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
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 Senators (1870-present)
Manitoba Judges (1870-present)
Mayors of Brandon (1882-present)
Mayors of Winnipeg (1874-present)
“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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