10th Manitoba Legislature

The members of the 10th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in December 1899. The legislature sat from March 29, 1900, to June 25, 1903.^[1]

The Conservatives led by Hugh John Macdonald formed the government. After Macdonald resigned in 1900 to run for a federal seat,^[2] Rodmond Roblin became party leader and premier.^[1]

Thomas Greenway of the Liberal Party was Leader of the Opposition.^[3]

William Hespeler served as speaker for the assembly.^[1]

There were four sessions of the 10th Legislature:^[1]

Session	Start	End
1st	March 29, 1900	July 5, 1900
2nd	February 21, 1901	March 29, 1901
3rd	January 9, 1902	March 1, 1902
4th	February 12, 1903	March 18, 1903

James Colebrooke Patterson was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba until October 10, 1900, when Daniel Hunter McMillan became lieutenant governor.^[4]

Members of the Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1899:^[1]

Member	Electoral district	Party^[5]
James Argue	Avondale	Conservative
Robert C. Ennis	Beautiful Plains	Liberal
Charles Mickle	Birtle	Liberal
Stanley McInnis	Brandon City	Conservative
Thomas Greenwood	Brandon North	Liberal-Conservative
Frank Oliver Fowler	Brandon South	Liberal
Martin Jérôme	Carillon	Liberal
George Steel	Cypress	Liberal-Conservative
Theodore Burrows	Dauphin	Liberal
Charles Alexander Young	Deloraine	Liberal
David Henry McFadden	Emerson	Conservative
Baldwin Baldwinson	Gimli	Conservative
Orton Grain	Kildonan and St. Andrews	Liberal-Conservative
George Lawrence	Killarney	Conservative
James McKenzie	Lakeside	Liberal
Tobias Norris	Lansdowne	Liberal
William Lagimodière	La Verendrye	Liberal
James Riddell	Lorne	Liberal
Robert Rogers	Manitou	Conservative
Robert Myers	Minnedosa	Liberal
John Ruddell	Morden	Conservative
Colin Campbell	Morris	Conservative
Thomas Greenway	Mountain	Liberal
Robert Fern Lyons	Norfolk	Conservative
William Garland	Portage la Prairie	Conservative
Valentine Winkler	Rhineland	Liberal
Isaac Riley	Rockwood	Conservative
William Hespeler	Rosenfeldt	Independent Conservative
Henry Mullins	Russell	Conservative
S.A.D. Bertrand	St. Boniface	Liberal
William Ferguson	Saskatchewan	Conservative
Allen Thompson	Souris	Conservative
Thomas Henry Smith	Springfield	Liberal
James Johnson	Turtle Mountain	Independent Conservative
James Simpson	Virden	Conservative
Thomas Lewis Morton	Westbourne	Liberal
Daniel Hunter McMillan	Winnipeg Centre	Liberal
William Neilson	Winnipeg North	Conservative
Hugh John Macdonald	Winnipeg South	Conservative
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
Emerson	David Henry McFadden	Conservative	January 30, 1900	D. H. McFadden ran for reelection upon appointment as Provincial Secretary and Minister of Public Works^[6]
Winnipeg South	Hugh John Macdonald	Conservative	January 30, 1900	HJ Macdonald ran for reelection upon becoming Premier^[6]
Beautiful Plains	John Andrew Davidson	Conservative	March 10, 1900	RC Ennis resigned seat^[6]
Morris	Colin H. Campbell	Conservative	October 29, 1900	C. H. Campbell ran for reelection upon appointment as Attorney-General^[6]
Winnipeg Centre	Thomas William Taylor	Conservative	November 1, 1900	DH McMillan named lieutenant-governor for Manitoba^[6]
Woodlands	Rodmond Roblin	Conservative	November 8, 1900	R Roblin ran for reelection upon appointment as Premier^[6]
Rhineland	Valentine Winkler	Liberal	November 19, 1900	V Minkler ran for federal seat^[6]
St. Boniface	Joseph Bernier	Conservative	November 24, 1900	SAD Bertrand ran for federal seat^[6]
Manitou	Robert Rogers	Conservative	December 31, 1900	R Rogers ran for reelection upon appointment as Minister of Public Works^[6]
Winnipeg South	James Thomas Gordon	Conservative	January 24, 1901	HJ Macdonald ran for federal seat^[6]
Portage la Prairie	Hugh Armstrong	Conservative	February 6, 1902^[6]	W Garland died November 11, 1901^[7]