Memorable Manitobans: Senators of Manitoba

Senator	Entered	Left	Residence
Arthur Lucien Beaubien (1879-1971)	29 January 1940	1 February 1969	Provencher
Aime Benard (1873-1938)	3 September 1917	8 January 1938	St. Boniface
Thomas Alfred Bernier (1844-1909)	27 October 1892	30 December 1908	St. Boniface
Charles Arkoll Boulton (1841-1899)	10 December 1889	15 May 1899	Marquette
Patricia Bovey	27 October 2016		Winnipeg
George Henry Bradbury (1859-1925)	17 December 1917	6 September 1925	Selkirk
JoAnne Buth	6 January 2012	10 August 2014	Winnipeg
Sharon Carstairs	15 September 1994	17 October 2011	Winnipeg
Maria Chaput	12 December 2002	9 February 2016	Winnipeg
Noe Chevrier (1846-1911)	18 January 1909	9 October 1911	Winnipeg
Thomas Alexander Crerar (1876-1975)	18 August 1945	31 May 1966	Churchill
John Caswell Davis (1888-1953)	25 January 1949	25 October 1953	Winnipeg
Ronald J. Duhamel (1938-2002)	15 January 2002	30 September 2002	Winnipeg
Douglas Donald Everett (1927-2018)	8 November 1966	20 January 1994	Fort Rouge
Robert Forke (1860-1934)	30 December 1929	2 February 1934	Brandon
Raymonde Gagné	1 April 2016		Winnipeg
Marc-Amable Girard (1822-1892)	13 December 1871	12 September 1892	St. Boniface
Joseph-Philippe Guay (1915-2001)	23 March 1978	4 October 1990	St. Boniface
James Campbell Haig (1910-1980)	15 June 1962	29 December 1977	Winnipeg
John Thomas Haig (1877-1962)	14 August 1935	17 January 1962	Winnipeg
John Power Howden (1879-1959)	18 April 1945	4 November 1959	St. Boniface
Olive Lillian Irvine (1895-1969)	14 January 1960	1 November 1969	Lisgar
Duncan James Jessiman (1923-2006)	26 May 1993	5 June 1998	Winnipeg
Janis G. Johnson	27 September 1990	27 September 2016	Gimli
John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer (1848-1914)	16 December 1892	22 December 1914	Selkirk
Richard H. Kroft	11 June 1998	24 September 2004	Winnipeg
Alphonse Alfred Clermont LaRivière (1842-1925)	23 October 1911	1 September 1917	Provencher
Lendrum McMeans (1859-1941)	26 July 1917	13 September 1941	Winnipeg
William Craig McNamara (1904-1984)	7 October 1970	8 August 1979	Winnipeg
Marilou McPhedran	27 October 2016		Winnipeg
Gildas Laurent Molgat (1927-2001)	7 October 1970	28 February 2001	Ste-Rose
John Patrick Molloy (1873-1948)	6 October 1925	16 March 1948	Provencher
Henry Alfred Mullins (1861-1952)	14 August 1935	5 September 1950	Marquette
Nathan “Nate” Nurgitz (1934-2019)	3 October 1979	9 February 1993	Winnipeg North
Charles Dufferin “Duff” Roblin (1917-2010)	23 March 1978	17 June 1992	Winnipeg
Frederick Laurence Schaffner (1855-1935)	23 October 1917	22 May 1935	Souris
John Christian Schultz (1841-1896)	23 September 1882	1 July 1888	Winnipeg
William Henry Sharpe (1868-1942)	10 February 1916	19 April 1942	Manitou
Calvin Murray Sinclair	2 April 1916	31 January 2021	Winnipeg
Mira Spivak	17 November 1986	12 July 2009	Winnipeg
Terry Stratton	25 March 1993	16 March 2013	Winnipeg
John Sutherland (1821-1899)	13 December 1871	13 April 1899	Kildonan
Gunnar Solmundur Thorvaldson (1901-1969)	29 January 1958	2 August 1969	Winnipeg South
William Michael Wall (1911-1962)	28 July 1955	7 July 1962	Winnipeg
Robert Watson (1853-1929)	29 January 1900	19 May 1929	Portage la Prairie
Finlay McNaughton Young (1852-1916)	30 January 1900	15 February 1916	Killarney
Paul Yuzyk (1913-1986)	4 February 1963	9 July 1986	Fort Garry
Rodney Anthony Allan “Rod” Zimmer (1942-2016)	2 August 2005	2 August 2013	Winnipeg

See also:

Convention of Forty (1870)

Governors of Red River Settlement (1812-1870)

Provisional Government of Manitoba / Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia (1870)

Lieutenant-Governors of Manitoba (1870-present)

Premiers of Manitoba (1870-present)

Legislative Assemblies of Manitoba (1870-present)

Speakers of the Manitoba Legislature (1871-present)

Legislative Council of Manitoba (1871-1876)

Manitoba Members of Parliament (1870-present)

Manitoba Recipients of the Order of Canada

Manitoba Recipients of the Order of Manitoba

Manitoba Order of the Buffalo Hunt

Manitoba Order of the Crocus

Manitoba Senators (1870-present)

Manitoba Judges (1870-present)

Mayors of Brandon (1882-present)

Mayors of Winnipeg (1874-present)

Sources:

“A Senate we can live with,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 March 2016.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 3 September 2022

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