James Prendergast

James Emile Pierre Prendergast (March 22, 1858 – April 18, 1945 Prendergast served in the provincial cabinet as Provincial Secretary. In 1890, he left the cabinet over the Manitoba Schools Question and joined the opposition. he was a judge in the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories from 1902 to 1906, a judge in the Supreme Court of Saskatchewan from 1906 to 1910 and a judge in the Manitoba Court of King's Bench from 1910 to 1922. He was named to the Manitoba Court of Appeal in 1922. In 1929, he became Chief Justice in the Court of Appeal; he retired from the bench in 1944. Prendergast also served in the Roman Catholic section of the Manitoba Board of Education,

Prendergast also published two booklets of poems and served as co-editor of the French language newspaper Le Manitoba. For his contributions to the arts, he was elected to the French Académie des muses santones in Rouen. In 1944, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XII. and was buried in St. Boniface.