Lieutenant Governor Of Ontario

This is a list of Lieutenant-governors of the Canadian province of Ontario , before and after Confederation in 1867.

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Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada

Upper Canada was created out of the western part of Quebec by the Constitutional Act Of 1791 .

Name	Term
John Graves Simcoe	1791 - 1796
Peter Russell (administrator)	1796 - 1799
Peter Hunter	1799 - 1805
Alexander Grant (administrator)	1805 - 1806
Francis Gore	1806 - 1811	1811 - 1812	1812 - 1813	1813	1813 - 1814
Sir Sir George Murray (provisional)	1815
Frederick Philip Robinson (provisional)	1815
Francis Gore (2nd incumbency)	1815 - 1817
Samuel Smith (administrator)	1817 - 1818
Sir Peregrine Maitland	1818 - 1828
Sir John Colborne	1828 - 1836
Sir Francis Bond Head	1836 - 1838
Sir George Arthur	1838 - 1839 ---	1839 - 1841

) Military administrators during the War Of 1812

---)Lord Sydenham was also Governor General Of Canada when Upper Canada and Lower Canada united into the Province Of Canada . Upper Canada became Canada West and Lower Canada became Canada East .

Lieutenant-Governors of Canada West

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

Name	Term
John Clitherow	1841
Sir Richard Downes Jackson (administrator)	1841 - 1842
Sir Charles Bagot	1842 - 1843
Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe Of Fernhill	1843 - 1845
Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart	1845 - 1847
James Bruce, 8th Earl Of Elgin	1847 - 1854
Sir Edmund Walker Head	1854 - 1861
Viscount Monck Of Ballytrammon	1861 - 1866

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

Lieutenant-Governors of Ontario

Name	Term
Henry William Stisted	1867 - 1868
William Pearce Howland	1868 - 1873
John Willoughby Crawford	1873 - 1875
Donald Alexander Macdonald	1875 - 1880
John Beverley Robinson	1880 - 1887
Sir Alexander Campbell	1887 - 1892
Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick	1892 - 1896
Sir Casimir Gzowski (acting)	1896 - 1897
Sir Oliver Mowat	1897 - 1903
Sir William Mortimer Clark	1903 - 1908
Sir John Morison Gibson	1908 - 1914
Sir John Strathearn Hendrie	1914 - 1919
Lionel Herbert Clarke	1919 - 1921
Henry Cockshutt	1921 - 1927
William Donald Ross	1927 - 1931
Sir William Mulock (acting)	1931 - 1932
Herbert Alexander Bruce	1932 - 1937
Albert Edward Matthews	1937 - 1946
Ray Lawson	1946 - 1952
Louis Orville Breithaupt	1952 - 1957
John Keiller MacKay	1957 - 1963
William Earl Rowe	1963 - 1968
William Ross Macdonald	1968 - 1974
Pauline Mills McGibbon	1974 - 1980
John Black Aird	1980 - 1985
Lincoln Alexander	1985 - 1991
Henry N. R. Jackman	1991 - 1997
Hilary M. Weston	1997 - 2002
James K. Bartleman	2002 -present

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