9th Manitoba Legislature

The members of the 9th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in January 1896. The legislature sat from February 6, 1896, to November 16, 1899.[1]

The Liberals led by Thomas Greenway formed the government.[2]

Rodmond Roblin served as Leader of the Opposition.[3]

Finlay McNaughton Young served as speaker for the assembly.[1]

There were four sessions of the 9th Legislature:[1]

Session	Start	End
1st	February 6, 1896	April 16, 1896
2nd	February 11, 1897	April 16, 1897
3rd	March 10, 1898	April 27, 1898
4th	March 16, 1899	July 21, 1899

James Colebrooke Patterson was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.[4]

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1896:[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party[5]
	Thomas Dickie	Avondale	Liberal
	William Sirett	Beautiful Plains	Patrons of Industry
	Charles Mickle	Birtle	Liberal
	Charles Adams	Brandon City	Liberal
	Clifford Sifton	Brandon North	Liberal
	Herbert Graham	Brandon South	Liberal
	Roger Marion	Carillon	Conservative
	Alfred Doig	Cypress	Liberal
	Theodore Burrows	Dauphin	Liberal
	Charles Alexander Young	Deloraine	Liberal
	Watson Crosby	Dennis	Patrons of Industry
	David Henry McFadden	Emerson	Conservative
	Hector Sutherland	Kildonan	Conservative
	Finlay Young	Killarney	Liberal
	John Rutherford	Lakeside	Liberal
	Tobias Norris	Lansdowne	Liberal
	Théophile Paré	La Verendrye	Conservative
	James Riddell	Lorne	Liberal
	John Donald McIntosh	Manitou	Liberal
	Robert Myers	Minnedosa	Liberal
	Thomas Duncan	Morden	Liberal
	Stewart Mulvey	Morris	Liberal
	Thomas Greenway	Mountain	Liberal
	George Rogers	Norfolk	Liberal
	Robert Watson	Portage la Prairie	Liberal
	Valentine Winkler	Rhineland	Liberal
	Samuel Jacob Jackson	Rockwood	Liberal
	Enoch Winkler	Rosenfeldt	Liberal
	James Fisher	Russell	Independent
	Sigtryggur Jonasson	St. Andrews	Liberal
	James Prendergast	St. Boniface	Liberal
	David McNaught	Saskatchewan	Liberal
	Archibald McIntyre Campbell	Souris	Liberal
	Thomas Henry Smith	Springfield	Liberal
	John Hettle	Turtle Mountain	Liberal
	Thomas Lewis Morton	Westbourne	Liberal
	Daniel Hunter McMillan	Winnipeg Centre	Liberal
	Peter McIntyre	Winnipeg North	Liberal
	John Donald Cameron	Winnipeg South	Liberal
	Rodmond Roblin	Woodlands	Conservative

Notes:

By-elections

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

Electoral district	Member elected	Affiliation	Election date	Reason
Lakeside	James McKenzie	Liberal	November 19, 1896	J Rutherford ran for federal seat[6]
Birtle	Charles Mickle	Liberal	December 19, 1896	C Mickle appointed Provincial Secretary[6]
Brandon North	Alexander Cumming Fraser	Liberal	December 19, 1896	C Sifton named federal minister[6]
St. Boniface	Jean-Baptiste Lauzon	Conservative	February 20, 1897	J Prendergast named county court judge[6]
Dennis	William James Kennedy	Liberal	July 15, 1897[6]	WM Crosby died March 19, 1897[7]
Brandon South	Frank Oliver Fowler	Liberal	November 20, 1897	H Graham resigned seat[6]
Turtle Mountain	James Johnson	Independent Conservative	November 27, 1897[6]	J Hettle died September 20, 1897[8]

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References

1. "Members of the Ninth Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1896–1899)". Memorable Manitobans. Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
2. Thomas Greenway – Parliament of Canada biography
3. "Leaders of the Opposition - Manitoba". Library of Parliament. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
4. "Past lieutenant governors". Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. Archived from the original on 2014-01-05. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
5. "Historical Summaries" (PDF). Elections Manitoba. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
6. "MLA Biographies - Deceased". Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Archived from the original on 2014-03-30.
7. "Watson Montgomery Crosby (1857–1897)". Memorable Manitobans. Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
8. "John Hettle (1842–1897)". Memorable Manitobans. Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-10-19.