13th Manitoba Legislature

The members of the 13th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in July 1910. The legislature sat from February 9, 1911, to June 15, 1914.^[1]

The Conservatives led by Rodmond Roblin formed the government.^[1]

Tobias Norris of the Liberal Party was Leader of the Opposition.^[2]

James Johnson served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

There were four sessions of the 13th Legislature:^[1]

Session	Start	End
1st	February 9, 1911	March 24, 1911
2nd	February 22, 1912	April 6, 1912
3rd	January 9, 1913	February 15, 1913
4th	December 11, 1913	February 20, 1914

Daniel Hunter McMillan was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba until August 1, 1911, when Douglas Colin Cameron became lieutenant governor.^[3]

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1910:^[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party[4]
	Amos Lyle	Arthur	Conservative
	Aimé Bénard	Assiniboia	Conservative
	James Argue	Avondale	Conservative
	James H. Howden	Beautiful Plains	Conservative
	George Malcolm	Birtle	Liberal
	George R. Coldwell	Brandon City	Conservative
	Alfred Carroll	Brandon South	Conservative
	Albert Prefontaine	Carillon	Conservative
	George Steel	Cypress	Conservative
	James G. Harvey	Dauphin	Conservative
	John C. W. Reid	Deloraine	Conservative
	Rodmond Roblin	Dufferin	Conservative
	David Henry McFadden	Emerson	Conservative
	Samuel Hughes	Gilbert Plains	Conservative
	Baldwin Baldwinson	Gimli	Conservative
	James William Armstrong	Gladstone	Liberal
	William Ferguson	Hamiota	Conservative
	Orton Grain	Kildonan and St. Andrews	Conservative
	George Lawrence	Killarney	Conservative
	Charles Duncan McPherson	Lakeside	Liberal
	Tobias Norris	Lansdowne	Liberal
	William Molloy	La Verendrye	Liberal
	Robert Rogers	Manitou	Conservative
	John W. Thompson	Minnedosa	Liberal
	Benjamin McConnell	Morden	Liberal
	Colin Campbell	Morris	Conservative
	James Bryson Baird	Mountain	Liberal
	Robert Fern Lyons	Norfolk	Conservative
	Hugh Armstrong	Portage la Prairie	Conservative
	Valentine Winkler	Rhineland	Liberal
	Isaac Riley	Rockwood	Conservative
	Angus L. Bonnycastle	Russell	Conservative
	Joseph Bernier	St. Boniface	Conservative
	Donald A. Ross	Springfield	Liberal
	Daniel D. McDonald	Swan River	Liberal
	James Johnson	Turtle Mountain	Conservative
	Harvey Simpson	Virden	Conservative
	Thomas William Taylor	Winnipeg Centre	Conservative
	Solomon Hart Green	Winnipeg North	Liberal
	Lendrum McMeans	Winnipeg South	Conservative
	Thomas Herman Johnson	Winnipeg West	Liberal

Notes:

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

Electoral district	Member elected	Affiliation	Election date	Reason
Russell	Frederic Newton	Conservative	February 4, 1911[5]	AL Bonnycastle resigned after recount[1]
Killarney	George Lawrence	Conservative	October 23, 1911	G Lawrence appointed Minister of Agriculture[5]
Manitou	James Morrow	Conservative	October 31, 1911	R Rogers named to Canadian cabinet[5]
The Pas	Robert Orok	Conservative	October 22, 1912	New riding created[5]
Gimli	Edmund L. Taylor	Conservative	May 12, 1913	B Baldwinson named deputy Provincial Secretary[5]
St. Boniface	Joseph Bernier	Conservative	May 21, 1913[5]	J Bernier appointed Provincial Secretary[6]
Kildonan and St. Andrews	Walter Humphries Montague	Conservative	November 29, 1913	O Grain resigned[5]

Notes:

References

1. "Members of the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1911-1914)". Memorable Manitobans. Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
2. "Leaders of the Opposition - Manitoba". Library of Parliament. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
3. "Past lieutenant governors". Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
4. "Historical Summaries" (PDF). Elections Manitoba. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
5. "MLA Biographies - Deceased". Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
6. Bumsted, J M (1999). Dictionary of Manitoba Biography. University of Manitoba Press. p. 22. ISBN 0887551696. Retrieved 2012-11-21.