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This is a list of lieutenant governors (pronounced "lef-tenant") of the Canadian province of Ontario, before and after Confederation in 1867. The Lieutenant-Governor is the Ontarian vice-regal representative of the Canadian Monarch.
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Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada (Pre-Confederation)

Lieutenant-Governors of Canada West (Pre-Confederation)

Lieutenant Governors of Ontario (Post-Confederation)

Firsts

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Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada (Pre-Confederation)

Upper Canada was created out of the western part of Quebec by the Constitutional Act of 1791.

Name	Term
John Graves Simcoe	1791-1796
Peter Russell (administrator)	1796-1799
Peter Hunter	1799-1805
Alexander Grant (administrator)	1805-1806
Francis Gore	1806-1811
Sir Isaac Brock ★	1811-1812
Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe ★	1812-1813
Francis de Rottenburg ★	1813
Sir Gordon Drummond ★	1813-1814
Sir Sir George Murray (provisional)	1815
Frederick Philip Robinson (provisional)	1815
Francis Gore (2nd incumbency)	1815-1817
Samuel Smith (administrator)	1817-1818
Sir Peregrine Maitland	1818-1828
Sir John Colborne	1828-1836
Sir Francis Bond Head	1836-1838
Sir George Arthur	1838-1839
Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham ★ ★	1839-1841

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★ ) Military administrators during the War of 1812
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★ )Lord Sydenham was also Governor General of Canada when Upper Canada and Lower Canada united into the Province of Canada. Upper Canada became Canada West and Lower Canada became Canada East.

Lieutenant-Governors of Canada West (Pre-Confederation)

After Richard Downes Jackson, the Lieutenant-Governors were also simultaneously Governors General.

Name	Term
John Clitherow	1841
Sir Richard Downes Jackson (administrator)	1841-1842
Sir Charles Bagot	1842-1843
Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe of Fernhill	1843-1845
Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart	1845-1847
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin	1847-1854
Sir Edmund Walker Head	1854-1861
Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon	1861-1866

The Province of Canada was split into Ontario and Quebec after Canadian Confederation in 1867.

Lieutenant Governors of Ontario (Post-Confederation)

Name	Term
Henry William Stisted	1867-1868
William Pearce Howland	1868-1873
John Willoughby Crawford	1873-1875
Donald Alexander Macdonald	1875-1880
John Beverley Robinson	1880-1887
Sir Alexander Campbell	1887-1892
Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick	1892-1896
Sir Casimir Gzowski (acting)	1896-1897
Sir Oliver Mowat	1897-1903
Sir William Mortimer Clark	1903-1908
Sir John Morison Gibson	1908-1914
Sir John Strathearn Hendrie	1914-1919
Lionel Herbert Clarke	1919-1921
Henry Cockshutt	1921-1927
William Donald Ross	1927-1931
Sir William Mulock (acting)	1931-1932
Herbert Alexander Bruce	1932-1937
Albert Edward Matthews	1937-1946
Ray Lawson	1946-1952
Louis Orville Breithaupt	1952-1957
John Keiller MacKay	1957-1963
William Earl Rowe	1963-1968
William Ross Macdonald	1968-1974
Pauline Mills McGibbon	1974-1980
John Black Aird	1980-1985
Lincoln Alexander	1985-1991
Henry N. R. Jackman	1991-1997
Hilary M. Weston	1997-2002
James K. Bartleman	2002-2007
David C. Onley	2007-

Firsts

★ Donald Alexander Macdonald was the first Canadian born Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

★ Gordon Drummond was the first Canadian born Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada

★ James Bartleman was the first aboriginal to hold the post

★ Pauline Mills McGibbon was the first woman to hold the post

★ Lincoln Alexander was the first black Canadian to hold the post

★ Francis de Rottenburg was the only Swiss born person to hold the post

★ Casimir Gzowski was the only Polish born person to hold the post

★ Hilary Weston is the only Irish born person to hold the post

★ Herbert Alexander Bruce was the first doctor to hold the post

★ David Onley is the first person with a disability to hold the post

External link

★ Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario: History