List of Australian High Commissioners in Canada

The High Commissioner resides in Australia House (Ottawa)

The Australian High Commissioner in Ottawa is also a regular High Commissioner in the government in Hamilton (Bermuda) .

High commissioners

Appointed	Surname	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited during the government of	Leave post
1939	Thomas William Glasgow		Earle Page	William Lyon Mackenzie King	1945
1945	Alfred Thorpe Stirling	CBE (born September 8, 1902 in Melbourne ) son of Isabell and Robert Andrew Stirling, studied at Melbourne University and Oxford, in 1927 he was admitted as a barrister at the Victorian Bar . He was appointed a member of the Australian delegation at the Imperial Conference in Toronto in 1933 and then represented the Australian government at the League of Nations meetings. In 1945 he was appointed Australian High Commissioner to Canada . In 1946 he was envoy to Washington, DC, 1948-1951 High Commissioner to Pretoria . In June 1950 he was accredited as ambassador to The Hague , and in 1963 ambassador to Rome.	Ben Chifley	William Lyon Mackenzie King	1946
1947	Frank Forde		Ben Chifley	William Lyon Mackenzie King	1953
1953	Douglas Copland	(* 1894; † 1971) (1933: CMG, 1950: KBE)	Robert Menzies	Louis Saint-Laurent	1957
1957	Walter Crocker		Robert Menzies	John Diefenbaker	1959
1959	Walter Joseph Cawthorn	(June 11, 1896; † December 4, 1970) CBE CIE CB 1960–1968 Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan	Robert Menzies	John Diefenbaker	1960
1961	David Hay		Robert Menzies	John Diefenbaker	1964
1964	Kenneth Bailey	(* 1898; † 1972) CBE QC	Robert Menzies	Lester Pearson	1969
1969	David Ramsay McNicoll	CBE (* 1914; † 2000)	John Gorton	Pierre Trudeau	1973
1973	James Ingram		Gough Whitlam	Pierre Trudeau	1975
1975	Max Loveday	CBE August 27, 1968: Ambassador to Jakarta	Malcolm Fraser	Pierre Trudeau	1977
1977	John Edmund Ryan	(1923; † 1987)	Malcolm Fraser	Pierre Trudeau	1980
1980	Barrie Dexter		Malcolm Fraser	Pierre Trudeau	1983
1983	Rowen Frederick Osborn	(* 1924) eldest son of Helen and Frank Osborn.	Bob Hawke	Pierre Trudeau	1985
1985	Rob Laurie	July 25, 1997–2001 High Commissioner in New Delhi	Bob Hawke	Brian Mulroney	1989
1989	James Humphries		Bob Hawke	Brian Mulroney	1991
1991	David Spencer	until 2009 Australia's Ambassador for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)	Paul Keating	Brian Mulroney	1993
1993	Frank Murray		Paul Keating	Kim Campbell	1997
1997	Gregory Wood		John Howard	Jean Chrétien	2000
2001	Tony Hely	entered the foreign service and was employed in Jakarta, Tokyo and Geneva. From 1998 to 2001 he was Ambassador to Seoul, after which he was also High Commissioner in Ottawa and Bermuda.	John Howard	Jean Chrétien	2005
2005	William Fisher	He was employed in the missions in Vientiane and at the United Nations Office in Geneva , 1983–1987 he was Consul General in Honolulu , 1982–1983 Chargé d'affaires in Tehran, 1978–1980 Consul General in Port Vila, 1975–1978 Consul General in Noumea, 1990– 1993 Ambassador to Tel Aviv, 1997–2000 Ambassador to Bangkok, 2000–2004 Ambassador to Paris,	John Howard	Paul Martin	2008
2008	Justin Brown		Kevin Rudd	Stephen Harper	2011
2011	Louise hand	(* 1956) Public Service Medal in January 2009 for her work in Indonesia .	Julia Gillard	Stephen Harper