Former Deputy Speakers of the House of Commons

The Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole and the other Presiding Officers are now vested with all the legal powers of the Speaker when he or she is absent from the House as set out in the Parliament of Canada Act and in the Standing Orders of the House.

The primary roles of the Deputy Speaker and the other Presiding Officers are to support the Speaker in the Chamber in presiding over the business of the House, to take the Chair when the House sits as a Committee of the Whole and, on occasion, to chair legislative committees. In addition, the Deputy Speaker has certain administrative responsibilities. The Deputy Speaker usually serves on the Board of Internal Economy and is a member of the Executive Committee. When the House forms itself into a Committee of the Whole, it is the duty of the Chairman of Committees of the Whole to take the Chair.

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Dates of Office	Deputy Speaker	Political Affiliation
1885.02.10 - 1887.01.15	DALY, Malachy Bowes	Liberal-Conservative
1887.05.11 - 1889.11.27	COLBY, Charles Carroll	Liberal-Conservative
1890.01.21 - 1891.05.21	WOOD, John Fisher	Liberal-Conservative
1891.05.22 - 1896.04.24	BERGERON, Joseph Gédéon Horace	Conservative
1896.08.27 - 1900.10.09	BRODEUR, Louis Philippe	Liberal
1901.02.11 - 1904.09.29	MACDONALD, Peter	Liberal
1905.01.16 - 1908.09.17	MARCIL, Charles	Liberal
1909.01.25 - 1911.07.29	MCINTYRE, Gilbert Howard	Liberal
1911.11.29 - 1914.10.19	BLONDIN, Pierre Édouard	Conservative
1915.02.09 - 1916.01.11	SÉVIGNY, Albert	Conservative
1916.02.03 - 1917.01.17	RHODES, Edgar Nelson	Union Government
1917.02.01 - 1917.10.06	RAINVILLE, Joseph Hormisdas	Conservative
1918.03.21 - 1921.10.04	BOIVIN, Georges Henri	Liberal
1922.03.24 - 1925.09.05	GORDON, George Newcombe	Liberal
1926.03.16 - 1926.07.02	DUFF, William	Liberal
1926.12.14 - 1930.05.30	JOHNSTON, John Frederick	Liberal
1930.09.09 - 1935.03.05	LAVERGNE, Armand Renaud	Conservative
1935.03.11 - 1935.08.14	MORAND, Raymond Ducharme	Conservative
1936.02.13 - 1940.01.25	SANDERSON, Frederick George	Liberal
1940.05.21 - 1942.10.04	VIEN, Thomas	Liberal
1943.02.25 - 1945.04.16	BRADETTE, Joseph-Arthur	Liberal
1945.09.27 - 1949.04.30	MACDONALD, William Ross	Liberal
1949.09.15 - 1952.04.08	DION, Joseph-Alfred	Liberal
1952.04.09 - 1953.06.13	BEAUDOIN, Louis-René	Liberal
1953.11.12 - 1957.04.12	ROBINSON, William Alfred	Liberal
1957.10.14 - 1958.02.01	COURTEMANCHE, Henri	Progressive Conservative
1958.05.12 - 1959.08.19	SÉVIGNY, Joseph Pierre Albert	Progressive Conservative
1960.01.14 - 1961.12.27	FLYNN, Jacques	Progressive Conservative
1962.01.18 - 1962.04.19	MARTINEAU, Paul Raymond	Progressive Conservative
1962.09.27 - 1963.02.06	CHOWN, Gordon Campbell	Progressive Conservative
1963.05.16 - 1965.09.08	LAMOUREUX, Lucien	Liberal
1966.01.18 - 1968.04.23	BATTEN, Herman Maxwell	Liberal
1968.09.12 - 1970.09.30	FAULKNER, James Hugh	Liberal
1970.10.05 - 1972.09.01	HONEY, Russell Clayton	Liberal
1973.01.04 - 1974.05.09	MCCLEAVE, Robert Jardine	Progressive Conservative
1974.09.30 - 1979.12.14	LANIEL, Gérald	Liberal
1980.04.14 - 1984.01.15	FRANCIS, Cyril Lloyd	Liberal
1984.01.16 - 1984.07.09	CORBIN, Eymard Georges	Liberal
1984.11.05 - 1990.02.22	DANIS, Marcel	Progressive Conservative
15 Jan 1990 - 8 Sep 1993	Mr. Andrée Champagne	Progressive Conservative
18 Jan 1994 - 27 Apr 1997	Mr. David Kilgour	Liberal
23 Sep 1997 - 22 Oct 2000	Mr. Peter Milliken	Liberal
30 Jan 2001 - 4 Oct 2004	Mr. Bob Kilger	Liberal
5 Oct 2004 - 5 Feb 2006	Mr. Chuck Strahl	Conservative
5 Apr 2006 -	The Honourable Bill Blaikie	New Democratic

SOURCE: Parliament of Canada.