The list of presidents of the Royal Society of Canada is a list of all the past and present presidents of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

. * 1882–1883

John William Dawson Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899) was a Canadian geologist and university administrator. Life and work John William Dawson was born on 13 October 1820 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he attended and graduated from Pictou Academy. Of Scotti ...

* 1883–1884 Pierre J. O. Chauveau * 1884–1885

T. Sterry Hunt Thomas Sterry Hunt (September 5, 1826February 12, 1892) was an American geologist and chemist. Biography Hunt was born at Norwich, Connecticut. He lost his father when twelve years old, and had to earn his own livelihood. In the course of two ...

* 1885–1886 Daniel Wilson * 1886–1887 Thomas E. Hamel * 1887–1888 George Lawson * 1888–1889

Sandford Fleming Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, ...

* 1889–1890 Raymond Casgrain * 1890–1891

George Monro Grant George Monro Grant (December 22, 1835 – May 10, 1902) was a Canadian church minister, writer, and political activist. He served as principal of Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario, for 25 years, from 1877 until 1902. Early life, education Gr ...

* 1891–1892

Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme (September 19, 1849 – July 6, 1910) was a Canadians, Canadian Roman Catholic priest, academic, and writer. Born in Saint-Anselme, Quebec, Saint-Anselme, Lower Canada, the son of David Kemner dit Laflamme and Josepht ...

* 1892–1893 John George Bourinot * 1893–1894 George M. Dawson * 1894–1895

James MacPherson Le Moine Sir James MacPherson Le Moine (24 January 1825 — 5 February 1912) was a Canadian author and barrister. He was involved with the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, helping in the development of their natural history museum, and later ser ...

* 1895–1896 Alfred R. C. Selwyn * 1896–1897 Cornelius O'Brien * 1897–1898 Félix-G. Marchand * 1898–1899

Thomas C. Keefer Thomas Coltrin Keefer Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (4 November 1821 – 7 January 1915) was a Canadians, Canadian civil engineer. Biography Born into a United Empire Loyalist family in Thorold, Thorold Township, Upper Canada, the son ...

* 1899–1900

William Clark William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Misso ...

* 1900–1901

Louis Fréchette Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis ( ...

* 1901–1902

James Loudon James Loudon (May 24, 1841 – December 29, 1916) was a Canadian professor of mathematics and physics and President of the University of Toronto from 1892 to 1906. He was the first Canadian-born professor at the University of Toronto. Biog ...

* 1902–1903 James A. Grant * 1903–1904 George T. Denison * 1904–1905

Benjamin Sulte Benjamin Sulte (September 17, 1841 – August 6, 1923), baptized Olivier-Benjamin Vadeboncœur, was a Canadian journalist, writer, civil servant, and historian. Born in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada (now Quebec), to Benjamin Sulte dit Vadebonc ...

* 1905–1906 Alexander Johnson * 1906–1907 William Saunders * 1907–1908 Samuel E. Dawson * 1908–1909

Joseph-Edmond Roy Joseph-Edmond Roy (December 7, 1858 May 8, 1913) was a Quebec notary, editor, historian and political figure. He was born in Pointe-Lévy in 1858, the son of notary Léon Roy. Roy studied at the Collège de Lévis and the Séminaire de Québec, ...

* 1909–1910 George Bryce * 1910–1911 R. Ramsay Wright * 1911–1912 William F. King * 1912–1913

William Dawson LeSueur William Dawson LeSueur (February 19, 1840 – September 23, 1917) was a Canadian civil servant and author.

* 1913–1914 Frank D. Adams * 1914–1915 Adolphe B. Routhier * 1915–1916 Alfred Baker * 1916–1917 Archibald B. Macallum * 1917–1918 William D. Lighthall * 1918–1919

Rodolphe Lemieux Rodolphe Lemieux (November 1, 1866 – September 28, 1937) was a Canadian parliamentarian and long time Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (1922–1930). Biography He was born in Montreal as the son of a Customs officer. After a ca ...

* 1919–1920 Robert F. Ruttan * 1920–1921 Arthur P. Coleman * 1921–1922 Duncan C. Scott * 1922–1923 J. Playfair McMurrich * 1923–1924

Thomas Chapais Sir Joseph Amable Thomas Chapais (March 23, 1858 – July 15, 1946) was a French Canadian author, editor, historian, journalist, professor, and politician. Born in Saint-Denis, Quebec (then Canada East), the son of Jean-Charles Chapais, a ...

* 1924–1925 John C. McLennan * 1925–1926 William A. Parks * 1926–1927 James H. Coyne * 1927–1928 A. H. Reginald Buller * 1928–1929 Camille Roy * 1929–1930 Arthur S. Eve * 1930–1931

Charles Camsell Charles Camsell (February 8, 1876 – December 19, 1958) was a Canadian geologist and the commissioner of the Northwest Territories from December 3, 1936 to December 3, 1946. Early life He was born in 1876 in Fort Liard, Northwest Territories, ...

