Liberal, Independent Liberal, Independent, and Independent Conservative) runs in the 1917 election as a Unionist. 1917: Honoré Achim crosses the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals over the conscription issue. Does not run for re-election. 1917: William Andrew Charlton leaves the Liberal Party of Canada to run successfully as a Liberal-Unionist in the 1917 election over conscription. 1917: John Gillanders Turriff, who sat as a Liberal since 1891, runs successfully as a Unionist in the 1917 election. 1917: Alphonse Verville, Labour MP since 1906, runs and is re-elected as a Laurier-Liberal in 1917. 1917: Levi Thomson, a Liberal MP since 1904, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1917: Frederick Forsyth Pardee, Liberal MP since 1905, re-elected as a Liberal-Unionist in 1917. 1917: Edward Walter Nesbitt, Liberal MP since 1908, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1917: Hugh Havelock McLean, Liberal MP since 1908, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1917: Thomas MacNutt, Liberal MP since 1908, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1917: Alexander Kenneth Maclean, Liberal MP since 1900, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1917: William Stewart Loggie, Liberal MP since 1904, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1917: Hugh Guthrie, Liberal MP since 1900, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1917: William Stevens Fielding, Liberal MP since 1896, re-elected as a Liberal-Unionist in 1917. 1917: James McCrie Douglas, Liberal since 1909, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1917: Michael Clark, Liberal since 1908, re-elected as a Liberal-Unionist in 1917. 1917: Frank Broadstreet Carvell, Liberal MP since 1900, joins Borden's Cabinet as Minister of Public Works in October 1917 and runs as a Liberal-Unionist in the subsequent election. 1917: William Ashbury Buchanan, Liberal MP since 1911, re-elected as a Unionist in 1917. 1919: Andrew Knox, elected as a Liberal-Unionist in 1917, joins the Progressives in 1919. 1919: George William Andrews, elected as the Liberal-Unionist MP for Winnipeg Centre in 1917, becomes an independent on June 2, 1919, in protest of the government's handling of the Winnipeg General Strike. 1920s 1922: William James Hammell, Progressive MP for Muskoka, joins the Liberal Party. 1925: William George Baker, Saskatchewan Labour MLA, becomes a Labour-Liberal MLA and then later solely a Liberal Party of Saskatchewan MLA in 1938. 1929: Charles Agar, Saskatchewan Progressive MLA, joins Liberal Party of Saskatchewan. 1930s October 14, 1935: Henry Herbert Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce in the Conservative government of R.B. Bennett, leaves the party