List of lieutenant governors of Ontario
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Lieutenant-Governors of Ontario)
This is a list of lieutenant governors (pronounced "lef-tenant") of the Canadian province of Ontario, before and after Confederation in 1867. The Lieutenant-Governor is the Ontarian vice-regal representative of the Canadian Monarch.
Further information: Monarchy in Ontario
Contents |
[edit] Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada (Pre-Confederation)
Upper Canada was created out of the western part of Quebec by the Constitutional Act of 1791.
| Name | Term |
|---|---|
| John Graves Simcoe | 1791-1796 |
| Peter Russell (administrator) | 1796-1799 |
| Peter Hunter | 1799-1805 |
| Alexander Grant (administrator) | 1805-1806 |
| Francis Gore | 1806-1811 |
| Sir Isaac Brock* | 1811-1812 |
| Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe* | 1812-1813 |
| Francis de Rottenburg* | 1813 |
| Sir Gordon Drummond* | 1813-1814 |
| Sir Sir George Murray (provisional) | 1815 |
| Frederick Philip Robinson (provisional) | 1815 |
| Francis Gore (2nd incumbency) | 1815-1817 |
| Samuel Smith (administrator) | 1817-1818 |
| Sir Peregrine Maitland | 1818-1828 |
| Sir John Colborne | 1828-1836 |
| Sir Francis Bond Head | 1836-1838 |
| Sir George Arthur | 1838-1839 |
| Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham** | 1839-1841 |
(*) Military administrators during the War of 1812
(**)Lord Sydenham was also Governor General of Canada when Upper Canada and Lower Canada united into the Province of Canada. Upper Canada became Canada West and Lower Canada became Canada East.
[edit] Lieutenant-Governors of Canada West (Pre-Confederation)
After Richard Downes Jackson, the Lieutenant-Governors were also simultaneously Governors General.
| Name | Term |
|---|---|
| John Clitherow | 1841 |
| Sir Richard Downes Jackson (administrator) | 1841-1842 |
| Sir Charles Bagot | 1842-1843 |
| Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe of Fernhill | 1843-1845 |
| Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart | 1845-1847 |
| James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin | 1847-1854 |
| Sir Edmund Walker Head | 1854-1861 |
| Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon | 1861-1866 |
The Province of Canada was split into Ontario and Quebec after Canadian Confederation in 1867.
[edit] Lieutenant Governors of Ontario (Post-Confederation)
| Name | Term |
|---|---|
| Henry William Stisted | 1867-1868 |
| William Pearce Howland | 1868-1873 |
| John Willoughby Crawford | 1873-1875 |
| Donald Alexander Macdonald | 1875-1880 |
| John Beverley Robinson | 1880-1887 |
| Sir Alexander Campbell | 1887-1892 |
| Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick | 1892-1896 |
| Sir Casimir Gzowski (acting) | 1896-1897 |
| Sir Oliver Mowat | 1897-1903 |
| Sir William Mortimer Clark | 1903-1908 |
| Sir John Morison Gibson | 1908-1914 |
| Sir John Strathearn Hendrie | 1914-1919 |
| Lionel Herbert Clarke | 1919-1921 |
| Henry Cockshutt | 1921-1927 |
| William Donald Ross | 1927-1931 |
| Sir William Mulock (acting) | 1931-1932 |
| Herbert Alexander Bruce | 1932-1937 |
| Albert Edward Matthews | 1937-1946 |
| Ray Lawson | 1946-1952 |
| Louis Orville Breithaupt | 1952-1957 |
| John Keiller MacKay | 1957-1963 |
| William Earl Rowe | 1963-1968 |
| William Ross Macdonald | 1968-1974 |
| Pauline Mills McGibbon | 1974-1980 |
| John Black Aird | 1980-1985 |
| Lincoln Alexander | 1985-1991 |
| Henry N. R. Jackman | 1991-1997 |
| Hilary M. Weston | 1997-2002 |
| James K. Bartleman | 2002-2007 |
| David Charles Onley | 2007- |
[edit] Firsts
- Donald Alexander Macdonald was the first Canadian born Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- Gordon Drummond was the first Canadian born Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
- William Pearce Howland was the first American born Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- James Bartleman was the first aboriginal to hold the post
- Louis Orville Breithaupt was the first Canadian of not English or French lineage to be Lieutenant Governor
- Pauline Mills McGibbon was the first woman to hold the post and first person born in the 20th Century to serve the post
- Lincoln Alexander was the first black Canadian to hold the post
- Francis de Rottenburg was the only Swiss born person to hold the post
- Casimir Gzowski was the only Polish born person to hold the post
- Hilary Weston is the only Irish born person to hold the post
- Herbert Alexander Bruce was the first doctor to hold the post
- David Onley is the first person with a disability to hold the post and first postwar person (baby-boomer generation) to hold the post
- Henry Cockshutt is the first personal born after Confederation to seve the post
[edit] Last
- William Mulock is the last personal with a knighthood to serve the post
- William Mortimer Clark is the least British born to hold the post
- Henry Cockshutt is the last person from Britain to serve the post (all others were British born, but they were full time residents of the province).
[edit] External links
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.png){kind=small}
