List of Lieutenant Governors of Quebec
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For governors preceding the 1759 British conquest see Governor of New France.
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2 Lieutenant Governors of Lower Canada 3 Lieutenant Governors of Canada East 4 Lieutenant Governors of Quebec |
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.
| Name | Term |
|---|---|
| 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.
The Province of Canada was split into Ontario and Quebec after Canadian Confederation in 1867.
Lieutenant Governors of Quebec
| Name | Term |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Lists of viceroys | |
|---|---|
| Federal | Governors General |
| Lieutenant governors | Alberta - British Columbia - Manitoba - New Brunswick - Newfoundland and Labrador - Nova Scotia - Ontario - Prince Edward Island - Quebec - Saskatchewan - |
| Territorial commissioners | Northwest Territories - Nunavut - Yukon |
| Historical governors | New France (1627-1760) - Acadia (1603-1710) - Northwest Territories (1869-1905) |
