List of Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada

This is a list of the Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada, who were the heads of government of the Province of Canada from the 1841 unification of Upper Canada and Lower Canada until Confederation in 1867.

Each administration was led by two men, one from Canada West (now Ontario) and one from Canada East (now Quebec). Officially, one of them at any given time had the title of Premier, while the other had the title of Deputy.

Colour key

List
Canada West Premier Canada East Premier Term of office
1
(1 of 2)
Deputy premier (until 1842) / Premier
William Draper
(1801-1877)		 1
Premier
Samuel Harrison[1]
(1802-1867)		 5 February
1841		 12 January
1842
2
Deputy premier
Charles Richard Ogden
(1791-1866)		 12 January
1842		 14 September
1842
2
(1 of 2)
Deputy premier
Robert Baldwin2
(1804-1858)		 3
(1 of 2)
Premier
Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine2
(1807-1864)		 26 September
1842		 27 November
1843
3
Acting premier[2]
Sir Dominick Daly
(1789-1868)		 4
Acting premier[2]
Sir Dominick Daly
(1789-1868)		 27 November
1843		 12 December
1843
1
(2 of 2)
Premier
William Draper
(1801-1877)		 5
Deputy premier
Denis-Benjamin Viger
(1774-1861)		 12 December
1843		 17 June
1846
6
Deputy premier
Denis-Benjamin Papineau
(1789-1854)		 17 June
1846		 28 May
1847
5
Premier
Henry Sherwood
(1807-1855)		 28 May
1847		 11 March
1848
Responsible government[3]
6
(2 of 2)
Deputy premier
Robert Baldwin
(1804-1858)		 3
(2 of 2)
Premier
Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
(1807-1864)		 11 March
1848		 28 October
1851
7
Premier
Sir Francis Hincks
(1807-1885)		 7
Deputy premier
Augustin-Norbert Morin
(1803-1865)		 28 October
1851		 11 September
1854
8
Premier
Sir Allan Napier MacNab
(1798-1862)		 11 September
1854		 27 January
1855
8
(1 of 2)
Deputy premier (until 1856) / Premier
Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
(1795-1865)		 27 January
1855		 24 May
1856
9
(1 of 3)
Deputy premier (until 1857) / Premier
Sir John A. Macdonald
(1815-1891)		 24 May
1856		 26 November
1857
9
(1 of 2)
Deputy premier
Sir George-Étienne Cartier
(1814-1873)		 26 November
1857		 2 August
1858
10
Premier
George Brown
(1818-1880)

Clear Grit Party

 10
(1 of 2)
Deputy premier
Antoine-Aimé Dorion
(1818-1891)

Rouge Party

 2 August
1858		 6 August
1858
9
(2 of 3)
Deputy premier
Sir John A. Macdonald
(1815-1891)		 9
(2 of 2)
Premier
Sir George-Étienne Cartier
(1814-1873)		 6 August
1858		 24 May
1862
11
Premier
John Sandfield MacDonald
(1812-1872)

Liberal Party

 11
Deputy premier
Louis-Victor Sicotte
(1812-1889)

Liberal Party

 24 May
1862		 15 May
1863
10
(2 of 2)
Deputy premier
Antoine-Aimé Dorion
(1818-1891)

Liberal Party

 15 May
1863		 30 May
1864
9
(3 of 3)
Deputy premier
Sir John A. Macdonald
(1815-1891)

Liberal-Conservative Party

 8
(2 of 2)
Premier
Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
(1795-1865)

Liberal-Conservative Party

 30 May
1864		 30 July
1865
12
Premier
Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
(1808-1894)

Liberal-Conservative Party

 30 July
1865		 30 June
1867

Notes
  1. This was a coalition of the moderate wings of the conservative and reform factions, rather than a regionally-based one.
  2. All members of the governing Lafontaine-Baldwin coalition, except Daly, resigned in a protest over unapproved patronage appointments by the British-appointed governor: "the Metcalfe crisis". Daly would continue on as a member of the successor cabinet, headed by Draper.
  3. In 1848, with the introduction of responsible government, Lafontaine and Baldwin became the first democratically elected leaders of the Province of Canada.
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