List of Nova Scotia lieutenant-governors

British Governors of Nova Scotia from 1710 to Confederation

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NameTerm
Samuel Vetch1710-1712
Francis Nicholson1712-1715
Thomas Caulfield1715-1717
Richard Phillips1717-1749
Acting for Phillips
John Doucett1717-1725
Lawrence Armstrong1725-1739
Alexander Cosby1739-1740
Paul Mascarene1740-1749
Edward Cornwallis1749-1752
Peregrin Thomas Hopson1752-1753
Charles Lawrence1753-1760
Jonathan Belcher1760-1763
Montague Wilmot1763-1766
William Campbell1766-1773
Acting for Campbell
Benjamin Green1766, 1771-1772
Michael Francklin1766, 1767-1768, 1772
Francis Legge1773-1776
Mariot Arbuthnot1776-1778
Sir Richard Hughes1778-1781
Sir Andrew Snape Hammond1781-1782
John Parr1782-1783, 1786-1791
Edmund Fanning1783-1786
Richard Bulkeley1791-1792
Sir John Wentworth1792-1808
Sir George Prevost1808-1811
Alexander Croke1811
Sir John Coape Sherbrooke1811-1816
George Stracey Smith1816
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie1816-1820
Sir James Kempt1820-1828
Thomas N. Jeffrey1828, 1834
Sir Peregrine Maitland1828-1834
Sir Colin Campbell1834-1840
Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland1840-1846
Sir Jeremiah Dickson1846
Sir John Harvey1846-1852
John Bazalgette1852
Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant1852-1858
George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave1858-1863
Charles Hastings Doyle1863-1864, 1865
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell1864-1865
Sir William Fenwick Williams1865-1867

Lieutenant-Governors of Nova Scotia post-Confederation

NameTerm
Sir Charles Hastings Doyle1867-1873
Joseph Howe1873
Sir Adam George Archibald1873-1883
Matthew Henry Richey1883-1888
Archibald Woodbury McLelan1888-1890
Sir Malachy Bowes Daly1890-1900
Alfred Gilpin Jones1900-1906
Duncan Cameron Fraser1906-1910
James Drummond McGregor1910-1915
David MacKeen1915-1916
MacCallum Grant1916-1925
James Robson Douglas1925
James Cranswick Tory1925-1930
Frank Stanfield1930-1931
Walter Harold Covert1931-1937
Robert Irwin1937-1940
Frederick Francis Mathers1940-1942
Henry Ernest Kendall1942-1947
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy1947-1952
Alistair Fraser1952-1958
Edward Chester Plow1958-1963
Henry Poole MacKeen1963-1968
Victor de Bedia Oland1968-1973
Clarence Gosse1973-1978
John Elvin Schaffner1978-1984
Alan Abraham1984-1989
Lloyd Roseville Crouse1989-1994
James Kinley1994-2000
Myra Freeman2000-present
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See also: List of Nova Scotia lieutenant-governors, 1710, 1712, 1715, 1717, 1725, 1739, 1740, 1749