Judges of Manitoba

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Chief Justices of Manitoba - Court of Appeal

Chief Justice	Appointed	Retired
Hector Mansfield Howell (1842-1918)	23 July 1906	7 April 1918
William Egerton Perdue (1850-1933)	25 May 1918	30 December 1929
James Emile Pierre Prendergast (1858-1945)	30 December 1929	18 March 1944
Ewan Alexander MacPherson (1878-1954)	18 March 1944	18 November 1954
John Evans Adamson (1884-1961)	13 January 1955	1 March 1961
Calvert Charlton Miller (1899-1978)	1961	1967
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	1967	1971
J. Samuel Freedman (1908-1993)	1971	1983
Alfred Maurice Monnin	1983	1990
Richard J. Scott	31 July 1990

Chief Justices of Manitoba - Queen’s Bench

Chief Justice	Appointed	Retired
Alexander Morris (1826-1889)	21 July 1872	1 December 1972
Edmund Burke Wood (1820-1882)	11 March 1874	7 October 1882
Lewis Wallbridge (1816-1887)	12 December 1882	20 October 1887
Thomas Wardlaw Taylor (1833-1917)	22 October 1887	31 March 1899
Albert Clements Killam (1849-1908)	15 April 1899	8 August 1903
Joseph Dubuc (1840-1914)	8 August 1903	15 November 1909
Thomas Graham Mathers (1859-1927)	7 February 1910	15 August 1927
Daniel Alexander Macdonald (1858-1937)	8 September 1927	28 October 1937
Ewan Alexander MacPherson (1878-1954)	23 November 1937	18 March 1944
Hugh Amos Robson (1871-1945)	18 March 1944	9 July 1945
Esten Kenneth Williams (1889-1970)	10 December 1946	1 January 1962
Ben Hewak	1985	2002
Marc M. Monnin	26 March 2003

Court of Appeal

Judge	Appointed	Retired
John Evans Adamson (1884-1961)	30 January 1948	13 January 1955
Joseph Thomas Beaubien (1886-1957)	27 August 1952	26 March 1957
Hjalmar August Bergman (1881-1948)	18 March 1944	20 January 1948
John Donald Cameron (1858-1923)	27 April 1909	26 March 1923
James Bowes Coyne (1878-1965)	10 December 1946	31 August 1959
Robert Maxwell Dennistoun (1864-1952)	2 July 1918	30 October 1946
Robert Brian Dickson (1916-1998)	1967	?
Andrew Knox Dysart (1875-1952)	11 September 1947	24 July 1952
J. Samuel Freedman (1908-1993)	1960	1983
Martin H. Freedman	16 July 2002
Charles Percy Fullerton (1870-1938)	20 July 1917	13 August 1931
Robert DuVal Guy (1912-1985)	1961	1980
Alexander Haggart (1848-1927)	3 April 1912	1 November 1920
Gordon Clarke Hall	14 May 1971	?
Barbara M. Hamilton	16 July 2002
Bonnie M. Helper	30 June 1989	?
Hector Mansfield Howell (1842-1918)	23 July 1906	7 April 1918
Charles Richard Huband	20 February 1979	?
Glenn D. Joyal	2 March 2007
Guy Joseph Kroft	1 February 1993	?
Sterling Rufus Lyon	19 December 1986	?
Alan D. MacInnes	22 June 2007
Roy Joseph Matas (1920-1986)	15 August 1973	1986
Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe (1870-1922)	3 October 1921	2 April 1922
Calvert Charlton Miller (1899-1978)	1960	1967
Alfred Maurice Monnin	3 January 1962	1990
Michel A. Monnin	26 July 1995
Joseph Francis O'Sullivan	24 July 1975	?
William Egerton Perdue (1850-1933)	23 July 1906	25 May 1918
Alan Reed Philp	5 May 1983	?
Frank Hedley Phippen (1863-1932)	23 July 1906	15 April 1909
James Emile Pierre Prendergast (1858-1945)	1 May 1922	30 December 1929
Albert Elswood Richards (1848-1917)	23 July 1906	27 May 1917
Stephen Elswood Richards (1878-1950)	11 March 1932	17 October 1950
Hugh Amos Robson (1871-1945)	31 December 1929	18 March 1944
Ivan Schultz (1891-1974)	1955	1966
Richard J. Scott	28 June 1985
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	1966	1971
Freda M. Steel	28 February 2000
George Eric Tritschler	18 April 1957	?
Walter Harley Trueman (1870-1951)	14 April 1923	1 January 1947
Archibald Kerr Twaddle	22 August 1985	?

