William Lyon Mackenzie King 23 October 1935 – 15 November 1948
Louis St. Laurent 15 November 1948 – 21 June 1957
Cabinets
16th Canadian Ministry 17th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition
John Bracken 11 June 1945 – 20 July 1948
George A. Drew 2 October 1948 – 1 November 1954
Party caucuses
Government
Liberal Party
Opposition
Progressive Conservative Party
Crossbench
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Social Credit Party
Bloc populaire
Labor-Progressive Party
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons
Gaspard Fauteux 6 September 1945 – 14 September 1949
Government House Leader
Ian Alistair Mackenzie 14 October 1944 – 30 April 1948
Alphonse Fournier 1 May 1948 – 9 May 1953
Members
245 MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate
James Horace King 24 August 1945 – 2 August 1949
Government Senate Leader
Wishart McLea Robertson 24 August 1945 – 14 October 1953
Opposition Senate Leader
Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne 16 January 1942 – 11 September 1945
John Thomas Haig 12 September 1945 – 20 June 1957
Sovereign
Monarch
George VI 11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952
Governor General
Alexander Cambridge 21 June 1940 – 12 April 1946
Harold Alexander 12 April 1946 – 28 January 1952
Sessions
1st session 6 September 1945 – 18 December 1945
2nd session 14 March 1946 – 31 August 1946
3rd session 30 January 1947 – 17 July 1947
4th session 5 December 1947 – 30 June 1948
5th session 29 January 1949 – 30 April 1949
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William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister during the first three years of the 20th Canadian Parliament.Louis St. Laurent was Prime Minister during the final year of the 20th Canadian Parliament.
The 20th Canadian Parliament was in session from 6 September 1945, until 30 April 1949. The membership was set by the 1945 federal election on 11 June 1945, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1949 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party minority first under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry, and later a majority under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and the 17th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the newly named Progressive Conservative Party, led first by John Bracken and later by George Drew.
The Speaker was Gaspard Fauteux. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
In this parliament, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, led by M. J. Coldwell, overtook the Social Credit as third largest party.
There were five sessions of the 20th Parliament.
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