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Serving Agriculture:
Canada's Ministers of Agriculture 1867-2004

Preface
Introduction

Canadian Ministers of Agriculture Since Confederation *

Jean-Charles Chapais
1867/07/01-1869/11/15
Christopher Dunkin
1869/11/16-1871/10/24
John Henry Pope
1871/10/25-1873/11/05, 1878/10/17-1885/09/24
Luc Letellier de Saint-Just
1873/11/07-1876/12/14
Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier
1877/01/26-1878/10/08
John Carling
1885/09/25-1892/11/24
Auguste-Réal Angers
1892/12/07-1895/07/12
Walter Humphries Montague
1895/12/21-1896/01/05, 1896/01/15-1896/07/08
Sydney Arthur Fisher
1896/07/13-1911/10/06
Martin Burrell
1911/10/16-1917/10/12
Thomas Alexander Crerar
1917/10/12-1919/06/11
Simon Fraser Tolmie
1919/08/12-1921/12/29, 1926/07/13-1926/09/25
William Richard Motherwell
1921/12/29-1926/06/28, 1926/09/25-1930/08/07
Robert Weir
1930/08/08-1935/10/23
James Garfield Gardiner
1935/11/04-957/06/21
Douglas Scott Harkness
1957/06/21-1960/10/10
Francis Alvin George Hamilton
1960/10/11-1963/04/22
Harry William Hays
1963/04/22-1965/12/17
John J. Greene
1965/12/18-1968/07/05
Horace Andrew (Bud) Olson
1968/07/06-1972/11/26
Eugene Francis Whelan
1972/11/27-1979/06/03, 1980/03/03-1984/06/29
John Wise
1979/06/04-1980/03/02, 1984/09/17-1988/09/14
Ralph Ferguson
1984/06/30-1984/09/16
Donald Frank Mazankowski
1988/09/15-1991/04/20
William Hunter McKnight
1991/04/21-1993/01/04
Charles James Mayer
1993/01/04-1993/11/04
Ralph Goodale
1993/11/04-1997/06/11
Lyle Vanclief
1997/06/11-2003/12/11
Robert Speller
2003/12/12-2004/07/19
Andy Mitchell
2004/07/20-2006-/02/05

* Excluding interim acting ministers