21st Manitoba Legislature

The members of the 21st Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in April 1941. The legislature sat from December 9, 1941, to September 8, 1945.[1]

A coalition government of all four legal political parties in the province was formed in December 1940. John Bracken served as Premier[2] until 1943, when he entered federal politics. Stuart Garson succeeded Bracken as Premier.[3]

There was no official opposition until the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation left the coalition in 1943 and Seymour Farmer became Leader of the Opposition.[4]

Robert Hawkins served as speaker for the assembly.[1]

There were five sessions of the 21st Legislature:[1]

Session	Start	End
1st	December 9, 1941	March 31, 1942
2nd	February 2, 1943	March 17, 1943
3rd	February 8, 1944	April 6, 1944
4th	February 6, 1945	April 7, 1945
5th	September 4, 1945	September 8, 1945

Roland Fairbairn McWilliams was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.[5]

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1941:[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party[6]	First elected / previously elected	Notes
	John R. Pitt	Arthur	Liberal-Progressive	1935
	David Best	Assiniboia	Conservative Anti-coalition	1941
	John Poole	Beautiful Plains	Conservative Anti-coalition	1936
	Francis Campbell Bell	Birtle	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	George Dinsdale	Brandon City	Conservative	1932	Died in office September 21, 1943
	Dwight Johnson		CCF	1943
	Edmond Prefontaine	Carillon	Liberal-Progressive	1935
	James Christie	Cypress	Liberal-Progressive	1932
	Robert Hawkins	Dauphin	Liberal-Progressive	1932
	Errick Willis	Deloraine	Conservative	1936
	John Munn	Dufferin	Liberal-Progressive	1927	Died in office January 25, 1942
	Earl Collins		Conservative	1943
	John R. Solomon	Emerson	Independent Coalition	1941
	Nicholas Hryhorczuk	Ethelbert	Liberal-Progressive	1920[a], 1941
	Stuart Garson	Fairford	Liberal-Progressive	1927
	Nicholas Bachynsky	Fisher	Liberal-Progressive	1922
	Stanley Fox	Gilbert Plains	Social Credit	1936
	Joseph Wawrykow	Gimli	CCF	1936
	William Morton	Gladstone	Liberal-Progressive	1927
	James Breakey	Glenwood	Liberal-Progressive	1914, 1922
	Norman Turnbull	Hamiota	Social Credit	1936
	Arthur Boivin	Iberville	Independent Coalition	1917[b], 1941
	James McLenaghen	Kildonan and St. Andrews	Conservative	1927
	John Laughlin	Killarney	Conservative	1927, 1936	Died in office August 19, 1941
	Abram Harrison		Conservative	1943
	Douglas Lloyd Campbell	Lakeside	Liberal-Progressive	1922
	Matthew Sutherland	Lansdowne	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	Sauveur Marcoux	La Verendrye	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	Hugh Morrison	Manitou	Conservative	1936
	Earl Rutledge	Minnedosa	Conservative	1927
	Wallace C. Miller	Morden and Rhineland	Conservative	1936
	John C. Dryden	Morris	Independent Coalition	1941
	Ivan Schultz	Mountain	Liberal-Progressive	1930
	John Lawrie	Norfolk	Conservative	1936
	Toby Sexsmith	Portage la Prairie	Conservative	1933	Died in office August 23, 1943
	Charles Greenlay		Conservative	1943
	Sydney Rogers	Roblin	Social Credit	1936
	Mungo Lewis	Rockwood	Independent Coalition	1936
	Daniel Hamilton	Rupertsland	Liberal-Progressive	1941
	William Wilson	Russell	Liberal-Progressive	1915, 1941
	Austin Clarke	St. Boniface	Liberal-Progressive	1941
	Nicholas Stryk	St. Clements	Liberal-Progressive	1941
	Skuli Sigfusson	St. George	Liberal-Progressive	1914, 1922, 1941
	Maurice Dane MacCarthy	Ste. Rose	Liberal-Progressive	1927
	Evelyn Shannon	Springfield	Liberal-Progressive	1936
	George Renouf	Swan River	Conservative	1932
	John Bracken	The Pas	Liberal-Progressive	1922	Resigned January 15, 1943
	Beresford Richards		CCF	1943
	Alexander Welch	Turtle Mountain	Conservative	1929
	Robert Mooney	Virden	Liberal-Progressive	1922
	Paul Bardal	Winnipeg	Liberal-Progressive	1941
	Seymour Farmer		CCF	1922
	Morris Gray		CCF	1941
	Bill Kardash		Communist Anti-coalition	1941
	Huntly Ketchen		Conservative Anti-coalition	1932
	Stephen Krawchyk		Independent Coalition	1941
	John Stewart McDiarmid		Liberal-Progressive	1932
	Charles Rhodes Smith		Liberal-Progressive	1941
	Lewis Stubbs		Independent Anti-coalition	1936
	Gunnar Thorvaldson		Conservative	1941

By-elections

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

Electoral district	Member elected	Affiliation	Election date	Reason
Dufferin	Earl Collins	Conservative	June 22, 1943[7]	J Munn died January 25, 1942[8]
Killarney	Abram Harrison	Conservative	June 22, 1943[7]	J Laughlin died August 19, 1941[9]
The Pas	Beresford Richards	CCF	August 17, 1943	J Bracken resigned January 15, 1943[7]
Brandon City	Dwight Johnson	CCF	November 18, 1943[7]	G Dinsdale died September 21, 1943[10]
Portage la Prairie	Charles Greenlay	Conservative	November 18, 1943[7]	W Sexsmith died August 23, 1943[11]

Notes

1. First elected as a Independent Farmer
2. First elected as a Conservative

References

1. "Members of the Twenty-First Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1941–1945)". Memorable Manitobans. Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
2. Adams, Christopher (2008). Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters. University of Manitoba Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0887553554. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
3. "Hon. Stuart Sinclair Garson CC KC". Distinguished Graduates. University of Manitoba. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
4. "Leaders of the Opposition - Manitoba". Library of Parliament. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
5. "Past lieutenant governors". Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. Archived from the original on 2014-01-05. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
6. "Historical Summaries" (PDF). Elections Manitoba. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
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8. "John Alfred Munn". Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Science. 6 (2): 33–34. 1942. PMC 1584091. PMID 17647840.
9. "J.B. Laughlin, 62, Dies". Montreal Gazette. August 20, 1941. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
10. "G. Dinsdale, Brandon M.L.A., Dies At Home". Winnipeg Evening Tribune. September 21, 1943. p. 11. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
11. "Memorable Manitobans: William Raymond "Toby" Sexsmith (1885–1943)". Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 27 July 2017.