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List of Lieutenant Governors of Ontario
This is a list of Lieutenant Governors of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada
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 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 |
(*) Military administrators during the War of 1812
(**)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
After Richard Downes Jackson, the Lieutenant Governors were also simultaneously Governors General.
The Province of Canada was split into Ontario and Quebec after Canadian Confederation in 1867.
Lieutenant Governors of Ontario
| 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-present |
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