The following is a list of lieutenant governors of Ontario and the lieutenant governors of the former colony of Upper Canada. The office of Lieutenant Governor of Ontario was created in 1867, when the Province of Ontario was created upon Confederation.[1] The predecessor office, lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, was a British colonial officer, appointed by the British government to administer the government of the colony, from 1791 to 1841. (Prior to 1791, the territory which is now Ontario was part of the old Province of Quebec, which was administered by the colonial governors of the Province of Quebec.)
In 1841, the two provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada were abolished and merged into the new Province of Canada, with a single Parliament and Governor General. Upper Canada was known as Canada West, but did not have a separate government or lieutenant governor. It was simply an administrative division of the Province of Canada.
Prior to Confederation, the lieutenant governors of Upper Canada were either British colonial administrators or British Army officers. The first lieutenant governor of Ontario, General Sir Henry William Stisted, was the last British lieutenant governor. From 1868 onwards, only Canadians were appointed to the position.
Lieutenant governors of Upper Canada, 1791–1841
edit| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Monarch Reign | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | ||||
| 1 | 
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John Graves Simcoe[2] (1752–1806) |
1791 | 1798 | George III (1760–1820) |
| – | 
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Peter Russell[3] (1733–1808) Administrator of the Government |
1796 | 1799 | |
| 2 | Peter Hunter[4] (1746–1805) |
1799 | 1805 | ||
| – | Alexander Grant[5] (1734–1813) Administrator of the Government |
1805 | 1806 | ||
| 3 | 
|
Francis Gore[6] (1769–1852) |
1806 | 1817 | |
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Sir Isaac Brock KB (1769–1812) Acting |
1811 | 1812 | |
| – | 
|
Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe 1st Baronet (1763–1851) Acting |
1812 | 1813 | |
| – | Sir Francis de Rottenburg Baron of Rottenburg (1757–1832) Acting |
1813 | 1813 | ||
| – | 
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Sir Gordon Drummond (1772–1854) Acting |
1813 | 1814 | |
| – | 
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Sir George Murray GCB, GCH (1772–1846) Acting |
1815 | 1815 | |
| – | 
|
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson KCB, GCH (1763–1852) Acting |
1815 | 1815 | |
| – | 
|
Samuel Smith[7] (1756–1826) Administrator of the Government |
1817 | 1818 | |
| 4 | 
|
Sir Peregrine Maitland[8] KCB, GCH (1777–1854) |
1818 | 1828 | |
| George IV (1820–1830) | |||||
| 5 | 
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Sir John Colborne[9] GCB, GCMG (1778–1863) |
1828 | 1836 | |
| William IV (1830–1837) | |||||
| 6 | 
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Sir Francis Bond Head[10] KCH (1778–1863) |
1836 | 1838 | |
| Victoria (1837–1901) | |||||
| 7 | 
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Sir George Arthur[11] KCH (1778–1863) |
1838 | 1839 | |
| 8 | 
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Charles Poulett Thomson 1st Baron Sydenham[12] PC (1799–1841) |
1839 | 1841 | |
Lieutenant governors of Ontario, 1867–present
edit| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Monarch Reign |
Premier Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | |||||
| 1 | 
|
Henry William Stisted CB (1817–1875) |
1 July 1867 |
14 July 1868 |
Victoria (1837–1901) |
John Sandfield Macdonald (1867–1871) |
| 2 | 
|
William Pearce Howland PC (1811–1907) |
15 July 1868 |
11 November 1873 | ||
| Edward Blake (1871–1872) | ||||||
| Sir Oliver Mowat (1872–1896) | ||||||
| 3 | 
|
John Willoughby Crawford QC (1817–1875) |
12 November 1873 |
13 May 1875 | ||
| – | 
|
Sir William Buell Richards PC (1815–1889) Administrator of the Government |
13 May 1875 |
18 May 1875 | ||
| 4 | 
|
Donald Alexander Macdonald PC (1817–1896) |
18 May 1875 |
30 June 1880 | ||
| 5 | 
|
John Beverley Robinson (1821–1896) |
1 July 1880 |
31 May 1887 | ||
| 6 | 
|
Sir Alexander Campbell PC, KCMG, QC (1822–1892) |
1 June 1887 |
24 May 1892 | ||
| – | 
|
John Hawkins Hagarty (1816–1900) Administrator of the Government |
24 May 1892 |
30 May 1892 | ||
| 7 | 
|
George Airey Kirkpatrick PC, QC (1841–1899) |
30 May 1892 |
7 November 1896 | ||
| Arthur Sturgis Hardy (1896–1899) | ||||||
| – | 
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Sir Casimir Gzowski KCMG (1813–1898) Administrator of the Government |
{7 November 1896 |
18 November 1897 | ||
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Sir Oliver Mowat PC, GCMG, QC (1820–1903) |
18 November 1897 |
19 April 1903 | ||
| Sir George William Ross (1899–1905) | ||||||
| Edward VII (1901–1910) | ||||||
| – | 
|
Sir Charles Moss (1840–1912) Administrator of the Government |
19 April 1903 |
21 April 1903 | ||
| 9 | 
|
Sir William Mortimer Clark KCMG, KC (1836–1915) |
21 April 1903 |
