The following is a list of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Ontario. 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.
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| # | Name | Governor from | Governor until | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governors under George III (1791 – 1820): | ||||
| 1. | John Graves Simcoe | 1791 | 1796 | |
| Peter Russell (Administrator) | 1796 | 1799 | ||
| 2. | Peter Hunter | 1799 | 1805 | |
| Alexander Grant (Administrator) | 1805 | 1806 | ||
| 3. | Francis Gore | 1806 | → | |
| Sir Isaac Brock KB (acting Governor) | 1811 | 1812 | ||
| Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe (acting Governor) | 1812 | 1813 | ||
| Le baron de Rottenburg (acting Governor) | 1813 | |||
| Sir Gordon Drummond (acting Governor) | 1813 | 1814 | ||
| Sir George Murray GCB GCH (acting Governor) | 1815 | |||
| Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson KCB GCH (acting Governor) | 1815 | |||
| 3. | cont... | ← | 1817 | |
| Samuel Smith (Administrator) | 1817 | 1818 | ||
| 4. | Sir Peregrine Maitland KCB GCH | 1818 | → | |
| Governors under George IV (1820 – 1830): | ||||
| 4. | cont... | ← | 1828 | |
| 5. | Sir John Colborne GCB GCMG GCH AdC(P) | 1828 | → | |
| Governors under 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 | |
| # | Name | Governor from | Governor until | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governors under Queen Victoria (1840 – 1867): | ||||
| 9. | John Clitherow (Lieutenant Governor to The Lord Sydenham) | 1841 | ||
| 10. | Sir Richard Downes Jackson (Lieutenant Governor to The Lord Sydenham) | 1841 | 1842 | |
| # | Name | Governor from | Governor until | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governors under Queen Victoria (1867 – 1901): | ||||
| 11. | Henry William Stisted CB | 1867 | 1868 | |
| 12. | William Pearce Howland PC | 1868 | 1873 | |
| 13. | John Willoughby Crawford QC | 1873 | 1875 | |
| 14. | Donald Alexander Macdonald PC | 1875 | 1880 | |
| 15. | John Beverley Robinson | 1880 | 1887 | |
| 16. | Sir Alexander Campbell PC KCMG QC | 1887 | 1892 | |
| 17. | George Airey Kirkpatrick PC QC | 1892 | 1896 | |
| Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski AdCP KCMG (Administrator) | 1896 | 1897 | ||
| 18. | Sir Oliver Mowat PC GCMG QC | 1897 | → | |
| Governors under Edward VII (1901 – 1910): | ||||
| 18. | cont... | ← | 1903 | |
| 19. | Sir William Mortimer Clark KCMG KC | 1903 | 1908 | |
| 20. | Sir John Morison Gibson KCMG KC | 1908 | → | |
| Governors under George V (1910 – 1936): | ||||
| 20. | cont... | ← | 1914 | |
| 21. | Sir John Strathearn Hendrie KCMG CVO | 1914 | 1919 | |
| 22. | Lionel Herbert Clarke | 1919 | 1921 | |
| 23. | Henry Cockshutt | 1921 | 1927 | |
| 24. | William Donald Ross | 1927 | 1931 | |
| Sir William Mulock PC KCMG (Administrator) | 1931 | 1932 | ||
| 25. | Herbert Alexander Bruce | 1932 | → | |
| Governors under Edward VIII (1936): | ||||
| 25. | cont... | ← | → | |
| Governors under George VI (1936 – 1952): | ||||
| 25. | cont... | → | 1937 | |
| 26. | Albert Edward Matthews | 1937 | 1946 | |
| 27. | Frank Ray Lawson OBE | 1946 | → | |
| Governors under Elizabeth II (1952 – present): | ||||
| 27. | cont... | ← | 1952 | |
| 28. | Louis Orville Breithaupt | 1952 | 1957 | |
| 29. | John Keiller MacKay PC OC DSO VD QC | 1957 | 1963 | |
| 30. | William Earl Rowe PC | 1963 | 1968 | |
| 31. | William Ross Macdonald PC CD QC | 1968 | 1974 | |
| 32. | Pauline Mills McGibbon CC OOnt | 1974 | 1980 | |
| 33. | John Black Aird CC OOnt QC | 1980 | 1985 | |
| 34.[† 1] | Lincoln MacCauley Alexander PC CC OOnt CD QC | 1985 | 1991 | |
| 35. | Henry Newton Rowell Jackman OC OOnt | 1991 | 1997 | |
| 36. | Hillary M. Weston CM OOnt | 1997 | 2002 | |
| 37. | James Karl Bartleman OOnt | 2002 | 2007 | |
| 38. | David Charles Onley OOnt | 2007 | ||
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