Incumbents
- Monarch: George V, then Edward VIII, then George VI
- Governor General: John Baron Tweedsmuir
- Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
- Secretary of State for External Affairs: Mackenzie King
- Minister of National Defence: Ian Mackenzie
- Minister of Justice: Ernest Lapointe
- Director of Military Operations and Intelligence: Brigadier Henry Crerar
- Chief of the General Staff: Major-General Ernest Charles Ashton
- Chief of the Naval Staff: Commodore Percy W. Nelles
- Senior Air Officer: Air Vice-Marshall George Croil
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