List of Manitoba senators

This is a list of past and present Canadian senators from 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 of 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 of 1915 added two more senate seats for Manitoba bringing the total to six.

The Constitution Act of 1915 also amended Section 26 of the Constitution Act of 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
	Raymonde Gagné	Independent	Manitoba	April 1, 2016	Johnston	J. Trudeau	January 7, 2031
	Janis Johnson4	Conservative	Winnipeg-Interlake Manitoba5	September 27, 1990	Hnatyshyn	Mulroney	April 27, 2021
	Don Plett	Conservative	Landmark	August 27, 2009	Jean	Harper	May 14, 2025
	Murray Sinclair	Independent	Manitoba	April 1, 2016	Johnston	J. Trudeau	January 24, 2026

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 of Canada 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 September 27, 1990 to March 29, 2009 and Manitoba from March 30, 2009 to the present.

Historical

	Name	Party 1	Division2	Date appointed	Appointed by3	End of Term
	Arthur-Lucien Beaubien	Liberal	Provencher	January 29, 1940	King	February 1, 1969
	Aimé Bénard	Conservative	St. Boniface	September 3, 1917	Borden	January 8, 1938
	Thomas-Alfred Bernier	Conservative	St. Boniface	October 27, 1892	Abbott	December 30, 1908
	JoAnne Buth	Conservative	Manitoba	January 6, 2012	Harper	August 10, 2014
	Charles Arkoll Boulton	Liberal-Conservative	Marquette	December 10, 1889	Macdonald	May 15, 1899
	George Bradbury	Conservative	Selkirk	December 17, 1917	Borden	September 6, 1925
	Sharon Carstairs	Liberal	Manitoba	September 15, 1994	Chrétien	October 17, 2011
	Maria Chaput	Liberal	Manitoba	December 12, 2002	Chrétien	March 1, 2016
	Noé Chevrier	Liberal	Winnipeg	January 18, 1909	Laurier	October 9, 1911
	Thomas Crerar	Liberal	Churchill	April 18, 1945	King	May 31, 1966
	John Caswell Davis	Liberal	Winnipeg	January 25, 1949	St. Laurent	October 25, 1953
	Ron Duhamel	Liberal	Manitoba	January 15, 2002	Chrétien	September 30, 2002
	Douglas Everett	Independent Liberal	Fort Rouge	November 8, 1966	Pearson	January 20, 1994
	Robert Forke	Liberal-Progressive	Brandon	December 30, 1929	King	February 2, 1934
	Marc-Amable Girard	Liberal	St. Boniface	December 13, 1871	Macdonald	September 12, 1892
	Joseph-Philippe Guay	Liberal	St. Boniface	March 23, 1978	Trudeau, P. E.	October 4, 1990
	James Campbell Haig	Progressive Conservative	River Heights	June 15, 1962	Diefenbaker	December 29, 1977
	John Thomas Haig	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg	August 14, 1935	Richard Bennett	January 17, 1962
	John Power Howden	Liberal	St. Boniface	April 18, 1945	King	November 4, 1959
	Olive Lillian Irvine	Progressive Conservative	Lisgar	January 14, 1960	Diefenbaker	November 1, 1969
	Duncan Jessiman	Progressive Conservative	Manitoba	May 26, 1993	Mulroney	June 5, 1998
	John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer	Conservative	Selkirk	December 16, 1892	Thompson	December 22, 1914
	Richard Kroft	Liberal	Manitoba	June 11, 1998	Chrétien	September 24, 2004
	Alphonse Larivière	Conservative	Provencher	October 23, 1911	Borden	September 1, 1917
	Lendrum McMeans	Conservative	Winnipeg	July 26, 1917	Borden	September 13, 1941
	William Craig McNamara	Liberal	Winnipeg	October 7, 1970	Trudeau, P. E.	August 8, 1979
	Gildas Molgat	Liberal	St. Rose	October 7, 1970	Trudeau, P. E.	February 28, 2001
	John Patrick Molloy	Liberal	Provencher	October 6, 1925	King	March 16, 1948
	Henry Mullins	Conservative	Marquette	August 14, 1935	Bennett	September 5, 1950
	Nathan Nurgitz	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg North	October 3, 1979	Clark	February 9, 1993
	Dufferin Roblin	Progressive Conservative	Red River	March 23, 1978	Trudeau, P. E.	June 17, 1992
	Frederick Laurence Schaffner	Conservative	Souris	October 23, 1917	Borden	May 22, 1935
	John Christian Schultz	Liberal-Conservative	Manitoba	September 23, 1882	Macdonald	July 1, 1888
	William Sharpe	Conservative	Manitou	February 10, 1916	Borden	April 19, 1942
	Mira Spivak	Independent	Manitoba	November 17, 1986	Mulroney	July 12, 2009
	Terry Stratton	Conservative	Red River	March 25, 1993	Mulroney	March 16, 2013
	John Sutherland	Independent Conservative	Kildonan	December 13, 1871	Macdonald	April 13, 1899
	Gunnar Thorvaldson	Progressive Conservative	Winnipeg South	January 29, 1958	Diefenbaker	August 2, 1969
	William Michael Wall	Liberal	Winnipeg	July 28, 1955	St. Laurent	July 7, 1962
	Robert Watson	Liberal	Portage la Prairie	January 29, 1900	Laurier	May 19, 1929
	Finlay McNaughton Young	Liberal	Killarney	January 30, 1900	Laurier	February 15, 1916
	Paul Yuzyk	Progressive Conservative	Fort Garry	February 4, 1963	Diefenbaker	July 9, 1986
	Rod Zimmer	Liberal	Winnipeg	August 2, 2005	Martin	August 6, 2013

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 of Canada on the recommendation of the prime minister.

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 appoint themselves to a senate division in any province of their choosing in their region.

	Name	Party3	Division1	Date appointed	Appointed by2	Mandatory retirement
	Janis Johnson	Conservative	Winnipeg-Interlake	September 27, 1990	Mulroney	April 27, 2021
	Eric Berntson	Progressive Conservative	Saskatchewan	September 27, 1990	Mulroney	February 27, 2001

Notes:

¹ Senators are appointed to represent a region. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within their region as his or her division.
² Senators are appointed by the Governor-General of Canada on the recommendation of the prime minister.
³ Party listed was the last party of which the Senator was a member.

See also

• Lists of Canadian senators

External links

• Current Senators List Parliament Website
• A Legislative and Historical Overview of the Canadian Senate