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The following is a list of the governors and governors general of Canada. Though the present-day office of the Governor General of Canada is legislatively covered under the Constitution Act, 1867 and legally constituted by the Letters Patent, 1947 , the institution is, along with the institution of the Crown it represents, the oldest continuous and uniquely Canadian institution in Canada, having existed in an unbroken line since the appointment of Samuel de Champlain in 1627. [1]
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Monarch Reign | Ref. | ||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | |||||
1 | Jean-François Roberval (c. 1495–1560) | 1541 | 1543 | 1–2 years | Francis I (1515–1547) | [2] [3] | |
2 | Troilus de Mesqouez (1536–1606) | 1578 | unknown | unknown | Henry III (1574–1589) | [2] [4] | |
Henry IV (1589–1610) | |||||||
3 | Aymar Chaste (1514–1603) | 1602 | 1603 | 0–1 years | [ citation needed ] | ||
4 | Henri II, Prince of Condé (1588–1646) | 1614 | 1619 | 4–5 years | Louis XIII (1610–1643) | [5] | |
5 | Henri II, Duke of Montmorency (1595–1632) | 1619 | 1625 | 5–6 years | [6] | ||
6 | Henri de Lévis de Ventadour, Duke of Ventadour (1596–1651) | 1625 | 1627 | 1–2 years | [7] |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Monarch Reign | ||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||
1 | Samuel de Champlain (1574–1635) | 1627 | 1635 | 7–8 years | Louis XIII (1610–1643) | |
2 | Charles de Montmagny (c. 1599–1654) | 1635 | 1648 | 12–13 years | ||
Louis XIV (1643–1715) | ||||||
3 | Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge (c. 1612–1660) | 1648 | 1651 | 2–3 years | ||
4 | Jean de Lauson (1584–1666) | 1651 | 1657 | 5–6 years | ||
5 | Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson, Vicomte de Mouzay (c. 1599–1654) | 1658 | 1661 | 2–3 years | ||
6 | Pierre Dubois Davaugour (1625–1709) | 1661 | 1663 | 1–2 years |
Following the Seven Years' War, control passed from France to Great Britain in the terms of the Treaty of Paris, creating the British Province of Quebec. Governors subsequently served under the British monarchy.
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Monarch Reign | ||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||
1 | Jeffery Amherst (1717–1797) | 1760 | 1763 | 2–3 years | George III (1760–1820) | |
2 | James Murray (1721–1794) | 1764 | 1768 | 4–5 years | ||
3 | Guy Carleton KB (1724–1808) | 1768 | 1778 | 9–10 years | ||
4 | Sir Frederick Haldimand KB (1724–1808) | 1778 | 1786 | 7–8 years |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Monarch Reign | ||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||
1 | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester KB (1724–1808) | 1786 | 1796 | 9–10 years | George III (1760–1820) | |
2 | Robert Prescott (c. 1726–1815) | 1796 | 1799 | 2–3 years | ||
3 | Sir Robert Milnes, 1st Baronet (1754–1837) | 1799 | 1805 | 5–6 years | ||
4 | Thomas Dunn (1729–1818) | 1805 | 1807 | 1–2 years | ||
5 | Sir James Henry Craig KB (1748–1812) | 1807 | 1811 | 3–4 years | ||
6 | Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet (1767–1816) | 1811 | 1815 | 3–4 years | ||
7 | Sir Gordon Drummond (1772–1854) | 1815 | 1816 | 0–1 years | ||
8 | Sir John Coape Sherbrooke (1764–1830) | 1816 | 1818 | 1–2 years | ||
9 | Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond KG , PC (1764–1819) | 1818 | 1819 | 0–1 years | ||
10 | George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie GCB (1770–1838) | 1820 | 1828 | 7–8 years | George IV (1820–1830) | |
11 | Sir James Kempt GCB (c. 1765–1854) | 1828 | 1830 | 1–2 years | ||
12 | Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer (1775–1850) | 1830 | 1835 | 4–5 years | William IV (1830–1837) | |
13 | Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford GCB (1776–1849) | 1835 | 1837 | 1–2 years | ||
14 | Sir John Colborne (1778–1863) | 1837 | 1838 | 0–1 years | Victoria (1837–1901) | |
15 | John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792–1840) | 1838 | 1839 | 0–1 years | ||
16 | Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham PC (1799–1841) | 1839 | 1841 | 1–2 years |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Monarch Reign | ||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||
1 | Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham PC (1799–1841) | 5 February 1841 | 19 September 1841 | 226 days | Victoria (1837–1901) | |
2 | Sir Charles Bagot (1781–1843) | 12 January 1842 | 19 May 1843 | 1 year, 127 days | ||
3 | Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe Bt , PC (1785–1846) | 30 May 1843 | 26 November 1845 | 2 years, 180 days | ||
4 | Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart GCB (1783–1859) | 26 November 1845 | 30 January 1847 | 1 year, 65 days | ||
5 | James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin PC , GCB (1811–1863) | 30 January 1847 | 19 December 1854 | 7 years, 323 days | ||
6 | Sir Edmund Walker Head, Baronet KCB (1805–1868) | 19 December 1854 | 25 October 1861 | 6 years, 310 days | ||
7 | Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck PC , GCMG (1819–1894) | 25 October 1861 | 1 July 1867 | 5 years, 249 days |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Profession | Term of office | Monarch Reign | Prime Minister Term of office | Ref. | ||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | |||||||
1 | Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (1819–1894) | Politician | 1 July 1867 | 14 November 1868 | 1 year, 136 days | Victoria (1837–1901) | Sir John A. Macdonald (1867–1873) | [8] | |
