The following is a list of members of the Canadian Parliament who died while they were serving their terms from Confederation in 1867 until 1899
Senate Member Party Date of death Age at death (years) Cause Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair Liberal Ontario December 29, 1867 52 Benjamin Wier Liberal Nova Scotia April 14, 1868 62 George Crawford Conservative Ontario July 4, 1870 66-67 John Hawkins Anderson Liberal Nova Scotia December 24, 1870 64-65 John Ross Conservative Ontario January 31, 1871 52 Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay Conservative Quebec May 12, 1871 61 Caleb Rand Bill Conservative Nova Scotia February 1, 1872 66 Roderick Matheson Conservative Ontario January 13, 1873 79-80 Stroke Asa Allworth Burnham Conservative Ontario May 10, 1873 65 James Leslie Conservative Quebec December 6, 1873 87 William Steeves Liberal New Brunswick December 9, 1873 59 Oliver Blake Liberal Ontario December 10, 1873 71 John Locke Liberal Nova Scotia December 12, 1873 48 Samuel Sylvester Mills Conservative Ontario January 14, 1874 67 Ezra Churchill Conservative Nova Scotia May 8, 1874 67 Robert Leonard Hazen Conservative New Brunswick August 15, 1874 65 Charles-Christophe Malhiot Liberal Quebec November 9, 1874 66 Ebenezer Perry Conservative Ontario May 1, 1876 83 John Holmes Conservative Nova Scotia June 3, 1876 87 John Robertson Liberal New Brunswick August 3, 1876 76-77 Charles Wilson Conservative Quebec May 4, 1877 69 James Shaw Conservative Ontario February 6, 1878 79-80 Louis Lacoste Conservative Quebec November 26, 1878 80 Donald McDonald Liberal Ontario January 20, 1879 79-80 Jeremiah Northup Liberal Nova Scotia April 10, 1879 62-63 Robert William Weir Carrall Conservative British Columbia September 19, 1879 42 Benjamin Seymour Conservative Ontario March 23, 1880 73-74 George Brown Liberal Ontario May 9, 1880 61 Assassination - shot. David Christie Liberal Ontario December 14, 1880 62 Complications from gangrene Harcourt Burland Bull Conservative Ontario August 12, 1881 57 William Henry Brouse Reformer Ontario August 23, 1881 57 Edward Goff Penny Liberal Quebec October 11, 1881 61 Adam Hope Liberal Ontario August 7, 1882 69 Léandre Dumouchel Conservative Quebec September 24, 1882 71 John Hamilton Conservative Ontario October 10, 1882 79-80 Jacques-Olivier Bureau Liberal Quebec February 7, 1883 63 Thomas Nicholson Gibbs Conservative Ontario April 27, 1883 62 David Edward Price Conservative Quebec August 22, 1883 57 John Bourinot Conservative Nova Scotia January 19, 1884 69 Stroke James Skead Conservative Ontario July 5, 1884 66 Complications from a lung injury Christian Henry Pozer Nationalist Quebec July 18, 1884 48 William Muirhead Liberal New Brunswick December 29, 1884 65 James Rea Benson Conservative Ontario March 18, 1885 78 John Simpson Liberal Ontario March 21, 1885 72 Jean-Charles Chapais Conservative Quebec July 17, 1885 73 Joseph Northwood Conservative Ontario October 29, 1886 77 Charles Cormier Liberal Quebec May 7, 1887 73 William McMaster Liberal Ontario September 22, 1887 75 Louis Adélard Sénécal Conservative Quebec October 7, 1887 58 Josiah Burr Plumb Conservative Ontario March 12, 1888 71 Jean-Baptiste Rolland Conservative Quebec March 22, 1888 73 James Ferrier Conservative Quebec May 30, 1888 87 Pierre-Étienne Fortin Conservative Quebec June 15, 1888 64 John Ferguson Conservative New Brunswick August 21, 1888 74 James Gibb Ross Conservative Quebec October 1, 1888 69 Thomas Ryan Conservative Quebec May 25, 1889 84 James Turner Conservative Ontario October 10, 1889 63 Richard Charles Hardisty Conservative Northwest Territories October 15, 1889 58 thrown from buggy François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel Conservative Quebec January 17, 1890 51 Charles-Séraphin Rodier Conservative Quebec January 26, 1890 71 John Macdonald Independent Liberal Ontario February 4, 1890 65 Thomas Dickson Archibald Conservative