List of Canadian ministries

This is a list of Canadian ministers and the prime ministers since Confederation (1 July 1867).

By convention, each Canadian government is formed when the chairing prime minister is appointed and when s/he leaves office. The one exception occurred during the premiership of Robert Borden whose wartime Unionist government is considered a separate government from the one he chaired as head of a Conservative government. Elections do not cause dissolution of the party's right to rule unless they result in the government's defeat – this is in contrast to other Commonwealth realms such as Australia and the United Kingdom where a "new" government is considered to have been formed after every election regardless of the winner. Therefore, the twenty-eight ministers that have served Canada represent twenty-six occasions since Canadian Confederation that the premiership has changed hands and more than one occasion when a coalition government was formed by the sitting prime minister.

Ministries

• First Canadian Minister, John Alexander Macdonald (1867–1873)
• Second Canadian Minister, Alexander Mackenzie (1873–1878)
• Third Canadian Minister, John Alexander Macdonald (1878–1891)
• Fourth Canadian Minister, John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (1891–1892)
• Fifth Canadian Minister, John Sparrow David Thompson (1892–1894)
• Sixth Canadian Minister, Mackenzie Bowell (1894–1896)
• Seventh Canadian Minister, Charles Tupper (1896)
• Eighth Canadian Minister, Wilfrid Laurier (1896–1911)
• Ninth Canadian Minister, Robert Laird Borden (1911–1917)
• Tenth Canadian Minister, Robert Laird Borden (1917–1920)
• Eleventh Canadian Minister, Arthur Meighen (1920–1921)
• Twelfth Canadian Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King (1921–1926)
• Thirteenth Canadian Minister, Arthur Meighen (1926)
• Fourteenth Canadian Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King (1926–1930)
• Fifteenth Canadian Minister, Richard Bedford Bennett (1930–1935)
• Sixteenth Canadian Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King (1935–1948)
• Seventeenth Canadian Minister, Louis Stephen St-Laurent (1948–1957)
• Eighteenth Canadian Minister, John George Diefenbaker (1957–1963)
• Nineteenth Canadian Minister, Lester Bowles Pearson (1963–1968)
• Twentieth Canadian Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1968–1979)
• Twenty-First Canadian Minister, Charles Joseph Clark (1979–1980)
• Twenty-Second Canadian Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1980–1984)
• Twenty-Third Canadian Minister, John Napier Turner (1984)
• Twenty-Fourth Canadian Minister, Martin Brian Mulroney (1984–1993)
• Twenty-Fifth Canadian Minister, Kim Campbell (1993)
• Twenty-Sixth Canadian Minister, Jean Chrétien (1993–2003)
• Twenty-Seventh Canadian Minister, Paul Martin (2003–2006)
• Twenty-Eighth Canadian Minister, Stephen Harper (2006–Present)

External links

• Guide to Canadian Governments since Confederation
• Parliament of Canada - Ministers

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