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This is a list of Viceroy s ( Governor s and Lieutenant-governors ) of the Canadian province of Quebec , before and after Confederation in 1867. For governors preceding the 1759 British Conquest , see Governor Of New France .


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
Sir Frederick Haldimand 1778 - 1786
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester 1786 - 1791



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 Dorchester 1791 - 1796
Robert Prescott 1796 - 1799
Sir Robert Shore Milnes 1799 - 1805
Thomas Dunn 1805 - 1807
Sir James Henry Craig 1807 - 1811
Thomas Dunn 1811
Sir George Prevost 1811 - 1815
Sir Gordon Drummond 1815 - 1816
John Wilson 1816
Sir John Coape Sherbrooke 1816 - 1818
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke Of Richmond 1818 - 1819
George Ramsay, 9th Earl Of Dalhousie 1819 - 1828
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer 1830 - 1835
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl Of Gosford 1835 - 1838
Sir John Colborne 1838
John George Lambton, Earl Of Durham 1838 - 1839
Sir John Colborne 1839
Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1839 - 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 .


LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS OF CANADA EAST

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


NameTerm
John Clitherow 1841
Sir Richard Downes Jackson 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 QUEBEC



NameTerm
Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau 1867 - 1873
René-Edouard Caron 1873 - 1876
Luc Letellier De Saint-Just 1876 - 1879
Théodore Robitaille 1879 - 1884
Louis-Francois Rodrigue Masson 1884 - 1887
Auguste-Réal Angers 1887 - 1892
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau 1892 - 1898
Sir Louis-Amable Jetté 1898 - 1908
Sir Pantaléon Pelletier 1908 - 1911
Sir François Langelier 1911 - 1915
Sir Pierre-Évariste Leblanc 1915 - 1918
Sir Charles Fitzpatrick 1918 - 1923
Louis-Philippe Brodeur 1923 - 1924
Narcisse Pérodeau 1924 - 1929
Sir Lomer Gouin 1929
Henry George Carroll 1929 - 1934
Esioff-Léon Patenaude 1934 - 1940
Sir Eugène Fiset 1940 - 1950
Gaspard Fauteux 1950 - 1958
Onésime Gagnon 1958 - 1961
Paul Comtois 1961 - 1966
Hugues Lapointe 1966 - 1978
Jean-Pierre Côté 1978 - 1984
Gilles Lamontagne 1984 - 1990
Martial Asselin 1990 - 1996
Jean-Louis Roux 1996 - 1997
Lise Thibault 1997 -present