List of Canadian Ministers of Agriculture

Canadian Ministers of Agriculture

1.	Jean-Charles Chapais	July 1 1867 - November 15 1869	under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
2.	Christopher Dunkin	November 16 1869 - October 24 1871
3.	John Henry Pope	October 25 1871 - November 5 1873
4.	Luc Letellier de St-Just	November 7 1873-December 14 1876	under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie
*	Isaac Burpee (Acting)	December 15 1876 - January 25 1877
5.	Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier	January 25 1877 - October 8 1878
	John Henry Pope (2nd time)	October 17 1878 - September 25 1885	under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
6.	John Carling	September 25 1885 - June 6 1891
		June 16 1891 - November 24 1892	under Prime Minister John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
7.	Auguste Réal Angers	December 7 1892 - December 12 1894	under Prime Minister John Sparrow David Thompson
		December 21 1894 - July 12 1895	under Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell
8.	Joseph Aldéric Ouimet	July 13 1895 - December 20 1895
9.	Walter Humphries Montague	December 21 1895 - January 5 1896
*	Donald Ferguson (Acting)	January 6 1896 - January 4 1896
	Walter Humphries Montague (2nd time)	January 15 1896 - April 27 1896
		May 1 1896 - July 8 1896	under Prime Minister Charles Tupper
10.	Sydney Arthur Fisher	July 13 1896 - October 6 1911	under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier
11.	Martin Burrell	October 16 1911 - October 12 1917	under Prime Minister Robert Borden
12.	Thomas Alexander Crerar	October 12 1917 - June 11 1919
*	James Alexander Calder (Acting)	June 18 1919 - August 11 1919
13.	Simon Fraser Tolmie	August 12 1919 - July 10 1920
		July 10 1920 - December 29 1921	under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
14.	William Richard Motherwell	December 29 1921 - June 28 1926	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
*	Henry Herbert Stevens (Acting)	June 29 1926 - July 12 1926	under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
	Simon Fraser Tolmie (2nd time)	July 13 1926 - September 25 1926
15.	William Richard Motherwell	September 25 1926 - August 7 1930	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
16.	Robert Weir	August 8 1930 - October 23 1935	under Prime Minister R.B. Bennett
*	Thomas Alexander Crerar (2nd time) (Acting)	October 25 1935 - November 3 1935	under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
17.	James G. Gardiner	November 4 1935-November 15 1948
		November 15 1948 - June 21 1957	under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent
18.	Douglas Scott Harkness	June 21 1957 - October 10 1960	under Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker
19.	Francis Alvin George Hamilton	October 11 1957 - April 22 1963
20.	Harry William Hays	April 22 1963 - December 17 1965	under Prime Minister Lester Pearson
21.	John James Greene	December 18 1965 - April 20 1968
		April 20 1968 - July 5 1968	under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
22.	Bud Olson	July 6 1968 - November 26 1972
23.	Eugene Whelan	November 27 1972 - June 3 1979
24.	John Wise	June 4 1979 - March 2 1980	under Prime Minister Joe Clark
	Eugene Whelan (2nd time)	March 3 1980 - June 29 1984	under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
25.	Ralph Ferguson	June 30 1984 - September 16 1984	under Prime Minister John Turner
26.	John Wise	September 17 1984 - September 14 1988	under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
27.	Don Mazankowski	September 15 1988 - April 20 1991
28.	Bill McKnight	April 21 1991 - January 3 1993
29.	Charlie Mayer	January 4 1993 - June 24 1993
		June 24 1993 - November 3 1993	under Prime Minister Kim Campbell
30.	Ralph Goodale	November 4 1993 - January 11 1995	under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien

Canadian Ministers of Agriculture and Agri-Food

	Ralph Goodale (cont'd)	January 12 1995 -June 10 1997	under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
31.	Lyle Vanclief	June 11 1997 - December 11 2003
32.	Bob Speller	December 12 2003 - July 19 2004	under Prime Minister Paul Martin
33.	Andy Mitchell	July 20 2004 -

The portfolio was renamed from "Agriculture" to "Agriculture and Agri-Food" in 1995.