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Some prime ministers represented more than one constituency during their term(s), hence the tallied numbers exceed the number of prime ministers. Moreover, one prime minister—Sir Mackenzie Bowell—served his term while a member of the Senate, although he had previously been a member of the House of Commons from Ontario.
The prime minister of Canada is an official who serves as the primary minister of the Crown, chair of the Cabinet, and thus head of government of Canada. Twenty-three people (twenty-two men and one woman) have served as prime ministers. Officially, the prime minister is appointed by the governor general of Canada, but by constitutional ...
Canada's three shortest-serving prime ministers, left to right: Sir Charles Tupper; 68 days. John Turner; 79 days. Kim Campbell; 132 days. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the longest consecutively serving prime minister. The prime minister of Canada is the head of government of Canada. Since Canadian Confederation in 1867, there have been 23 prime ...
v. t. e. Sir John Alexander Macdonald [a] GCB PC QC ( 10 or 11 January 1815 [b] – 6 June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891. He was the dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, and had a political career that spanned almost half a century.
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander PC CC OOnt CD QC (January 21, 1922 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a member of Parliament in the House of Commons, a federal Cabinet Minister (as federal Minister of Labour), a Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board of Ontario, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991.
The minister of veterans affairs (French: ministre des anciens combattants) is the minister of the Crown responsible for the Veterans Affairs Canada, the department of the Government of Canada responsible for administering benefits for members and veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and their family members and caregivers.
The prime minister of Canada (French: premier ministre du Canada) [note 1] is the head of government of Canada. Not outlined in any constitutional document, the office exists only per long-established convention. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the confidence of a majority of the elected House of Commons; as such ...
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet GCMG, CB, PC, M.D. [1] (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian Father of Confederation who served as the sixth prime minister of Canada from May 1 to July 8, 1896. As the premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He briefly served as the Canadian prime minister ...