Nova Scotia October 18, 1890 77 Robert Poore Haythorne Liberal Prince Edward Island May 7, 1891 75 Elijah Leonard Liberal Ontario May 14, 1891 76 William Hunter Odell Conservative New Brunswick July 25, 1891 79 Pierre Baillargeon Liberal Quebec December 15, 1891 79 Anselme Homère Pâquet Liberal Quebec December 22, 1891 61 Gardner Green Stevens Liberal Quebec April 15, 1892 77 Marc-Amable Girard Conservative Manitoba September 12, 1892 70 Robert Patterson Grant Liberal Nova Scotia November 13, 1892 78 Donald Montgomery Conservative Prince Edward Island July 31, 1893 85 John Abbott Conservative Quebec October 30, 1893 72 Brain cancer Amos Edwin Botsford Conservative New Brunswick March 19, 1894 89 Billa Flint Liberal Ontario June 15, 1894 89 John Glasier Liberal New Brunswick July 7, 1894 84 Cholera Joseph Tassé Conservative Quebec January 17, 1895 46 Kennedy Francis Burns Conservative New Brunswick June 23, 1895 53 Pneumonia Edward Murphy Conservative Quebec December 5, 1895 77 Henry Adolphus Newman Kaulback Conservative Nova Scotia January 8, 1896 65<ref Robert Read Conservative Ontario June 29, 1896 81 David Lewis Macpherson Conservative Ontario August 16, 1896 77 John Ferguson Conservative Ontario September 22, 1896 57 François Béchard Liberal Quebec April 13, 1897 66 Théodore Robitaille Conservative Quebec August 17, 1897 63 Joseph Octave Arsenault Conservative Prince Edward Island December 14, 1897 69 Pierre Antoine Deblois Conservative Quebec June 21, 1898 82 Alexander Macfarlane Conservative Nova Scotia December 14, 1898 80 Michael Adams Conservative New Brunswick January 2, 1899 53 Charles Arkoll Boulton Conservative Manitoba May 15, 1899 58 William Eli Sanford Conservative Ontario July 10, 1899 60 Drowning Joseph Hyacinthe Bellerose Conservative Quebec August 13, 1899 79 Thomas Temple Conservative New Brunswick August 25, 1899 80 Evan John Price Conservative Quebec August 31, 1899 59
House of Commons Member Party Date of death Age at death (years) Cause Thomas D'Arcy McGee Conservative Quebec April 7, 1868 42 Assassinated - shot Thomas Sutherland Parker Liberal Ontario October 24, 1868 39 Fall John Mercer Johnson Liberal New Brunswick November 8, 1868 50 Stomach illness Thomas Killam Anti-Confederate Nova Scotia December 15, 1868 66 William Joseph Croke Anti-Confederate Nova Scotia March 11, 1869 29 Thomas Kirkpatrick Conservative Ontario March 26, 1870 64 William Henry Chipman Liberal Nova Scotia April 10, 1870 62 Smallpox Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski Liberal Quebec August 4, 1870 53 Thomas McCarthy Conservative Quebec September 23, 1870 37-38 William Murray Caldwell Liberal New Brunswick September 29, 1870 38 John Sandfield Macdonald Liberal Ontario June 1, 1872 59 Robert MacFarlane Liberal Ontario June 1, 1872 37 John Bolton Liberal New Brunswick July 14, 1872 47 Francis Henry Burton Conservative Ontario July 18, 1872 54-55 Thomas Clark Street Conservative Ontario September 6, 1872 57-58 George-Étienne Cartier Conservative Manitoba May 20, 1873 58 Bright's Disease Charles Connell Liberal New Brunswick June 28, 1873 64 John Bower Lewis Conservative Ontario January 24, 1874 56 William Harvey Liberal Ontario June 14, 1874 53 Smallpox Robert Cunningham Liberal Manitoba July 4, 1874 38 Thomas Scatcherd Liberal Ontario April 15, 1876 52 Adam Gordon Liberal Ontario May 28, 1876 44 Malcolm Cameron Liberal Ontario June 1, 1876 68 John Hillyard Cameron Conservative Ontario November 14, 1876 59 Heart attack Michael Cayley Liberal Quebec December 2, 1878 36 Pierre-Alexis Tremblay Liberal Quebec January 4, 1879 51 Hugh McLeod Conservative Nova Scotia August 5, 1879 36 Daniel Galbraith Liberal Ontario December 17, 1879 66 Luther Hamilton Holton Liberal Quebec March 14, 1880 63 Edmund Leavens Chandler Liberal Quebec August 21, 1880 50 Thomas Oliver Liberal Ontario November 8, 1880 59 Joshua Spencer Thompson Conservative British Columbia December 