21 September 1908 | ||
| Sir James Whitney (1905–1914) | ||||||
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Sir John Morison Gibson KCMG, KC (1842–1929) |
21 September 1908 |
26 September 1914 | ||
| George V (1910–1936) | ||||||
| 11 | 
|
Sir John Strathearn Hendrie KCMG, CVO (1857–1923) |
26 September 1914 |
20 November 1919 |
Sir William Howard Hearst (1914–1919) | |
| Ernest Charles Drury (1919–1923) | ||||||
| 12 | 
|
Lionel Herbert Clarke (1859–1921) |
20 November 1919 |
29 August 1921 | ||
| – | 
|
Sir William Ralph Meredith QC (1840–1923) Administrator of the Government |
29 August 1921 |
10 September 1921 | ||
| 13 | 
|
Henry Cockshutt (1868–1944) |
10 September 1921 |
12 January 1927 | ||
| Howard Ferguson (1923–1930) | ||||||
| 14 | 
|
William Donald Ross (1869–1947) |
12 January 1927 |
25 October 1931 | ||
| George Stewart Henry (1930–1934) | ||||||
| – | 
|
Sir William Mulock PC, KCMG (1843–1944) Administrator of the Government |
25 October 1931 |
1 November 1932 | ||
| 15 | 
|
Herbert Alexander Bruce (1868–1963) |
1 November 1932 |
23 November 1937 | ||
| Mitchell Hepburn (1934–1942) | ||||||
| Edward VIII (1936) | ||||||
| George VI (1936–1952) | ||||||
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Albert Edward Matthews (1873–1949) |
23 November 1937 |
26 December 1946 | ||
| Gordon Daniel Conant (1942–1943) | ||||||
| Harry Nixon (1943) | ||||||
| George A. Drew (1943–1948) | ||||||
| 17 | 
|
Ray Lawson OBE (1886–1980) |
26 December 1946 |
18 February 1952 | ||
| Thomas Laird Kennedy (1948–1949) | ||||||
| Leslie Frost (1949–1961) | ||||||
| Elizabeth II (1952–2022) | ||||||
| 18 | 
|
Louis Orville Breithaupt (1890–1960) |
18 February 1952 |
30 December 1957 | ||
| 19 | 
|
John Keiller MacKay OC, DSO, VD, QC (1880–1970) |
30 December 1957 |
1 May 1963 | ||
| John Robarts (1961–1971) | ||||||
| 20 | 
|
William Earl Rowe PC (1894–1984) |
1 May 1963 |
4 July 1968 | ||
| 21 | 
|
William Ross Macdonald PC, OC, CD, QC (1891–1976) |
4 July 1968 |
10 April 1974 | ||
| Bill Davis (1971–1985) | ||||||
| 22 |
|
Pauline Mills McGibbon OC (1910–2001) |
10 April 1974 |
15 September 1980 | ||
| 23 |
|
John Black Aird OC, QC (1923–1995) |
15 September 1980 |
20 September 1985 | ||
| Frank Miller (1985) | ||||||
| David Peterson (1985–1990) | ||||||
| 24 | 
|
Lincoln Alexander PC, OOnt, CD, QC (1922–2012) |
20 September 1985 |
10 December 1991 | ||
| Bob Rae (1990–1995) | ||||||
| 25 |
|
Hal Jackman CM (born 1932) |
11 December 1991 |
24 January 1997 | ||
| Mike Harris (1995–2002) | ||||||
| 26 | 
|
Hilary Weston OOnt (born 1942) |
24 January 1997 |
7 March 2002 | ||
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James Bartleman OOnt (1939–2023) |
7 March 2002 |
5 September 2007 | ||
| Ernie Eves (2002–2003) | ||||||
| Dalton McGuinty (2003–2013) | ||||||
| 28 | _(cropped).jpg)
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David Onley OOnt (1950–2023) |
5 September 2007 |
23 September 2014 | ||
| Kathleen Wynne (2013–2018) | ||||||
| 29 | _(cropped).jpg)
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Elizabeth Dowdeswell OC, OOnt (born 1944) |
23 September 2014 |
14 November 2023 | ||
| Doug Ford (since 2018) | ||||||
| Charles III (since 2022) | ||||||
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Edith Dumont OOnt (born 1964) |
14 November 2023 |
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| Source:[13][14] | ||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Constitution Act, 1867, s. 58.
- ^ R. Mealing, Stanley (1 February 2017). "John Graves Simcoe". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Firth, Edith G. (2003). "Biography - RUSSEL, PETER - Volume V". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ "Biography - HUNTER, PETER". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 2003. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Whitfield, Carol (2003). "Biography - GRANT, ALEXANDER". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Mealing, S. R. (2003). "GORE, FRANCIS". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Mealing, S. R. (2003). "Smith, Samuel". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Bowsfield, Hartwell (2003). "MAITLAND, Sir PEREGRINE". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Wilson, Alan (2003). "COLBORNE, JOHN". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Wise, S.F. (2003). "Head, Sir Francis Bond". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Buckner, Philip (2003). "ARTHUR, GEORGE". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ "THOMSON, CHARLES EDWARD POULETT". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 2003. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ "History - Lieutenant Governor Of Ontario". Lieutenant governor of ontario. 2020.
- ^ "Educator Edith Dumont appointed lieutenant-governor for Ontario". www.chch.com. The Canadian Press. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
External links
edit- Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. "History > Vice-Regal Representatives". Queen's Printer for Ontario. Archived from the original on 12 August 2009.