Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia

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This is a list of viceroys (governors and lieutenant-governors) of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, before and after Confederation in 1867.

[edit] British Governors of Nova Scotia (1710 to Confederation)

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Name	Term
Samuel Vetch	1710-1712
Francis Nicholson	1712-1715
Thomas Caulfield	1715-1717
Richard Philipps	1717-1749
Acting for Philipps
John Doucett	1717-1725
Lawrence Armstrong	1725-1739
Alexander Cosby	1739-1740
Paul Mascarene	1740-1749
Edward Cornwallis	1749-1752
Peregrine Thomas Hopson [1]	1752-1755
Acting for Hopson
Charles Lawrence	1753-1755
Charles Lawrence	1756-1760
Jonathan Belcher	1760-1763
Montague Wilmot	1763-1766
William Campbell	1766-1773
Acting for Campbell
Benjamin Green	1766, 1771-1772
Michael Francklin	1766, 1767-1768, 1772
Francis Legge	1773-1776
Mariot Arbuthnot	1776-1778
Sir Richard Hughes	1778-1781
Sir Andrew Snape Hamond	1781-1782
John Parr	1782-1783, 1786-1791
Edmund Fanning	1783-1786
Richard Bulkeley [2]	1791-1792
Sir John Wentworth	1792-1808
Sir George Prevost	1808-1811
Alexander Croke	1811
Sir John Coape Sherbrooke	1811-1816
George Stracey Smith	1816
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie	1816-1820
Sir James Kempt	1820-1828
Thomas N. Jeffrey	1828, 1834
Sir Peregrine Maitland	1828-1834
Sir Colin Campbell	1834-1840
Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland	1840-1846
Sir Jeremiah Dickson	1846
Sir John Harvey	1846-1852
John Bazalgette [3]	1852
Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant	1852-1858
George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave	1858-1863
Charles Hastings Doyle	1863-1864, 1865
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell	1864-1865
Sir William Fenwick Williams	1865-1867

Name	Term
Sir Charles Hastings Doyle	1867-1873
Joseph Howe	1873
Sir Adams George Archibald	1873-1883
Matthew Henry Richey	1883-1888
Archibald Woodbury McLelan	1888-1890
Sir Malachy Bowes Daly	1890-1900
Alfred Gilpin Jones	1900-1906
Duncan Cameron Fraser	1906-1910
James Drummond McGregor	1910-1915
David MacKeen	1915-1916
MacCallum Grant	1916-1925
James Robson Douglas	1925
James Cranswick Tory	1925-1930
Frank Stanfield	1930-1931
Walter Harold Covert	1931-1937
Robert Irwin	1937-1940
Frederick Francis Mathers	1940-1942
Henry Ernest Kendall	1942-1947
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy	1947-1952
Alistair Fraser	1952-1958
Edward Chester Plow	1958-1963
Henry Poole MacKeen	1963-1968
Victor de Bedia Oland	1968-1973
Clarence Gosse	1973-1978
John Elvin Schaffner	1978-1984
Alan Abraham	1984-1989
Lloyd Roseville Crouse	1989-1994
James Kinley	1994-2000
Myra Freeman	2000-2006
Mayann E. Francis	2006-present

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