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.^[1]

A coalition between the Progressive Party of Manitoba led by John Bracken and the Liberal Party led by Murdoch Mackay formed the government.^[2] Bracken served as premier.^[1]

Fawcett Taylor of the Conservatives was Leader of the Opposition. After Taylor resigned in 1933, William Sanford Evans became party leader.^[3]

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.^[4]

Philippe Adjutor Talbot served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

There were four sessions of the 19th Legislature:^[1]

Session	Start	End
1st	February 14, 1933	May 4, 1933
2nd	February 8, 1934	April 7, 1934
3rd	February 12, 1935	April 6, 1935
4th	February 18, 1936	April 7, 1936

James Duncan McGregor was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba until December 1, 1934, when William Johnston Tupper became lieutenant governor.^[5]

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1932:^[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party[6]	First elected / previously elected	No.# of term(s)	Notes
	Duncan Lloyd McLeod	Arthur	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term	Died in office May 10, 1935
	John R. Pitt (1935)		Liberal-Progressive	1935	1st term
	Ralph Webb	Assiniboia	Conservative	1932	1st term
	Adalbert Poole	Beautiful Plains	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	John Pratt	Birtle	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	George Dinsdale	Brandon City	Conservative	1932	1st term
	Albert Préfontaine	Carillon	Liberal-Progressive	1903,[a] 1915,[b] 1922	7th term*	Died in office February 21, 1935
	Edmond Prefontaine (1935)		Liberal-Progressive	1935	1st term
	James Christie	Cypress	Liberal-Progressive	1932	1st term
	Robert Hawkins	Dauphin	Liberal-Progressive	1932	1st term
	Hugh McKenzie	Deloraine	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	John Munn	Dufferin	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	Robert Curran	Emerson	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	Nicholas Hryhorczuk	Ethelbert	Liberal-Progressive	1920	4th term
	Stuart Garson	Fairford	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	Nicholas Bachynsky	Fisher	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term
	Arthur Berry	Gilbert Plains	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term
	Ingimar Ingaldson	Gimli	Liberal-Progressive	1932	1st term
	William Morton	Gladstone	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	James Breakey	Glenwood	Liberal-Progressive	1914, 1922	5th term*
	Thomas Wolstenholme	Hamiota	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term
	Arthur Boivin	Iberville	Independent Liberal-Progressive	1917[a]	5th term
	James McLenaghen	Kildonan and St. Andrews	Conservative	1927	2nd term
	Andrew Foster	Killarney	Liberal-Progressive	1922,[c] 1932	2nd term*
	Douglas Lloyd Campbell	Lakeside	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term
	Donald Gordon McKenzie	Lansdowne	Liberal-Progressive	1928	2nd term
	Philippe Talbot	La Verendrye	Liberal-Progressive	1915[d]	5th term
	Frank McIntosh	Manitou	Liberal-Progressive	1932	1st term
	Earl Rutledge	Minnedosa	Conservative	1927	2nd term
	Cornelius Wiebe	Morden and Rhineland	Liberal-Progressive	1932	1st term
	William Clubb	Morris	Liberal-Progressive	1920	4th term
	Ivan Schultz	Mountain	Liberal-Progressive	1930	2nd term
	John Muirhead	Norfolk	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term
	Fawcett Taylor	Portage la Prairie	Conservative	1920	4th term	Resigned April 1933
	Toby Sexsmith (1933)		Conservative	1933	1st term
	William James Westwood	Roblin	Independent Labour	1917, 1932	2nd term*
	William McKinnell	Rockwood	Liberal-Progressive	1920	4th term
	Ewan McPherson	Rupertsland	Liberal-Progressive	1914,[e] 1932	3rd term*
	Isaac Griffiths	Russell	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term
	Harold Lawrence	St. Boniface	Independent Labour	1932	1st term
	Robert Hoey	St. Clements	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	Skuli Sigfusson	St. George	Liberal-Progressive	1915, 1922	4th term*
	Maurice Dane MacCarthy	Ste. Rose	Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	Clifford Barclay	Springfield	Independent Farmer-Labour	1922,[c] 1932	2nd term*
	George Renouf	Swan River	Conservative	1932	1st term
	John Bracken	The Pas	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term
	Alexander Welch	Turtle Mountain	Conservative	1929	2nd term
	Robert Mooney	Virden	Liberal-Progressive	1922	3rd term
	William Sanford Evans	Winnipeg	Conservative	1922	3rd term
	Seymour Farmer		Independent Labour	1922	3rd term
	John Thomas Haig		Conservative	1914,[f] 1920	5th term*
	Marcus Hyman		Independent Labour	1932	1st term
	Huntly Ketchen		Conservative	1932	1st term
	William Major		Liberal-Progressive	1927	2nd term
	Ralph Maybank		Liberal-Progressive	1932	1st term
	John Stewart McDiarmid		Liberal-Progressive	1932	1st term
	William Ivens		Independent Labour	1920	4th term
	John Queen		Independent Labour	1920	4th term

By-elections

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

Electoral district	Member elected	Affiliation	Election date	Reason
Portage la Prairie	Toby Sexsmith	Conservative	November 27, 1933	F Taylor resigned[7]
Arthur	John R. Pitt	Liberal-Progressive	June 24, 1935	D McLeod died May 10, 1935[7]
Russell	Isaac Griffiths	Liberal-Progressive	July 4, 1935	I Griffiths appointed Minister of Health And Public Welfare[7]
Carillon	Edmond Prefontaine	Liberal-Progressive	July 4, 1935[7]	A Prefontaine died February 21, 1935[8]

Notes

1. First elected as Conservative
2. Re-elected as Conservative
3. First elected as a Progressive
4. First elected as a Liberal
5. Portage la Prairie
6. Assiniboia