canadan primeministers

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    canadan preministers

  • Alexander Mackenzie

    1. He first sat as a Member of Parliament in 1867. Prior to public life, he worked as a stonemason and building contractor. Alexander Mackenzie was born on January 28, 1822, in Dunkeld, Perthshire (Scotland), and died on April 17, 1892, in Toronto, Ontario

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    Lester Bowles Pearson
    (Liberal)
    April 22, 1963 - April 20, 1968
    Copyright/Source Lester Bowles Pearson (Liberal Party of Canada)
    *Minister of Canada on April 22, 1963,
    *exitted officel April 20, 1968.
    Highlights of his term in office include making Medicare universal in 1966, the creation of *adoption of a new national flag, both in 1965.
    *Before becoming Prime Minister, Mr. Pearson was the Leader of the Opposition from 1958 to 1963,
    *He was first elected to Parliament in 1948 and prior to

  • Joseph Jacques

    *Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (Liberal Party of Canada) held the office of the Prime Minister of Canada for over a decade from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003.

    *the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms into the Constitution Act, 1982 and appointed the first woman justice to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1982.

  • Sir Mackenzie Bowell

    Sir Mackenzie Bowell
    (Conservative)
    December 12, 1894 - April 27, 1896
    Copyright/Source as a Member of Parliament in 1867. He was born on December 27, 1823, in Rickinghall, Suffolk (England). Before entering political life he worked as a printer and editor. He died on December 10, 1917, in Belleville, Ontario. BOWELL, The Hon. Sir Mackenzie, P.C., K.C.M.G.

  • Stephen Harper

    Stephen Harper was sworn in as Canada's 22nd Prime Minister on February 6, 2006.
    Mr. Harper was first elected to the House of Commons in 1993 as the Reform Party, Mr. Harper won the leadership of the Canadian Alliance, became Leader of the Official Opposition and returned to the House as MP for Calgary Southwest.
    In 2003, the members of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada voted to unite as the new Conservative Party of Canada, and selected Mr. Harper as their f

  • John George Diefenbaker

    John George Diefenbaker
    John George Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative Party of Canada) was Prime Minister of Canada from June 21, 1957, to April 22, 1963. During his term, he championed the Canadian Bill of Rights in 1958 and gave all Aboriginal people the right to vote in 1960. Mr. Diefenbaker was the first Prime Minister to appoint a woman Cabinet Minister and the first to appoint an Aboriginal person to the Senate. During his career, Mr. Diefenbaker also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1956 to 1957 and

  • Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott

    Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (Liberal-Conservative Party of Canada) served as the Prime Minister of Canada from June 16, 1891, to November 24, 1892. During his time as Prime Minister, one of John Abbott's major accomplishments was the signing of a reciprocity treaty with the United States. He was the first Prime Minister to lead the country from the Senate.

  • John Napier Turne

    John Napier Turner (Liberal Party of Canada) was Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 16, 1984.. Mr. Turner was Leader of the Opposition from 1984 to 1990. He was first elected as a Member of Parliament in 1962 and is a lawyer by profession. John Turner was born in Richmond, Surrey (England), on June 7, 1929.