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This is a list of Lieutenant Governors of the Canadian province of Quebec.

For governors preceding the 1759 British conquest see Governor of New France.

1 Governors of Quebec from the Conquest to the creation of Lower Canada

Quebec was conquered by the British in 1759.
Name Term
Jeffrey Amherst 1760- 1763
James Murray 1764- 1768
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester 1768- 1778
Frederick HaldimandSir Frederick Haldimand ( 1718 June 5, 1791) was a British army officer and governor. Haldimand served in North America during the Seven Years War and remained in Canada after it was conquered from the French in 1759 serving as military governor of Trois- 1778- 1786Events May 21 Trial of the Necklace affair ends in Paris August 8 Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat. September 2 Hurricane in England Choctaw Treaty Chickasaw Treaty Robert Burns publishes Poems, C
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester 1786Events May 21 Trial of the Necklace affair ends in Paris August 8 Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat. September 2 Hurricane in England Choctaw Treaty Chickasaw Treaty Robert Burns publishes Poems, C- 1791Events January 25 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada March 3 The United States Congress passes a resolution calling for the establishment of the United States Mint

2 Lieutenant Governors of Lower Canada

Lower CanadaLower Canada was a British colony in North America, at the downstream end of the Saint Lawrence River in the southern portion of the modern-day province of Quebec. It was one of the two colonies of the Canadas. The colony was created by the Constitutional was created out of the eastern part of Quebec by the Constitutional Act of 1791.
NameTerm
Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester 1791- 1796
Robert Prescott 1796- 1799
Sir Robert Shore Milnes 1799- 1805
Thomas Dunn 1805- 1807
Sir James Henry Craig 1807- 1811
Thomas Dunn 1811
Sir George Prevost 1811- 1815
Sir Gordon Drummond 1815- 1816
John Wilson 1816
Sir John Coape Sherbrooke 1816- 1818
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond 1818- 1819
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie 1819- 1828
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer 1830- 1835
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford 1835- 1838
Sir John Colborne 1838
John George Lambton, Earl of Durham 1838- 1839
Sir John Colborne 1839
Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1839- 1841

Lord Sydenham was also Governor General of Canada, and united Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. Lower Canada became Canada East.



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