| Dates of Office | Governor | (Born - Died) |
| 1753 - 1756 | Charles Lawerence |
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| 1760 - 1763 | Jonathan Belcher |
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| 1763 - 1764 | Montague Wilmot |
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| 1776 - 1778 | Mariot Arbuthnot |
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| 1778 - 1781 | Richard Hughes |
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| 1781 - 1782 | Sir Andrew Snape Hamond |
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| 1783 - 1786 | Edmond Fanning |
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| 1786 - 1791 | John Parr |
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| 14 May 1792 - 13 Apr 1808 | Sir John Wentworth | (b. 1737 - d. 1820) |
| 13 Apr 1808 - 25 Aug 1811 | Sir George Prevost | (b. 1767 - d. 1816) |
| 25 Aug 1811 - 16 Oct 1811 | Sir Alexander Croke |
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| 16 Oct 1811 - 27 Jun 1816 | Sir John Coape Sherbrooke | (b. 1764 - d. 1830) |
| 27 Jun 1816 - 24 Oct 1816 | George Stracey Smyth | (b. 1767 - d. 1823) |
| 24 Oct 1816 - 1 Jun 1820 | George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie | (b. 1770 - d. 1838) |
| 1 Jun 1820 - 23 Aug 1828 | Sir James Kempt | (b. 1764 - d. 1854) |
| 23 Aug 1828 - 28 Nov 1828 | Thomas N. Jeffrey |
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| 28 Nov 1828 - 24 Jan 1834 | Sir Peregrine Maitland | (b. 1771 - d. 1854) |
| 24 Jan 1834 - 2 Jul 1834 | Thomas N. Jeffrey |
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| 2 Jul 1834 - 30 Sep 1840 | Sir Colin Campbell | (b. 1776 - d. 1847) |
| 30 Sep 1840 - 2 Aug 1846 | Lucius Bentinck Carey, Viscount Falkland | (b. 1803 - d. 1884) |
| 2 Aug 1846 - 29 Aug 1846 | Sir Jeremiah Dickson |
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| 29 Aug 1846 - 22 Mar 1852 | Sir John Harvey | (b. 1778 - d. 1852) |
| 22 Mar 1852 - 5 Aug 1852 | Sir John Bazalgette |
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| 5 Aug 1852 - 15 Feb 1858 | Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant | (b. 1803 - d. 1874) |
| 15 Feb 1858 - 17 Sep 1863 | George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave | (b. 1819 - d. 1890) |
| 17 Sep 1863 - 22 Jun 1864 | Charles Hastings Doyle | (b. 1804 - d. 1883) |
| 22 Jun 1864 - 28 Sep 1865 | Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell | (b. 1814 - d. 1881) |
| 28 Sep 1865 - 8 Nov 1865 | Charles Hastings Doyle | (b. 1804 - d. 1883) |
| 8 Nov 1865 - 18 Oct 1867 | Sir William Fenwick Williams | (b. 1800 - d. 1883) |
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| Dates of Office | Lieutenant Governor | (Born - Died) |
| 08 Nov 1865 - 18 Oct 1867 | The Honourable Sir William Fenwick Williams | (b. 1800 - d. 1883) |
| 18 Oct 1867 - 01 May 1873 | The Honourable Sir Charles Hastings Doyle | (b. 1804 - d. 1883) |
| 01 May 1873 - 04 Jul 1873 | The Honourable Joseph Howe | (b. 1804 - d. 1873) |
| 04 Jul 1873 - 04 Jul 1883 | The Honourable Sir Adam George Archibald | (b. 1824 - d. 1892) |
| 04 Jul 1883 - 09 Jul 1888 | The Honourable Matthew Henry Richey | (b. 1828 - d. 1911) |
| 09 Jul 1888 - 26 Jun 1890 | The Honourable Archibald Woodbury McLelan | (b. 1824 - d. 1890) |
| 11 Jul 1890 - 26 Jul 1900 | The Honourable Sir Malachy Bowes Daly | (b. 1836 - d. 1920) |
| 26 Jul 1900 - 15 Mar 1906 | The Honourable Alfred Gilpin Jones | (b. 1824 - d. 1906) |
| 27 Mar 1906 - 27 Sep 1910 | The Honourable Duncan Cameron Fraser | (b. 1845 - d. 1910) |
| 18 Oct 1910 - 19 Oct 1915 | The Honourable James Drummond McGregor | (b. 1838 - d. 1918) |
| 19 Oct 1915 - 13 Nov 1916 | The Honourable David MacKeen | (b. 1839 - d. 1916) |
| 29 Nov 1916 - 12 Jan 1925 | The Honourable MacCallum Grant | (b. 1845 - d. 1928) |
| 12 Jan 1925 - 14 Sep 1925 | The Honourable James Robson Douglas | (b. 1876 - d. 1934) |
| 14 Sep 1925 - 19 Nov 1930 | The Honourable James Cranswick Tory | (b. 1862 - d. 1944) |
| 19 Nov 1930 - 25 Sep 1931 | The Honourable Frank Stanfield | (b. 1872 - d. 1931) |
| 05 Oct 1931 - 07 Apr 1937 | The Honourable Walter Harold Covert | (b. 1865 - d. 1949) |
| 07 Apr 1937 - 31 May 1940 | The Honourable Robert Irwin | (b. 1865 - d. 1941) |
| 31 May 1940 - 17 Nov 1942 | The Honourable Frederick Francis Mathers | (b. 1871 - d. 1947) |
| 17 Nov 1942 - 12 Aug 1947 | The Honourable Henry Ernest Kendall | (b. 1864 - d. 1949) |
| 12 Aug 1947 - 01 Sep 1952 | The Honourable John Alexander Douglas McCurdy | (b. 1886 - d. 1962) |
| 01 Sep 1952 - 15 Jan 1958 | The Honourable Alistair Fraser | (b. 1885 - d. 1964) |
| 15 Jan 1958 - 01 Mar 1963 | The Honourable Edward Chester Plow | (b. 1904 - d. 1988) |
| 01 Mar 1963 - 22 Jul 1968 | The Honourable Henry Poole MacKeen | (b. 1892 - d. 1971) |
| 22 Jul 1968 - 01 Oct 1973 | The Honourable Victor de B. Oland | (b. 1913 - d. 1983) |
| 01 Oct 1973 - 23 Dec 1978 | The Honourable Clarence L. Gosse | (b. 1912 - d. 1996) |
| 23 Dec 1978 - 01 Feb 1984 | The Honourable John Elvin Schaffner | (b. 1911 - d. 2001) |
| 01 Feb 1984 - 20 Feb 1989 | The Honourable Alan R. Abraham | (b. 1931) |
| 20 Feb 1989 - 23 Jun 1994 | The Honourable Lloyd Roseville Crouse | (b. 1918 - d. 2007) |
| 23 Jun 1994 - 17 May 2000 | The Honourable J. James Kinley | (b. 1925 - d. 2012) |
| 17 May 2000 - 07 Sep 2006 | The Honourable Myra A. Freeman | (b. 1949) |
| 07 Sep 2006 - 12 Apr 2012 | The Honourable Mayann Francis | (b. 1946) |
| 12 Apr 2012 - 28 Jun 2017 | Brigadier-General The Honourable John Grant | (b. 1936) |
| 28 Jun 2017 - | The Honourable Arthur J. LeBlanc | (b. 1943) |