2 | John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (1807–1876) | Politician | 14 November 1868 | 25 June 1872 | 3 years, 144 days | [9] | |||
3 | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin (1826–1902) | Diplomat | 25 June 1872 | 25 November 1878 | 6 years, 153 days | [10] | |||
Alexander Mackenzie (1873–1878) | |||||||||
Sir John A. Macdonald (1878–1891) | |||||||||
4 | John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (1845–1914) | Author, Politician | 25 November 1878 | 23 October 1883 | 4 years, 332 days | [11] | |||
5 | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845–1927) | Politician | 23 October 1883 | 11 June 1888 | 4 years, 232 days | [12] | |||
6 | Frederick Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston (1841–1908) | Politician | 11 June 1888 | 18 September 1893 | 5 years, 99 days | [13] | |||
Sir John Abbott (1891–1892) | |||||||||
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson (1892–1894) | |||||||||
7 | John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen (1847–1934) | Politician | 18 September 1893 | 12 November 1898 | 5 years, 55 days | [14] | |||
Sir Mackenzie Bowell (1894–1896) | |||||||||
Sir Charles Tupper (1896) | |||||||||
Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896–1911) | |||||||||
8 | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845–1914) | Military officer | 12 November 1898 | 10 December 1904 | 6 years, 28 days | [15] | |||
Edward VII (1901–1910) | |||||||||
9 | Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851–1917) | Politician | 10 December 1904 | 13 October 1911 | 6 years, 307 days | [16] | |||
George V (1910–1936) | |||||||||
Sir Robert Borden (1911–1920) | |||||||||
10 | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850–1942) | Military officer | 13 October 1911 | 11 November 1916 | 5 years, 29 days | [17] | |||
11 | Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868–1938) | Politician | 11 November 1916 | 11 August 1921 | 4 years, 273 days | [18] | |||
Arthur Meighen (1920–1921) | |||||||||
12 | Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862–1935) | Military officer | 11 August 1921 | 2 October 1926 | 5 years, 52 days | [19] | |||
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1921–1926) | |||||||||
Arthur Meighen (1926) | |||||||||
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1926–1930) | |||||||||
13 | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941) | Politician | 2 October 1926 | 4 April 1931 | 4 years, 184 days | [20] | |||
R.B. Bennett (1930–1935) | |||||||||
14 | Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (1880–1956) | Businessman | 4 April 1931 | 2 November 1935 | 4 years, 212 days | [21] | |||
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1935–1948) | |||||||||
15 | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940) | Author, Politician | 2 November 1935 | 11 February 1940 | 4 years, 101 days | [22] | |||
Edward VIII (1936) | |||||||||
George VI (1936–1952) | |||||||||
16 | Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874–1957) | Military officer | 21 June 1940 | 12 April 1946 | 5 years, 295 days | [23] | |||
17 | Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891–1969) | Military officer | 12 April 1946 | 28 January 1952 | 5 years, 300 days | [24] | |||
Louis St. Laurent (1948–1957) | |||||||||
18 | Vincent Massey (1887–1967) | Diplomat | 28 February 1952 | 15 September 1959 | 7 years, 199 days | Elizabeth II (1952–2022) | [25] | ||
John Diefenbaker (1957–1963) | |||||||||
19 | Georges Vanier (1888–1967) | Military officer, Diplomat | 15 September 1959 | 5 March 1967 | 7 years, 171 days | [26] | |||
Lester B. Pearson (1963–1968) | |||||||||
20 | Roland Michener (1900–1991) | Politician | 17 April 1967 | 14 January 1974 | 6 years, 272 days | [27] | |||
Pierre Trudeau (1968–1979) | |||||||||
21 | Jules Léger (1913–1980) | Diplomat | 14 January 1974 | 22 January 1979 | 5 years, 8 days | [28] | |||
22 | Edward Schreyer (born 1935) | Politician | 22 January 1979 | 14 May 1984 | 5 years, 113 days | [29] | |||
Joe Clark (1979–1980) | |||||||||
Pierre Trudeau (1980–1984) | |||||||||
23 | Jeanne Sauvé (1922–1993) | Journalist, Politician | 14 May 1984 | 29 January 1990 | 5 years, 260 days | [30] | |||
John Turner (1984) | |||||||||
Brian Mulroney (1984–1993) | |||||||||
24 | Ray Hnatyshyn (1934–2002) | Politician | 29 January 1990 | 8 February 1995 | 5 years, 10 days | [31] | |||
Kim Campbell (1993) | |||||||||
Jean Chrétien (1993–2003) | |||||||||
25 | Roméo LeBlanc (1928–2009) | Journalist, Politician | 8 February 1995 | 7 October 1999 | 4 years, 242 days | [32] | |||
26 | Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939) | Journalist | 7 October 1999 | 27 September 2005 | 5 years, 355 days | [33] | |||
Paul Martin (2003–2006) | |||||||||
27 | Michaëlle Jean (born 1957) | Journalist | 27 September 2005 | 1 October 2010 | 5 years, 4 days | [34] | |||
Stephen Harper (2006–2015) | |||||||||
28 | David Johnston (born 1941) | Law professor, University administrator | 1 October 2010 | 2 October 2017 | 7 years, 1 day | [35] [36] | |||
Justin Trudeau (since 2015) | |||||||||
29 | Julie Payette (born 1963) | Astronaut, Engineer | 2 October 2017 | 22 January 2021 | 3 years, 112 days | [37] [38] [39] | |||
30 | Mary Simon (born 1947) | Broadcaster, Diplomat | 26 July 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 167 days | ||||
Charles III (since 2022) |
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