List of lieutenant governors of Ontario
The following is a list of Lieutenant Governors of Ontario and governors of predecessor colonies. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Ontario came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of Upper Canada in 1791, which itself branched out of the governorship of the Province of Quebec. From 1841 to 1867, the Governors General of the Province of Canada simultaneously acted as the direct governor of Canada West (what is present day Ontario), only occasionally appointing a lieutenant to act in their stead.
Prior to 1868 vice-regals were active or previous members of the British Army, but after Stisted the office was not held by non-Canadians or British military officers (Gzowski was a former Imperial Russian officer but was an engineer in Canada when serving as acting vice-regal).
Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada, 1791–1841
# | Image | Name | Governor from | Governor until | ||||
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Governors under King George III (1791 – 1820) | ||||||||
1 | John Graves Simcoe | 1791 | 1796 | |||||
Admin. | Peter Russell | 1796 | 1799 | |||||
2 | Peter Hunter | 1799 | 1805 | |||||
Admin. | Alexander Grant | 1805 | 1806 | |||||
3 | Francis Gore | Acting governors for Francis Gore | 1806 | 1817 | ||||
Image | Name | From | Until | |||||
Sir Isaac Brock KB | 1811 | 1812 | ||||||
Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe | 1812 | 1813 | ||||||
Le baron de Rottenburg | 1813 | |||||||
Sir Gordon Drummond | 1813 | 1814 | ||||||
Sir George Murray GCB GCH | 1815 | |||||||
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson KCB GCH | 1815 | |||||||
Admin. | Samuel Smith | 1817 | 1818 | |||||
4 | Sir Peregrine Maitland KCB GCH | 1818 | → | |||||
Governors under King George IV (1820 – 1830) | ||||||||
4 | cont... | ← | 1828 | |||||
5 | Sir John Colborne GCB GCMG | 1828 | → | |||||
Governors under King William IV (1830 – 1837) | ||||||||
5 | cont... | ← | 1836 | |||||
6 | Sir Francis Bond Head KCH | 1836 | → | |||||
Governors under Queen Victoria (1837 – 1841) | ||||||||
6 | cont... | ← | 1838 | |||||
7 | Sir George Arthur KCH | 1838 | 1839 | |||||
8 | The Lord Sydenham PC | 1839 | 1841 |
Lieutenant Governors of Canada West, 1841–1867
# | Image | Name | Governor from | Governor until |
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Governors under Queen Victoria (1867 – 1901) | ||||
9 | John Clitherow | 1841 | 1841 | |
10 | Sir Richard Downes Jackson | 1841 | 1842 |
Lieutenant Governors of Ontario, 1867–present
# | Image | Name | Governor from | Governor until | |
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Governors under Queen Victoria (1867 – 1901) | |||||
11 | 1 | Henry William Stisted CB | 1867 | 1868 | |
12 | 2 | William Pearce Howland PC | 1868 | 1873 | |
13 | 3 | John Willoughby Crawford QC | 1873 | 1875 | |
14 | 4 | Donald Alexander Macdonald PC | 1875 | 1880 | |
15 | 5 | John Beverley Robinson | 1880 | 1887 | |
16 | 6 | Sir Alexander Campbell PC KCMG QC | 1887 | 1892 | |
17 | 7 | George Airey Kirkpatrick PC QC | 1892 | 1896 | |
Admin. | Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski KCMG | 1896 | 1897 | ||
18 | 8 | Sir Oliver Mowat PC GCMG QC | 1897 | → | |
Governors under King Edward VII (1901 – 1910) | |||||
18 | 8 | cont... | ← | 1903 | |
19 | 9 | Sir William Mortimer Clark KCMG KC | 1903 | 1908 | |
20 | 10 | Sir John Morison Gibson KCMG KC | 1908 | → | |
Governors under King George V (1910 – 1936) | |||||
20 | 10 | cont... | ← | 1914 | |
21 | 11 | Sir John Strathearn Hendrie KCMG CVO | 1914 | 1919 | |
22 | 12 | Lionel Herbert Clarke | 1919 | 1921 | |
23 | 13 | Henry Cockshutt | 1921 | 1927 | |
24 | 14 | William Donald Ross | 1927 | 1931 | |
Admin. | Sir William Mulock PC KCMG | 1931 | 1932 | ||
25 | 15 | Herbert Alexander Bruce | 1932 | → | |
Governors under King Edward VIII (1936) | |||||
25 | 15 | cont... | ← | → | |
Governors under King George VI (1936 – 1952) | |||||
25 | 15 | cont... | ← | 1937 | |
26 | 16 | Albert Edward Matthews | 1937 | 1946 | |
27 | 17 | Frank Ray Lawson OBE | 1946 | → | |
Governors under Queen Elizabeth II (1952 – present) | |||||
27 | 17 | cont... | ← | 1952 | |
28 | 18 | Louis Orville Breithaupt | 1952 | 1957 | |
29 | 19 | John Keiller MacKay PC OC DSO VD QC | 1957 | 1963 | |
30 | 20 | William Earl Rowe PC | 1963 | 1968 | |
31 | 21 | William Ross Macdonald PC CD QC | 1968 | 1974 | |
32 | 22 | Pauline Mills McGibbon OC | 1974 | 1980 | |
33 | 23 | John Black Aird OC QC | 1980 | 1985 | |
34 | 24 | Lincoln MacCauley Alexander PC OOnt CD QC | 1985 | 1991 | |
35[<small>†</small> 1] | 25 | Henry Newton Rowell Jackman CM OOnt | 1991 | 1997 | |
36 | 26 | Hillary Mary Weston OOnt | 1997 | 2002 | |
37 | 27 | James Karl Bartleman OOnt | 2002 | 2007 | |
38 | 28 | David Charles Onley OOnt | 2007 | 2014 | |
39 | 29 | Elizabeth Dowdeswell OC OOnt | 2014 | ||
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See also
External links
- Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. "History > Vice-Regal Representatives". Queen's Printer for Ontario.