14th Manitoba Legislature

The members of the 14th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in July 1914. The legislature sat from September 15, 1914, to July 16, 1915.^[1]

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

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

The Roblin government was forced to resign in 1915 after a royal commission initiated by the Lieutenant Governor found evidence of corruption in the awarding of contracts for the construction of new legislative buildings. The house was dissolved and a new election was held in August 1915.^[3]

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

There were two sessions of the 14th Legislature:^[1]

Session	Start	End
1st	September 15, 1914	September 18, 1914
2nd	February 10, 1915	April 1, 1915

Douglas Colin Cameron was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.^[4]

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1914:^[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party[5]	First elected / previously elected
	John Williams	Arthur	Liberal	1907, 1914
	John Thomas Haig	Assiniboia	Conservative	1914
	James H. Howden	Beautiful Plains	Conservative	1903
	George Malcolm	Birtle	Liberal	1909
	George R. Coldwell	Brandon City	Conservative	1907
	Thomas B. Molloy	Carillon	Liberal	1914
	George R. Ray	Churchill[nb 1][6]	Conservative	1914
	George Steel	Cypress	Conservative	1899
	William Buchanan	Dauphin	Conservative	1914
	Robert Stirton Thornton	Deloraine	Liberal	1907, 1914
	Rodmond Roblin	Dufferin	Conservative	1888,[a] 1896
	Harry Mewhirter	Elmwood	Conservative	1914
	David Henry McFadden	Emerson	Conservative	1892, 1910
	Samuel Hughes	Gilbert Plains	Conservative	1910
	Sveinn Thorvaldson	Gimli	Conservative	1914
	James William Armstrong	Gladstone	Liberal	1907
	James Breakey	Glenwood	Liberal	1914
	Hugh Armstrong	Grand Rapids	Conservative	1892,[b] 1902,[c] 1914
	John Henry McConnell	Hamiota	Liberal	1914
	Aimé Bénard	Iberville	Conservative	1907
	Walter Humphries Montague	Kildonan and St. Andrews	Conservative	1913
	George Lawrence	Killarney	Conservative	1899
	John J. Garland	Lakeside	Conservative	1914
	Tobias Norris	Lansdowne	Liberal	1896, 1907
	Jean-Baptiste Lauzon	La Verendrye	Conservative	1896, 1907, 1914
	James Morrow	Manitou	Conservative	1911
	George Grierson	Minnedosa	Liberal	1914
	Valentine Winkler	Morden and Rhineland	Liberal	1892
	Jacques Parent	Morris	Conservative	1914
	James Bryson Baird	Mountain	Liberal	1907
	John Graham	Norfolk	Liberal	1914
	Ewan McPherson	Portage la Prairie	Liberal	1914
	Frederic Newton	Roblin	Conservative	1911
	Isaac Riley	Rockwood	Conservative	1899
	Donald Cromwell McDonald	Russell	Liberal	1914
	Joseph Bernier	St. Boniface	Conservative	1900, 1907
	Donald A. Ross	St. Clements	Liberal	1907
	Edmund L. Taylor	St. George	Conservative	1913
	Joseph Hamelin	Ste. Rose	Conservative	1914
	William Henry Sims	Swan River	Liberal	1914
	Robert Orok	The Pas	Conservative	1912
	James Johnson	Turtle Mountain	Conservative	1897
	George Clingan	Virden	Liberal	1914
	Thomas Herman Johnson	Winnipeg Centre A	Liberal	1907
	Fred Dixon	Winnipeg Centre B	Independent	1914
	Joseph P. Foley	Winnipeg North A	Conservative	1914
	Daniel McLean	Winnipeg North B	Conservative	1914
	Albert Hudson	Winnipeg South A	Liberal	1914
	William Parrish	Winnipeg South B	Liberal	1914

Notes:

1. Election held August 1, 1914

By-elections

None

Notes

1. Dufferin North
2. Woodlands
3. Portage la Prairie