List of lieutenant governors of Québec

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This list outlines the Vice Governors (fr. Lieutenant-governor ) of the Canadian province of Quebec since joining the Canadian Könfederation in 1867 on. Also included are the governors of the Province of Québec Colony (before 1791), the lieutenant governors of the Lower Canada Colony (1791–1841) and the lieutenant governors of the Province of Canada (1841–1867). The lieutenant governor represents the Canadian monarch at the provincial level.

Governors of Quebec

Deputy Governor Term of office
Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst 1760-1763
James Murray 1764-1768
Guy Carleton 1768-1778
Frederick Haldimand 1778-1786
Guy Carleton 1786-1791

Lieutenant Governors of Lower Canada

Deputy Governor Term of office
Guy Carleton 1791-1796
Robert Prescott 1796-1799
Robert Shore Milnes 1799-1805
Thomas Dunn 1805-1807
James Henry Craig 1807-1811
Thomas Dunn 1811
George Prevost 1811-1815
Gordon Drummond 1815-1816
John Wilson 1816
John Coape Sherbrooke 1816-1818
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond 1818-1819
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie 1819-1828
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer 1830-1835
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford 1835-1838
John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton 1838
John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham 1838-1839
John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton 1839
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham 1839-1841

Vice Governors of the Province of Canada

Besides John Clitherow and Richard Downes Jackson, the lieutenant governors were also governors general .

Deputy Governor Term of office
John Clitherow 1841
Richard Downes Jackson 1841-1842
Charles Bagot 1842-1843
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

Lieutenant Governors of Quebec

Deputy Governor Term of office
Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau July 1, 1867 - February 16, 1873
René-Édouard Caron February 17, 1873 - December 13, 1876
Luc Letellier de Saint-Just December 15, 1876 - July 25, 1879
Théodore Robitaille July 26, 1879 - November 6, 1884
Louis-François-Rodrigue Masson November 7, 1884 - October 24, 1887
Auguste-Réal Angers October 29, 1887 - December 5, 1892
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau December 12, 1892 - January 20, 1898
Louis-Amable Jetté February 1, 1898 - September 15, 1908
Charles-Alphonse-Pantaléon Pelletier September 15, 1908 - April 29, 1911
François Langelier May 6, 1911 - February 8, 1915
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc February 12, 1915 - October 18, 1918
Charles Fitzpatrick October 23, 1918 - October 31, 1923
Louis-Philippe Brodeur October 31, 1923 - January 2, 1924
Narcisse Pérodeau January 10, 1924 - January 10, 1929
Lomer Gouin January 10, 1929 - March 28, 1929
Henry George Carroll April 4, 1929 - May 3, 1934
Ésioff-Léon Patenaude May 3, 1934 - December 30, 1939
Eugène Fiset December 30, 1939 - October 3, 1950
Gaspard Fauteux October 3, 1950 - February 14, 1958
Onésime Gagnon February 14, 1958 - September 30, 1961
Paul Comtois October 11, 1961 - February 21, 1966
Hugues Lapointe February 22, 1966 - April 27, 1978
Jean-Pierre Côté April 27, 1978 - March 28, 1984
Gilles Lamontagne March 28, 1984 - August 9, 1990
Martial Asselin August 9, 1990 - September 12, 1996
Jean-Louis Roux September 12, 1996 - January 30, 1997
Lise Thibault January 30, 1997 - June 7, 2007
Pierre Duchesne June 7, 2007 - September 24, 2015
J. Michel Doyon September 24, 2015 - acting

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