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The prime minister of Canada is the head of government of Canada, chair of the Cabinet, and primary minister of the Crown. Canadian prime ministers are styled as The Right Honourable, a privilege maintained for life.

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A list of the prime ministers who have served to date, their tenures, political parties, and prominent events that occurred within those tenures.

No. Name Term of Office Political party Events
1 Sir John A. Macdonald 1 July 1867 - 5 November 1873
  • Liberal-Conservative Party
  • 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 Alexander Mackenzie 7 November 1873 - 8 October 1878
  • Liberal Party
  • 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
  • Unionist Party
  • 1921 Imperial Conference
10 William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • Liberal Party
  • Passage of the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923
  • King-Byng Affair
9 Arthur Meighen 29 June 1926 - 25 September 1926
  • Conservative Party
10 William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • Liberal Party
  • Persons Case
  • Beauharnois scandal
11 R. B. Bennett 7 August 1930 - 23 October 1935
  • Conservative Party
  • 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
  • Liberal Party
  • 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
  • Liberal Party
  • 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
  • Liberal Party
  • 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
  • Liberal Party
  • 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
  • Liberal Party
17 John Turner
  • Liberal Party
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
  • Liberal Party
  • Airbus affair
  • Establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement
  • Shawinigan Handshake
  • Establishment of Nunavut
  • Sponsorship scandal
  • 2002-2004 SARS outbreak
21 Paul Martin
  • Liberal Party
  • Sponsorship scandal
22 Stephen Harper 6 February 2006 - 4 November 2015
  • Conservative Party
  • Hijacking of CanJet Flight 918
  • 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal
  • 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa
23 Justin Trudeau 4 November 2015 - present
  • Liberal Party

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References[]

  1. Editorial: How the “Canadianized” Community of Newfoundland Joined Canada - The Canadian Encyclopedia - Retrieved 8 November 2020

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           Heraldic mark of the Prime Minister of Canada Prime Ministers of Canada

19th century
Sir John A. Macdonald | Alexander Mackenzie | Sir John A. Macdonald | Sir John Abbott | Sir John Thompson | Sir Charles Tupper | Sir Wilfrid Laurier

20th century
Sir Wilfrid Laurier | Sir Robert Borden | Arthur Meighen | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Arthur Meighen | William Lyon Mackenzie King | R. B. Bennett | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Louis St. Laurent | John Diefenbaker | Lester B. Pearson | Pierre Elliott Trudeau | Joe Clark | Pierre Elliott Trudeau | John Turner | Brian Mulroney | Kim Campbell | Jean Chrétien

21st century
Jean Chrétien | Paul Martin | Stephen Harper | Justin Trudeau

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