List of Manitoba senators

Template:Short description 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, 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, 1915 added two more senate seats for Manitoba, bringing the total to six.

The Constitution Act, 1915 also amended section 26 of the Constitution Act, 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

	Name	Party1	Division2	Date appointed	Appointed by3	On the advice of	Mandatory retirement		Non-affiliated	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Simon	J. Trudeau	Template:Dts		Non-affiliated	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Johnston	J. Trudeau	Template:Dts		Conservative	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Payette	J. Trudeau	Template:Dts		Non-affiliated	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Johnston	J. Trudeau	Template:Dts		Canadian Senators Group	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Simon	J. Trudeau	Template:Dts		Conservative	Landmark	Template:Dts	Jean	S. Harper	Template:Dts

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

	Name	Party 1	Division2	Date appointed	Appointed by3	End of term	Arthur-Lucien Beaubien	Liberal	Provencher	Template:Dts	King	Template:Dts	Aimé Bénard	Conservative	St. Boniface	Template:Dts	Borden	Template:Dts	Thomas-Alfred Bernier	Conservative	St. Boniface	Template:Dts	Abbott	Template:Dts	JoAnne Buth	Conservative	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Harper	Template:Dts	Charles Arkoll Boulton	Liberal-Conservative	Marquette	Template:Dts	Macdonald	Template:Dts		Progressive Senate Group	Manitoba	Template:Dts	J. Trudeau	Template:Dts	George Bradbury	Conservative	Selkirk	Template:Dts	Borden	Template:Dts	Sharon Carstairs	Liberal	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Chrétien	Template:Dts	Maria Chaput	Liberal	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Chrétien	Template:Dts	Noé Chevrier	Liberal	Winnipeg	Template:Dts	Laurier	Template:Dts	Thomas Crerar	Liberal	Churchill	Template:Dts	King	Template:Dts	John Caswell Davis	Liberal	Winnipeg	Template:Dts	St. Laurent	Template:Dts	Ron Duhamel	Liberal	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Chrétien	Template:Dts	Douglas Everett	Independent Liberal	Fort Rouge	Template:Dts	Pearson	Template:Dts	Robert Forke	Liberal-Progressive	Brandon	Template:Dts	King	Template:Dts	Marc-Amable Girard	Liberal	St. Boniface	Template:Dts	Macdonald	Template:Dts	Joseph-Philippe Guay	Liberal	St. Boniface	Template:Dts	Trudeau, P. E.	Template:Dts	James Campbell Haig	Progressive Conservative	River Heights	Template:Dts	Diefenbaker	Template:Dts	John Thomas Haig	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg	Template:Dts	Richard Bennett	Template:Dts	John Power Howden	Liberal	St. Boniface	Template:Dts	King	Template:Dts	Olive Lillian Irvine	Progressive Conservative	Lisgar	Template:Dts	Diefenbaker	Template:Dts	Duncan Jessiman	Progressive Conservative	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Mulroney	Template:Dts	Janis Johnson4	Conservative	Winnipeg-Interlake Manitoba5	Template:Dts	Mulroney	Template:Dts	John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer	Conservative	Selkirk	Template:Dts	Thompson	Template:Dts	Richard Kroft	Liberal	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Chrétien	Template:Dts	Alphonse Larivière	Conservative	Provencher	Template:Dts	Borden	Template:Dts	Lendrum McMeans	Conservative	Winnipeg	Template:Dts	Borden	Template:Dts	William Craig McNamara	Liberal	Winnipeg	Template:Dts	Trudeau, P. E.	Template:Dts	Gildas Molgat	Liberal	St. Rose	Template:Dts	Trudeau, P. E.	Template:Dts	John Patrick Molloy	Liberal	Provencher	Template:Dts	King	Template:Dts	Henry Mullins	Conservative	Marquette	Template:Dts	Bennett	Template:Dts	Nathan Nurgitz	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg North	Template:Dts	Clark	Template:Dts	Dufferin Roblin	Progressive Conservative	Red River	Template:Dts	Trudeau, P. E.	Template:Dts	Frederick Laurence Schaffner	Conservative	Souris	Template:Dts	Borden	Template:Dts	John Christian Schultz	Liberal-Conservative	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Macdonald	Template:Dts	William Sharpe	Conservative	Manitou	Template:Dts	Borden	Template:Dts	Mira Spivak	Independent	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Mulroney	Template:Dts	Terry Stratton	Conservative	Red River	Template:Dts	Mulroney	Template:Dts	John Sutherland	Independent Conservative	Kildonan	Template:Dts	Macdonald	Template:Dts	Gunnar Thorvaldson	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg South	Template:Dts	Diefenbaker	Template:Dts	William Michael Wall	Liberal	Winnipeg	Template:Dts	St. Laurent	Template:Dts	Robert Watson	Liberal	Portage la Prairie	Template:Dts	Laurier	Template:Dts	Finlay McNaughton Young	Liberal	Killarney	Template:Dts	Laurier	Template:Dts	Paul Yuzyk	Progressive Conservative	Fort Garry	Template:Dts	Diefenbaker	Template:Dts	Rod Zimmer	Liberal	Winnipeg	Template:Dts	Martin	Template:Dts		Non-affiliated (ISG)	Manitoba	Template:Dts	Trudeau, J.	Template:Dts

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 Template:Dts to Template:Dts and Manitoba from Template:Dts 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.

	Name	Party1	Division2	Date appointed	Appointed by3	Date shifted to provincial	Province shifted to	Provincial seat vacated by	End of term		Conservative	Winnipeg-Interlake	Template:Dts	Mulroney	Template:Dts	Manitoba	Joseph-Philippe Guay	Template:Dts		Progressive Conservative	Saskatchewan	Template:Dts	Mulroney	Template:Dts	Saskatchewan	David Steuart	Template:Dts

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