List of Canadian ministries
This is a list of Canadian ministries and their Prime Ministers since Confederation (1 July 1867).
By convention, each Canadian ministry is formed when the chairing Prime Minister is appointed and dissolved when that Prime Minister leaves office. The one exception occurred during the Prime Ministership of Robert Borden whose wartime Unionist government is considered a separate ministry from the ministry he chaired as head of a Conservative government. Elections do not cause dissolution of the ministry unless they result in the government's defeat - this is in contrast to other Commonwealth realms such as Australia and the United Kingdom where a "new" ministry is considered to have be formed after every election regardless of the winner. Therefore, the twenty-eight ministries that have served Canada represent twenty-seven occasions since Canadian Confederation that the prime ministership has changed hands and one occasion when a coalition government was formed by the sitting Prime Minister.
Ministries
- First Canadian Ministry, John Alexander Macdonald (1867–1873)
- Second Canadian Ministry, Alexander Mackenzie (1873–1878)
- Third Canadian Ministry, John Alexander Macdonald (1878–1891)
- Fourth Canadian Ministry, John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (1891–1892)
- Fifth Canadian Ministry, John Sparrow David Thompson (1892–1894)
- Sixth Canadian Ministry, Mackenzie Bowell (1894–1896)
- Seventh Canadian Ministry, Charles Tupper (1896)
- Eighth Canadian Ministry, Wilfrid Laurier (1896–1911)
- Ninth Canadian Ministry, Robert Laird Borden (1911–1917)
- Tenth Canadian Ministry, Robert Laird Borden (1917–1920)
- Eleventh Canadian Ministry, Arthur Meighen (1920–1921)
- Twelfth Canadian Ministry, William Lyon Mackenzie King (1921–1926)
- Thirteenth Canadian Ministry, Arthur Meighen (1926)
- Fourteenth Canadian Ministry, William Lyon Mackenzie King (1926–1930)
- Fifteenth Canadian Ministry, Richard Bedford Bennett (1930–1935)
- Sixteenth Canadian Ministry, William Lyon Mackenzie King (1935–1948)
- Seventeenth Canadian Ministry, Louis Stephen St-Laurent (1948–1957)
- Eighteenth Canadian Ministry, John George Diefenbaker (1957–1963)
- Nineteenth Canadian Ministry, Lester Bowles Pearson (1963–1968)
- Twentieth Canadian Ministry, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1968–1979)
- Twenty-First Canadian Ministry, Charles Joseph Clark (1979–1980)
- Twenty-Second Canadian Ministry, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1980–1984)
- Twenty-Third Canadian Ministry, John Napier Turner (1984)
- Twenty-Fourth Canadian Ministry, Martin Brian Mulroney (1984–1993)
- Twenty-Fifth Canadian Ministry, Kim Campbell (1993)
- Twenty-Sixth Canadian Ministry, Jean Chrétien (1993–2003)
- Twenty-Seventh Canadian Ministry, Paul Martin (2003–2006)
- Twenty-Eighth Canadian Ministry, Stephen Harper (2006–Present)