The following is a list of Canadian elections, both federal and provincial, that have been regarded by all or some observers as snap elections: * * Issue: Canadian confederation * Result: Pro-confederates under Premier Samuel Leonard Tilley are defeated, but later return to power after the new anti-confederate government is forced from office. * 1911 Canadian federal election * Issues: Reciprocity with the United States; the Naval Bill * Result: Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals are defeated. * 1917 Canadian federal election * Issue: Conscription Crisis of 1917. (The election was supposed to be held in 1916, but due to the emergency of the First World War, the government postponed the election, largely in hope that a coalition government could be formed, as was the case in