Richard Downes Jackson

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Sir Richard Downes Jackson KCB (1777 – June 9, 1845), born at Petersfield in the English county of Hampshire, was Administrator of Canada West and Canada East (1841–1842) until the arrival of Sir Charles Bagot who took the position of Governor General of the Province of Canada.

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Preceded by John Clitherow	Lieutenant-Governor of Canada West 1841 – 1842	Succeeded by Sir Charles Bagot
Preceded by John Clitherow	Lieutenant Governor of Canada East 1841 – 1842	Succeeded by Sir Charles Bagot

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Stisted Howland Crawford D. A. Macdonald J. B. Robinson Campbell Kirkpatrick Gzowski Mowat Clark Gibson Hendrie Clarke Cockshutt Ross Mulock H. A. Bruce Matthews Lawson Breithaupt MacKay Rowe W. R. Macdonald McGibbon Aird Alexander Jackman Weston Bartleman Onley

Province of Canada (1841–1866)*	Clitherow Jackson Bagot Metcalfe Cathcart J. Bruce E. W. Head Monck

Upper Canada (1791–1841)	Simcoe Russell Hunter Grant Gore Brock Sheaffe de Rottenburg Drummond Murray F. P. Robinson Smith Maitland Colborne Bond Head Arthur Thomson

British Province of Quebec (1759–1791)*	Amherst Murray Carleton Haldimand Carleton (2nd time)

* The Crown's representative from 1759 to 1791, and from 1841 to 1866 held the office and rank of Governor-General.

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