Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec



         


This is a list of Lieutenant Governors of the Canadian province of Quebec.

For governors preceding the 1759 British conquest see Governor of New France.

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Governors of Quebec from the Conquest to the creation of Lower Canada

Quebec was conquered by the British in 1759.

Name Term
Jeffrey Amherst 1760-1763
James Murray 1764-1768
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester 1768-1778
Frederick Haldimand 1778-1786
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester 1786-1791
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Lieutenant Governors of Lower Canada

Lower Canada was created out of the eastern part of Quebec by the Constitutional Act of 1791.

NameTerm
Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester1791-1796
Robert Prescott1796-1799
Sir Robert Shore Milnes1799-1805
Thomas Dunn1805-1807
Sir James Henry Craig1807-1811
Thomas Dunn1811
Sir George Prevost1811-1815
Sir Gordon Drummond1815-1816
John Wilson1816
Sir John Coape Sherbrooke1816-1818
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond1818-1819
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie1819-1828
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer1830-1835
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford1835-1838
Sir John Colborne1838
John George Lambton, Earl of Durham1838-1839
Sir John Colborne1839
Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham1839-1841

Lord Sydenham was also Governor General of Canada, and united Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. Lower Canada became Canada East.

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Lieutenant Governors of Canada East

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

NameTerm
John Clitherow1841
Sir Richard Downes Jackson1841-1842
Sir Charles Bagot1842-1843
Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe of Fernhill1843-1845
Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart1845-1847
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin1847-1854
Sir Edmund Walker Head1854-1861
Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon1861-1866

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

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Lieutenant Governors of Quebec

NameTerm
Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau 1867-1873
René-Edouard Caron1873-1876
Luc Letellier de Saint-Just1876-1879
Théodore Robitaille1879-1884
Louis-Francois Rodrigue Masson1884-1887
Auguste-Réal Angers1887-1892
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau1892-1898
Sir Louis-Amable Jetté1898-1908
Sir Pantaléon Pelletier1908-1911
Sir François Langelier1911-1915
Sir Pierre-Évariste Leblanc1915-1918
Sir Charles Fitzpatrick1918-1923
Louis-Philippe Brodeur1923-1924
Narcisse Pérodeau1924-1929
Sir Lomer Gouin1929
Henry George Carroll1929-1934
Esioff-Léon Patenaude1934-1940
Sir Eugène Fiset1940-1950
Gaspard Fauteux1950-1958
Onésime Gagnon1958-1961
Paul Comtois1961-1966
Hugues Lapointe1966-1978
Jean-Pierre Côté1978-1984
Gilles Lamontagne1984-1990
Martial Asselin1990-1996
Jean-Louis Roux1996-1997
Lise Thibault1997-present


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