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Names of Judges

Date of
Appointment

Date of
Departure

Hon. William Johnstone Ritchie

30-09-1875 --

11-01-1879*

Hon. Samuel Henry Strong

30-09-1875 --

13-12-1892*

Hon. Jean-Thomas Taschereau

30-09-1875 --

06-10-1878

Hon. Télesphore Fournier

30-09-1875 --

12-09-1895

Hon. William Alexander Henry

30-09-1875 --

03-05-1888

Hon. Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau

07-10-1878 --

21-11-1902*

Hon. John Wellington Gwynne

14-01-1879 --

07-01-1902

Hon. Christopher Salmon Patterson

27-10-1888 --

24-07-1893

Hon. Robert Sedgewick

18-02-1893 --

04-08-1906

Hon. George Edwin King

21-09-1893 --

08-05-1901

Hon. Désiré Girouard

28-09-1895 --

22-03-1911

Hon. Sir Louis Henry Davies

25-09-1901 --

23-10-1918*

Hon. David Mills

08-02-1902 --

08-05-1903

Hon. John Douglas Armour

21-11-1902 --

11-07-1903

Hon. Wallace Nesbitt

16-05-1903 --

04-10-1905

Hon. Albert Clements Killam

08-08-1903 --

06-02-1905

Hon. John Idington

10-02-1905 --

31-03-1927

Hon. James Maclennan

05-10-1905 --

13-02-1909

Hon. Lyman Poore Duff

27-09-1906 --

17-03-1933*

Hon. Francis Alexander Anglin

23-02-1909 --

16-09-1924*

Hon. Louis-Philippe Brodeur

11-08-1911 --

10-10-1923

Hon. Pierre-Basile Mignault

25-10-1918 --

30-09-1929

Hon. Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin

30-01-1924 --

01-10-1924

Hon. Edmund Leslie Newcombe

16-09-1924 --

09-12-1931

Hon. Thibaudeau Rinfret

01-10-1924 --

08-01-1944*

Hon. John Henderson Lamont

02-04-1927 --

10-03-1936

Hon. Robert Smith

18-05-1927 --

07-12-1933

Hon. Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon

14-01-1930 --

25-12-1939

Hon. Oswald Smith Crocket

21-09-1932 --

13-04-1943

Hon. Frank Joseph Hughes

17-03-1933 --

13-02-1935

Hon. Henry Hague Davis

31-01-1935 --

30-06-1944

Hon. Patrick Kerwin

20-07-1935 --

01-07-1954*

Hon. Albert Blellock Hudson

24-03-1936 --

06-01-1947

Hon. Robert Taschereau

09-02-1940 --

22-04-1963*

Hon. Ivan Cleveland Rand

22-04-1943 --

27-04-1959

Hon. Roy Lindsay Kellock

03-10-1944 --

15-01-1958

Hon. James Wilfred Estey

06-10-1944 --

22-01-1956

Hon. Charles Holland Locke

03-06-1947 --

16-09-1962

Hon. John Robert Cartwright

22-12-1949 --

01-09-1967*

Hon. Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux

22-12-1949 --

23-03-1970*

Hon. Douglas Charles Abbott

01-07-1954 --

23-12-1973

Hon. Henry Grattan Nolan

01-03-1956 --

08-07-1957

Hon. Ronald Martland

15-01-1958 --

10-02-1982

Hon. Wilfred Judson

05-02-1958 --

20-07-1977

Hon. Roland Almon Ritchie

05-05-1959 --

31-10-1984

Hon. Emmett Matthew Hall

23-11-1962 --

01-03-1973

Hon. Wishart Flett Spence

30-05-1963 --

29-12-1978

Hon. Louis-Philippe Pigeon

21-09-1967 --

08-02-1980

Hon. Bora Laskin

19-03-1970 --

27-12-1973*

Hon. Robert George Brian Dickson

26-03-1973 --

18-04-1984*

Hon. Jean Beetz

01-01-1974 --

10-11-1988

Hon. Louis-Philippe de Grandpré

01-01-1974 --

01-10-1977

Hon. Willard Zebedee Estey

29-09-1977 --

22-04-1988

Hon. Yves Pratte

01-10-1977 --

30-06-1979

Hon. William Rogers McIntyre

01-01-1979 --

15-02-1989

Hon. Julien Chouinard

24-09-1979 --

06-02-1987

Hon. Antonio Lamer

28-03-1980 --

01-07-1990*

Hon. Bertha Wilson

04-03-1982 --

04-01-1991

Hon. Gerald Eric Le Dain

29-05-1984 --

30-11-1988

Hon. Gérard V. La Forest

16-01-1985 --

30-09-1997

Hon. Claire L'Heureux-Dubé

15-04-1987 --

01-07-2002

Hon. John Sopinka

24-05-1988 --

24-11-1997

Hon. Charles Doherty Gonthier

01-02-1989 --

31-07-2003

Hon. Peter deCarteret Cory

01-02-1989 --

01-06-1999

Hon. Beverley McLachlin

30-03-1989 --

07-01-2000*

Hon. William Stevenson

17-09-1990 --

05-06-1992

Hon. Frank Iacobucci

07-01-1991 --

30-06-2004

Hon. John C. Major

13-11-1992

25-12-2005

Hon. Michel Bastarache

30-09-1997

 

Hon. William Ian Corneil Binnie

08-01-1998

 

Hon. Louise Arbour

15-09-1999 --

30-06-2004

Hon. Louis LeBel

07-01-2000

 

Hon. Marie Deschamps

07-08-2002

 

Hon. Morris J. Fish

05-08-2003

 

Hon. Rosalie Silberman Abella

30-08-2004

 

Hon. Louise Charron

30-08-2004

 

Hon. Marshall Rothstein

01-03-2006

 

* Date of appointment as Chief Justice.

 
   
Last updated: 2006-03-29
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