Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Third Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1878-1879)

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The Assembly was elected on 18 December 1878.

Session	Opening	Prorogation	Dissolution
1	1 February 1879	25 June 1879	26 November 1879

The following persons were members:

John Norquay (Premier)	John Wright Sifton (Speaker)	Thomas Spence (Clerk)	John McDougall (Sergeant-at-Arms)
Samuel Clarke Biggs (St. Paul)	Andrew Bourke (Baie St. Paul)	Corydon Partlow Brown (Westbourne)	James Cowan (High Bluff)
Pierre Delorme (St. Norbert)	John Aldham Kyte Drummond (High Bluff & Poplar Point)	Maxime Goulet (St. Vital)	John Gunn (St. Andrews North)
Alphonse Alfred Clement LaRiviere (St. Boniface)	Thomas Lusted (Rockwood)	Kenneth McKenzie (Burnside)	Alexander Murray (St. Charles)
Charles Nolin (Ste. Anne)	John Norquay (St. Andrews South)	Arthur Wellington Ross (Springfield)	Joseph Royal (St. Francois Xavier West)
Louis Schmidt (St. Francois Xavier East)	Thomas Scott (Winnipeg)	John Wright Sifton (St. Clements)	John Albert Stevenson (Pembina)
Alexander MacBeth Sutherland (Kildonan)	Joseph Noel Taillefer (St. Agathe)	John Taylor (Headingly)	David Marr Walker (St. James)

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1878)

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial By-Elections (1879)

Sources:

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 March 2021

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