Norman Alexander McLarty

The Hon. Norman Alexander McLarty


Member of the Canadian Parliament for Essex West
In office 1935–1945
Preceded by	Sidney Cecil Robinson
Succeeded by	Donald Ferguson Brown

Personal details
Born	(1889-02-18)February 18, 1889 St. Thomas, Ontario
Died	September 6, 1945(1945-09-06) (aged 56)
Political party	Liberal
Cabinet	Postmaster General (1939) Minister of Labour (1939–1941) Secretary of State of Canada (1941–1945)
Committees	Chair, Special Committee on Bill No 98 respecting unemployment insurance (1940–1942)

Norman Alexander McLarty, PC (February 18, 1889 – September 6, 1945) was a Canadian politician.

Born in St. Thomas, Ontario, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing the riding of Essex West in the 1935 federal election.

A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1940. He was the Postmaster General, Minister of Labour, and Secretary of State of Canada in the cabinet of Mackenzie King. He served as acting president of the National Liberal Federation in 1943.

References

Norman Alexander McLarty – Parliament of Canada biography

Postmasters general of Canada

¹The office of Postmaster General was abolished when the Post Office Department became a Crown Corporation known as the Canada Post Corporation on October 16, 1981.

Secretaries of state for Canada

¹The department was eliminated in 1993 when the government was reorganized. The position of Secretary of State for Canada was not legally eliminated until 1996 when its remaining responsibilities were assigned to other cabinet positions and departments, particularly the newly created position of Minister of Canadian Heritage.

Ministers of labour of Canada
Labour (1900–96)	Mulock Aylesworth Lemieux¹ W. L. M. King Crothers Robertson Murdock J. H. King (acting) Elliott Manion (acting) Jones Heenan Robertson Gordon Rogers Mitchell Martin (acting) Gregg Starr MacEachen Nicholson Pépin Mackasey O'Connell Munro Ouellet (acting) O'Connell Alexander Regan Caccia Ouellet McKnight Cadieux Corbeil Danis Valcourt Axworthy Robillard
Human resources development (1996–2005)²	Young Pettigrew Stewart Frulla Dryden
Human resources and skills development (2005–13)	Stronach Finley Solberg Finley
Employment and social development (2013–15)	Kenney Poilievre
Families, children and social development (2015–present)	Duclos
Labour (1996–2015)	Robillard Gagliano MacAulay Bradshaw Fontana³ Blackburn Ambrose Raitt Leitch
Employment, workforce and labour (2015–2019)	Mihychuk Hajdu
Labour (2019–present)	Tassi O'Regan MacKinnon
¹Until 1909, the office of the minister of labour was a secondary function of the postmaster-general of Canada. W. L. M. King was the first to hold the office independently. ²The office of Minister of Employment and Immigration, and Minister of Labour were abolished and the office of Minister of Human Resources Development went in force on July 12, 1996. Under the new provisions, a minister of labour may be appointed. However, when no minister of labour is appointed, the minister of human resources development shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the minister of labour. ³Styled "Minister of Labour and Housing".