List of Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

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This list outlines the Vice Governors (Engl. Lieutenant governor ) of the Canadian province of Ontario since joining the Canadian Könfederation in 1867 on. Also included are the lieutenant governors of the Colony of Upper Canada (1791–1841) and the Province of Canada (1841–1867). The lieutenant governor represents the Canadian monarch at the provincial level.

Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada

Deputy Governor Term of office
John Graves Simcoe 1791-1796
Peter Russell 1796-1799 1
Peter Hunter 1799-1805
Alexander Grant 1805-1806 1
Francis Gore 1806-1811
Isaac Brock 1811–1812 2
Roger Hale Sheaffe 1812–1813 2
Francis de Rottenburg 1813 2
Gordon Drummond 1813–1814 2
George Murray 1815 3
Frederick Philipse Robinson 1815 3
Francis Gore 1815-1817
Samuel Smith 1817-1818 3
Peregrine Maitland 1818-1828
John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton 1828-1836
Francis Bond Head 1836-1838
George Arthur, 1st Baronet 1838-1839
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham 1839-1841

1 Administrator
2 Military Administrator during the British-American War
3 Provisional

Vice Governors of the Province of Canada

Besides John Clitherow, the lieutenant governors were also governors general

Deputy Governor Term of office
John Clitherow 1841
Richard Downes Jackson 1841–1842 1
Charles Bagot 1842-1843
Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe 1843-1845
Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart 1845-1847
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin 1847-1854
Edmund Walker Head 1854-1861
Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck 1861-1866

1 administrator

Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

Deputy Governor Term of office
Henry William Stisted July 1, 1867 - July 14, 1868
William Pearce Howland July 15, 1868 - November 11, 1873
John Willoughby Crawford November 12, 1873 - May 13, 1875
Donald Alexander Macdonald May 18, 1875 - June 30, 1880
John Beverley Robinson July 1, 1880 - May 31, 1887
Alexander Campbell June 1, 1887 - May 24, 1892
George Airey Kirkpatrick May 30, 1892 - November 7, 1896
Casimir Gzowski 1 November 7, 1896 - November 18, 1897
Oliver Mowat November 18, 1897 - April 19, 1903
William Mortimer Clark April 21, 1903 - September 21, 1908
John Morison Gibson September 22, 1908 - September 26, 1914
John Strathearn Hendrie October 2, 1914 - November 20, 1919
Lionel Herbert Clarke December 1, 1919 - August 29, 1921
Henry Cockshutt September 10, 1921 - January 12, 1927
William Donald Ross January 12, 1927 - October 25, 1931
William Mulock 1 October 25, 1931 - November 1, 1932
Herbert Alexander Bruce November 1, 1932 - November 23, 1937
Albert Edward Matthews November 23, 1937 - December 26, 1946
Ray Lawson December 26, 1946 - February 18, 1952
Louis Orville Breithaupt February 18, 1952 - December 30, 1957
John Keiller MacKay December 30, 1957 - May 1, 1963
William Earl Rowe May 1, 1963 - July 4, 1968
William Ross Macdonald July 4, 1968 - April 10, 1974
Pauline Mills McGibbon April 10, 1974 - September 15, 1980
John Black Aird September 15, 1980 - September 20, 1985
Lincoln Alexander September 20, 1985 - December 11, 1991
Hal Jackman December 11, 1991 - January 24, 1997
Hilary Weston January 24, 1997 - March 7, 2002
James Bartleman March 7, 2002 - September 5, 2007
David Onley September 5, 2007 - September 23, 2014
Elizabeth Dowdeswell September 23, 2014 - acting

1 interim

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