List of Canadian ministries

This is a list of Canadian ministries and their prime ministers since Confederation (1 July 1867).

By convention, each Canadian ministry is formed when the chairing prime minister is appointed and dissolved when s/he leaves office. The one exception occurred during the premiership of Robert Borden whose wartime Unionist government is considered a separate ministry from the one he chaired as head of a Conservative government. Elections do not cause dissolution of the ministry unless they result in the government's defeat – this is in contrast to other Commonwealth realms such as Australia and the United Kingdom where a "new" ministry is considered to have been formed after every election regardless of the winner. Therefore, the twenty-eight ministries that have served Canada represent twenty-six occasions since Canadian Confederation that the premiership has changed hands and one occasion when a coalition government was formed by the sitting prime minister.

Ministries

MinistryPrime ministerDates
First Canadian MinistryJohn Alexander Macdonald1867–1873
Second Canadian MinistryAlexander Mackenzie1873–1878
Third Canadian MinistryJohn Alexander Macdonald1878–1891
Fourth Canadian MinistryJohn Joseph Caldwell Abbott1891–1892
Fifth Canadian MinistryJohn Sparrow David Thompson1892–1894
Sixth Canadian MinistryMackenzie Bowell1894–1896
Seventh Canadian MinistryCharles Tupper1896
Eighth Canadian MinistryWilfrid Laurier1896–1911
Ninth Canadian MinistryRobert Laird Borden1911–1917
Tenth Canadian MinistryRobert Laird Borden1917–1920
Eleventh Canadian MinistryArthur Meighen1920–1921
Twelfth Canadian MinistryWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King1921–1926
Thirteenth Canadian MinistryArthur Meighen1926
Fourteenth Canadian MinistryWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King1926–1930
Fifteenth Canadian MinistryRichard Bedford Bennett1930–1935
Sixteenth Canadian MinistryWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King1935–1948
Seventeenth Canadian MinistryLouis Stephen St-Laurent1948–1957
Eighteenth Canadian MinistryJohn George Diefenbaker1957–1963
Nineteenth Canadian MinistryLester Bowles Pearson1963–1968
Twentieth Canadian MinistryPierre Elliott Trudeau1968–1979
Twenty-First Canadian MinistryCharles Joseph Clark1979–1980
Twenty-Second Canadian MinistryPierre Elliott Trudeau1980–1984
Twenty-Third Canadian MinistryJohn Napier Turner1984
Twenty-Fourth Canadian MinistryMartin Brian Mulroney1984–1993
Twenty-Fifth Canadian MinistryKim Campbell1993
Twenty-Sixth Canadian MinistryJean Chrétien1993–2003
Twenty-Seventh Canadian MinistryPaul Martin2003–2006
Twenty-Eighth Canadian MinistryStephen Harper2006–2015
Twenty-Ninth Canadian MinistryJustin Trudeau2015–present

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