Memorable Manitobans: Members of the Twentieth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1937-1940)

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The Assembly was elected on 27 July 1936.

Session	Opening	Prorogation	Dissolution
1	18 February 1937	17 April 1937	-
2	9 December 1937	23 March 1938	-
3	20 February 1939	17 April 1939	-
4	20 February 1940	17 December 1940	-
5	18 November 1940	17 December 1940	12 March 1941

The following persons were members:

John Bracken (Premier)	Robert Hawkins (Speaker)	Harry H. Dunwoody (Clerk)	Thomas Vincent Pemble Smith (Sergeant-at-Arms, 1937)
Gareth Stanley Walter (Sergeant-at-Arms, 1937-1941)
James Aiken (Assiniboia)	Nicolas Volodymir Bachynsky (Fisher)	James Alexander Barry (Winnipeg)	Francis Campbell Bell (Birtle)
John Bracken (The Pas)	James Washington Breakey (Glenwood)	Douglas Lloyd Campbell (Lakeside)	James Lyall Christie (Cypress)
William Reid Clubb (Morris)	George Dinsdale (Brandon City)	Seymour James Farmer (Winnipeg)	Stanley William Fox (Gilbert Plains)
Stuart Sinclair Garson (Fairford)	Isaac Bertie Griffiths (Russell)	Elin Salome Halldorson (St. George)	Robert Hawkins (Dauphin)
Marcus Hyman (Winnipeg)	Huntley Douglas Brodie Ketchen (Winnipeg)	John Salmon Lamont (Iberville)	John Bell Laughlin (Killarney)
Harold Frederick Lawrence (St. Boniface)	John Polworth Lawrie (Norfolk)	Mungo Turnbull Lewis (Rockwood)	William Lisowsky (Ethelbert)
James Litterick (Winnipeg)	Maurice Dane MacCarthy (Ste. Rose)	William James Major (Winnipeg)	Sauveur Marcoux (La Verendrye)
John Stewart McDiarmid (Winnipeg)	James Osborne McLenaghen (Kildonan & St. Andrews)	Wallace Conrad Miller (Morden and Rhineland)	Robert Henry Mooney (Virden)
Hugh Borthwick Morrison (Manitou)	William Morton (Gladstone)	John Alfred Munn (Dufferin)	Oddur Olafson (Ruperts Land)
John Robertson Pitt (Arthur)	John Silas Poole (Beautiful Plains)	Edmond Prefontaine (Carillon)	John Queen (Winnipeg)
George Poddester Renouf (Swan River)	Sydney Ernest Rogers (Roblin)	Earl James Rutledge (Minnedosa)	Ivan Schultz (Mountain)
William Raymond Sexsmith (Portage la Prairie)	Evelyn Foster Shannon (Springfield)	Lewis St. George Stubbs (Winnipeg)	Herbert R. Sulkers (St. Clements)
Matthew Robinson Sutherland (Lansdowne)	Norman Leslie Turnbull (Hamiota)	Joseph Wawrykow (Gimli)	Ralph Humphreys Webb (Winnipeg)
Alexander Robert Welch (Turtle Mountain)	Errick French Willis (Deloraine)	Herbert Henry Wright (Emerson)

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba Provincial Election (1936)

Sources:

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 June 2024

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