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Prime ministers of Canada
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation
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The table provides a chronological list of the prime ministers of Canada.
party | term | ||
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Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1st time) | Liberal-Conservative | 1867–73 | |
Alexander Mackenzie | Liberal | 1873–78 | |
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (2nd time) | Liberal-Conservative | 1878–91 | |
John Abbott (from 1892, Sir John Abbott) | Liberal-Conservative | 1891–92 | |
Sir John Thompson | Liberal-Conservative | 1892–94 | |
Mackenzie Bowell (from 1895, Sir Mackenzie Bowell) | Liberal-Conservative | 1894–96 | |
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet | Liberal-Conservative | 1896 | |
Wilfrid Laurier (from 1897, Sir Wilfrid Laurier) | Liberal | 1896–1911 | |
Robert Laird Borden (from 1914, Sir Robert Laird Borden) | Conservative | 1911–20 | |
Arthur Meighen (1st time) | Conservative | 1920–21 | |
W.L. Mackenzie King (1st time) | Liberal | 1921–26 | |
Arthur Meighen (2nd time) | Conservative | 1926 | |
W.L. Mackenzie King (2nd time) | Liberal | 1926–30 | |
Richard Bedford Bennett (from 1941, Viscount Bennett) | Conservative | 1930–35 | |
W.L. Mackenzie King (3rd time) | Liberal | 1935–48 | |
Louis Saint Laurent | Liberal | 1948–57 | |
John G. Diefenbaker | Progressive Conservative | 1957–63 | |
Lester B. Pearson | Liberal | 1963–68 | |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1st time) | Liberal | 1968–79 | |
Joseph Clark | Progressive Conservative | 1979–80 | |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (2nd time) | Liberal | 1980–84 | |
John N. Turner | Liberal | 1984 | |
Brian Mulroney | Progressive Conservative | 1984–93 | |
Kim Campbell | Progressive Conservative | 1993 | |
Jean Chrétien | Liberal | 1993–2003 | |
Paul Martin | Liberal | 2003–06 | |
Stephen Harper | Conservative | 2006–15 | |
Justin Trudeau | Liberal | 2015– |