The Archive · 1935

Canadian Conservative Cabinet Resigns

Ottawa, Oct. 23.

Mr. W, L. Mackenzie King, leader of the Liberal Party, to-day became Prime Minister of Canada, succeeding Mr. Richard B. Bennett, Conservative, whose Cabinet resigned to-day. The Liberals now control an overwhelm-sug majority of seats in the Dominion House of Commons, having captured 175 out of 245 seals in last week's election—United Press.

The composition of the new Cabinet, according to Havas, is as follows:—

Prime Minister and Minister for External Aflairs—-ar, MacKensie King Interior, Mines and Colonization and "Temigration.—Mr. Thomas Crepar.

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