Postmaster General of Canada


The Postmaster General of Canada was the Canadian cabinet minister responsible for the Post Office Department. In 1851, management of the post office was transferred from Britain to the provincial governments of the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The position of Postmaster General was established in each province. With Canadian Confederation in 1867, a single position was created replacing this post in all of the above provinces except Newfoundland; this position was abolished in 1981 when the post office was transformed from a government department into a crown corporation. From 1900 until 1909 the Postmaster General was also responsible for the Department of Labour.

Postmasters General

;Alexander Campbell
;John O'Connor
;Donald Alexander Macdonald
;Télesphore Fournier
;Lucius Seth Huntington
;Hector Louis Langevin
;Sir Alexander Campbell
;John O'Connor
;Sir Alexander Campbell
;John O'Connor
;John Carling
;Sir Alexander Campbell
;Archibald McLelan
;John Carling
;John Graham Haggart
;Sir Joseph Philippe René Adolphe Caron
;Louis-Olivier Taillon
;Sir William Mulock
;Allen Bristol Aylesworth
;Rodolphe Lemieux
;Henri Sévérin Béland
;Louis-Philippe Pelletier
;Thomas Chase-Casgrain
;Pierre Édouard Blondin
;Louis-de-Gonzague Belley
;Charles Murphy
;Robert James Manion
;Peter John Veniot
;Arthur Sauvé
;Samuel Gobeil
;John Campbell Elliott
;Norman Alexander McLarty
;Charles Gavan Power
;James Lorimer Ilsley
;William Pate Mulock
;Ernest Bertrand
;Gabriel Édouard Rinfret
;Alcide Côté
;Roch Pinard
;Hugues Lapointe
;William McLean Hamilton
;John Angus MacLean
;Ellen Louks Fairclough
;Azellus Denis
;John Robert Nicholson
;René Tremblay
;Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté
;Eric William Kierans
;Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté
;André Ouellet
;Bryce Stuart Mackasey
;Jean-Jacques Blais
;Gilles Lamontagne
;John Allen Fraser
; André Ouellet
Canada Post Corporation has had its own CEO and President since 1981, who has most of the administrative responsibilities previously exercised by the Postmaster General. With the abolition of the position of Postmaster General the legislative and certain other duties previously exercised by the Postmaster General were transferred to the new position of Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation.