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Twenty-Third
23
Term
(yyyy.mm.dd)
:
1957.10.14 - 1958.02.01
Duration:
110 days (3 months, 18 days)
Government Type:
Minority Government
Government Party:
Progressive Conservative Party
Number of Sessions:
1
Date of General Election:
1957.06.10
Prime Minister:
Diefenbaker, John George
(1957.06.21 - 1963.04.21)
Leader of the Official Opposition:
Pearson, Lester Bowles
(1958.01.16 - 1963.04.21)
St-Laurent, Louis Stephen
(1957.06.21 - 1958.01.15)
Sessions
Session
Term
(yyyy.mm.dd)
Duration
Senate Sittings
House of Commons Sittings
1st
1957.10.14 - 1958.02.01
110 days
45
78
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Duration of Sittings, Recess and Adjournments of the House of Commons
1st Session
Sitting, recess and adjournment
Term
(yyyy.mm.dd)
Duration (days)
Dissolution
1958.02.01 - 1958.02.01
Sitting
1958.01.03 - 1958.02.01
Christmas Recess
1957.12.22 - 1958.01.02
12
Start of Session
1957.10.14 - 1957.12.21
Days between Parliaments
1957.04.13 - 1957.10.13
184
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