No.
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Name
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Term of Office
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Political party
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Events
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1
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Sir John A. Macdonald
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1 July 1867 - 5 November 1873
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- Liberal-Conservative Party
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- 1st Dominion Day
- Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Establishment of the Dominion Police
- Red River Rebellion
- Integration of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory
- Manitoba Act
- Treaty of Washington, 1871
- Establishment of the North-West Mounted Police
- British Columbia joins Canada
- Prince Edward Island joins Canada
- Pacific Scandal
|
2
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Alexander Mackenzie
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7 November 1873 - 8 October 1878
|
|
- Adopted the secret ballot in federal elections
- Establishment of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Passing of the Indian Act
- Establishment of the Royal Military College of Canada
|
1
|
Sir John A. Macdonald
|
17 October 1878 - 6 June 1891
|
- Liberal-Conservative Party
|
- Transfer of the British Arctic Territories to Canada
- North-West Rebellion
- Hanging of Louis Riel
- Completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Passage of the Electoral Franchise Act
- Passage of the Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 and introduction of the Chinese head tax
- Establishment of Banff National Park
- Establishment of Glacier and Yoho National Parks
|
3
|
Sir John Abbott
|
16 June 1891 - 24 November 1892
|
|
- McGreevy-Langevin scandal
|
4
|
Sir John Thompson
|
5 December 1892 - 12 December 1894
|
|
- Manitoba Schools Question
|
5
|
Sir Mackenzie Bowell
|
|
|
- Manitoba Schools Question
|
6
|
Sir Charles Tupper
|
|
|
- Manitoba Schools Question
|
7
|
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
|
11 July 1896 - 6 October 1911
|
|
- Establishment of the Yukon Territory
- Boer War
- Raising of the Chinese Head Tax
- Attempted bombing of the Welland Canal by Luke Dillon, John Walsh, and John Nolan
- Alaska boundary dispute ended with the Hay-Herbert treaty
- Additional raising of the Chinese head tax
- Establishment of Alberta and Saskatchewan
- Establishment of the Royal Canadian Navy
|
8
|
Sir Robert Borden
|
10 October 1911 - 10 July 1920
|
- Conservative Party
- Unionist Party
|
- Expansion of Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba to modern borders
- Komagata Maru incident
- World War I
- Parliament Hill Fire
- Halifax Fire
- Dispatch of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force
- Winnipeg general strike
- Passage of the Dominion Elections Act
- Merger of the Dominion Police and Royal North-West Mounted Police into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
|
9
|
Arthur Meighen
|
10 July 1920 - 29 December 1921
|
|
|
10
|
William Lyon Mackenzie King
|
|
|
- Passage of the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923
- King-Byng Affair
|
9
|
Arthur Meighen
|
29 June 1926 - 25 September 1926
|
|
|
10
|
William Lyon Mackenzie King
|
|
|
- Persons Case
- Beauharnois scandal
|
11
|
R. B. Bennett
|
7 August 1930 - 23 October 1935
|
|
- Statute of Westminster, 1931
- Establishment of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
- On-To-Ottawa Trek
|
10
|
William Lyon Mackenzie King
|
23 October 1935 - 15 November 1948
|
|
- Reorganisation of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission into the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Turning away of the MS St. Louis
- World War II
- Establishment of Camp X
- Gouzenko affair
- Expulsion of Fred Rose
|
12
|
Louis St. Laurent
|
15 November 1948 - 21 June 1957
|
|
- Newfoundland joins Canada[1]
- Hiring of Hal C. Banks
- Establishment of 24 Sussex Drive as the official residence of the Prime Minister
- Korean War
- Suez Crisis and the creation of the United Nations Emergency Force
|
13
|
John Diefenbaker
|
21 June 1957 - 22 April 1963
|
- Progressive Conservative Party
|
- Construction of the Emergency Government Headquarters
- Cancellation of the Avro Arrow
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Norris Commission
|
14
|
Lester B. Pearson
|
22 April 1963 - 20 April 1968
|
|
- Great Canadian Flag Debate
- Adoption of the Maple Leaf flag
- Munsinger affair
- Passage of the Medical Care Act, 1966
- Centennial
- Unification of the Canadian Armed Forces
|
15
|
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
|
20 April 1968 - 4 June 1979
|
|
- Trudeaumania
- Passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69
- October Crisis
- Fuddle duddle
|
16
|
Joe Clark
|
4 June 1979 - 3 March 1980
|
- Progressive Conservative Party
|
- Iran Hostage Crisis and the Canadian Caper
|
15
|
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
|
3 March 1980 - 30 June 1984
|
|
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17
|
John Turner
|
|
|
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18
|
Brian Mulroney
|
|
- Progressive Conservative Party
|
- Establishment of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement
- Establishment of the Canadian Space Agency
- Establishment of the Goods and services tax
|
19
|
Kim Campbell
|
25 June 1993 - 4 November 1993
|
- Progressive Conservative Party
|
- Collapse of the Progressive Conservatives
|
20
|
Jean Chrétien
|
4 November 1993 - 12 December 2003
|
|
- Airbus affair
- Establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement
- Shawinigan Handshake
- Establishment of Nunavut
- Sponsorship scandal
- 2002-2004 SARS outbreak
|
21
|
Paul Martin
|
|
|
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22
|
Stephen Harper
|
6 February 2006 - 4 November 2015
|
|
- Hijacking of CanJet Flight 918
- 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal
- 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa
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23
|
Justin Trudeau
|
4 November 2015 - present
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