List of Manitoba senators explained

This is a list of past and present members of the Senate of Canada representing the province of Manitoba.

Manitoba can be represented by up to six senators, but this was not always the case. Stipulated in the Manitoba Act of 1870, the province was first represented by two senators, then to increase incrementally based on population, when the population reached 75,000 it would then be represented by a maximum of four senators. The Constitution Act of 1915 added two more senate seats for Manitoba, bringing the total to six.

The Constitution Act of 1915 also amended Section 26 of the Constitution Act of 1867 to add a fourth regional division, called the Western provinces, made up of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, to allow two senators to be appointed on a regional basis.

Current senators

align=left class="unsortable"		Name	Party^1	Division^2	Date appointed	Appointed by^3	On the advice of	Mandatory retirement		Non-affiliated	Manitoba		Simon	J. Trudeau			Non-affiliated	Manitoba		Johnston	J. Trudeau			Non-affiliated	Manitoba		Payette	J. Trudeau			Non-affiliated	Manitoba		Johnston	J. Trudeau			Canadian Senators Group	Manitoba		Simon	J. Trudeau			Conservative	Landmark		Jean	S. Harper

Notes:

¹ Party listed is the senator's current party.
² Senators are appointed to represent Manitoba. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within Manitoba as his or her division.
³ Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister.

Historical

align=left class="unsortable"		Name	Party ^1	Division^2	Date appointed	Appointed by^3	End of term	Arthur-Lucien Beaubien	Liberal	Provencher		King		Aimé Bénard	Conservative	St. Boniface		Borden		Thomas-Alfred Bernier	Conservative	St. Boniface		Abbott		JoAnne Buth	Conservative	Manitoba		Harper		Charles Arkoll Boulton	Liberal-Conservative	Marquette		Macdonald			Progressive Senate Group	Manitoba		J. Trudeau		George Bradbury	Conservative	Selkirk		Borden		Sharon Carstairs	Liberal	Manitoba		Chrétien		Maria Chaput	Liberal	Manitoba		Chrétien		Noé Chevrier	Liberal	Winnipeg		Laurier		Thomas Crerar	Liberal	Churchill		King		John Caswell Davis	Liberal	Winnipeg		St. Laurent		Ron Duhamel	Liberal	Manitoba		Chrétien		Douglas Everett	Independent Liberal	Fort Rouge		Pearson		Robert Forke	Liberal-Progressive	Brandon		King		Marc-Amable Girard	Liberal	St. Boniface		Macdonald		Joseph-Philippe Guay	Liberal	St. Boniface		Trudeau, P. E.		James Campbell Haig	Progressive Conservative	River Heights		Diefenbaker		John Thomas Haig	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg		Richard Bennett		John Power Howden	Liberal	St. Boniface		King		Olive Lillian Irvine	Progressive Conservative	Lisgar		Diefenbaker		Duncan Jessiman	Progressive Conservative	Manitoba		Mulroney		Janis Johnson^4	Conservative	Winnipeg-Interlake Manitoba^5		Mulroney		John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer	Conservative	Selkirk		Thompson		Richard Kroft	Liberal	Manitoba		Chrétien		Alphonse Larivière	Conservative	Provencher		Borden		Lendrum McMeans	Conservative	Winnipeg		Borden		William Craig McNamara	Liberal	Winnipeg		Trudeau, P. E.		Gildas Molgat	Liberal	St. Rose		Trudeau, P. E.		John Patrick Molloy	Liberal	Provencher		King		Henry Mullins	Conservative	Marquette		Bennett		Nathan Nurgitz	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg North		Clark		Dufferin Roblin	Progressive Conservative	Red River		Trudeau, P. E.		Frederick Laurence Schaffner	Conservative	Souris		Borden		John Christian Schultz	Liberal-Conservative	Manitoba		Macdonald		William Sharpe	Conservative	Manitou		Borden		Mira Spivak	Independent	Manitoba		Mulroney		Terry Stratton	Conservative	Red River		Mulroney		John Sutherland	Independent Conservative	Kildonan		Macdonald		Gunnar Thorvaldson	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg South		Diefenbaker		William Michael Wall	Liberal	Winnipeg		St. Laurent		Robert Watson	Liberal	Portage la Prairie		Laurier		Finlay McNaughton Young	Liberal	Killarney		Laurier		Paul Yuzyk	Progressive Conservative	Fort Garry		Diefenbaker		Rod Zimmer	Liberal	Winnipeg		Martin			Non-affiliated (ISG)	Manitoba

Notes:

¹ Party listed was the last party of which the senator was a member.
² Senators are appointed to represent Manitoba. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within Manitoba as his or her division.
³ Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.
⁴ Johnson was appointed as one of two senators under section 26 of the Constitution Act to represent the Western provinces, under the regional expansion clause that saw the Senate increase from 104 to 112 members.
⁵ Division designated as Winnipeg-Interlake from to and Manitoba from to the present.

Western provinces regional senators

Senators listed were appointed to represent the Western Provinces under section 26 of the Constitution Act. This clause has only been used once before to appoint two extra senators to represent four regional Senate divisions: Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes and the Western Provinces.

As vacancies open up among the normal members of the Senate, they are automatically filled by the regional senators. Regional senators may also designate themselves to a senate division in any province of their choosing in their region.

align=left class="unsortable"		Name	Party^1	Division^2	Date appointed	Appointed by^3	Date shifted to provincial	Province shifted to	Provincial seat vacated by	End of term		Conservative	Winnipeg-Interlake		Mulroney		Manitoba	Joseph-Philippe Guay			Progressive Conservative	Saskatchewan		Mulroney		Saskatchewan	David Steuart

Notes:

¹ Party listed was the last party of which the senator was a member.
² Senators are appointed to represent their region. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within their region as his or her division.
³ Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister.

See also

• Lists of Canadian senators

External links

• Current Senators List Parliament Website
• A Legislative and Historical Overview of the Canadian Senate