This is a list of historical lieutenant-governors of North-West Territories , Canada. The position of Lieutenant-Governor lasted from the acquisition of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory in 1869 to the creation of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905.
Lieutenant-Governors [ edit ]
Name
From
To
Title
The Hon. Sir William McDougall
September 28, 1869
May 10, 1870a
Lieutenant Governor of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory [ 1]
The Hon. Sir Adams G. Archibald
May 10, 1870
December 2, 1872
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories[ 1]
The Hon. Sir Francis Godschall Johnson
April 9, 1872
December 2, 1872
1
The Hon. Alexander Morris
December 2, 1872
October 7, 1876
The Hon. David Laird
October 7, 1876
December 3, 1881
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories[ 1]
The Hon. Edgar Dewdney
December 3, 1881
July 1, 1888
The Hon. Joseph Royal
July 1, 1888
October 31, 1893
The Hon. Charles Herbert Mackintosh
October 31, 1893
May 30, 1898
The Hon. Malcolm Colin Cameron
May 30, 1898
September 26, 1898
The Hon. Amédée E. Forget
October 4, 1898
September 1, 1905
a Was unable to enter the North-West Territories, but returned to Ottawa, and campaigned against Manitoba becoming a province. He was listed as leader of the provisional North-West Territories government until Adams G. Archibald took over on May 10, 1870.
Since the establishment of Saskatchewan and Alberta from the Territories' most populated regions, the Territories have had no lieutenant-governor . Instead, a commissioner represents the federal government and acts as the de facto representative of the Queen . Yukon was carved out of the North-West Territories in 1898 and has had its own commissioners since then.
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