Postmaster General of Canada - Postmasters General

Postmasters General

Alexander Campbell

under MacDonald (July 1 1867 – June 30 1873)

John O'Connor

under Macdonald (July 1 1873 – November 5 1873)

Donald Alexander Macdonald

under MacKenzie (November 7 1873 – May 17 1875)

Télesphore Fournier

under Mackenzie (May 19 1875 – October 7 1875)

Lucius Seth Huntington

under Mackenzie (October 9 1875 – October 8 1878)

Hector Louis Langevin

under Macdonald (October 19 1878 – May 19 1879)

Sir Alexander Campbell

under Macdonald (May 20 1879 – January 15 1880) (second time)

John O'Connor

under Macdonald (January 16 1880 – November 7 1880) (second time)

Sir Alexander Campbell

under Macdonald (November 8 1880 – May 18 1881) (third time)

John O'Connor

under Macdonald (May 20 1881 – May 22 1882) (third time)

John Carling

under Macdonald (May 23 1882 – September 24 1885)

Sir Alexander Campbell

under Macdonald (September 25 1885 – January 26 1887) (fourth time)

Archibald McLelan

under Macdonald (January 27 1887 – July 9 1888)

John Carling

under Macdonald (July 11 1888 – August 5 1888) (second time)

John Graham Haggart

under Macdonald (August 6 1888 – June 6 1891)

under Abbott (June 16 1891 – January 24 1892)

Sir Joseph Philippe René Adolphe Caron

under Abbott (January 25 1892 – November 24 1892)

under Thompson (December 5 1892 – December 12 1894)

Louis-Olivier Taillon

under Mackenzie Bowell (December 21 1894 – July 8 1896)

Sir William Mulock

under Laurier (July 13 1896 – October 15 1905)

Allen Bristol Aylesworth

under Laurier (October 16 1905 – June 3 1906)

Rodolphe Lemieux

under Laurier (June 4 1906 – August 10 1911)

Henri Sévérin Béland

under Laurier (August 19 1911 – October 6 1911)

Louis-Philippe Pelletier

under Borden (October 10 1911 – October 19 1914)

Thomas Chase-Casgrain

under Borden (October 20 1914 – December 29 1916)

Pierre Édouard Blondin

under Borden (January 8 1917 – July 10 1920)

under Meighen (July 10 1920 – September 20 1921)

Louis-de-Gonzague Belley

under Meighen (September 21 1921 – December 29 1921)

Charles Murphy

under King (December 29 1921 – June 28 1926)

Robert James Manion

under Meighen (August 23 1926 – September 25 1926)

Peter John Veniot

under King (September 25 1926 – August 7 1930)

Arthur Sauvé

under Bennett (August 7 1930 – August 13 1935)

Samuel Gobeil

under Bennett (August 16 1935 – October 23 1935)

John Campbell Elliott

under King (October 23 1935 – January 22 1939)

Norman Alexander McLarty

under King (January 23 1939 – September 18 1939)

Charles Gavan Power

under King (September 19 1939 – May 22 1940)

James Lorimer Ilsley

(acting)

under King (May 23 1940 – July 7 1940)

William Pate Mulock

under King (July 8 1940 – June 8 1945)

Ernest Bertrand

under King (August 29 1945 – November 15 1948)

under St. Laurent (November 15 1948 – August 23 1949)

Gabriel Édouard Rinfret

under St. Laurent (August 25 1949 – February 12 1952)

Alcide Côté

under St. Laurent (February 13 1952 – August 7 1955)

Roch Pinard

(acting)

under St. Laurent (August 16 1955 – November 2 1955)

Hugues Lapointe

under St. Laurent (November 3 1955 – June 21 1957)

William McLean Hamilton

under Diefenbaker (June 21 1957 – July 12 1962)

John Angus MacLean

(acting)

under Diefenbaker (July 18 1962 – August 8 1962)

Ellen Louks Fairclough

under Diefenbaker (August 9 1962 – April 22 1963)

Azellus Denis

under Pearson (April 22 1963 – February 2 1964)

John Robert Nicholson

under Pearson (February 2 1964 – February 14 1965)

René Tremblay

under Pearson (February 15 1965 – December 17 1965)

Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté

under Pearson (December 18 1965 – April 20 1968)

under Trudeau (April 20 1968 – July 5 1968)

Eric William Kierans

under Trudeau (July 5 1968 – April 28 1971)

Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté

under Trudeau (April 29 1971 – November 26 1972) (second time)

André Ouellet

under Trudeau (November 27 1972 – August 7 1974)

Bryce Stuart Mackasey

under Trudeau (August 8 1974 – September 13 1976)

Jean-Jacques Blais

under Trudeau (September 14 1976 – February 1 1978)

Gilles Lamontagne

under Trudeau (February 2 1978 – June 3 1979)

John Allen Fraser

under Clark (June 4 1979 – March 2 1980)

André Ouellet

under Trudeau (March 3 1980 – October 15 1981) (second time)