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This is a list of viceroys (governors and lieutenant-governors) of the Canadian province of Quebec, before and after Confederation in 1867. For governors preceding the 1759 British conquest, see Governor of New France.

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

Lieutenant-Governors of Lower Canada

Lieutenant-Governors of Canada East

Lieutenant-Governors of Quebec

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
Sir Frederick Haldimand	1778-1786
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester	1786-1791

Lieutenant-Governors of Lower Canada

Lower Canada was created out of the eastern part of Quebec by the Constitutional Act of 1791.

Name	Term
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.

Lieutenant-Governors of Canada East

After Richard Downes Jackson, the Lieutenant-Governors were also simultaneously Governors General.

Name	Term
John Clitherow	1841
Sir Richard Downes Jackson	1841-1842
Sir Charles Bagot	1842-1843
Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe of Fernhill	1843-1845
Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart	1845-1847
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin	1847-1854
Sir Edmund Walker Head	1854-1861
Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon	1861-1866

The Province of Canada was split into Ontario and Quebec after Canadian Confederation in 1867.

Lieutenant-Governors of Quebec

Name	Term
Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau	1867-1873
René-Edouard Caron	1873-1876
Luc Letellier de Saint-Just	1876-1879
Théodore Robitaille	1879-1884
Louis-Francois Rodrigue Masson	1884-1887
Auguste-Réal Angers	1887-1892
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	1892-1898
Sir Louis-Amable Jetté	1898-1908
Sir Pantaléon Pelletier	1908-1911
Sir François Langelier	1911-1915
Sir Pierre-Évariste Leblanc	1915-1918
Sir Charles Fitzpatrick	1918-1923
Louis-Philippe Brodeur	1923-1924
Narcisse Pérodeau	1924-1929
Sir Lomer Gouin	1929
Henry George Carroll	1929-1934
Esioff-Léon Patenaude	1934-1940
Sir Eugène Fiset	1940-1950
Gaspard Fauteux	1950-1958
Onésime Gagnon	1958-1961
Paul Comtois	1961-1966
Hugues Lapointe	1966-1978
Jean-Pierre Côté	1978-1984
Gilles Lamontagne	1984-1990
Martial Asselin	1990-1996
Jean-Louis Roux	1996-1997
Lise Thibault	1997-2007
Pierre Duchesne	2007-present