Commanders of the Canadian Army General Officer Commanding the Canadian Militia 1. Lieutenant-General Sir E.S. Smyth 1875–1880 2. Major-General R.G.A. Luard 1880–1884 3. Major-General Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton 1884–1890 4. Major General The Rt Hon Lord Treowen 1890–1895 5. Major-General Sir W.J. Gascoigne 1895–1898 6. Major-General Sir E.T.H. Hutton 1898–1900 7. Major-General Richard Hebden O’Grady Haly 1900–1902 8. Major-General The Rt Hon Earl of Dundonald 1902–1904 Chief of the General Staff 1. Major-General Sir P.H.N. Lake 1904–1908 2. Major-General Sir W.D. Otter 1908–1910 3. Major General Sir C.J. Mackenzie 1910–1913 4. Major-General Sir W.G. Gwatkin 1913–1919 5. General Sir Arthur W. Currie 1919–1920 * 6. Major-General Sir J.H. MacBrien 1920–1927 7. Major-General Herbert Cyrill Thacker 1927–1928 8. Major-General A.G.L. McNaughton 1929–1935 9. Major-General E.C. Ashton 1935–1938 10. Major-General T.V. Anderson 1938–1940 11. Major-General H.D.G. Crerar 1940–1941 12. Lieutenant-General Ken Stuart 1941–1943 13. Lieutenant-General John Charles Murchie 1944–1945 14. Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes 1945–1951 15. Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds 1951–1955 16. Lieutenant-General Howard Douglas Graham 1955–1958 17. Lieutenant-General Samuel Findlay Clark 1958–1961 18. Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Walsh 1961–1964 * The position of Chief of the General Staff was renamed "Inspector-General and Military Counsellor" between 1919 and 1920. Commander of Mobile Command 1. Lieutenant-General Jean Victor Allard 1965–1966 2. Lieutenant-General William Anderson 1966–1969 3. Lieutenant-General Gilles Turcot 1969–1972 4. Lieutenant General William Milroy 1972–1973 5. Lieutenant-General Stanley Waters 1973–1975 6. Lieutenant-General Jacques Chouinard 1975–1977 7. Lieutenant General Jacques Paradis 1977–1981 8. Lieutenant-General Charles Henry Belzile 1981–1986 9. Lieutenant-General James Fox 1986–1989 10. Lieutenant General Kent Foster 1989–1991 11. Lieutenant-General James Gervais 1991–1993 1 Chief of the Land Staff 1. Lieutenant-General G. Reay 1993–1996 2. Lieutenant-General Maurice Baril 1996–1997 3. Lieutenant General W. Leach 1997–2000 4. Lieutenant-General M. Jeffery 2000–2003 5. Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier 2003–2005 6. Lieutenant-General Marc Caron 2005–2006 7. Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie 2006–2010 8. Lieutenant-General Peter Devlin 2010–2011 Chief of the Army Staff and Commander of the Canadian Army 1. Lieutenant-General Peter Devlin 2011–2013 2. Lieutenant-General Marquis Hainse 2013–2016 3. Lieutenant-General Paul Francis Wynnyk 2016–2018 4. Lieutenant-General Jean-Marc Lanthier 2018 - present 2 .