Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Thirty-First Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1977-1981)

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The Assembly was elected on 11 October 1977.

Session	Opening	Prorogation	Dissolution
1	24 November 1977	12 December 1977	-
2	16 March 1978	20 July 1978	-
3	15 February 1979	15 June 1979	-
4	21 February 1980	29 July 1980	-
5	11 December 1980	26 May 1981	13 October 1981

The following persons were members:

Sterling Rufus Lyon (Premier)	Harry Edward Graham (Speaker)	Jack Reeves (Clerk)	Andy Anstett (Deputy Clerk)
Gordon Mackintosh (Deputy Clerk)	Edward Laing (Sergeant-at-Arms)
Aime Rawleigh “Pete” Adam (Ste. Rose)	Robert Anderson (Springfield)	Lloyd Norman Axworthy (Fort Rouge)	Robert Banman (La Verendrye)
Thomas Aiden Barrow (Flin Flon)	David Robert Blake (Minnedosa)	Harvey Bostrom (Rupertsland)	Joseph Russell Boyce (Winnipeg Centre)
Peter Arnold Brown (Rhineland)	Saul Mark Cherniack (St Johns)	Brian Corrin (Wellington)	Keith Alan Cosens (Gimli)
Jay Marine Cowan (Churchill)	Donald William Craik (Riel)	Laurent Louis Desjardins (St. Boniface)	Russell John Doern (Elmwood)
Leonard Domino (St. Matthews)	James Erwin “Jim” Downey (Arthur)	Albert Driedger (Emerson)	Henry John Einarson (Rock Lake)
Harry John Enns (Lakeside)	Leonard Salusbury “Len” Evans (Brandon East)	James Robert “Jim” Ferguson (Gladstone)	Gary Albert Filmon (River Heights, by-election 16 October 1979)
Peter Fox (Kildonan)	James Galbraith (Dauphin)	Douglas Gourlay (Swan River)	Harry Edward Graham (Birtle-Russell)
Sidney Green (Inkster)	Ben Hanuschak (Burrows)	Lloyd George Hyde (Portage la Prairie)	William Walter Jenkins (Logan)
John Franklin Johnston (Sturgeon Creek)	Warner Herbert Jorgenson (Morris)	Abe Kovnats (Radisson)	Sterling Rufus Lyon (Charleswood)
Ken MacMaster (Thompson)	Donald Marto Malinowski (Point Douglas)	Sydney Ronald McBryde (The Pas)	Edward Robert McGill (Brandon West)
Donald Morris McGregor (Virden)	James Wallace McKenzie (Roblin)	Gerald W. Mercier (Osborne)	Saul Alecs Miller (Seven Oaks)
Clement George Minaker (St. James)	Donald Warder Orchard (Pembina)	Wilson Parasiuk (Transcona)	Howard Russell Pawley (Selkirk)
Norma Killeen Price (Assiniboia)	Alan Brian Ransom (Souris-Killarney)	Edward Richard Schreyer (Rossmere)	Victor Harold “Vic” Schroeder (Rossmere, by-election 16 October 1979)
Louis Ralph “Bud” Sherman (Fort Garry)	Sidney Spivak (River Heights)	Warren Steen (Crescentwood)	William Uruski (St. George)
Samuel Uskiw (Lac du Bonnet)	Derek James Walding (St. Vital)	June Alwyn Westbury (Fort Rouge, by-election 16 October 1979)	Robert George “Bob” Wilson (Wolseley)

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1977)

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial By-Elections (1979)

Sources:

We thank Christopher Adams and Oliver Bernuetz (Legislative Library of Manitoba) for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 22 July 2023

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