List of Law Clerks and Parliamentary Counsel of the Canadian House of Commons

Last updated August 02, 2022

This is a list of Law Clerks and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons of Canada.

Gustavus W. Wicksteed – 1867–1887
William Wilson – 1887–1890
Frederick Augustus McCord – 1890–1908
A.H. O'Brien – 1909–1914
Francis A. Gisborne – 1914–1922
Joseph K. Foran – 1923–1924
Arthur Gordon Troop – 1924–1925
Paul Maurice Ollivier ^[1] – 1925–1952
Arthur Gordon Troop – 1926–1936
Arthur Angus Fraser – 1938–1952
Paul Maurice Ollivier – 1952–1970
Joseph Maingot – 1971–1982
Marcel R. Pelletier – 1983–1991
Robert R. Walsh – 1999–2012
Richard Denis (acting) – 2012–2013
Richard Fujarczuk – May 2013–February 2014
Richard Denis (acting) – 2014–2015
Philippe Dufresne – February 2015–present

Notes

↑ Although Paul Maurice Ollivier’s appointment date is 1925, he was acting as Joint Law Clerk during the 1924 session to assist Arthur Gordon Troop (letter from the Clerk, Mr. Northrup, to the Civil Service Commission, 25 November 1924). Paul Maurice Ollivier was Joint Law Clerk with Arthur Gordon Troop, then with Arthur Angus Fraser, and as Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel up to the end of 1970, making him the longest-serving Law Clerk in the history of the House of Commons.

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[1] Although Paul Maurice Ollivier’s appointment date is 1925, he was acting as Joint Law Clerk during the 1924 session to assist Arthur Gordon Troop (letter from the Clerk, Mr. Northrup, to the Civil Service Commission, 25 November 1924). Paul Maurice Ollivier was Joint Law Clerk with Arthur Gordon Troop, then with Arthur Angus Fraser, and as Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel up to the end of 1970, making him the longest-serving Law Clerk in the history of the House of Commons.

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