James Prendergast (Canadian politician)

James Emile Pierre Prendergast (March 22, 1858 – April 18, 1945[1]) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Manitoba.

He represented La Verendrye from 1885 to 1888 and Woodlands from 1888 to 1892 and St. Boniface from 1892 to 1896 in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Conservative and later Liberal.

[1] He was elected to the Manitoba assembly in an 1885 by-election held after Louis Prud'homme was named a county court judge.

[1] 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.