20, 1880 51-52 Joseph Keeler Conservative Ontario January 21, 1881 56 George Heber Connell Independent New Brunswick February 15, 1881 45 William Carruthers Little Conservative Ontario December 31, 1881 61 Jacques-Philippe Lantier Conservative Quebec September 15, 1882 68 John Pickard Independent Liberal New Brunswick December 17, 1883 59 Frédéric Houde Nationalist Conservative Quebec November 15, 1884 37 Tuberculosis Isaac Burpee Liberal New BrunswickMarch 1, 1885 59 William Thomas Benson Conservative Ontario June 8, 1885 61 Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams Conservative Ontario July 4, 1885 48 Fever David Thompson Liberal Ontario April 18, 1886 49 Joshua Attwood Reynolds Homer Conservative British Columbia September 20, 1886 59 Robert Moffat Conservative New Brunswick April 25, 1887 43 John Campbell Conservative Nova Scotia May 25, 1887 37 Robert Campbell Liberal Ontario June 14, 1887 69 Simon-Xavier Cimon Conservative Quebec June 26, 1887 57 Apoplexy Henri-Jules Juchereau Duchesnay Nationalist Conservative Quebec July 6, 1887 42 Typhoid fever Jean-Baptiste Labelle Conservative Quebec August 3, 1887 51 Alexander Robertson Conservative Ontario February 29, 1888 49 George Clayes Liberal Quebec March 3, 1888 57 Thomas White Conservative Ontario April 21, 1888 57 Pneumonia Athanase Gaudet Nationalist Conservative Quebec April 29, 1888 39 Charles-Joseph Coursol Conservative Quebec August 4, 1888 68 John Henry Pope Conservative Quebec April 1, 1889 69 William Goodhue Perley Conservative Ontario April 1, 1890 69 Donald Chisholm Conservative British Columbia April 5, 1890 67-68 Adam Hudspeth Conservative Ontario May 5, 1890 53 Joseph Esdras Alfred de Saint-Georges Liberal Quebec June 19, 1890 40 Alexis Dessaint Liberal Quebec December 18, 1890 43 Train accidentLes avocats de la région de Québec (1936) Roy, PG p. 130 John A. Macdonald Conservative Ontario June 6, 1891 76 Stroke Jean-Baptiste Daoust Conservative Quebec December 28, 1891 74 Samuel Barton Burdett Liberal Ontario January 20, 1892 48 Alexander Mackenzie Liberal Ontario April 17, 1892 70 Stroke caused by a fall Édouard H. Léger Conservative New Brunswock August 8, 1892 26 James Armstrong Liberal Ontario January 26, 1893 62 David William Gordon Conservative British Columbia February 19, 1893 60 John Hearn Conservative Quebec May 17, 1894 67 Tuberculosis Félix Geoffrion Liberal Quebec August 7, 1894 61 John Sparrow David Thompson Conservative Nova Scotia December 12, 1894 49 Heart attack Frank Madill Conservative Ontario October 25, 1895 42 Henry Simard Liberal Quebec November 6, 1895 59 John Bryson Conservative Quebec January 20, 1896 46 Guillaume Amyot Nationalist Conservative Quebec March 30, 1896 53 Frederick Charles Denison Conservative Ontario April 15, 1896 49 Stomach cancer John Clark Liberal Ontario July 27, 1896 60-61 Typhoid fever, peritonitisWarrilow, B; Siegrist, B; Shouldice, W.B. Beautiful stoney Keppel : including the village of Shallow Lake, 1855-1986 (1986) p. 307 Darby Bergin Conservative Ontario October 22, 1896 70 William Le Boutillier Fauvel Liberal Quebec February 8, 1897 47 Charles-Eugène Pouliot Liberal Quebec June 24, 1897 40 Fabien Boisvert Independent Conservative Quebec November 12, 1897 58 Stanislaus Francis Perry Liberal Prince Edward Island February 24, 1898 74 Flavien Dupont Conservative Quebec March 12, 1898 51 Dalton McCarthy McCarthyite Ontario May 11, 1898 61 Carriage accident Pierre Malcom Guay Liberal Quebec February 19, 1899 50 Richard Willis Jameson Liberal Manitoba February 21, 1899 47 Accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound John Fisher Wood Conservative Ontario March 14, 1899 46 Heart failure William Bullock Ives Conservative Quebec July 15, 1899 57 Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion Liberal Quebec July 18, 1899 55 James David Edgar Liberal Ontario July 31, 1899 57
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