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Parkdale (provincial electoral district)
Parkdale was a provincial electoral district electing Members of Provincial Parliament to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The provincial district was created in 1914 and abolished in 1997 and redistributed into the Parkdale—High Park, Davenport and Trinity—Spadina districts for the 1999...

.

Parkdale was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

federal electoral district

Electoral district

An electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...

represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

from 1917 to 1979. It included the community of Parkdale

Parkdale

- Communities :Australia* Parkdale, VictoriaCanada* Parkdale No. 498, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality in Saskatchewan* Parkdale, Toronto, a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto* Parkdale, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in Lunenburg County...

in the western part of Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

. It was created in 1914 from Toronto West

Toronto West

Toronto West was a federal electoral district in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1925...

, and continued to exist until 1976 when most of it was merged into Parkdale—High Park

Parkdale—High Park

Parkdale—High Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.Peggy Nash of the New Democratic Party was elected the Member of Parliament for the riding on May 2, 2011....

with some sections into Trinity

Trinity (electoral district)

Trinity was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons 1935 to 1988. It covered a portion of the western Toronto. Its name comes from the Trinity-Bellwoods area that was once home to Trinity College....

Boundary history

It initially consisted of the part of the city of Toronto west of a line beginning where Queen Street West meets Lake Ontario, east along Queen Street West to Dovercourt Road, north the Canadian Pacific Railway, west to the boundary of Ward 7, then along the boundary of Ward 7 to the northwest corner of High Park.

In 1924, it was redefined to consist of the part of the city of Toronto east of Atlantic Avenue and Dovercourt Road, and south of Bloor Street, and west of Indian Road and following Indian Road, Howard Park Avenue, and Sunnyside Avenue.

In 1933, it was redefined to consist of the part of the city of Toronto east of the westerly limit of Davenport Riding from Lake Ontario to the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway; thence westerly along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the boundary between ward six and ward seven of the city of Toronto; thence southerly along the boundary between ward six and ward seven to the point where it intersects Bloor Street; thence westerly along the centre line of Bloor Street to the centre line of Indian Road; thence southerly along the centre line of Indian Road to the centre line of Howard Park Avenue; thence easterly along the centre line of Howard Park Avenue to its intersection with the centre line of Sunnyside Avenue; thence southerly along the centre line of Sunnyside Avenue to Lake Ontario; thence easterly along Lake Ontario to Dufferin Street.

It was further redefined several times.

In 1966, it was defined to consist of the part of Toronto west of Atlantic Avenue and Dovercourt Road, south of Bloor Street, and east of Parkside Drive.

The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was merged with parts of the High Park-Humber Valley and Trinity

Trinity (electoral district)

districts to form Parkdale—High Park.

Members of Parliament from Parkdale

Herbert Mowat
Herbert Mowat
Herbert Macdonald Mowat was a lawyer, jurist, and Canadian parliamentarian.A nephew of longtime Ontario premier Mowat, Herbert Mowat was elected president of the Toronto Reform Association in 1901 and then became president of the General Reform Association of Ontario Herbert Macdonald Mowat...

, Unionist
Unionist Party (Canada)
The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament in Canada who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War....

(1917–1921)
David Spence
David Spence (Canadian politician)
David Spence was a Canadian politician.Spence was born in County Armagh, Ireland and was educated at a state school before immigrating to North America in 1896. After spending a year in Pittsburgh he moved to Toronto where he established a wholesale fruit and commission business...

, Conservative Party (1921–1940)
Herbert A. Bruce, National Government then Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

(1940–1946)
Harold A. W. Timmins, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

(1946–1949)
John Hunter
John Hunter (Canadian politician)
John William Gordon Hunter was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.Hunter studied at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School to become a barrister and lawyer....

, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

(1949–1957)
Arthur Maloney
Arthur Maloney
Arthur Edward Martin Maloney QC was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons and first Ontario Ombudsman from 1975 to 1979....

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

(1957–1962)
Stanley Haidasz
Stanley Haidasz
Stanley Haidasz, PC, MD was a Canadian politician.Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów...

, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

(1962–1978)
Yuri Shymko
Yuri Shymko
Yuri Shymko is a former politician, human rights advocate, social activist, and community leader in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1978 to 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987...

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

(1978–1979)

Federal electoral history

Laurier Liberals

Prior to the 1917 federal election in Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada split into two factions:* the Laurier Liberals, who opposed conscription of soldiers to support Canada's involvement in World War I and who were led by former Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier; and* the Liberal Unionists who...

|WALDRON, Gordon
|align="right"|3,698
|}
|-

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

|SPENCE, David
|align="right"|10,705

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

|DOUGLAS, William
|align="right"| 5,487

|Labour

Labour candidates and parties in Canada

There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s...

|SIMPSON, James

James Simpson (politician)

James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...

|align="right"| 2,723
|}
|-

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

|SPENCE, David
|align="right"|14,483

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|CHRISTIE, Kenneth A.
|align="right"|5,299
|}
|-

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

|SPENCE, David
|align="right"| 11,897

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|TIPPING, Bertram
|align="right"| 4,133
|}
|-

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

|SPENCE, David
|align="right"|11,713

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|GILLIES, Angus
|align="right"| 5,823
|}
|-

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

|SPENCE, David
|align="right"| 9,619

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|PRENTICE, John Leslie
|align="right"| 7,761

|Reconstruction

Reconstruction Party of Canada

The Reconstruction Party was a Canadian political party founded by Henry Herbert Stevens, a long-time Conservative Member of Parliament . Stevens served as Minister of Trade in the Arthur Meighen government of 1921, and as Minister of Trade and Commerce from 1930 to 1934 in the Depression-era...

