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Upper Canada: Governors: 1792-1841

The Lieutenant Governors of the Province of Upper Canada were formally subordinate to the Governors-in-Chief of Upper Canada regularly appointed since 1791, but never taking office while serving concurrently as Governors-in-Chief of Lower Canada.
Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada
8 Jul 1792 - 17 Aug 1799 John Graves Simcoe [1]
17 Aug 1799 - 21 Aug 1805 Peter Hunter [2]
President Administering the Government of the Province of Upper Canada
11 Sep 1805 - 25 Aug 1806 Alexander Grant [3]
Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada
25 Aug 1806 - 13 Aug 1818 Francis Gore
13 Aug 1818 - 4 Nov 1828 Sir Peregrine Maitland [4]
4 Nov 1828 - 25 Jan 1836 Sir John Colborne [4]
25 Jan 1836 - 23 Mar 1838 Sir Francis Bond Head
23 Mar 1838 - 22 Nov 1839 Sir George Arthur
Captain General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Province of Upper Canada [5]
22 Nov 1839 - 9 Feb 1841 Charles Edward Poulett-Thomson (from 1840 Baron Sydenham, of Sydenham, in the county of Kent, and of Toronto, in Canada) [6][7][8]
  1. Simcoe landed at Québec on 11 Nov 1791 and remained there for some time, there being no Council constituted in Upper Canada by whom he could be sworn into office. When the councillors eventually arrived, Simcoe proceeded to Kingston where his commission was read and published and he took the oath of office on 8 Jul 1792.
  2. Baptized: Patrick Hunter.
  3. Hunter died on 21 Aug 1805 at Québec, Lower Canada. The Executive Council of Upper Canada received a report concerning the death of Hunter on 7 Sep 1805. The administration of the government devolved on the eldest councillor, Alexander Grant, who was absent from the seat of government. He arrived and took the oath of office on 11 Sep 1805.
  4. Also in Lower Canada.
  5. In full: Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Island of Prince Edward :: Gouverneur Général de l'Amérique Septentrionale Britannique, Capitaine Général et Gouverneur en Chef des Provinces du Bas-Canada et du Haut-Canada, de la Nouvelle-Écosse, du Nouveau-Brunswick, et de l'Île du Prince-Édouard.
  6. Original surname: Thomson.
  7. Poulett-Thomson was appointed Governor-in-Chief of the Province of Upper Canada and concurrently Governor-in-Chief of the Province of Lower Canada by royal commissins dated 6 Sep 1839. He was the first and only Governor-in-Chief of Upper Canada who served in this capacity after taking the oath of office on 22 Nov 1839 in Toronto.
  8. Also in the Province of Canada.
Last update: 17 Jan 2024
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