The offices of Minister of Immigration and Colonization, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Mines and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs were abolished and the office of Minister of Mines and Resources was on 23 June 1936 and proclaimed in force on 1 Dec. 1936.
| Thomas Alexander Crerar | December 1, 1936 - April 17, 1945 | under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King |
| James Allison Glen | April 18, 1945 - June 10, 1948 | |
| James Angus MacKinnon | June 10, 1948 - November 15, 1948 | |
| James Angus MacKinnon | November 15, 1948 - March 31, 1949 | under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent |
| Colin William George Gibson | April 1, 1949 - January 17, 1950 |
The offices of Minister of Mines and Resources and Minister of Reconstruction and Supply were abolished by Statute and the offices of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Minister of Mines and Technical Surveys and Minister of Resources and Development created and proclaimed in force on 18 Jan. 1950.
For ministers responsible for Indian Affairs see List of Canadian Ministers of Citizenship and Immigration.
Famous quotes containing the words minister, mines and/or resources:
“Just let him be minister if that’s what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark:M”I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.”
—Nancy Chodorow, U.S. professor, and sociologist. The Reproduction of Mothering Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, ch. 2 (1978)