Court of Queen’s Bench [Court of King’s Bench]

Judge	Appointed	Retired
Douglas N. Abra	10 July 2007
John Evans Adamson (1884-1961)	1 May 1922	1 March 1961
Laurie P. Allen	6 October 1998
Frank Aquila	28 February 2000
John Farquhar Bain (1849-1905)	15 November 1887	12 May 1905
Holly C. Beard	27 November 1992
Joseph Thomas Beaubien (1886-1957)	30 January 1948	26 March 1957
Louis Bétournay (1825-1879)	31 October 1872	30 October 1879
Donald P. Bryk	16 February 1999
John Donald Cameron (1858-1923)	21 January 1908	26 March 1923
Arnold Munroe Campbell (1892-1963)	11 September 1947	13 February 1962
Robert Carr	13 October 1983
A. Clearwater	12 March 1992
Robert G. Cummings	31 July 2008
John Philpot Curran (1858-1928)	24 October 1912	9 January 1928
Louis Deniset (1919-1983)	1965	1983
Robyn M. Diamond	15 September 1989
Robert Brian Dickson (1916-1998)	1963	1967
William James Donovan (1875-1949)	30 March 1928	26 May 1949
A. Lori Douglas	19 May 2005
Robert B. Doyle	28 February 2000
Joseph Dubuc (1840-1914)	13 November 1879	15 November 1909
John Alton Duncan (1932-2007)	1991	2007
Léa A. Duval	27 November 1992
Paul G. DuVal (1893-1970)	1951	?
Andrew Knox Dysart (1875-1952)	3 October 1921	24 July 1952
A. Catherine Everett	22 November 2006
William Graham Ferguson (1896-1964)	1960	1964
J. Samuel Freedman (1908-1993)	1952	1960
Alexander Casimir Galt (1853-1936)	24 October 1912	18 March 1933
Marilyn E. Goldberg	16 July 2002
Sylvia Guertin-Riley	26 July 1995
Gil R. Goodman	23 March 1984
Shawn D. Greenberg	28 October 2003
Barbara M. Hamilton	26 July 1995
Kenneth R. Hanssen	23 March 1984
Ben Hewak	1977	2002
A. Aubrey “Oz” Hirschfield (1924-2008)	22 August 1985
Glenn D. Joyal	22 June 2007
Morris Kaufman	6 October 1998
John Joseph Kelly (1898-1952)	10 August 1949	2 April 1952
Daniel P. Kennedy	21 June 1984
Brenda L. Keyser	3 October 1995
James Frederick Kilgour (1874-1931)	8 September 1927	27 November 1931
Albert Clements Killam (1849-1908)	3 February 1885	23 July 1903
Ruth Krindle	1980	2002
Donald M. Little	10 February 1998
Daniel Alexander Macdonald (1858-1937)	23 July 1906	28 October 1937
Alan D. MacInnes	27 November 1992
Joan A. MacPhail	22 January 2009
Ewan Alexander MacPherson (1878-1954)	23 November 1937	18 November 1954
William James Major (1881-1953)	14 March 1941	31 July 1951
Chris W. Martin	22 January 2009
Roy Joseph Matas (1920-1986)	1967	1973
Thomas Graham Mathers (1859-1927)	24 August 1905	16 August 1927
Ralph Maybank (1890-1965)	July 1951
Deborah J. McCawley	16 September 1997
James Charles McKeagney (1815-1879)	7 October 1872	14 September 1879
Joan G. McKelvey	27 September 2001
John A. Menzies	7 August 1996
Gerald W. Mercier	15 September 1989
Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe (1870-1922)	22 May 1909	2 April 1922
Brian Midwinter	18 June 2008
James Andrew Miller (1839-1886)	20 October 1880	31 December 1882
Alfred Maurice Monnin	1957	3 January 1962
Marc M. Monnin	27 August 1997
Michel A. Monnin	23 March 1984
John Percival “Price” Montague (1882-1966)	11 March 1932	1 September 1959
Alexander Morris (1826-1889)	21 July 1872	1 December 1872
Robert Hill Myers (1856-1921)	January 1903	?
Rodney H. Mykle	15 September 1989	2007
Israel Nitikman (1905-1988)	1962	1980
Jeffrey J. Oliphant	22 August 1985
William Egerton Perdue (1850-1933)	25 August 1903	30 December 1929
James Emile Pierre Prendergast (1858-1945)	3 July 1910	18 March 1944
Albert Elswood Richards (1848-1917)	1 May 1899	23 July 1906
Marianne Rivoalen	2 February 2005
Hugh Amos Robson (1871-1945)	23 July 1910	May 1912
	18 March 1944	9 July 1945
Perry Schulman	28 May 1993
John Morgan Scurfield (1951-2009)	16 July 2002	2009
Karen I. Simonsen	9 December 2004
Vern Simonsen	1982	1998
C. Murray Sinclair	31 January 2001
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	1963	1966
Robert Smith (1839-1885)	27 June 1884	19 January 1885
John Roman Solomon (1910-1985)	1971	1983
Lori T. Spivak	19 May 2005
Freda M. Steel	3 October 1995
Kris Stefanson	28 May 1993
Colleen Suche	16 July 2002
Fawcett Gowler Taylor (1878-1940)	28 March 1933	2 January 1940
Thomas Wardlaw Taylor (1833-1917)	5 January 1883	22 October 1887
Michael A. Thomson	1 June 2007
Lewis Wallbridge (1816-1887)	12 December 1882	20 October 1887
Esten Kenneth Williams (1889-1970)	10 December 1946	1 January 1962
Edmund Burke Wood (1820-1882)	11 March 1874	7 October 1882
Scott Wright	1973	2004
Douglas D. Yard	13 October 1998

