913.05.26	Borden	1925.06.10
Lachlan McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	Monck	1887.02.04	Macdonald	1903.01.13
Archibald McCoig	Liberal	Kent	1922.01.04	King	1927.11.21
Walter McCrea	Liberal	Ontario	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1871.01.05
Malcolm McCutcheon	Progressive Conservative	Gormley	1962.08.09	Diefenbaker	1968.05.13
Donald McDonald	Liberal	Ontario	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1879.01.20
William Henry McGuire	Liberal	East York	1926.12.20	King	1957.10.31
George McHugh	Liberal	Victoria	1901.01.21	Laurier	1926.11.28
George McIlraith	Liberal	Ottawa Valley	1972.04.27	Trudeau	1983.07.29 (Retirement)
George McKindsey	Conservative	Milton	1884.01.11	Macdonald	1901.02.12
Peter McLaren	Conservative	Perth	1890.02.21	Macdonald	1919.05.23
William McMaster	Liberal	Midland	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1887.09.22
Donald McMillan	Conservative	Alexandria	1884.01.11	Macdonald	1914.07.26
James McMullen	Liberal	North Wellington	1902.02.11	Laurier	1913.03.18
Arthur Meighen	Conservative	St. Mary's	March 3, 1932	Bennett	January 16, 1942
Samuel Merner	Conservative	Hamburg	January 12, 1887	Macdonald	August 11, 1908
David Mills	Liberal	Bothwell	November 13, 1896	Laurier	February 7, 1902
Samuel Mills	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	January 24, 1874
John Milne	Conservative	Hamilton	December 3, 1915	Borden	March 4, 1922
Oliver Mowat	Liberal	Ontario	1896.07.15	Laurier	1897.11.18
Robert Alexander Mulholland	Conservative	Port Hope	1918.03.12	Borden	1927.10.01
James Murdock	Liberal	Parkdale	1930.03.20	King	1949.05.15
Charles T. Murphy	Liberal	Russell	1925.09.05	King	1935.11.24
Joan Bissett Neiman	Liberal	Peel	1972.09.01	Trudeau	1995.09.09 (Retirement)
Frederic Nicholls	Conservative	Toronto	1917.01.20	Borden	1921.10.25
Joseph Northwood	Liberal-Conservative	Lambton	1880.05.19	Macdonald	1886.10.29
Michael John O'Brien	Liberal	Renfrew	1918.09.01	Borden	1925.09.01
Frank O'Connor	Liberal	Scarborough Junction	1935.12.06	King	1939.08.21
John O'Donohoe	Liberal-Conservative	Erie	1882.05.21	Macdonald	1902.12.07
Grattan O'Leary	Progressive Conservative	Carleton	1962.09.24	Diefenbaker	1976.04.07
Frederick Pardee	Liberal	Lambton	1922.03.11	King	1927.02.04
Norman Paterson	Liberal	Milton	1940.02.09	King	1981.06.18
Ebenezer Perry	Conservative	Ontario	1871.02.02	Macdonald	1876.05.01
Josiah Plumb	Conservative	Ontario	1883.02.08	Macdonald	1888.03.12
Roderick Pringle	Conservative	Cobourg	1917.01.08	Borden	1920.05.02
William Proudfoot	Liberal	Huron	1919.11.06	Borden	1922.12.03
James Palmer Rankin	Liberal	Perth North	1925.09.09	King	1934.06.15
Valentine Ratz	Liberal	Parkhill	1909.01.18	Laurier	1924.03.01
Robert Read	Conservative	Quinté	1871.02.24	Macdonald	1896.06.29
David Reesor	Liberal	King's	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1901.01.01
John Dowsley Reid	Conservative	Grenville	1921.09.22	Meighen	1929.08.26
Henry Westman Richardson	Conservative	Kingston	1917.01.20	Borden	1918.10.27
Gideon Robertson	Conservative	Welland	1917.01.20	Borden	1933.08.05
John Alexander Robertson	Progressive Conservative	Kenora-Rainy River	1962.11.29	Diefenbaker	1965.02.19
Arthur Roebuck	Liberal	Toronto-Trinity	1945.04.18	King	1971.11.17
