Secretary of State for Canada
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox official postTemplate:Sidebar with collapsible lists The Secretary of State for Canada, established in 1867 with a corresponding department, was a Canadian Cabinet position that served as the official channel of communication between the Dominion of Canada and the Imperial government in London.<ref>Canada. 1867. "Secretary of State for Canada." House of Commons Debates, 1st Parl, 1st Sess, at 94-95.</ref><ref>Scott, R. W. 1874. "Report of the Secretary of State for Canada for the Year Ending on the 30th June, 1873..." Ottawa: I. B. Taylor.</ref>
As Canada became increasingly independent after World War I, and particularly with the passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, this role fell into disuse. The department was maintained, however, and was used to administer various aspects of government that did not have their own ministry. Accordingly, the Secretary of State for Canada was Registrar General of Canada, responsible as such for the Great Seal of Canada and various functions of state associated with it.
At various times the Secretary of State for Canada was responsible for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the civil service, the Queen's Printer for Canada, administration of Crown lands, and governance of Canadian Indians (as they were called at the time), as well as various ceremonial and state duties. Generally, any government role and responsibility which was not specifically assigned to a cabinet minister would be the de facto responsibility of the Secretary of State.
The department was eliminated in 1993 when the government was reorganized; however, the position of Secretary of State for Canada was not legally eliminated until 1996 when its remaining responsibilities were assigned to other cabinet positions and departments, particularly the newly created Minister of Canadian Heritage position.
The position of Secretary of State for Canada had no relation to that of Secretary of State for External Affairs except for the period from 1909 until 1912 when the Secretary of State for Canada (Charles Murphy under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and William James Roche under Sir Robert Borden) was responsible for the newly created Department of External Affairs.
Secretaries of State for CanadaEdit
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| No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | |
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| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 1 | File:HectorLangevin23.jpg | Sir Hector-Louis Langevin | July 1, 1867 | December 8, 1869 | Liberal-Conservative | 1 (Macdonald) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 2 | File:James Cox Aikins.jpg | James Cox Aikins | December 8, 1869 | November 5, 1873 | Liberal-Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 3 | File:DavidChristie23.jpg | David Christie | November 7, 1873 | January 8, 1874 | Liberal | 2 (Mackenzie) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 4 | File:Sir Richard William Scott.jpg | Sir Richard William Scott | January 9, 1874 | October 8, 1878 | Liberal | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |(2) | File:James Cox Aikins.jpg | James Cox Aikins | October 19, 1878 | November 7, 1880 | Conservative | 3 (Macdonald) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 5 | File:John O'Connor.jpg | John O'Connor | November 8, 1880 | May 19, 1881 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 6 | File:Joseph-Alfred Mousseau.jpg | Joseph-Alfred Mousseau | May 20, 1881 | July 28, 1882 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="2" | 7 | File:Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau.jpg | Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau | July 29, 1882 | June 6, 1891 | Conservative | |
| June 16, 1891 | January 24, 1892 | 4 (Abbott) | ||||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 8 | File:James Colebrooke Patterson.jpg | James Colebrooke Patterson | January 25, 1892 | November 24, 1892 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 9 | File:John Costigan.jpg | John Costigan | December 5, 1892 | December 12, 1894 | Conservative | 5 (Thompson) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 10 | File:Arthur Rupert Dickey.jpg | Arthur Rupert Dickey | December 21, 1894 | March 25, 1895 | Conservative | 6 (Bowell) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 11 | File:Walter Humphries Montague.jpg | Walter Humphries Montague | March 26, 1895 | December 20, 1895 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | – | File:Joseph-Aldric Ouimet.png | Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (Acting) |
December 21, 1895 | January 5, 1896 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | – | File:ThomasMayneDaly23.jpg | Thomas Mayne Daly (Acting) |
January 6, 1896 | January 14, 1896 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="2" | 12 | File:TupperUniform.jpg | Sir Charles Tupper | January 15, 1896 | April 27, 1896 | Conservative | |
| May 1, 1896 | July 8, 1896 | 7 (Tupper) | ||||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" |(4) | File:Sir Richard William Scott.jpg | Sir Richard William Scott | July 13, 1896 | October 8, 1908 | Liberal | 8 (Laurier) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 13 | File:Charles Murphy.jpg | Charles Murphy | October 9, 1908 | October 6, 1911 | Liberal | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 14 | File:William James Roche.jpg | William James Roche | October 10, 1911 | October 28, 1912 | Conservative | 9 (Borden) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 15 | File:Louis Coderre.jpg | Louis Coderre | October 29, 1912 | October 5, 1915 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 16 | File:Pierre Édouard Blondin.jpg | Pierre Édouard Blondin | October 6, 1915 | January 7, 1917 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 17 | File:Esioff-Léon Patenaude.png | Esioff-Léon Patenaude | January 8, 1917 | June 12, 1917 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | – | File:Albert Sévigny.jpg | Albert Sévigny (Acting) |
June 13, 1917 | August 24, 1917 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 18 | File:Former PM Arthur Meighen.jpg | Arthur Meighen | August 25, 1917 | October 12, 1917 | Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 19 | File:Martin Burrell.jpg | Martin Burrell | October 12, 1917 | December 30, 1919 | Unionist | 10 (Borden) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="2" | 20 | File:Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton.jpg | Arthur Sifton | December 31, 1919 | July 10, 1920 | Unionist | |
