Grey North (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Grey North (provincial electoral district).

Grey North was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867, which divided the County of Grey into two ridings: Grey South and Grey North. The North Riding consisted of the Townships of Collingwood, Euphrasia, Holland, Saint-Vincent, Sydenham, Sullivan, Derby, and Keppel, Sarawak and Brooke, and the Town of Owen Sound.

Grey North

Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1966
First contested	1867
Last contested	1965

In 1872, the County of Grey was divided into three ridings when Grey East was created. The North Riding consisted of the Townships of Holland, Sullivan, Sydenham, Derby, Sarawak, Keppel and the Town of Owen Sound.

In 1903, the Townships of Holland and Sullivan were excluded from the riding, and the townships of Keppel and St. Vincent and the town of Meaford were incorporated into the riding.

In 1914, the county of Grey was again divided into two ridings. The north riding consisted of the towns of Owen Sound, Meaford and Thornbury, and the townships of Sydenham, Keppel, Derby, Sarawak, St. Vincent, Collingwood and Euphrasia.

In 1924, the riding was redefined as consisting of the part of the county of Grey lying north of and including the townships of Derby, Sydenham, Euphrasia, and the town of Collingwood.

In 1933, the riding was redefined as consisting of the part of the county of Grey contained in the townships of Collingwood, Derby, Euphrasia, Holland, Keppel, Osprey, St. Vincent and Sydenham, and including the city of Owen Sound.

In 1947, the riding was redefined to include the township of Sarawak and Sydenham, and excluding the village of Chatsworth.

The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Bruce and Grey—Simcoe ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
1st	1867–1872		George Snider	Liberal
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882		Samuel Johnathan Lane	Conservative
5th	1882–1887		Benjamin Allen	Liberal
6th	1887–1891		James Masson	Conservative
7th	1891–1896
8th	1896–1896†		John Clark	Liberal
	1896–1900		William Paterson
9th	1900–1902†		Edward Henry Horsey
	1903–1904		Thomas Inkerman Thomson	Conservative
10th	1904–1908		William Pattison Telford Sr.	Liberal
11th	1908–1911		William Sora Middlebro	Conservative
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921			Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Matthew Robert Duncan	Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930		William Pattison Telford Jr.	Liberal
17th	1930–1935		Victor Porteous	Conservative
18th	1935–1940		William Pattison Telford Jr.	Liberal
19th	1940–1944
	1945–1945		W. Garfield Case	Progressive Conservative
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953		Colin Emerson Bennett	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		Percy Verner Noble	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Bruce and Grey—Simcoe

Election results

1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George Snider	1,399
	Unknown	D'Arcy Boulton	1,143
Eligible voters			3,478
Source: Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1871

1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George Snider	1,124
	Unknown	J. Chisholm	983
Source: Canadian Elections Database

1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George Snider	1,320
	Unknown	Samuel Johnathan Lane	1,241

1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Benjamin Allen	1,457
	Unknown	Samuel Johnathan Lane	1,385

1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Clark	2,559
	Conservative	James McLaughlin	2,527

On Mr. Clark's death, 27 July 1896, before the opening of the 9th Parliament:

By-election on 25 August 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Paterson	2,840
	Conservative	James McLaughlan	2,416

1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edward Henry Horsey	2,834
	Conservative	Charles Gordon	2,815

On Mr. Horsey's death, 23 July 1902:

By-election on 24 February 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Thomas Inkerman Thomson	3,018
	Liberal	Matthew Kennedy	2,855

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	William Sora Middlebro	3,326
	Liberal	Frederick William Harrison	2,974

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Government (Unionist)	William Sora Middlebro	5,815
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Arthur Leslie Danard	3,521

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Matthew Robert Duncan	5,741
	Progressive	Thomas John Rutherford	5,538
	Liberal	William Pattison Telford Jr.	3,675

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Pattison Telford Jr.	8,060
	Conservative	Victor Porteous	6,740
	Reconstruction	William Lawrence Taylor	1,792
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Hudson Stout	1,221

On Mr. Telford's resignation, 9 December 1944, to provide a vacancy for A.G.L. McNaughton:

By-election on 5 February 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	W. Garfield Case	7,333
	Liberal	Andrew McNaughton	6,097
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Albert Earl Godfrey	3,118

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	W. Garfield Case	9,204
	Liberal	Findlay MacDonald	7,570
	Co-operative Commonwealth	David T. Waddell	1,145
	Social Credit	Ron Gostick	250

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Colin Emerson Bennett	8,368
	Progressive Conservative	W. Garfield Case	7,293
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Lorna Ellen Elliott	1,417
	Social Credit	Stanley Ross Patterson	342

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Verner Noble	12,240
	Liberal	Edward Carson Sargent	7,096
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Stanley James Hutchinson	1,265

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Verner Noble	12,240
	Liberal	George Arthur Marron	5,990
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Stanley James Hutchinson	1,265

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Verner Noble	9,890
	Liberal	Douglas Hay Bovell	6,078
	New Democratic	John Carter Stevenson	2,713
	Social Credit	William Thomas Walker	298

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Verner Noble	9,804
	Liberal	Arthur Pratt Harrison	6,819
	New Democratic	John Carter Stevenson	1,967
	Social Credit	David Almour Clarke	525

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Verner Noble	9,222
	Liberal	John Collins Finley	7,003
	New Democratic	John Carter Stevenson	2,510

See also

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

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament