List of Canadian Ministers of Finance

Canadian Ministers of Finance

1.	Alexander Galt	July 1 1867 - November 7 1867	under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
2.	John Rose	November 18 1867 - September 30 1869
3.	Sir Francis Hincks	October 9 1869 - February 21 1873
4.	Samuel Tilley	February 22 1873 - November 5 1873
5.	Richard John Cartwright	November 7 1873 - October 16 1878	under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie
	Sir Samuel Tilley (2nd time)	October 17 1878 - November 10 1885	under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
	vacant	November 11 1885 - December 9 1885
6.	Archibald McLelan	December 10 1885 - January 26 1887
7.	Sir Charles Tupper	January 27 1887 - May 22 1888
8.	George Foster	May 29 1888 - June 6 1891
		June 16 1891 - November 24 1892	under Prime Minister John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
		December 5 1892 - December 12 1894	under Prime Minister John Sparrow David Thompson
		December 21 1894 - January 5 1896	under Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell
*	Sir Mackenzie Bowell (Acting)	January 6 1896 - January 14 1896
	George Foster (2nd time)	January 15 1896 - April 27 1896
		May 1 1896 - April 27 1896	under Prime Minister Charles Tupper
	vacant	July 6 1896 - July 19 1896	under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier
9.	William Stevens Fielding	July 20 1896 - October 6 1911
10.	Sir Thomas White	October 10 1911 - August 1 1919	under Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden
11.	Sir Henry Drayton	August 2 1919 - July 9 1920
		July 10 1920 - December 29 1921	under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
	William Stevens Fielding (2nd time)	December 29 1921 - September 4 1925	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
12.	James Robb	September 5 1925 - June 28 1926
*	Sir Henry Drayton (2nd time) (Acting)	June 29 1926 - July 12 1926	under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
13.	Richard Bedford Bennett	July 13 1926 - September 25 1926
	James Robb (2nd time)	September 25 1926 - November 11 1929	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
14.	Charles Dunning	November 26 1929 - August 7 1930
	Richard Bedford Bennett (2nd time)	August 7 1930 - February 2 1932	as PM
15.	Edgar Rhodes	February 3 1932 - October 23 1935	under Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett
	Charles Dunning (2nd time)	October 24 1935 - September 5 1939	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
16.	James Ralston	September 6 1939 - July 4 1940
17.	James Ilsley	July 8 1940 - December 9 1946
18.	Douglas Abbott	December 10 1946 - November 15 1948
		November 15 1948 - June 30 1954	under Prime Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent
19.	Walter Harris	July 1 1954 - June 20 1957
20.	Donald Fleming	June 21 1957 - August 8 1962	under Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker
21.	George Nowlan	August 9 1962 - April 21 1963
22.	Walter L. Gordon	April 22 1963 - November 10 1965	under Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson
*	Mitchell Sharp (Acting)	November 11 1965 - December 17 1965
23.	Mitchell Sharp	December 18 1965 - April 19 1968
24.	Edgar Benson	April 20 1968 - January 27 1972	under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
25.	John Napier Turner	January 28 1972 - September 9 1975
*	Bud Drury (Acting)	September 10 1975 - September 25 1975
26.	Donald Stovel Macdonald	September 26 1975 - September 15 1977
27.	Jean Chrétien	September 16 1977 - June 3 1979
28.	John Crosbie	June 4 1979 - March 2 1980	under Prime Minister Joe Clark
29.	Allan MacEachen	March 3 1980 - September 9 1982	under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
30.	Marc Lalonde	September 10 1982 - June 29 1984
		June 30 1984 - September 16 1984	under Prime Minister John Napier Turner
31.	Michael Wilson	September 17 1984 - April 20 1991	under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
32.	Don Mazankowski	April 21 1991 - June 24 1993
33.	Gilles Loiselle	June 25 1993 - November 3 1993	under Prime Minister Kim Campbell
34.	Paul Martin	November 4 1993 - June 1 2002	under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
35.	John Manley	June 2 2002 - December 11 2003
36.	Ralph Goodale	December 12 2003 - February 5 2006	under Prime Minister Paul Martin
37.	Jim Flaherty	February 6 2006	under Prime Minister Stephen Harper

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