From 1935 to 1940, Canada went through a monumental change. The Great Depression gradually ended, and in its place the deadliest war in world history would begin. By the time the 1940 election came along, the political landscape of Canada had...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at The Conservatives and Prime Minister R.B. Bennett had come into power in 1930 on the promise of fixing the problems created by The Great Depression. Five years later, not only did things seem...
After the chaos of the 1925 and 1926 elections, coupled with the King-Byng Affair, it probably seemed like things would get better for William Lyon Mackenzie King but what he did not count on was the monumental event of The Great Depression. By the...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at For the past 58 years, Canada generally had several years between elections. The shortest time period was between 1872 and 1874 but then 1925 and 1926 came along. Why did these elections come...
Four years after Canada was nearly torn apart over the 1917 election and the Conscription Crisis, the next election would roll around the bend. For the first time since 1887, the Liberals were not represented by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who had died in...
It could be said that no election was built on an issue that divided Canada more than the election of 1917. Canada had changed immensely since 1911. The country had been at war for three years, with hundreds of thousands of Canadian men going...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Since 1896, there had been no change in government in Canada. For 15 years, the Liberals led the country as it entered the 20th century and its cultural framework changed thanks to the immense...
When 1891 came along, the country was soon plunged into a new election campaign and this one would be notable for many reasons. The first was that it would be the last election campaign for Sir John A. Macdonald, who would die only three months...
Sir John A. Macdonald and his Conservatives would once again go up against Edward Blake and the Liberals five years after the 1882 election. As with the 1882 election, there was little in the way of a lively competition between the two parties. The...
The elections of the 1870s had plenty going for them. Huge scandals that brought down a government, people announcing their votes rather than using a secret ballot and plenty of shady dealings. In contrast, the election of 1882 was quite benign, and...