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19th Manitoba Legislature
The members of the 19th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in June 1932. The legislature sat from February 14, 1933, to June 12, 1936. A coalition between the Progressive Party of Manitoba led by John Bracken and the Liberal Party led by Murdoch Mackay formed the government. Bracken served as premier. Fawcett Taylor of the Conservatives was Leader of the Opposition. After Taylor resigned in 1933, William Sanford Evans became party leader. The ''Minimum Wage Act'' was amended to include male workers over the age of 18. The minimum hourly wage in Manitoba was $0.25 for urban workers and $0.21 for rural workers. Up until 1931, the minimum wage only applied to female workers. Philippe Adjutor Talbot served as speaker for the assembly. There were four sessions of the 19th Legislature: James Duncan McGregor was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba until December 1, 1934, when William Johnston Tupper William Johnston Tupper (June 29, 1862 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Manitoba General Election
The 1932 Manitoba general election was held on June 16, 1932 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. A Liberal-Progressive majority government was elected. This was the second election in Manitoba where two types of preferential voting was used in all electoral divisions. Winnipeg elected ten members through single transferable ballot, while all other constituencies elected one member by instant runoff voting. The election was called soon after the announcement of an alliance between the governing Progressive Party of John Bracken and the Liberal Party led by Murdoch Mackay. These parties were ideologically similar, and had a common interest in preventing the Conservative Party from coming to power. National Liberal leader William Lyon Mackenzie King supported this alliance, out of concern that a Conservative victory would strengthen the hand of Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bennett. Bracken tried to bring the Conservatives in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assiniboia (provincial Electoral District)
Assiniboia is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was first created for the 1879 provincial election, was eliminated in 1888, and was re-established in 1903. It is located in the westernmost tip of the City of Winnipeg. Assiniboia is bordered on the east by St. James and Lakeside, to the south by Kirkfield Park, to the north by Lakeside, and to the west by Morris. The riding's population in 1996 was 20,441. In 1999, the average family income was $53,881, and the unemployment rate was 6.50%. Retail trade accounts for 15% of the riding's industry. Until 1920, Assiniboia was a marginal riding between the Manitoba Liberal Party and Conservative Party. Between 1920 and 1949, it was a hotly contested riding between the Conservatives and candidates of the Independent Labour Party and Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). The riding was dominated by the Liberals from 1949 until 1977, and then by the Progressive Conservatives from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh McKenzie (Manitoba Politician)
Hugh McKenzie (January 20, 1870 – 1957) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1936. The son of John McKenzie and Eliza Hogan, McKenzie was educated at Lovant, and served sixteen years as a municipal councillor and reeve in Deloraine, Manitoba. In 1895, he married Elfreda Potter. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1927 provincial election as a Progressive Progressive may refer to: Politics * Progressivism, a political philosophy in support of social reform ** Progressivism in the United States, the political philosophy in the American context * Progressive realism, an American foreign policy par ..., defeating Conservative candidate A.G. Hainsworth by 160 votes. The Progressives won the election, and McKenzie served as a backbench supporter of John Bracken's government. In 1932, the Progressives formed an alliance with the provincial Liberal Party. Government members became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dauphin (provincial Electoral District)
Dauphin is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was originally created in 1881 with the expansion of the province's western boundary, eliminated in 1886, re-established in 1892, and finally abolished in 1999. Most of its territory went to the new riding of Dauphin-Roblin, though a small amount went to the riding of Swan River. Dauphin-Roblin was largely replaced by a new Dauphin riding in the 2008 redistribution, expanding to include Ste. Rose du Lac. Dauphin was initially centred on the community of Dauphin, Manitoba, though it now encompasses much rural territory as well. It is located in the province's mid-northern region, close to the provincial border with Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak .... List of provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hawkins (Manitoba Politician)
Robert Hawkins (May 29, 1879 at Buckland St. Mary, Somerset, England – June 19, 1962) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1932 to 1949 as a Liberal-Progressive, and was Speaker of the legislature from 1937 to 1949. Hawkins was educated in Bristol, and came to Canada in 1904. He worked as an insurance, real estate and financial agent, serving as president of Robert Hawkins Co. Ltd. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1932 provincial election, defeating Conservative candidate Ernest N. McGirr, 266 votes in the Dauphin constituency. He was re-elected over McGirr by a greater margin in the 1936 election. On February 18, 1937, he was chosen as Speaker of the Assembly. Hawkins was re-elected by acclamation in the 1941 provincial election, and defeated a candidate of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in 1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cypress (former Manitoba Provincial Electoral District)
