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Former Lieutenant Governors of New Brunswick


Lieutenant Governors are appointed by the Governor General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Canada and the Federal Cabinet. The appointment is for a period of not less than five years and the salary is paid by the federal government.

The first list of leaders below is those of the Governors of the British Colony of New Brunswick when it separated from Nova Scotia on August 16, 1784. When New Brunswick became a province of Canada in 1867, the position was then changed to Lieutenant Governors to reflect New Brunswick as part of the Dominion and no longer its own entity.

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Dates of OfficeGovernor(Born - Died)
16 Aug 1784 - 20 May 1786Colonel Thomas Carleton(b. 1735 - d. 1817)
5 Oct 1805 - 12 Feb 1808Gabriel George Ludlow(b. 1736 - d. 1808)
20 Feb 1808 - 24 May 1808Edward Winslow(b. 1746 - d. 1815)
24 May 1808 - 17 Dec 1808Martin Hunter(b. - d. )
17 Dec 1808 - 28 Apr 1809George Johnstone(b. - d. )
28 Apr 1809 - 10 Sep 1811Martin Hunter(b. - d. )
10 Sep 1811 - 14 Nov 1811Willam Balfour(b. 1759 - d. 1811)
14 Nov 1811 - 15 Jun 1812Martin Hunter(b. - d. )
15 Jun 1812 - 17 Aug 1813Major General George Stracey Smyth(b. 1767 - d. 1823)
17 Aug 1813 - 14 Aug 1814Sir Thomas Saumarez(b. - d. )
14 Aug 1814 - 25 Jun 1816Major General George Stracey Smyth(b. 1767 - d. 1823)
25 Jun 1816 - 30 Jun 1817Harris W. Hailes(b. - d. )
1 Jul 1817 - 27 Mar 1823Major General George Stracey Smyth(b. 1767 - d. 1823)
28 Aug 1824 - 9 Sep 1831Sir Howard Douglas(b. 1776 - d. 1861)
9 Sep 1831 - 1 May 1837Major General Sir Archibald Campbell(b. 1769 - d. 1843)
1 May 1837 - 26 Apr 1841Sir John Harvey(b. 1778 - d. 1852)
27 Apr 1841 - 11 Apr 1848Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke(b. 1787 - d. 1870)
11 Apr 1848 - 28 Sep 1854Sir Edmund Walker Head(b. 1805 - d. 1868)
7 Oct 1854 - 26 Oct 1861Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton(b. 1814 - d. 1877)
26 Oct 1861 - 30 Sep 1866Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon(b. 1829 - d. 1912)



Dates of OfficeLieutenant Governor(Born - Died)
01 Jul 1867 - 18 Oct 1867The Honourable Sir Charles Hastings Doyle(b. 1804 - d. 1883)
18 Oct 1867 - 22 Jul 1868The Honourable Francis Pym Harding(b. 1821 - d. 1875)
23 Jul 1868 - 15 Nov 1873The Honourable Lemuel Allan Wilmot(b. 1809 - d. 1878)
15 Nov 1873 - 11 Jul 1878The Honourable Samuel Leonard Tilley(b. 1818 - d. 1896)
16 Jul 1878 - 06 Feb 1880The Honourable Edward Barron Chandler(b. 1800 - d. 1880)
11 Feb 1880 - 11 Nov 1885The Honourable Robert Duncan Wilmot(b. 1809 - d. 1891)
11 Nov 1885 - 21 Sep 1893The Honourable Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley(b. 1818 - d. 1896)
21 Sep 1893 - 04 Dec 1893The Honourable John Boyd(b. 1826 - d. 1893)
20 Dec 1893 - 24 Nov 1896The Honourable John James Fraser(b. 1829 - d. 1896)
09 Dec 1896 - 21 Jan 1902The Honourable Abner Reid McClelan(b. 1831 - d. 1917)
28 Jan 1902 - 24 Feb 1907The Honourable Jabez Bunting Snowball(b. 1837 - d. 1907)
05 Mar 1907 - 06 Mar 1912The Honourable Lemuel John Tweedie(b. 1849 - d. 1917)
06 Mar 1912 - 29 Jun 1917The Honourable Josiah Wood(b. 1843 - d. 1927)
29 Jun 1917 - 31 Oct 1917The Honourable Gilbert White Ganong(b. 1851 - d. 1917)
06 Nov 1917 - 28 Feb 1923The Honourable William Pugsley(b. 1850 - d. 1925)
28 Feb 1923 - 28 Dec 1928The Honourable William Frederic Todd(b. 1854 - d. 1935)
28 Dec 1928 - 31 Jan 1935The Honourable Hugh Havelock McLean(b. 1854 - d. 1938)
08 Feb 1935 - 05 Mar 1940The Honourable Murray MacLaren(b. 1861 - d. 1942)
05 Mar 1940 - 01 Nov 1945The Honourable George William Clarke(b. 1865 - d. 1948)
01 Nov 1945 - 05 Jun 1958The Honourable David Laurence MacLaren(b. 1893 - d. 1960)
05 Jun 1958 - 09 Jun 1965The Honourable Joseph Leonard O'Brien(b. 1895 - d. 1973)
09 Jun 1965 - 31 Jan 1968The Honourable John Babbitt McNair(b. 1889 - d. 1968)
01 Feb 1968 - 02 Oct 1971The Honourable Wallace Samuel Bird(b. 1917 - d. 1971)
08 Oct 1971 - 12 Nov 1981The Honourable Hédard Joseph Robichaud(b. 1911 - d. 1999)
23 Dec 1981 - 20 Aug 1987The Honourable George Francis Gillman Stanley(b. 1907 - d. 2002)
20 Aug 1987 - 21 Jun 1994The Honourable Gilbert Finn(b. 1920 - d. 2015)
21 Jun 1994 - 18 Apr 1997The Honourable Norrie McCain(b. 1934)
18 Apr 1997 - 26 Aug 2003The Honourable Marilyn Trenholme Counsell(b. 1933)
26 Aug 2003 - 30 Sep 2009The Honourable Herménégilde Chiasson(b. 1946)
30 Sep 2009 - 23 Oct 2014The Honourable Graydon Nicholas(b. 1946)
23 Oct 2014 - 02 Aug 2019The Honourable Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau(b. 1956 - d. 2019)
08 Sep 2019The Honourable Brenda Murphy(b. 1958/9)

See also
Lieutenant Governors of Canada
Province of New Brunswick

External Links
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick Official Website


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