There was an attempt to create a national Canadian Labour Party in the late 1910s and in the 1920s, but these were only partly successful.
An Edmonton-based Independent Labour Party ran candidates in the 1921 Alberta general election.
It was independent in the sense that it was separate from the Edmonton Labour Council, which was dominated by international craft unions.
A single Labour MLA, Archibald Terris was elected in 1928 representing Cumberland County; he did not run for re-election in 1933.
The Nova Scotia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation began running candidates with the 1933 general election and became the New Democratic Party in 1961.
In 1982 the Cape Breton Labour Party was formed by MLA Paul MacEwan after he was expelled from the NDP.
He agreed to resign shortly after his re-election to allow former Labour MLA Peter Heenan to seek the Kenora seat in a by-election so that he could be appointed to the provincial cabinet by the newly elected Liberal government of Mitchell Hepburn.
Hutchinson accepted an appointment by Hepburn to the post of vice-chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board shortly after leaving politics.
The Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was formed in 1932 with the support of a number of Independent Labour Party clubs and won its first seat in the 1934 provincial election, Samuel Lawrence in Hamilton East.
[2] As well, Alberta Labour candidates, under the labels of the Dominion Labor Party and Canadian Labor Party, ran with some success at the civic level in Edmonton, Calgary, Medicine Hat, and Lethbridge and coal-mining towns, such as Drumheller and Blairmore (which even elected a Communist Party-dominated town council in the 1930s).
A Canadian Labour Party was formed, and endorsed several candidates in the 1917 federal election.
Witton may have added "Labour" to the Conservative Party name because Hamilton is a largely industrial city.
The first workingman ever to sit in parliament in Canada, Witton was elected largely on the strength of the Hamilton labour movement.
Agnes Macphail, who was first elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive, was re-elected in 1935 as a UFO-Labour candidate before being defeated in 1940.
She was a supporter of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, but ran as UFO-Labour because the UFO, of which she was a member, had disaffiliated from the CCF in 1934 after a brief association.
A small number of candidates ran under the "Farmer-Labour" banner in federal elections of the 1930s and 1940s, although there was no organized party.
[6] Farmer-Labour co-operation would be enshrined as a guiding principle of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, founded in 1932, and of its successor, the NDP.
The United Farmers and the Independent Labour Party merged to form the Farmer-Labour Group in 1932.
In the 1934 provincial election, the Farmer-Labour Group won almost 24% of the popular vote and 5 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, where it became the official opposition to the Liberal government.