Cypress is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... It was located in the south of the province. Cypress was created for the 1886 provincial election, and abolished with the 1969 election. Provincial representatives Election results {{DEFAULTSORT:Cypress (Electoral District) Former provincial electoral districts of Manitoba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Christie (Manitoba Politician)
James Lyall Christie (June 9, 1891 – January 19, 1953) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive representative from 1932 until his death. Background Christie was born and educated in Glenboro, Manitoba where he worked as a farmer. His father, also named James Christie, was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1914 provincial election. His mother was Annie Ferguson. The younger James Christie served as the provincial director of Manitoba Livestock Producers Ltd. and was an official or member in several local farm associations as well as being an active freemason. He served as a soldier in France Library and Archives of Canada. with the Motor Machine Gun Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carillon (electoral District)
Carillon is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was established for the 1886 provincial election, and eliminated with the 1969 election. The constituency was predominantly francophone. Albert Prefontaine and his son Edmond Edmond is a given name related to Edmund. Persons named Edmond include: * Edmond Canaple (1797–1876), French politician * Edmond Chehade (born 1993), Lebanese footballer * Edmond Conn (1914–1998), American farmer, businessman, and politician ... represented Carillon for almost all of the period between 1903 and 1962, serving with a variety of parties. Provincial representatives Electoral results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Carillon (Electoral District) Former provincial electoral districts of Manitoba 1886 establishments in Manitoba 1969 disestablishments in Manitoba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Préfontaine
Albert Préfontaine (October 11, 1861 – February 21, 1935) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as leader of the Manitoba Conservatives in the late 1910s, and was subsequently a member of the United Farmers of Manitoba. Born in Upton, Canada East (now Quebec), the son of Firmin Prefontaine and Mathilde (Mathilda) Desautels, Préfontaine was educated in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He subsequently moved to Manitoba in 1880, where he worked as a farmer and store manager and served as Reeve of the Municipality of De Salaberry from 1892 to 1896. In 1888, he married Albina L'Heureux. Préfontaine was president of the Carillon Agricultural Society, of the Carey Elevator Company and of the St. Pierre Trading Company. Préfontaine was first elected to the provincial parliament in 1903, running for Rodmond Roblin's governing Conservatives in the francophone riding of Carillon. He was re-elected in 1907 and 1910. In 1914, Préfontaine lost his seat to Liberal Thomas Moll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon City (electoral District)
Brandon City is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was initially created as Brandon in 1881, following the westward expansion of Manitoba's boundaries. It was eliminated through redistribution before the 1886 provincial election, and replaced with Brandon East and Brandon West. The area was further redistributed prior to the 1888 election, and Brandon City was created along with Brandon North and Brandon South Brandon may refer to: Names and people *Brandon (given name), a male given name * Brandon (surname), a surname with several different origins Places Australia *Brandon, a farm and 19th century homestead in Seaham, New South Wales *Brandon, Q .... The constituency was renamed Brandon for the 1958 provincial election. It disappeared from the electoral map with the 1969 provincial election, when the city was once again divided into Brandon East and Brandon West. Provincial representatives for Brandon Provincial representatives for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dinsdale
George Dinsdale (August 14, 1887 in Leven, East Riding of Yorkshire, England – September 21, 1943) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a Conservative representative in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1932 until his death. The son of George Dinsdale and Harriet Catherick, Dinsdale was educated at Rise, a village about three miles south-east of Leven, and came to Canada in 1904. He first farmed in Ontario and came west in 1906, settling on a homestead at Craik, Saskatchewan. Dinsdale moved to Brandon, Manitoba later that year. He served six years as an alderman in Brandon, Manitoba, and was the city's mayor in 1920 and 1921. Dinsdale was also the owner of Dinsdale Cartage, and was a member of the Salvation Army. In 1909, he married Minnie Lang. In Brandon's 1919 mayoralty campaign, Dinsdale presented himself as a "labour man", though noting he had opposed the recent general strike in the city. Albert E. Smith, a prominent labour organizer and later a Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birtle (electoral District)
Birtle is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. Birtle was established in 1881, following the western expansion of the province's boundaries. It was located in the central western region of the province, near Roblin and Russell. It was eliminated for the 1886 provincial election, but re-established for the 1888 election. For most of its history, Birtle was safe for the Liberal and Liberal-Progressive Liberal-Progressive was a label used by a number of candidates in Canadian elections between 1925 and 1953. In federal and Ontario politics, there was no Liberal-Progressive party: it was an alliance between two parties. In Manitoba, a party existe ... parties. The constituency was abolished with the 1958 election, with much of its territory going to the new constituency of Birtle-Russell. Provincial representatives {{DEFAULTSORT:Birtle (Electoral District) Former provincial electoral districts of Manitoba 1881 establishments in Manitoba 1886 dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
