Quebec, once the center of French Canada, was occupied by British troops in 1759
and formally ceded by France by the Treaty of Paris of 1763.
In 1791 its territory was divided into two parts :
- Lower Canada, with a predominantly Francophone population
- Upper Canada, with a predominant Anglophone population.
From 1841 to 1867 both parts were reunited into the United Province of Canada, but
at the founding of the Dominion of Canada they were again separated, the Anglophone
part becoming the Province of Ontario. (1)
(1) At the moment of its creation the province only included the southern part
of present-day Ontario. It was only in 1912, after the annexation of part
of the District of Keewatin, that the present frontiers were established.
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ROYAL REPRESENTATIVES
Lieutenant Governors
1867 - 1868 Henry William Stisted 1817 - 1875
1868 - 1873 William Pearce Howland 1811 - 1907
1873 - 1875 John Willoughby Crawford 1817 - 1875
1875 - 1880 Donald Alexander Macdonald 1817 - 1896
1880 - 1887 John Beverley Robinson 1821 - 1896
1887 - 1892 Sir Alexander Campbell 1822 - 1892
1892 - 1896 Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick 1841 - 1899
1896 - 1897 Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski* 1813 - 1898
1897 - 1903 Sir Oliver Mowat 1820 - 1903
1903 - 1908 Sir William Mortimer Clark 1836 - 1917
1908 - 1914 Sir (1912) John Morison Gibson 1842 - 1929
1914 - 1919 Sir (1915) John Strathearn Hendrie 1857 - 1923
1919 - 1921 Lionel Herbert Clarke 1859 - 1921
1921 - 1927 Henry Cockshutt 1868 - 1944
1927 - 1931 William Donald Ross 1869 - 1947
1931 - 1932 Sir William Mulock* 1844 - 1944
1932 - 1937 Herbert Alexander Bruce 1868 - 1963
1937 - 1946 Albert Edward Matthews 1873 - 1949
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MINISTERS
Premiers
1867 - 1871 John Sandfield Macdonald 1812 - 1872
1871 - 1872 Edward Blake 1833 - 1912
1872 - 1896 Sir Oliver Mowat s.a.
1896 - 1899 Arthur Sturgis Hardy 1837 - 1901
1899 - 1905 George William Ross 1841 - 1914
1905 - 1914 Sir James Pliny Whitney 1843 - 1914
1914 - 1919 Sir William Howard Hearst 1864 - 1941
1919 - 1923 Ernest Charles Drury 1878 - 1968
1923 - 1930 George Howard Ferguson 1870 - 1946
1930 - 1934 George Stewart Henry 1871 - 1958
1934 - 1942 Mitchell Frederick Hepburn 1886 - 1953
1942 - 1943 Gordon Daniel Conant 1885 - 1953
1943 Harry Corwin Nixon 1891 - 1962
1943 - 1948 George Alexander Drew 1894 - 1973
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