List of lieutenant governors of Ontario

The following is a list of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Ontario. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Ontario came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of Upper Canada in 1791, which itself branched out of the governorship of the Province of Quebec. From 1841 to 1867, the Governors General of the Province of Canada simultaneously acted as the direct governor of Canada West (what is present day Ontario), only occasionally appointing a lieutenant to act in their stead.

Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada, 1791-1841

#	Name	Governor from	Governor until
Governors under George III (1791 – 1820):
1.	John Graves Simcoe	1791	1796
	Peter Russell (Administrator)	1796	1799
2.	Peter Hunter	1799	1805
	Alexander Grant (Administrator)	1805	1806
3.	Francis Gore	1806	→
	Sir Isaac Brock KB (acting Governor)	1811	1812
	Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe (acting Governor)	1812	1813
	Le baron de Rottenburg (acting Governor)	1813
	Sir Gordon Drummond (acting Governor)	1813	1814
	Sir George Murray GCB GCH (acting Governor)	1815
	Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson KCB GCH (acting Governor)	1815
3.	cont...	←	1817
	Samuel Smith (Administrator)	1817	1818
4.	Sir Peregrine Maitland KCB GCH	1818	→
Governors under George IV (1820 – 1830):
4.	cont...	←	1828
5.	Sir John Colborne GCB GCMG GCH AdC(P)	1828	→
Governors under William IV (1830 – 1837):
5.	cont...	←	1836
6.	Sir Francis Bond Head KCH	1836	→
Governors under Queen Victoria (1837 – 1841):
6.	cont...	←	1838
7.	Sir George Arthur KCH	1838	1839
8.	The Lord Sydenham PC	1839	1841

Lieutenant Governors of Canada West, 1841-1867

#	Name	Governor from	Governor until
Governors under Queen Victoria (1840 – 1867):
9.	John Clitherow (Lieutenant Governor to The Lord Sydenham)	1841
10.	Sir Richard Downes Jackson (Lieutenant Governor to The Lord Sydenham)	1841	1842

Lieutenant Governors of Ontario, 1867-present

#	Name	Governor from	Governor until
Governors under Queen Victoria (1867 – 1901):
11.	Henry William Stisted CB	1867	1868
12.	William Pearce Howland PC	1868	1873
13.	John Willoughby Crawford QC	1873	1875
14.	Donald Alexander Macdonald PC	1875	1880
15.	John Beverley Robinson	1880	1887
16.	Sir Alexander Campbell PC KCMG QC	1887	1892
17.	George Airey Kirkpatrick PC QC	1892	1896
	Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski AdCP KCMG (Administrator)	1896	1897
18.	Sir Oliver Mowat PC GCMG QC	1897	→
Governors under Edward VII (1901 – 1910):
18.	cont...	←	1903
19.	Sir William Mortimer Clark KCMG KC	1903	1908
20.	Sir John Morison Gibson KCMG KC	1908	→
Governors under George V (1910 – 1936):
20.	cont...	←	1914
21.	Sir John Strathearn Hendrie KCMG CVO	1914	1919
22.	Lionel Herbert Clarke	1919	1921
23.	Henry Cockshutt	1921	1927
24.	William Donald Ross	1927	1931
	Sir William Mulock PC KCMG (Administrator)	1931	1932
25.	Herbert Alexander Bruce	1932	→
Governors under Edward VIII (1936):
25.	cont...	←	→
Governors under George VI (1936 – 1952):
25.	cont...	→	1937
26.	Albert Edward Matthews	1937	1946
27.	Frank Ray Lawson OBE	1946	→
Governors under Elizabeth II (1952 – present):
27.	cont...	←	1952
28.	Louis Orville Breithaupt	1952	1957
29.	John Keiller MacKay PC OC DSO VD QC	1957	1963
30.	William Earl Rowe PC	1963	1968
31.	William Ross Macdonald PC CD QC	1968	1974
32.	Pauline Mills McGibbon CC OOnt	1974	1980
33.	John Black Aird CC OOnt QC	1980	1985
34.	Lincoln MacCauley Alexander PC CC OOnt CD QC	1985	1991
35.	Henry Newton Rowell Jackman OC OOnt	1991	1997
36.	Hillary M. Weston CM OOnt	1997	2002
37.	James Karl Bartleman OOnt	2002	2007
38.	David Charles Onley OOnt	2007

See also

• Office-holders of Canada
• Canadian incumbents by year

External links

• Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. "History > Vice-Regal Representatives". Queen's Printer for Ontario. http://www.lt.gov.on.ca/en/History/Vice_RegalRepresentatives.asp?nav=7&sub=1.