George Poddester Renouf (1879-1961)

Farmer, MLA (1933-1936), MLA (1937-1940), MLA (1941-1945), MLA (1946-1949), MLA (1950-1953), MLA (1954-1957).

Born in Jersey, the Channel Islands, he came to Canada in 1898 and arrived at Bowsman, Manitoba in 1899. He farmed in the Swan River Valley until 1955. He entered politics in 1907, when he was elected to the Bowsman school board. As a politician he never lost an election. He served as reeve and school board secretary for Minitonas from 1921 to 1932, before entering the Manitoba legislature. He was also president of the Minitonas Red Cross from 1922. He was first elected as Conservative MLA for Swan River in 1932, and sat in the Legislative Assembly until 1958. He left the Progressive Conservatives in 1949 to serve as leader of an Independent coalition group. In the House he was known as a man who looked after his constituents. He retired to Victoria, BC in 1959.

Source:

“Under The Golden Boy, Manitoba’s M.L.A.s” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 March 1943. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9, page 125]

Profile revised: 31 January 2009

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