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Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...

Timeline of Events

1891

6.16.1891

John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.

1926

6.29.1926

Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

1948

11.15.1948

Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.

2005

8.4.2005

Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.

2006

11.27.2006

The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada.