Postmaster General of Canada - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Postmaster General of Canada was the Canadian cabinet minister responsible for the Post Office Department (Canada Post

Canada Post

Canada Post Corporation, known more simply as Canada Post , is the Canadian crown corporation which functions as the country's primary postal operator...

). In 1851, management of the post office

Post office

A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...

was transferred from Britain

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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(Royal Mail

Royal Mail

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) to the provincial governments of the Province of Canada

Province of Canada

The Province of Canada, United Province of Canada, or the United Canadas was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of...

, New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

, Newfoundland

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...

, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

and Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

. The position of Postmaster General was established in each province. With Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation was the process by which the federal Dominion of Canada was formed on July 1, 1867. On that day, three British colonies were formed into four Canadian provinces...

in 1867, a single position was created replacing this post in all of the above provinces except Newfoundland; this position was abolished in 1981 when the post office was transformed from a government department into a crown corporation

Crown corporations of Canada

Canadian Crown corporations are enterprises owned by the federal government of Canada , one of Canada's provincial governments or one of the territorial governments. Crown corporations have a long standing presence in the country and have been instrumental in the formation of the state...

. From 1900 until 1909 the Postmaster General was also responsible for the Department of Labour.

Postmasters General

Alexander Campbell

Alexander Campbell (Canadian politician)

Sir Alexander Campbell, PC, KCMG, QC was an English-born, Canadian statesman and politician, and a father of Canadian Confederation....

under MacDonald

John A. Macdonald

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, PC , QC was the first Prime Minister of Canada. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, his political career spanned almost half a century...

(July 1 1867 – June 30 1873)

John O'Connor

John O'Connor (Canadian politician)

John O'Connor, PC was a Canadian politician and cabinet minister.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Irish immigrants John and Mary O’Connor, he moved with his family to Essex County, Upper Canada in 1828....

under Macdonald (July 1 1873 – November 5 1873)

Donald Alexander Macdonald

Donald Alexander Macdonald, PC was a Canadian politician.Born in 1817 in St. Raphael's, Ontario, Donald Alexander Macdonald studied at St Raphael's College under the first Catholic Bishop of Ontario, Alexander Macdonell...

under MacKenzie

Alexander Mackenzie

Alexander Mackenzie, PC , a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.-Biography:...

(November 7 1873 – May 17 1875)

Télesphore Fournier

Télesphore Fournier, PC was a Canadian politician and jurist.Born in Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada , the son of Guillaume Fournier and Marie-Archange Morin, he was called to the bar in 1846...

under Mackenzie (May 19 1875 – October 7 1875)

Lucius Seth Huntington

Lucius Seth Huntington, PC was a Quebec lawyer, journalist and political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Shefford from 1867 to 1882. He also served as President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Postmaster General.He was born in Compton,...

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

Sir John Carling, PC, KCMG of the Carling Brewery was a prominent politician and businessman from London, Ontario, Canada...

under Macdonald (May 23 1882 – September 24 1885)

Sir Alexander Campbell

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

Archibald McLelan

Archibald Woodbury McLelan, PC was a Canadian shipbuilder and politician, the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia....

under Macdonald (January 27 1887 – July 9 1888)

John Carling

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

John Graham Haggart

John Graham Haggart, PC was a Canadian politician.A member of the Canadian House of Commons, he was the Postmaster General and the Minister of Railways and Canals. He was Mayor of Perth, Ontario in 1867, 1869 and 1871....

under Macdonald (August 6 1888 – June 6 1891)

under Abbott

John Abbott

Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC was the third Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the office for seventeen months, from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892. - Life and work :...

(June 16 1891 – January 24 1892)

Sir Joseph Philippe René Adolphe Caron

Adolphe-Philippe Caron

Sir Joseph-Philippe-René-Adolphe Caron, PC, KCMG was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He is now best remembered as the Minister of Militia and Defence in the government of Sir John A...

under Abbott (January 25 1892 – November 24 1892)

under Thompson (December 5 1892 – December 12 1894)

Louis-Olivier Taillon

Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon, PC was born in Terrebonne, Quebec. He twice served as the eighth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec....

under Mackenzie Bowell

Mackenzie Bowell

Sir Mackenzie Bowell, PC, KCMG was a Canadian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Canada from December 21, 1894 to April 27, 1896.-Early life:Bowell was born in Rickinghall, Suffolk, England to John Bowell and Elizabeth Marshall...

(December 21 1894 – July 8 1896)

Sir William Mulock

William Mulock

Sir William Mulock, PC, KCMG, MP, QC, LL.D was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist....

under Laurier

Wilfrid Laurier

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911....

(July 13 1896 – October 15 1905)

Allen Bristol Aylesworth

Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth, PC, KCMG was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian.Born in Newburgh, Ontario of United Empire Loyalist ancestry, Aylesworth was educated at the University of Toronto, and called to the Ontario Bar in 1878...

under Laurier (October 16 1905 – June 3 1906)

Rodolphe Lemieux

Rodolphe Lemieux, PC, FRSC was a Canadian parliamentarian and long time Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons ....

under Laurier (June 4 1906 – August 10 1911)

Henri Sévérin Béland

Henri Sévérin Béland, PC was a Canadian parliamentarian.Born in Rivière-du-Loup-en-Haut, Quebec , the son of Henri Béland and Sophie Lesage, he studied medicine at Université Laval. He practiced medicine in New Hampshire before moving to Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Quebec...

under Laurier (August 19 1911 – October 6 1911)

Louis-Philippe Pelletier

under Borden

Robert Borden

Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911 to July 10, 1920, and was the third Nova Scotian to hold this office...

(October 10 1911 – October 19 1914)

Thomas Chase-Casgrain

Thomas Chase-Casgrain, PC , also known as Thomas Casgrain, was a French Canadian lawyer and politician. As a young attorney he became famous for his participation in the prosecution of Louis Riel....

under Borden (October 20 1914 – December 29 1916)

Pierre Édouard Blondin

under Borden (January 8 1917 – July 10 1920)

under Meighen

Arthur Meighen

Arthur Meighen, PC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921; and from June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding...

(July 10 1920 – September 20 1921)

Louis-de-Gonzague Belley

under Meighen (September 21 1921 – December 29 1921)

Charles Murphy

Charles Murphy (Canadian politician)

Charles Murphy, PC was a Canadian politician and Liberal MP for Russell in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1925. He was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1925....

under King

William Lyon Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948...

(December 29 1921 – June 28 1926)

Robert James Manion

Robert James Manion, PC, MC was leader of the Conservative Party of Canada from 1938 until 1940....

under Meighen (August 23 1926 – September 25 1926)

Peter John Veniot

Peter Veniot

Peter John Veniot, PC was a businessman and newspaper owner and a politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He was the first Acadian premier of the province of New Brunswick....

under King (September 25 1926 – August 7 1930)

Arthur Sauvé

Arthur Sauvé, PC was born in Saint-Hermas .The Legislative Assembly of Quebec member for Deux-Montagnes from 1908 to 1930, he was leader of the Quebec Conservative Party but never premier...

under Bennett

R. B. Bennett

Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, PC, KC was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930, to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years...

(August 7 1930 – August 13 1935)

Samuel Gobeil

under Bennett (August 16 1935 – October 23 1935)

John Campbell Elliott

John Campbell Elliott, PC was a Canadian lawyer and politician.He was born in Ekfrid Township, Ontario, the son of George Campbell and Jane Elliott. He was educated at the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto, studied law at Osgoode Hall and was called to the bar in 1896.J. C...

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

Louis St. Laurent

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC , was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957....

(November 15 1948 – August 23 1949)

Gabriel Édouard Rinfret

Édouard Rinfret

Édouard-Gabriel Rinfret, OC was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.Born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, he was called to the Quebec bar in 1928. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1945 for the Quebec riding of Outremont. He was re-elected in 1949...

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

Hugues Lapointe, PC, OC, CD, QC was a Canadian lawyer, Member of Parliament and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1966 to 1978....

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

William McLean Hamilton

William McLean Hamilton, PC, OC was a Canadian politician.He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His father, Ernest Hamilton, was a lacrosse player who won a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics...

under Diefenbaker

John Diefenbaker

John George Diefenbaker, PC, CH, QC was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 21, 1957, to April 22, 1963...

(June 21 1957 – July 12 1962)

John Angus MacLean

Angus MacLean

John Angus MacLean, PC, OC, DFC was a politician and farmer in Prince Edward Island, Canada.He was an alumnus of both Mount Allison University and the University of British Columbia with degrees in science...

(acting)

under Diefenbaker (July 18 1962 – August 8 1962)

Ellen Louks Fairclough

under Diefenbaker (August 9 1962 – April 22 1963)

Azellus Denis

Azellus Denis, PC, QC was a Canadian politician who served in the Parliament of Canada as a Member of Parliament and Senator for the longest period of time, 55 years, 10 months and 20 days....

under Pearson

Lester B. Pearson

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis...

(April 22 1963 – February 2 1964)

John Robert Nicholson

John Robert "Jack" Nicholson, was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician and the 21st Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia....

under Pearson (February 2 1964 – February 14 1965)

René Tremblay

René Tremblay, PC was a Canadian politician.Born in Luceville, Quebec, he was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Matapédia—Matane in the 1963 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1965. From 1963 to 1964, he was a Minister without Portfolio...

under Pearson (February 15 1965 – December 17 1965)

Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté

under Pearson (December 18 1965 – April 20 1968)

under Trudeau

Pierre Trudeau

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, , usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals,...

(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

André Ouellet, P.C., Q.C. is a former Chairman of Canada Post, and a long time Liberal politician in Canada.First elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1967 by-election, Ouellet served in a number of different positions in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien...

under Trudeau (November 27 1972 – August 7 1974)

Bryce Stuart Mackasey

under Trudeau (August 8 1974 – September 13 1976)

Jean-Jacques Blais

Jean-Jacques Blais, PC, QC is a former Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1972 to 1984...

under Trudeau (September 14 1976 – February 1 1978)

Gilles Lamontagne

Joseph-Georges-Gilles-Claude Lamontagne, PC, OC, CQ, CD was a Canadian politician and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec....

under Trudeau (February 2 1978 – June 3 1979)

John Allen Fraser

John Allen Fraser, PC, OC, OBC, CD, QC is a retired Canadian parliamentarian and former Speaker of the House of Commons....

under Clark

Joe Clark

Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, is a Canadian statesman, businessman, and university professor, and former journalist and politician...

(June 4 1979 – March 2 1980)

André Ouellet

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

CEO and Present

After 1981, Canada Post

Canada Post

Canada Post Corporation, known more simply as Canada Post , is the Canadian crown corporation which functions as the country's primary postal operator...

became a Crown Corporation and head is now the CEO and President:
Michael Warren

Michael Warren

Michael Warren is the name of:*Michael Warren , American TV actor*Michael Warren , Irish sculptor*Michael Warren , Australian rules footballer who played for Fremantle...

1981-1985 - appointed by Trudeau
Donald Harley Lander
1986-1992 - Chair 1993-? - appointed by Mulroney and business executive; deceased (2010)
Georges Clermont
1993-1998 - appointed by Campbell; now CEO of International Post
André Ouellet

André Ouellet

1999–2004 - appointed by Chretien and former Minister in charge of Canada Post (as Postmaster General); Chair 1996-2004
Moya Greene

Moya Greene

Moya Greene is a Canadian civil servant and business woman.Born in Newfoundland, Greene graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Arts in 1974, and then attended Osgoode Hall Law School....

2004–2010 - appointed by Martin and now Chief Executive of Royal Mail

Royal Mail

Deepak Chopra
2011-present - appointed by Harper

External links

A Chronology of Canadian Postal History

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