CONSTITUTION and GOVERNMENT. 31 the Following Is a List of The
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CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT. 31 The following is a list of the Governors General and Governors of the several provinces before confederation, together with the years of office :— GOVERNORS GENERAL OF CANADA. FRENCH. , FRENCH. 1534. Jacques Cartier, Captain General. 1663. Chevalier de Saff ray de Mesy. 1540. Jean Frangois de la Roque, Sieur de 1665. Marquis de Tracy. (6) Roberval. 1665. Chevalier de Courcelles. 1598. Marquis de la Roche. 1672. Conite de Frontenac. 1600. Capitaine de Chauvin (Acting). 1682. Sieur de la Barre. 1603. Commandeur de Chastes. 1685. Marquis de Denonville. 1607. Pierre du Guast de Monts, Lt.-General. 1689. Comte de Frontenac. 1608. Comte de Soissons, 1st Viceroy. 1699. Chevalier de Callieres. 1612. Samuel de Champlain, Lt.-General. 1703. Marquis de Vaudreuil. 1633. ii ii 1st Gov. Gen'l. (a) 1714-16. Comte de Ramesay (Acting). 1635. Marc Antoine de Bras de fer de 1716. Marquis de Vaudreuil. Chateaufort (Administrator). 1725. Baron (1st) de Longueuil (Acting). ] 636. Chevalier de Montmagny. 1726. Marquis de Beauharnois. 1648. Chevalier d'Ailleboust de Coulonge. 1747. Comte de la Galissoniere. (c) 1651. Jean de Lauzon. 1749. Marquis de la Jonquiere. 1656. Charles de Lauzon-Charny (Admr.) 1752. Baron (2nd) de Longueuil. 1657. D'Ailleboust de Coulonge. 1752. Marquis Duquesne-de-Menneville. 1658. Vicomte de Voyer d'Argenson. 1755. Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal. 1661. Baron Dubois d'Avaugour. ENGLISH. ENGLISH. 1760. General Jeffrey Amherst, (d) • 820. James Monk (Admin'r). 1764. General James Murray. 1820. Sir Peregrine Maitland (Admin'r). 1766. P. E. Irving (Admin'r Acting). 1820. Earl of Dalhousie. 1766. Guy Carleton (Lt.-Gov. Acting). 1824. Lt.-Gov. Sir F. N. Burton (Admin'r). 1768. Guy Carleton. (e) 1828. Sir James Kempt (Admin'r). 1778. General Fred. Haldimand. 1830. Baron Aylmer (Admin'r). 1784. Lt.-Gov. Henry Hamilton (Admin'r). 1831. Baron Aylmer. 1785. Lt.-Gov. Henry Hope (Admin'r). 1835. Earl of Gosford. 1786. Baron Dorchester. 1838. Sir John Colborne (Admin'r). 1790. Lt.-Gov. Alured Clarke (Admin'r). 1838. Earl of Durham. 1796. Lt.-Gov. Robt. Prescott (Admin'r). 1838. Sir John Colborne. 1797. Robert Prescott. 1839. C. E. Poulett Thomson. 1799. Lt.-Gov. R. S. Mimes (Admin'r). 1841. Sir Richard Jackson (Admin'r). 1805. Thos. Dunn (Admin'r). 1842. Sir Charles Bagot. 1807. Sir James H. Craig. 1843. Sir Charles T. Metcalfe. 1811. Thos. Dunn (Admin'r). 1845. Earl Cathcart (Admin'r). 1811. Sir George Prevost (Admin'r). 1846. Earl Cathcart. 1812. Sir George Prevost. 1847. Earl of Elgin. 1813. Major-Gen. Rottenburg (Admin'r). Lt.-Genl. Wm. Rowan (Admin'r). 1813. Major-Gen. Glasgow (Admin'r). 1854. Sir Edmund W Head. 1815. Sir Gordon Drummond (Admin'r). 1857. Sir Wm. Byre (Admin'r). 1816. Major-General Wilson (Admin'r). 1860. Sir W. Feuwick Williams (Admin'r). 1816. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke. 1861. Viscount Monk (Admin'r). 1818. Duke of Richmond. 1861. Viscount Monk. 1818. James Monk (Admin'r). 1865. Sir John Michel (Admin'r). 1820. Sir Peregrine Maitland (Admin'r). (a) Quebec under the English from 20th July, 1629 to 13th July, 1632. (6) Marquis de Tracy was the King's Lieut. General in America, and during the period he was in Canada (30th June, 1665, to 28th August, 1667) he was virtually Governor of Canada. (c) Acting during captivity of La Jonquiere. (d.) Although Amherst's name is usually placed first on the list of English Governors of Canada, it is well known that at the capitulation of Montreal he divided the Provinces into three Governments or Districts, for each of which he appointed a Governor, and that he himself very shortly afterwards left the country and did not return. The Lieutenant- Governors of these three Districts during what is commonly called the period of Military Rule, from 8th September, 1760, to 10th August, 1764, were :— District of Quebec: Gen. James Murray, September, 1760, to August, 1764. District of Three Rivers: Col. Ralph Burton, September, 1760, to May, J.762; Col. Fred. Haldimand, May, 1762, to March, 1763 (Acting); Col. Ralph Burton, March, 1763, to October, 1763; Col. Fred. Haldimand, October, 1763, to August, 1764. District of Montreal: Gen. Thos. Gage, September, 1763, to October, 1763. .