Former Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

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 complex list of leaders listed below is due to the consitutional changes to the region we now know as the Province of Ontario. From 1760 - 1792, the Province of Ontario had Governors, from 1792 - 1841, Upper Canada had Lieutenant Governors, from 1841 - 1867, Canada West had Governors General, and from 1867 until the present, the Province of Ontario has had Lieutenant Governors once again.

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Province of Ontario

Dates of Office	Governor	(Born - Died)
1760-1764	General Sir Jennery Amherst
1764-1766	Lieutenant-General James Murray
1766	Lieutenant-Colonel Paulus Aemilius Irving
1766-1768	Lieutenant-General James Murray
1768-1778	Major-General Guy Carleton
1778-1786	General Sir Frederick Haldimand
1786-1792	Lieutenant Colonel Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester

Upper Canada

Dates of Office	Lieutenant Governor	(Born - Died)
8 Jul 1792 - 10 Apr 1796	Major-General John Graves Simcoe	(b. 1752 - d. 1806)
20 Jul 1796 - 17 Aug 1799	Peter Russell	(b. 1733 - d. 1808)
17 Aug 1799 - 11 Sep 1805	Peter Hunter	(b. 1746 - d. 1805)
11 Sep 1805 - 25 Aug 1806	Captain Alexander Grant	(b. 1734 - d. 1813)
25 Aug 1806 - 9 Oct 1811	Major Francis Gore	(b. 1769 - d. 1852)
9 Oct 1811 - 13 Oct 1812	Major-General Sir Isaac Brock	(b. 1769 - d. 1812)
13 Oct 1812 - 19 Jun 1813	Major-General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe
19 Jun 1813 - 13 Dec 1813	Major-General Francis de Rottenburg, Baron de Rottenburg	(b. 1757 - d. 1832)
13 Dec 1813 - 25 Apr 1815	Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Drummond
25 Apr 1815 - 1 Jul 1815	Lieutenant-General Sir George Murray
1 Jul 1815 - 21 Sep 1815	Major-General Frederick Philipse Robinson	(b. 1763 - d. 1852)
21 Sep 1815 - 6 Jan 1817	Major Francis Gore	(b. 1769 - d. 1852)
11 Jun 1817 - 13 Aug 1818	Samuel Smith
13 Aug 1818 - 23 Aug 1828	Major-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, KB	(b. 1777 - d. 1854)
4 Nov 1828 - 26 Jan 1836	Major-General Sir John Colborne	(b. 1778 - d. 1863)
26 Jan 1836 - 23 Mar 1838	Sir Francis Bond Head	(b. 1793 - d. 1875)
23 Mar 1838 - 5 Feb 1841	Major-General Sir George Arthur	(b. 1784 - d. 1854)

Canada West

Dates of Office	Governors General (Canada West)	(Born - Died)
1841	The Right Honourable Charles Poullet Thompson, Lord Sydenham
1841	Major-General John Clitherow
1841-1842	Sir Richards Downes Jackson
1842-1843	The Right Honourable Sir Charles Bagot
1843-1845	Sir Charles Theophilius Metcalfe
1845-1847	Lieutenant-General The Right Honourable Charles Murray, Earl Cathcart
1847-1854	The Right Honourable Sir James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine
1854-1861	Sir Edmund Walker Head	(b. 1805 - d. 1868)
1861-1866	The Right Honourable Sir Charles Stanley, 4th Viscount Monck	(b. 1819 - d. 1894)

Province of Ontario

Dates of Office	Lieutenant Governor	(Born - Died)
01 Jul 1867 - 14 Jul 1868	Major-General The Honourable Henry William Stisted	(b. 1817 - d. 1875)
15 Jul 1868 - 11 Nov 1873	The Honourable William Pearce Howland	(b. 1811 - d. 1907)
12 Nov 1873 - 13 May 1875	The Honourable John Willoughby Crawford	(b. 1817 - d. 1875)
18 May 1875 - 30 Jun 1880	The Honourable Donald Alexander Macdonald	(b. 1817 - d. 1896)
01 Jul 1880 - 31 May 1887	The Honourable John Beverley Robinson	(b. 1821 - d. 1896)
01 Jun 1887 - 24 May 1892	The Honourable Sir Alexander Campbell	(b. 1822 - d. 1892)
30 May 1892 - 07 Nov 1896	The Honourable Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick	(b. 1841 - d. 1899)
07 Nov 1896 - 18 Nov 1897	Colonel The Honourable Sir Casmir Stanislaus Gzowski	(b. 1813 - d. 1898)
18 Nov 1897 - 19 Apr 1903	The Honourable Sir Oliver Mowat	(b. 1820 - d. 1903)
21 Apr 1903 - 21 Sep 1908	The Honourable Sir William Mortimer Clark	(b. 1836 - d. 1917)
22 Sep 1908 - 26 Sep 1914	The Honourable Sir John Morison Gibson	(b. 1842 - d. 1929)
02 Oct 1914 - 20 Nov 1919	The Honourable Sir John Strathearn Hendrie	(b. 1857 - d. 1923)
01 Dec 1919 - 29 Aug 1921	The Honourable Lionel Herbert Clarke	(b. 1859 - d. 1921)
10 Sep 1921 - 12 Jan 1927	Colonel The Honourable Henry Cockshutt	(b. 1868 - d. 1944)
12 Jan 1927 - 25 Oct 1931	The Honourable William Donald Ross	(b. 1869 - d. 1947)
25 Oct 1931 - 01 Nov 1932	The Right Honourable Sir William Mulock	(b. 1844 - d. 1944)
01 Nov 1932 - 23 Nov 1937	Colonel The Honourable Herbert Alexander Bruce	(b. 1868 - d. 1963)
23 Nov 1937 - 26 Dec 1946	The Honourable Albert Edward Matthews	(b. 1873 - d. 1949)
26 Dec 1946 - 18 Feb 1952	The Honourable Ray Lawson	(b. 1886 - d. 1980)
18 Feb 1952 - 30 Dec 1957	The Honourable Louis Orville Breithaupt	(b. 1890 - d. 1960)
30 Dec 1957 - 01 May 1963	The Honourable John Keiller MacKay	(b. 1888 - d. 1970)
01 May 1963 - 04 Jul 1968	The Honourable William Earl Rowe	(b. 1886 - d. 1984)
04 Jul 1968 - 10 Apr 1974	The Honourable William Ross Macdonald	(b. 1881 - d. 1976)
10 Apr 1974 - 15 Sep 1980	The Honourable Pauline McGibbon	(b. 1910 - d. 2001)
15 Sep 1980 - 20 Sep 1985	Captain (N) The Honourable John Aird	(b. 1923 - d. 1995)
20 Sep 1985 - 11 Dec 1991	Colonel The Honourable Lincoln Alexander	(b. 1922 - d. 2012)
11 Dec 1991 - 24 Jan 1997	Colonel The Honourable Henry Jackman	(b. 1932)
24 Jan 1997 - 07 Mar 2002	The Honourable Hilary Weston	(b. 1942)
07 Mar 2002 - 05 Sep 2007	The Honourable James Bartleman	(b. 1939)
05 Sep 2007 - 23 Sep 2014	The Honourable David Onley	(b. 1950)
23 Sep 2014 - 14 Nov 2023	The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell	(b. 1944)
14 Nov 2023 -	The Honourable Edith Dumont	(b. 1964)

See also
Lieutenant Governors of Canada
Province of Ontario

External Links
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Official Website