list of prime ministers of Canada

Though the titular head of Canada is the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom (represented locally by a governor-general), the effective head of government is the prime minister. After a general election, the governor-general calls on the leader of the political party winning the most seats in the House of Commons to become prime minister and to form a government. This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the earliest to the most recent.

• Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1867–73; 1st time)
• Alexander Mackenzie (1873–78)
• Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1878–91; 2nd time)
• Sir John Abbott (1891–92)
• Sir John Thompson (1892–94)
• Sir Mackenzie Bowell (1894–96)
• Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet (1896)
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896–1911)
• Sir Robert Laird Borden (1911–20)
• Arthur Meighen (1920–21; 1st time)
• W.L. Mackenzie King (1921–26; 1st time)
• Arthur Meighen (1926; 2nd time)
• W.L. Mackenzie King (1926–30; 2nd time)
• Richard Bedford Bennett (1930–35)
• W.L. Mackenzie King (1935–48; 3rd time)
• Louis Saint Laurent (1948–57)
• John G. Diefenbaker (1957–63)
• Lester B. Pearson (1963–68)
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1968–79; 1st time)
• Joe Clark (1979–80)
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1980–84; 2nd time)
• John N. Turner (1984)
• Brian Mulroney (1984–93)
• Kim Campbell (1993)
• Jean Chrétien (1993–2003)
• Paul Martin (2003–06)
• Stephen Harper (2006–15)
• Justin Trudeau (2015– )