List of Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada

This list leads Prime Minister (Engl. Premier ) of the Province of Canada on. The period between 1841 (unification of the colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada ) and 1867 ( Canadian Confederation ) is taken into account . The government was led by two prime ministers simultaneously, one from the English-speaking part (now Ontario ) and the other from the French-speaking part (now Québec ). Officially, a distinction was made between the actual prime minister and a deputy prime minister.

Prime Minister of the Province of Canada

Reformer ( Reform Party , Parti rouge )

Conservatives ( Family Compact , Clique du Château )

Liberal Party , Clear Grits

Liberal Conservative Party , Parti bleu

		Period
William Henry Draper (Vice Premier)	Samuel Bealey Harrison (Prime Minister)	February 5, 1841 - January 12, 1842
William Henry Draper (Prime Minister)	Charles Richard Ogden (Vice Premier)	January 12, 1842 - September 14, 1842
Robert Baldwin (Vice Premier)	Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (Prime Minister)	September 26, 1842 - November 27, 1843
Dominick Daly (interim Prime Minister)		November 27, 1843 - December 12, 1843
William Henry Draper (Prime Minister) (2nd term)	Denis-Benjamin Viger (Vice Premier)	December 12, 1843 - June 17, 1846
William Henry Draper (Prime Minister) (2nd term)	Denis-Benjamin Papineau (Deputy Prime Minister)	June 17, 1846 - May 28, 1847
Henry Sherwood (Prime Minister)	Denis-Benjamin Papineau (Deputy Prime Minister)	May 28, 1847 - March 11, 1848
Robert Baldwin (Vice Premier)	Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (Prime Minister) (2nd term)	March 11, 1848 - October 28, 1851
Francis Hincks (Prime Minister)	Augustin-Norbert Morin (Vice Premier)	October 28, 1851 - September 11, 1854
Allan MacNab (Prime Minister)	Augustin-Norbert Morin (Vice Premier)	September 11, 1854 - January 27, 1855
Allan MacNab (Prime Minister)	Étienne-Paschal Taché (Vice Premier)	January 27, 1855 - May 24, 1856
John Macdonald (Vice Premier)	Étienne-Paschal Taché (Prime Minister)	May 24, 1856 - November 26, 1857
John Macdonald (Prime Minister)	George-Étienne Cartier (Deputy Prime Minister)	November 26, 1857 - August 2, 1858
George Brown (Prime Minister)	Antoine-Aimé Dorion (Deputy Prime Minister)	August 2, 1858 - August 6, 1858
John Macdonald (Vice Premier)	George-Étienne Cartier (Prime Minister)	August 6, 1858 - May 24, 1862
John Sandfield Macdonald (Prime Minister)	Louis-Victor Sicotte (Vice Premier)	May 24, 1862 - May 15, 1863
John Sandfield Macdonald (Prime Minister)	Antoine-Aimé Dorion (Deputy Prime Minister)	May 15, 1863 - May 30, 1864
John Macdonald (Vice Premier)	Étienne-Paschal Taché (Prime Minister)	May 30, 1864 - July 30, 1865
John Macdonald (Vice Premier)	Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau (Prime Minister)	July 30, 1865 - June 30, 1867

Remarks

↑ This was not a coalition on a regional basis, but a coalition of reform forces and the moderate wing of the conservatives.
^ All members of the ruling La Fontaine-Baldwin coalition, with the exception of Drapers, resigned in protest over unauthorized appointments by the governor-general. Daly later belonged to the successor cabinet led by Draper.
^ After the introduction of self-government in 1848, La Fontaine and Baldwin were the first democratically elected heads of government in Canada.

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Paul G. Cornell, Jean Hamelin, Fernand Ouellet, Marcel Trudel: Canada - unité et diversité. Holt, Rinehart et Winston Limité, 1968

[1] This was not a coalition on a regional basis, but a coalition of reform forces and the moderate wing of the conservatives.

[2] All members of the ruling La Fontaine-Baldwin coalition, with the exception of Drapers, resigned in protest over unauthorized appointments by the governor-general. Daly later belonged to the successor cabinet led by Draper.

[3] After the introduction of self-government in 1848, La Fontaine and Baldwin were the first democratically elected heads of government in Canada.