George William Ross	Liberal	Middlesex	1907.01.15	Laurier	1914.03.07
John Ross	Conservative	Ontario	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1871.01.31
William Eli Sanford	Conservative	Hamilton	1887.02.08	Macdonald	1899.07.10
Richard William Scott	Liberal	Ottawa	1874.03.13	Mackenzie	1913.04.23
Benjamin Seymour	Conservative	Newcastle	1867.10.23	Royal Proclamation	1880.03.23
James Shaw	Conservative	Ontario	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	February 6, 1878
John Simpson	Liberal	Bowmanville	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	March 23, 1885
Ian David Sinclair	Liberal	Halton	December 23, 1983	Trudeau	September 27, 1988 (Retirement)
James Skead	Conservative	Rideau	October 23, 1867 December 23, 1881	Royal Proclamation Macdonald	January 20, 1881 July 5, 1884
Ernest D'Israeli Smith	Conservative	Wentworth	1913.05.26	Borden	1946.01.10
Frank Smith	Conservative	Toronto	1871.02.02	Macdonald	1900.01.01
James Houston Spence	Liberal	North Bruce	1928.01.10	King	1939.02.21
Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	Grey	1915.12.03	Borden	1917.11.10
Richard Stanbury	Liberal	York Centre	1968.02.13	Pearson	1998.05.02
Joseph Albert Sullivan	Progressive Conservative	North York	1957.10.12	Diefenbaker	1985.02.18
Michael Sullivan	Conservative	Kingston	1885.01.29	Macdonald	1912.11.29
Donald M. Sutherland	Conservative	Oxford	1935.07.20	Bennett	1949.01.01
George Taylor	Conservative	Leeds	November 14, 1911	Borden	March 26, 1919
William Horace Taylor	Liberal	Norfolk	April 18, 1945	King	June 1, 1966
Andy Thompson	Liberal	Dovercourt	April 6, 1967	Pearson	March 23, 1998
James Tunney	Liberal	Grafton	March 8, 2001	Chrétien	June 16, 2002
Charles Robert Turner	Liberal	London	1984.07.09	Turner	1991.03.24
James Turner	Liberal-Conservative	Ontario	1884.01.11	Macdonald	1889.10.10
Alexander Vidal	Conservative	Sarnia	1873.01.15	Macdonald	1906.11.18
David James Walker	Progressive Conservative	Toronto	1963.02.04	Diefenbaker	1989.09.30
John Webster	Conservative	Brockville	1918.03.12	Borden	1928.12.01
Eugene Whelan	Liberal	South Western Ontario	1996.08.09	Chrétien	1999.07.11
George Stanley White	Progressive Conservative	Hastings-Frontenac	1957.09.20	Diefenbaker	1972.11.17
Gerald Verner White	Conservative	Pembroke	1919.11.06	Borden	1948.10.24
Harry Albert Willis	Progressive Conservative	Peel	1962.06.15	Diefenbaker	1972.03.23
Cairine Wilson	Liberal	Rockcliffe	1930.02.15	King	1962.03.03
John Henry Wilson	Liberal	St. Thomas	1904.03.08	Laurier	1912.07.03
Lois Miriam Wilson	Independent	Toronto	1998.06.11	Chrétien	2002.04.08
Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	Hamilton	1901.01.21	Laurier	1903.01.21
Allan Woodrow	Liberal	Toronto Centre	May 19, 1953	St. Laurent	March 3, 1966

Notes:

¹ Senators are appointed to represent Ontario. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within Ontario as his or her division.

² Senators are appointed by the Governor-General of Canada in The Queen's name on the recommendation of the prime minister; the initial 24 senators were named by a Royal Proclamation at the time of confederation.

[edit] See also

List of Canadian senators

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