Lieutenant-Governors of New Brunswick

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This is a list of lieutenant-governors of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, before and after Confederation in 1867.

[edit] Lieutenant-Governors of New Brunswick (before Confederation)

Term	Name
20 May 1786 - 2 February 1817	Colonel Thomas Carleton^[1]
1 July 1817 - 27 March 1823	Major General George Stracey Smyth
28 August 1824 - 8 September 1831	Sir Howard Douglas
9 September 1831 - 1 May 1837	Major General Sir Archibald Campbell
1 May 1837 - 26 April 1841	Sir John Harvey
27 April 1841 - 11 April 1848	Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke
11 April 1848 - 28 September 1854	Sir Edmund Walker Head
7 October 1854 - 26 October 1861	Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton
26 October 1861 - 30 September 1866	Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon

Term	Name
1 July 1867 - 18 October 1867	Sir Charles Hastings Doyle
18 October 1867 - 22 July 1868	Francis Pym Harding
23 July 1868 - 15 November 1873	Lemuel Allan Wilmot
15 November 1873 - 11 July 1878	Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
16 July 1878 - 6 February 1880	Edward Barron Chandler
11 February 1880 - 11 November 1885	Robert Duncan Wilmot
11 November 1885 - 21 September 1893	Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
21 September 1893 - 4 December 1893	John Boyd
20 December 1893 - 24 November 1896	John James Fraser
9 December 1896 - 21 January 1902	Abner Reid McClelan
28 January 1902 - 24 February 1907	Jabez Bunting Snowball
5 March 1907 - 6 March 1912	Lemuel John Tweedie
6 March 1912 - 29 June 1917	Josiah Wood
29 June 1917 - 31 October 1917	Gilbert White Ganong
6 November 1917 - 28 February 1923	William Pugsley
28 February 1923 - 28 December 1928	William Frederick Todd
28 December 1928 - 31 January 1935	Major General Hugh Havelock McLean
8 February 1935 - 5 March 1940	Murray MacLaren
5 March 1940 - 1 November 1945	George William Clarke
1 November 1945 - 5 June 1958	David Laurence MacLaren
22 May 1958 - 9 June 1965	Joseph Leonard O'Brien
9 June 1965 - 31 January 1968	John Babbitt McNair
1 February 1968 - 2 October 1971	Wallace Samuel Bird
8 October 1971 - 12 November 1981	Hédard Joseph Robichaud
23 December 1981 - 20 August 1987	George F.G. Stanley
14 August 1987 - 21 June 1994	Gilbert Finn
21 June 1994 - 18 April 1997	Margaret Norrie McCain
18 April 1997 - 26 August 2003	Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
26 August 2003 - present	Herménégilde Chiasson

^ In October 1805, Carleton left for England never to return to New Brunswick. The following series of administrators governed in his absence over the next 12 years:

Term	Name
5 October 1805 - 12 February 1808	Gabriel George Ludlow
20 February 1808 - 24 May 1808	Edward Winslow
24 May 1808 - 17 December 1808	Martin Hunter
17 December 1808 - 28 April 1809	George Johnstone
28 April 1809 - 10 September 1811	Martin Hunter
10 September 1811 - 14 November 1811	William Balfour
14 November 1811 - 15 June 1812	Martin Hunter
15 June 1812 - 17 August 1813	Major General George Stracey Smyth
17 August 1813 - 14 August 1814	Sir Thomas Saumarez
14 August 1814 - 25 June 1816	Major General George Stracey Smyth
25 June 1816 - 30 June 1817	Harris W. Hailes

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