- Source: John Sandfield Macdonald ministry
The first Cabinet for Ontario, Canada consisted of Premier John Sandfield Macdonald and four other Cabinet ministers. It was known as the "Patent Combination."
It was a coalition government; John Carling and Matthew Crooks Cameron represented the Conservative Party; Edmund Burke Wood represented the coalition Grits; Sandfield Macdonald and Stephen Richards represented old school "Baldwinite" Reformers.
Note that Sandfield Macdonald, Wood, and Carling also sat as MPs in federal parliament; Cameron ran for a federal seat and lost. This was a cabinet built to defer to Ottawa in any disputes in jurisdiction between the federal and provincial level of government in the new Confederation. Richards, meanwhile, didn't even run in the general provincial election, and only joined Cabinet after winning a by election late in 1867.
This ministry would survive the first parliament by several months, finally resigning 20 December 1871.
(Note: Richards and Cameron switched portfolios July 25, 1871, with about five months remaining for the ministry.)
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- John Sandfield Macdonald ministry
- John Sandfield Macdonald
- Macdonald ministry
- John A. Macdonald
- 1st Parliament of Ontario
- Blake ministry
- Great Coalition
- Macdonald Block Complex
- Ministry of the Solicitor General (Ontario)
- Attorney General of Ontario