|HURLBUT, Clinton A.
|align="right"| 3,572

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

|HENDERSON, Rose
|align="right"| 3,249
|}
|-

|National Government
|BRUCE, Herbert A.
|align="right"| 13,605

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|TRAVERS, Jack
|align="right"| 12,487
|}
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|BRUCE, Herbert A.
|align="right"|11,588

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|TRAVERS, Jack
|align="right"|9,981

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|BRAND, Ford
|align="right"| 4,188

|Labour-Progressive

Communist Party of Canada

The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. Although is it currently a minor or small political party without representation in the Federal Parliament or in provincial legislatures, historically the Party has elected representatives in Federal Parliament, Ontario...

|FERGUSON, Dewar
|align="right"|1,053
|}
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|TIMMINS, Harold
|align="right"| 8,212

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HUNTER, John
|align="right"| 7,569

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|BRAND, Ford
|align="right"| 6,470

|Unknown
|MORTON, Elizabeth
|align="right"| 966

|Unknown
|PALMER, Len
|align="right"| 64
|}
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HUNTER, John
|align="right"| 12,876

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|TIMMINS, Harold
|align="right"| 10,137

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|WATERS, Arthur
|align="right"| 6,242
|}
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HUNTER, John
|align="right"|10,391

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|MCBRIEN, Irene
|align="right"| 6,788

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|CHISHOLM, Archie A.
|align="right"| 3,788

|Labour-Progressive

Communist Party of Canada

|BOYCHUK, John
|align="right"|765
|}
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|MALONEY, Arthur
|align="right"| 9,882

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HUNTER, John
|align="right"| 7,671

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|CHISHOLM, Archie A.
|align="right"| 3,979

|Ind. Progressive Conservative
|BOLAND, John
|align="right"| 342
|}
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|MALONEY, Arthur
|align="right"| 13,640

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HUNTER, John
|align="right"| 8,599

|Co-operative Commonwealth

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

|CHISHOLM, Archie A.
|align="right"| 3,492

|Labour-Progressive

Communist Party of Canada

|CLARKE, Nelson
|align="right"| 344
|}
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HAIDASZ, Stanley

Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz, PC, MD was a Canadian politician.Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów...

|align="right"| 10,780

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|MALONEY, Arthur
|align="right"| 8,946

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

|CAMPBELL, Tom
|align="right"| 5,759

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|MIDDLETON, M. Watson
|align="right"| 224
|}
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HAIDASZ, Stanley

Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz, PC, MD was a Canadian politician.Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów...

|align="right"| 12,694

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|DYMOND, William C.
|align="right"|6,308

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|CAMPBELL, Tom
|align="right"| 5,538

|Social Credit

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

|SLOAN, Olive E. Calvert
|align="right"| 259
|}
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HAIDASZ, Stanley

Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz, PC, MD was a Canadian politician.Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów...

|align="right"| 11,974

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|COCHRANE, Felicity
|align="right"| 6,104

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|DYE, Ralph
|align="right"| 5,194
|}
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|HAIDASZ, Stanley

Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz, PC, MD was a Canadian politician.Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów...

|align="right"|14,717

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|ROGERS, Bruce

Bruce Rogers (broadcaster)

Bruce Rogers is a Canadian broadcast journalist, author and politician. Rogers is best known for his work as a television host on TVOntario and as a radio broadcaster on CBC Radio and CFRB in Toronto....

|align="right"| 8,983

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|ARMSTRONG, Kay
|align="right"|5,057
|}
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz, PC, MD was a Canadian politician.Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów...

|align="right"| 12,214

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Lubor J. Zink

Lubor J. Zink

Lubor J. Zink was a Czech-Canadian writer and columnist known for his anti-Communism.Zink was born in Klapý, Czechoslovakia. He was a student at Prague University in March 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded and occupied the country. A member of the Czech underground movement, Zink fled to Britain and...

|align="right"| 8,990

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|GURSTEIN, Mike
|align="right"| 6,478

|No affiliation
|DEVEAU, Dennis
|align="right"| 201
|}
|-

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz, PC, MD was a Canadian politician.Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów...

|align="right"| 13,134

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Lubor J. Zink

Lubor J. Zink

|align="right"| 7,133

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

Terence Young (politician)

Terence Young is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was elected for the riding of Oakville in the 2008 federal election, as a Conservative candidate. Previously, Young was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario between 1995 and 1999.-Early years:Young was the...

|align="right"| 144

|Communist

Communist Party of Canada

|MCLELLAN, Neil
|align="right"| 132

|Marxist-Leninist

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)

The Communist Party of Canada is a Canadian federal Marxist–Leninist political party.The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada...

|MACLEAN, Gordon
|align="right"| 95
|}
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

|Yuri Shymko

Yuri Shymko

Yuri Shymko is a former politician, human rights advocate, social activist, and community leader in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1978 to 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987...

|align="right"| 6,759

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|Art Eggleton

Art Eggleton

Arthur "Art" C. Eggleton, PC is a former Canadian Cabinet minister and Mayor of Toronto, and is currently a Senator representing Ontario.-City council:...

|align="right"| 5,721

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|LITTLE, Doug
|align="right"| 4,806

|Communist

Communist Party of Canada

|LARSEN, Anna
|align="right"| 190
|}

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