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List of Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

This is a list of Lieutenant Governors of the Canadian province of Ontario.

Table of contents
1 Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada
2 Lieutenant Governors of Canada West
3 Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada

Upper Canada was created out of the western part of Quebec by the Constitutional Act of 1791. \n
NameTerm\n
John Graves Simcoe1791-1796\n
Peter Russell (administrator)1796-1799\n
Peter Hunter1799-1805\n
Alexander Grant (administrator)1805-1806\n
Francis Gore1806-1811\n
Sir Isaac Brock*1811-1812\n
Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe*1812-1813\n
Francis de Rottenburg*1813\n
Sir Gordon Drummond*1813-1814\n
Sir George Murray (provisional)1815\n
Frederick Philip Robinson (provisional)1815\n
Francis Gore (2nd incumbency)1815-1817\n
Samuel Smith (administrator)1817-1818\n
Sir Peregrine Maitland1818-1828\n
Sir John Colborne1828-1836\n
Sir Francis Bond Head1836-1838\n
Sir George Arthur1838-1839\n
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham**1839-1841
\n(*) Military administrators during the War of 1812 (**)Lord Sydenham was also Governor General of Canada, and united Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. Upper Canada became Canada West.

Lieutenant Governors of Canada West

After Richard Downes Jackson, the Lieutenant Governors were also simultaneously
Governors General. \n
NameTerm\n
John Clitherow1841\n
Sir Richard Downes Jackson (administrator)1841-1842\n
Sir Charles Bagot1842-1843\n
Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe of Fernhill1843-1845\n
Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart1845-1847\n
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin1847-1854\n
Sir Edmund Walker Head1854-1861\n
Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon1861-1866
The Province of Canada was split into Ontario and Quebec after Canadian Confederation in 1867.

Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

\n
NameTerm\n
Henry William Stisted1867-1868\n
William Pearce Howland1868-1873\n
John Willoughby Crawford1873-1875\n
Donald Alexander Macdonald1875-1880\n
John Beverley Robinson1880-1887\n
Sir Alexander Campbell1887-1892\n
Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick1892-1896\n
Sir Casimir Gzowski (acting)1896-1897\n
Sir Oliver Mowat1897-1903\n
Sir William Mortimer Clark1903-1908\n
Sir John Morison Gibson1908-1914\n
Sir John Strathearn Hendrie1914-1919\n
Lionel Herbert Clarke1919-1921\n
Henry Cockshutt1921-1927\n
William Donald Ross1927-1931\n
Sir William Mulock (acting)1931-1932\n
Herbert Alexander Bruce1932-1937\n
Albert Edward Matthews1937-1946\n
Ray Lawson1946-1952\n
Louis Orville Breithaupt1952-1957\n
John Keiller MacKay1957-1963\n
William Earl Rowe1963-1968\n
William Ross Macdonald1968-1974\n
Pauline Mills McGibbon1974-1980\n
John Black Aird1980-1985\n
Lincoln Alexander1985-1991\n
Henry N. R. Jackman1991-1997\n
Hilary M. Weston1997-2002\n
James K. Bartleman2002-present
Category:Canadian history

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