List of Prime Ministers of Canada by residence
Before 1951 the Prime Minister of Canada had no official residence and they lived in a variety of structures around Ottawa:
John A. Macdonald | 1867-1870 | house at 63 Daly Street, Sandy Hill | Now demolished and site of St. Alban Terrace. | |
1872-1873 | house at 195 Chapel Street, Sandy Hill | Now demolished. | ||
1878-1883 | Stadacona Hall | now High Commission of Brunei, Ottawa | ||
1883-1891 | Earnscliffe | now home of the British High Commissioner to Canada | ||
Alexander Mackenzie | 1873-1878 | A house in the area that is now the site of the Confederation Building | ||
John Abbott | 1891-1892 | Unknown | likely a house in Ottawa. lived at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue in Montreal after retiring | |
John Thompson | 1892-1894 | house at 237 Metcalfe | Also lived in three other houses around Metcalfe and Lisgar from 1891–1894 | |
Mackenzie Bowell | 1894-1896 | Unknown | likely rented a dwelling in Ottawa | |
Charles Tupper | 1896 | Unknown | likely a rent house in Ottawa as he had spent most of his time before in rented houses or hotels | |
Wilfrid Laurier | 1896-1911 | Laurier House | ||
Robert Borden | 1911-1920 | 201 Wurtemburg Street | Now the site of the apartment building next to Turkish Embassy, Ottawa (original stone and iron fence still standing) | |
Arthur Meighen | 1920-1921, 1926 | house at 21 Cooper Street | Now the site of the apartment block at 10 Driveway. | |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | 1921-1926, 1926-1930, 1935-1948 | Laurier House in Sandy Hill | ||
Kingsmere in Quebec | ||||
R.B. Bennett | 1930-1935 | A suite in the Chateau Laurier | ||
Louis St. Laurent | 1948-1951 | An apartment in the Roxborough | Today the site of Confederation Park. | |
1951-1957 | 24 Sussex Drive | 24 Sussex was acquired by the Government of Canada via an eviction. | ||
John Diefenbaker | 1957-1963 | |||
Lester Pearson | 1963-1968 | |||
Pierre Trudeau | 1968-1979, 1980-1984 | |||
Joe Clark | 1979-1980 | |||
John Turner | 1984 | |||
Brian Mulroney | 1984-1993 | |||
Kim Campbell | 1993 | Harrington Lake | first PM since 1951 to not have lived at 24 Sussex | |
Jean Chrétien | 1993-2003 | 24 Sussex Drive | ||
Paul Martin | 2003-2006 | |||
Stephen Harper | 2006–2015 | |||
Justin Trudeau | 2015–present | Rideau Cottage |
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