Governors of Acadia prior to 1710
| Name | Term |
|---|---|
| Pierre du Gua de Monts | 1603-1608 |
| Jean de Poutrincourt | 1606-1615 |
| Charles de Biencourt | 1615-1623 |
| Charles de La Tour | 1631-1642 |
| Ignace de Razilly | 1632-1635 |
| Charles de Menou d'Aulnay | 1638-1650 |
| Charles de La Tour (again) | 1653-1657 |
| Emmanuel LeBorgne | 1657-1667
|
| Alexandre LeBorgne de Belle-Isle | 1667-1670 |
| Andigné de Grandfontaine | 1670-1673 |
| Jacques de Chambly | 1673-1677 |
| François-Marie Perrot | 1684-1687 |
| Louis-Alexandre des Friches | 1687-1690 |
| Joseph Robineau, sieur de Villebon | 1691-1700 |
| Sébastien de Villieu | 1700-1701 |
| Jacques-François Monbeton Brouillan de St. André | 1701-1705 |
| Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure | 1705-1706 |
| Daniel d'Auger, sieur de Subercase | 1706-1710 |
British Governors of Nova Scotia from 1710 to Confederation
| Name | Term |
|---|---|
| Samuel Vetch | 1710-1712 |
| Francis Nicholson | 1712-1715 |
| Thomas Caulfield | 1715-1717 |
| Richard Phillips | 1717-1749 |
| Acting for Phillips | |
| John Doucett | 1717-1725 |
| Lawrence Armstrong | 1725-1739 |
| Alexander Cosby | 1739-1740 |
| Paul Mascarene | 1740-1749 |
| Edward Cornwallis | 1749-1752 |
| Peregrin Thomas Hopson | 1752-1753 |
| Charles Lawrence | 1753-1760 |
| 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 Hammond | 1781-1782 |
| John Parr | 1782-1783, 1786-1791 |
| Edmund Fanning | 1783-1786 |
| Richard Bulkeley | 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, 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 Carey, Viscount Falkland | 1840-1846 |
| Sir Jeremiah Dickson | 1846 |
| Sir John Harvey | 1846-1852 |
| John Bazalgette | 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 Adam George Archibald | 1873-1883 |
| Matthew Henry Richey | 1883-1888 |
| Archibald Woodbury McLellan | 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-present |
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