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This is a list of past and present 'Canadian Ministers of Justice'. Ministers of Justice also carry the title ''Attorney General of Canada''.

1.	John A. Macdonald	July 1 1867 - November 5 1873	as PM
2.	Antoine Dorion	November 7 1873 - May 31 1874	under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie
★	Albert James Smith ''(Acting)''	June 1 1874 - July 7 1874
3.	Télesphore Fournier	July 8 1874 - May 18 1875
4.	Edward Blake	May 19 1875 - June 7 1877
5.	T. A. R. Laflamme	June 8 1877 - October 8 1878
6.	James McDonald	October 17 1878 - May 18 1881	under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
7.	Alexander Campbell	May 20 1881 - September 24 1885
8.	John Sparrow David Thompson	September 26 1885 - June 6 1891
		June 16 1891 - November 24 1892	under Prime Minister John Abbott
		December 5 1892 - December 12 1894	as PM
9.	Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper	December 21 1894 - January 5 1896	under Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell
★	Thomas Mayne Daly ''(Acting)''	January 6 1896 - January 14 1896
10.	Arthur Rupert Dickey	January 15 1896 - April 27 1896
		May 1 1896 - July 8 1896	under Prime Minister Charles Tupper
11.	Oliver Mowat	July 13 1896 - November 17 1897	under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier
12.	David Mills	November 18 1897 - February 7 1902
13.	Charles Fitzpatrick	February 11 1902 - June 3 1906
14.	Allen Aylesworth	June 4 1906 - October 6 1911
15.	Charles Doherty	October 10 1911 - July 9 1920	under Prime Minister Robert Borden
		July 10 1920 - September 20 1921	under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
16.	R. B. Bennett	October 4 1921 - December 28 1921
17.	Lomer Gouin	December 29 1921 - January 3 1924	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
★	Ernest Lapointe ''(Acting)''	January 4 1924 - January 29 1924
18.	Ernest Lapointe	January 30 1924 - June 28 1926
★	Hugh Guthrie ''(Acting)''	June 29 1926 - July 12 1926	under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
19.	Esioff-Léon Patenaude	July 13 1926 - September 24 1926
	Ernest Lapointe ''(2nd time)''	September 25 1926 - August 6 1930	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
20.	Hugh Guthrie	August 7 1930 - August 11 1935	under Prime Minister R. B. Bennett
	Esioff-Léon Patenaude ''(2nd time)''	August 14 1935 - October 22 1935
21.	George Reginald Geary	August 14 1935 - October 22 1935
	Ernest Lapointe ''(3rd time)''	October 23 1935 - November 26 1941	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
★	Joseph Enoil Michaud ''(Acting)''	November 27 1941 - December 9 1941
22.	Louis Saint-Laurent	December 10 1941 - December 9 1946
23.	James Lorimer Ilsley	December 10 1946 - June 30 1948
★	Louis Saint-Laurent ''(Acting)''	July 1 1948 - September 9 1948
	Louis Saint-Laurent ''(2nd time)''	September 10 1948 - November 14 1948
24.	Stuart Sinclair Garson	November 15 1948 - June 20 1957	under Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent
25.	E. Davie Fulton	June 21 1957 - August 8 1962	under Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker
26.	Donald Fleming	August 9 1962 - April 21 1963
27.	Lionel Chevrier	April 22 1963 - February 2 1964	under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
28.	Guy Favreau	February 3 1964 - June 29 1965
★	George McIlraith ''(Acting)''	June 30 1965 - July 6 1965
29.	Louis Cardin	July 7 1965 - April 3 1967
30.	Pierre Trudeau	April 4 1967 - April 19 1968
		April 20 1968 - July 5 1968	as PM
31.	John Turner	July 6 1968 - January 27 1972	under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
32.	Otto Lang	January 28 1972 - September 25 1975
33.	Ron Basford	September 26 1975 - August 2 1978
★	Otto Lang ''(Acting)''	August 3 1978 - August 8 1978
	Otto Lang ''(2nd time)''	August 9 1978 - November 23 1978
34.	Marc Lalonde	November 24 1978 - June 3 1979
35.	Jacques Flynn	June 4 1979 - March 2 1980	under Prime Minister Joe Clark
36.	Jean Chrétien	March 3 1980 - September 9 1982	under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
37.	Mark MacGuigan	September 10 1982 - June 29 1984
38.	Donald Johnston	June 30 1984 - September 16 1984	under Prime Minister John Turner
39.	John Crosbie	September 17 1984 - June 29 1986	under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
40.	Ray Hnatyshyn	June 30 1986 - December 7 1988
★	Joe Clark ''(Acting)''	December 8 1988 - January 29 1989
41.	Doug Lewis	January 30 1989 - February 22 1990
42.	Kim Campbell	February 23 1990 - January 3 1993
43.	Pierre Blais	January 4 1993 - June 24 1993
	Pierre Blais ''(cont'd)''	June 25 1993 - November 3 1993	under Prime Minister Kim Campbell
44.	Allan Rock	November 4 1993 - June 10 1997	under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
45.	Anne McLellan	June 11 1997 - January 14 2002
46.	Martin Cauchon	January 15 2002 - December 11 2003
47.	Irwin Cotler	December 12 2003 - February 5 2006	under Prime Minister Paul Martin
48.	Vic Toews	February 6 2006 - January 3 2007	under Prime Minister Stephen Harper
49.	Rob Nicholson	January 4 2007 – present

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