| July 10, 1920 | January 21, 1921 | National Liberal and Conservative | 11 (Meighen) | |||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | – | File:Henry Lumley Drayton.jpg | Sir Henry Lumley Drayton (Acting) |
January 24, 1921 | September 20, 1921 | National Liberal and Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 21 | File:Rodolphe Monty.png | Rodolphe Monty | September 21, 1921 | December 29, 1921 | National Liberal and Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 22 | File:Arthur Bliss Copp.jpg | Arthur Bliss Copp | December 29, 1921 | September 24, 1925 | Liberal | 12 (King) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 23 | File:Walter Edward Foster.jpg | Walter Edward Foster | September 26, 1925 | November 12, 1925 | Liberal | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | – | File:Charles Murphy.jpg | Charles Murphy (Acting) |
November 13, 1925 | March 23, 1926 | Liberal | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | – | File:Ernest Lapointe.jpg | Ernest Lapointe (Acting) |
March 24, 1926 | June 28, 1926 | Liberal | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 24 | File:GeorgePerley23.jpg | George Halsey Perley | June 29, 1926 | September 25, 1926 | Conservative | 13 (Meighen) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 25 | File:Fernand Rinfret.png | Fernand Rinfret | September 25, 1926 | August 7, 1930 | Liberal | 14 (King) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 26 | Charles Cahan | August 7, 1930 | October 23, 1935 | Conservative | 15 (Bennett) | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" |(25) | File:Fernand Rinfret.png | Fernand Rinfret | October 23, 1935 | July 12, 1939 | Liberal | 16 (King) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | – | File:Ernest Lapointe.jpg | Ernest Lapointe (Acting - Second time) |
July 26, 1939 | May 8, 1940 | Liberal | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 27 | File:Pierre-François Casgrain.png | Pierre-François Casgrain | May 9, 1940 | December 14, 1941 | Liberal | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 28 | File:Norman Alexander McLarty.jpg | Norman Alexander McLarty | December 15, 1941 | April 17, 1945 | Liberal | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 29 | Paul Martin Sr. | April 18, 1945 | December 11, 1946 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" rowspan="2" | 30 | Colin W. G. Gibson | December 12, 1946 | November 15, 1948 | Liberal | ||
| November 15, 1948 | March 31, 1949 | 17 (St. Laurent) | ||||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 31 | Frederick Gordon Bradley | March 31, 1949 | June 11, 1953 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 32 | Jack Pickersgill | June 11, 1953 | June 30, 1954 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 33 | Roch Pinard | July 1, 1954 | June 21, 1957 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 34 | Ellen Fairclough<ref>Christensen, Martin Iversen. 2016. "Female Members of the Cabinet of Canada." Female Members of the Cabinet of Canada.. Retrieved 7 August 2020.</ref> | June 21, 1957 | May 11, 1958 | Progressive Conservative | 18 (Diefenbaker) | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 35 | Henri Courtemanche | May 12, 1958 | June 19, 1960 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | – | Léon Balcer (Acting) |
June 21, 1960 | October 10, 1960 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 36 | Noël Dorion | October 11, 1960 | July 5, 1962 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | – | Léon Balcer (Acting - Second time) |
July 11, 1962 | August 8, 1962 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 37 | Ernest Halpenny | August 9, 1962 | April 22, 1963 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" |(32) | Jack Pickersgill | April 22, 1963 | February 2, 1964 | Liberal | 19 (Pearson) | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 38 | Maurice Lamontagne | February 2, 1964 | December 17, 1965 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 39 | Judy LaMarsh<ref>Zuschlag, Anna. 2017. "Judy LaMarsh." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 7 August 2020.</ref> | December 17, 1965 | April 9, 1968 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | – | John Joseph Connolly (Acting) |
April 10, 1968 | April 20, 1968 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 40 | File:Jean Marchand.jpg | Jean Marchand | April 20, 1968 | July 5, 1968 | Liberal | 20 (P. E. Trudeau) |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 41 | Gérard Pelletier | July 5, 1968 | November 26, 1972 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 42 | Hugh Faulkner | November 27, 1972 | September 13, 1976 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 43 | John Roberts | September 14, 1976 | June 3, 1979 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 44 | David MacDonald | June 4, 1979 | March 2, 1980 | Progressive Conservative | 21 (Clark) | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 45 | Francis Fox | March 3, 1980 | September 21, 1981 | Liberal | 22 (P. E. Trudeau) | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 46 | Gerald Regan | September 22, 1981 | October 5, 1982 | Liberal | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" rowspan="2" | 47 | Serge Joyal | October 6, 1982 | June 29, 1984 | Liberal | ||
| June 30, 1984 | September 16, 1984 | 23 (Turner) | ||||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 48 | Walter McLean | September 17, 1984 | April 19, 1985 | Progressive Conservative | 24 (Mulroney) | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 49 | Benoît Bouchard | April 20, 1985 | June 29, 1986 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 50 | File:Crombie1983.jpg | David Crombie | June 30, 1986 | March 30, 1988 | Progressive Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 51 | File:Bouchardimg229us-signed.jpg | Lucien Bouchard | March 31, 1988 | January 29, 1989 | Progressive Conservative | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 52 | Gerry Weiner | January 30, 1989 | April 20, 1991 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 53 | Robert de Cotret | April 21, 1991 | January 3, 1993 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="2" | 54 | Monique Landry | January 4, 1993 | June 24, 1993 | Progressive Conservative | ||
| June 24, 1993 | November 3, 1993 | 25 (Campbell) | ||||
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 55 | Sergio Marchi | November 4, 1993 | January 24, 1996 | Liberal | 26 (Chrétien) | |
| style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; color:white" | 56 | Lucienne Robillard | January 25, 1996 | July 12, 1996 | Liberal | ||
See alsoEdit
- Secretary of State for the Provinces - post preceding the Minister of Interior
- Minister of the Interior
ReferencesEdit
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