Provincial Courts

Judge	Appointed	Retired
Frank Dennison Allen (1927-1998)	1981	?
Larry Allen	2009
Frank Aquila	21 December 1994	28 February 2000
George Thomas Armstrong (1881-1941)	?	?
Jaroslaw Arsenych (1889-1953)	1948	1953
Gregory Barrett (1867-1952)	?	?
Alexandre Bernier (1886-1961)	1950	?
Angus Lorne Bonnycastle (1873-1941)	1919	1941
Richard J. F. Chartier	16 August 1993
Stephen Emmett Clement (1867-1947)	1927	1944
Sydney Cohan	1976	1997
John Garrett Cory (1875-?)	?	?
Thomas Dickey Cumberland (1853-1939)	?	?
Robert G. Cummings	28 September 1994	31 July 2008
Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)	1909	?
Alexander Dawson (1849-1928)	1907	?
Ian Ventress Dubienski (1921-1998)	1961	?
Léa A. Duval	10 February 1988	27 November 1992
A. Catherine Everett	20 May 1998	22 November 2006
Harold Ffolliott Gyles (1927-2010)	1969	1981
Frank Alvin Earnest Hamilton (1881-?)
Glenn D. Joyal	25 November 1998	2 March 2007
Clarence Garfield Keith (1881-1964)	1949	1957
Clarence Irving Keith (1908-1989)	1964	1983
Daniel P. Kennedy	30 August 1978	21 June 1984
Edwin C. Kimelman (1925-2007)	1978	1996
Walter Jacobson Lindal (1887-1976)	1942	1962
Corbet Locke (1854-1932)	?	?
David Marr	1977	1996
Alexander Nugent McPherson (1857-1938)	1923	1933
Ronald Jerome Meyers (1933-2010)	1977	January 2010
Charles Julius Mickle (1848-1919)	1909	1919
Brian Midwinter	18 October 2006	18 June 2008
Sam Minuk	1972	2005
Ronald Joseph Morlock (1930-2009)	?	?
Rodney H. Mykle	20 May 1975	22 September 1989
George Paterson (1857-1923)	1911	?
Louis Arthur Prud’Homme (1853-1941)	?	?
Larry Ring	1977	1987
Manly Rusen	1975	1999
Joseph O’Connell Ryan (1841-1938)	5 July 1882	31 December 1916
Lewis St. George Stubbs (1878-1958)	1922	1933
Roy St. George Stubbs (1907-1995)	?	?
Nellie McNichol “Nic” Sanders (1906-1990)	August 1957	1977
Richard Alexander Stacpoole (1869-1948)	1924	?
Kris Stefanson	1 September 1979	28 May 1993
Alexander John Stringer (1903-1969)	November 1959	1969
David Marr Walker (1835-1920)	?	1914
Mary A. Wawrykow (1912-1977)	1975	1977
Henry Walter Whitla (1874-1956)	1933	1949

Police Courts

Judge	Appointed	Retired
William Mactavish Bannatyne (1864-1931)	?	?
Felix John Billiarde (1872-1950)	?	?
Angus Lorne Bonnycastle (1873-1941)	1913	1916
Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)	1904	1909
Alexander Dawson (1849-1928)	1896	1907
Hugh John Macdonald (1850-1929)	?	?
Alexander McMicken (1837-1916)	1900	March 1913
William Stordy (1902-1986)	?	?
David Marr Walker (1835-1920)	?	?

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Governors of Red River Settlement (1812-1870)

Judges of Manitoba (1870-present)

Legislative Assemblies of Manitoba (1870-present)

Legislative Council of Manitoba (1871-1876)

Lieutenant-Governors of Manitoba (1870-present)

Manitoba Centennial Medals (1970)

Manitoba Members of Parliament (1870-present)

Manitoba Recipients of the Order of Canada

Manitoba Recipients of the Order of Manitoba

Manitoba Senators (1870-present)

Mayors of Brandon (1882-present)

Mayors of Winnipeg (1874-present)

Members of the Order of the Buffalo Hunt

Police Chiefs of Winnipeg (1874-present)

Premiers of Manitoba (1870-present)

Source:

The Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba, 1870-1950: A Biographical History by Dale Brawn, Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2006, 432 pages.

Tales From the Underworld and Other Stories by Roland Penner and Norm Larsen, Winnipeg: Penner and Larsen in association with Heartland Associates, 2009, 192 pages.

Gallery revised: 10 March 2010

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