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This is a list of historical lieutenant-governors of Northwest Territories, Canada. The position of Lieutenant-Governor lasted from the acquisition of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories in 1869 to the creation of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905.
[edit] Lieutenant-Governors
| Name |
From |
To |
Title |
| Hon. Sir William McDougall |
September 28, 1869 |
May 10, 1870a |
Lieutenant Governor of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory [1] |
| Hon. Sir Adams G. Archibald |
May 10, 1870 |
December 2, 1872 |
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories[1] |
| Hon. Sir Francis Godschall Johnson |
April 9, 1872 |
¹ |
| Hon. Alexander Morris |
December 2, 1872 |
October 7, 1876 |
| Hon. David Laird |
October 7, 1876 |
December 3, 1881 |
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories[1] |
| Hon. Edgar Dewdney |
December 3, 1881 |
July 1, 1888 |
| Hon. Joseph Royal |
July 1, 1888 |
October 31, 1893 |
| Hon. Sir Charles Herbert Mackintosh |
October 31, 1893 |
May 30, 1898 |
| Hon. Malcolm Colin Cameron |
May 30, 1898 |
September 26, 1898 |
| Hon. Amédée E. Forget |
October 4, 1898 |
September 1, 1905 |
aWas unable to enter the Northwest Territories, but returned to Ottawa, and campaigned against Manitoba becoming a province. He was listed as leader of the provisional Northwest Territories government until Adams G. Archibald took over on May 10, 1870.
Since the establishment of Saskatchewan and Alberta from the Territories' most populated regions, the Territories have had no lieutenant-governor. Instead, a commissioner represents the federal government and acts as the de facto representative of the Queen. Yukon was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898 and has had its own commissioners since then.
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