Memorable Manitobans: Magistrates of Manitoba

At one time, local administration of justice was the realm of magistrates based in communities around Manitoba. On 1 January 1973, the first Provincial Court judges were appointed to replace the function of the local magistrates.

Magistrate	Location	Appointed	Retired
T. W. Alexander	Manitou	1904	1905
Edgar Allen Andrews (1887-1954)	Winnipeg	April 1937	November 1940
John George Louis LeMottee Armit (1875-1955)	Foxwarren	?	?
H. H. Atkinson	Stuartburn	1905
Peter Hinds Attwood (1828-1902)	Neepawa	1900	1901
George William Baker (1854-1917)	Winnipeg	1901	1903
William Joseph Baker	Churchill	1934	?
William Mactavish Bannatyne (1864-1931)	Winnipeg	?	?
Charles David Batty (1861-1939)	Hartney	1903	1934
Felix John Billiarde (1872-1950)	Winnipeg	?	?
John G. Bonahor	Northern Manitoba	1931	?
Angus Lorne Bonnycastle (1873-1941)	Winnipeg	1913	1916
P. E. Borque	Somerset	1907	?
A. B. Callin	Russell	1904	1905
Kenneth Campbell	Brandon	c1896	1901
James Henderson Chalmers (1876-1942)	Virden	1941	1942
George Clackson	Rapid City	?	1920
John Clark	Baldur	1903	1905
Thomas Cory (1835-1920)	Gladstone	1896	1905
George O. Couch	Swan Lake	?	?
Glynn Lloyd Cousley (1894-1969)	Winnipeg	?	1966
Raymond Joseph Barrett Cramer (?-2003)	?	1 June 1972	1 January 1973
Charles W. Crosby (1868-1958)	Elkhorn	?	1915
George Cumming	Emerson	1904	1905
H. G. Cuttle	Minnedosa	1901	1905
Joseph Ernest Cyr (1854-1929)	St. Boniface	c1896	1904
James G. Dagg	Selkirk	1896	1898
Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)	Winnipeg	1904	1909
Alexander Dawson (1849-1928)	?	1896	1907
Noble Dickie (1854-1910)	Carberry	1903	1904
John Robinson Dutton (1855-1933)	Gilbert Plains	4 February 1924	?
Marmaduke H. Fieldhouse (1845-1911)	Neepawa	1897	1900
Henry Woodhull “Harry” Forrest (1916-2013)	?	1946	1 June 1974
Mr. Foster	Brandon	1883	?
Frank Oliver Fowler (1861-1945)	Wawanesa	1896	1897
Maris Henry Garton (1891-1973)	?	1945	June 1968
H. A. Gibson	St. Ouens	1905
W. S. Gordon	Neepawa	1902	1905
William Gordon	Boissevain, Killarney	1896	1905
Robert Blackwood Whidden Graham (1870-1951)	?	1929	December 1944
Robert Hawkins (1879-1962)	?	?	?
Edward Henry George Gunson Hay (1840-1918)	Portage la Prairie	1889	1900
William Jones Helliwell (1850-?)	Oak Lake	1901	1903
? Henry	Grandview	?	1915
Henry James	Brandon	1900	?
W. J. James	Portage la Prairie	1901	1902
T. Kernighan	Carman	1903
	Winnipeg	?	?
Camille Larrivee	Somerset	1917	?
Andrew Laughlin (1844-1916)	Cartwright	1903	1904
Thomas Lockhart	Souris	1900	1905
Thomas Logan	Minnedosa	1896	1900
Thomas Lusted	Stonewall	1901	1903
Robert Newton Lyons (1873-1959)	Griswold	1903	1904
Hugh John Macdonald (1850-1929)	Winnipeg	?	?
Patrick Anderson “P. A.” Macdonald (1857-1951)	?	?	?
Donald A. MacLean (1858-?)	Gladstone	1910	?
Neil Gerard MacPhee (1918-2014)	The Pas	1952	?
George Archibald James Alfred Marshall (1850-1936)	Portage la Prairie	1902	1930
Robert M. Matheson (1868-1945)	?	?	?
Louis Samuel Matlin (1904-1961)	?	1935	1952
Adam Gerrond McDougall (1836-1907)	Virden	1903	1905
Joseph A. McGill	Neepawa	1907	?
Alexander McMicken (1837-1916)	Winnipeg	1900	March 1913
Colin York Campbell McCorquodale (1846-1920)	Morden	c1896	1910
Charles C. Milne	Morden	1920	1942
David “Dad” Morrison (1861-1942)	Selkirk	?	?
John Morrow	Boissevain	1915	?
William Murray	Dauphin	1901	1905
Charles J. Neville	Waskada	1920	?
Robert Moore Noble (1869-1934)	Winnipeg	1916	1934
Gudni Julius Oleson (c1877-1957)	Glenboro	?	?
B. B. Olsen	Gimli	1903	?
John Franklin Orr (1870-1942)	Grandview	1915	?
W. J. Paramer	Woodlands	?	1920
Adam John Laing Peebles (1812-1902)	Winnipeg	1880	1901
John Pyne Pennefather (1833-1913)	Holland	1905
David Grant Potter (1893-1956)	?	July 1945	September 1956
J. M. Reid	Wawanesa	1901	?
John Leroy Ross (1895-1956)	Winnipeg	1954	1956
Leo Schanus	Fort Alexander	1904
Robert Scott	Selkirk	1900	1905
W. G. Scott	East St. Paul	?	?
Tom Seaman (1857-1949)	Edrans	1905
H. L. See	Wawanesa	1901	1905
R. W. Smith	Dauphin	1897	1900
Clarence Coates Sparling (1900-1984)	?	1945	1976
J. G. Stewart	Berens River	1901
William Stordy (1902-1986)	?	?	?
S. W. Taylor	Griswold	1905
Joseph Francis Tennant (1848-1924)	Gretna	1904	1905
G. Thorsteinsson	Gimli	c1896	?
William A. Trip	Strathclair	1908	?
Charles William “Charlie” Tupper (1898-1960)	Winnipeg	1958	1960
James E. Turner	Stonewall	1908	?
Daniel Mackenzie Ure (1853-1925)	Morris	1904	1905
Roy Wesley Webster (1894-1983)	Portage la Prairie	1931	?
Thomas Whale	Winnipegosis	1915	?
M. Whitely	Emerson	1896	1903

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Judges of Manitoba

Sources:

Public Accounts, various years, Legislative Library of Manitoba.

“Brandon [The new Police Magistrate; Foster],” Manitoba Free Press, 16 February 1883, page 1.

“New appointments [Attwood, Fieldhouse],” Manitoba Free Press, 19 November 1900, page 10.

“Provincial appointments [Police Magistrates; McGill, Borque],” Winnipeg Tribune, 27 May 1907, page 8.

“Appointments are gazetted [Trip, Turner],” Winnipeg Tribune, 13 June 1908, page 2.

“New Police Magistrates [Whale, Orr, Morrow, Crosby],” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 October 1915, page 12.

“Camille Larrivee is Police Magistrate,” Winnipeg Tribune, 21 July 1917, page 7.

“Police magistrate at Waskada named,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 September 1920, page 2.

“Police Magistrate named for North [Bonahor],” Winnipeg Tribune, 24 April 1931, page 3.

“Magistrate is appointed for northern port [Baker],” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 August 1934, page 18.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 15 October 2022

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