* 1931–1932 Robert A. Falconer * 1932–1933 Francis E. Lloyd * 1933–1934

Léon Gérin Léon Gérin (; May 17, 1863 – January 15, 1951) was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, and sociologist. Born in Quebec City, Canada East, the son of Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, Gérin studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet before receiving a law degre ...

* 1934–1935 W. Lash Miller * 1935–1936 Reginald W. Brock & George A. Young * 1936–1937 Lawrence J. Burpee * 1937–1938 Archibald G. Huntsman * 1938–1939 Victor Morin * 1939–1940

Henry Marshall Tory Henry Marshall Tory (January 11, 1864 – February 6, 1947) was the first president of the University of Alberta (1908–1928), the first president of the Khaki University, the first president of the National Research Council (1928–1935), and t ...

* 1940–1941 Robert C. Wallace * 1941–1942 Frederick W. Howay * 1942–1943 James Bertram Collip * 1943–1944 Olivier Maurault * 1944–1945 John K. Robertson * 1945–1946 Elwood S. Moore * 1946–1947 Harold A. Innis * 1947–1948 Walter P. Thompson * 1948–1949

Gustave Lanctôt Gustave Lanctot , also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, (5 July 1883 – 2 February 1975) was a Canadian historian and archivist. Born in Saint-Constant, Quebec, he studied law at Université de Montréal and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1907. A ...

* 1949–1950 Joseph A. Pearce * 1950–1951 John J. O'Neill * 1951–1952 Henry F. Angus * 1952–1953 Guilford B. Reed * 1953–1954 Jean Bruchési * 1954–1955 Edgar William R. Steacie * 1955–1956 George S. Hume * 1956–1957 William A. Mackintosh * 1957–1958 Thomas W. M. Cameron * 1958–1959 Pierre Daviault * 1959–1960 Henry G. Thode * 1960–1961 Merton Y. Williams * 1961–1962

Arthur R. M. Lower Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower (12 August 1889 – 7 January 1988) was a Canadian historian and "liberal nationalist" interested in Canadian economic history, particularly the forest trade, and in Canada–US relations. He was the most natio ...

* 1962–1963 William H. Cook * 1963–1964

Maurice Lebel Maurice Lebel, (December 24, 1909 – April 24, 2006) was a Canadian academic. Born in Saint-Lin, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928 from Université de Montréal and a Master of Arts degree in 1930 from Université Laval. ...

* 1964–1965 Léo Marion * 1965–1966

William Kaye Lamb William Kaye Lamb (May 11, 1904 – August 24, 1999) was a Canadian historian, archivist, librarian, and civil servant. Career Born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Lamb received his BA in 1927 and MA in 1930 from the University of B ...

* 1966–1967

Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, (; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge o ...

* 1967–1968 James M. Harrison * 1968–1969

Léon Lortie Léon Lortie, (August 31, 1902 – December 31, 1985) was a Canadian chemist, academic, and writer. In 1930, he defended his thesis on cerium under the direction of Nathalie Demassieux. In 1970, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canad ...

* 1969–1970 Claude E. Dolman * 1970–1971 Roy Daniells * 1971–1972 Henry E. Duckworth * 1972–1973

John Tuzo Wilson John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. ''Plate tectonics'' is the scientific theory that the rigi ...

* 1973–1974

Guy Sylvestre Guy Sylvestre (Jean-Guy Sylvestre), OC, FRSC (May 17, 1918 – September 26, 2010) was a Canadian literary critic, librarian and civil servant. Born in Sorel, Quebec, he attended College Ste-Marie, Montreal, and received his B.A. in 1939 and ...

* 1974–1975

Claude Fortier Claude Fortier (June 11, 1921 – April 22, 1986) was a Canadian physiologist and expert on the pituitary gland. From 1974 to 1975, he was the president of the Royal Society of Canada. Honours * In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order o ...

* 1975–1976 Samuel D. Clark * 1976–1977 J. Larkin Kerwin * 1977–1978 Robert E. Folinsbee * 1978–1981 Robert E. Bell * 1981–1984 Marc-Adélard Tremblay * 1984–1987 Alexander G. McKay * 1987–1990 Digby J. McLaren * 1990–1992 Jules Deschênes * 1992–1995

John Meisel John Meisel (born October 23, 1923) is a Canadian political scientist, professor, and scholar, and former chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. He has written extensively on various aspects of politics, not ...

* 1995–1997 Robert Hall Haynes * 1997–1999 Jean-Pierre Wallot * 1999–2001

William Leiss William Leiss (born 1939) is an American-Canadian academic who served as President of the Royal Society of Canada from 1999 to 2001. Born on Long Island, New York, at the end of 1939, he grew up in rural Pennsylvania. He began his universit ...

* 2001–2003

Howard Alper Howard Alper, (born October 17, 1941) is a Canadian chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa. He is best known for his research of catalysis in chemistry. Career and research Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Ba ...

* 2003–2005

Gilles Paquet Gilles Paquet, (July 19, 1936 – January 18, 2019) was a Canadian economist, President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2003 to 2005. He was professor emeritus at the School of Management and senior research fellow at the Centre on Governanc ...

* 2005–2007

Patricia Demers Dr. Patricia A. Demers, is a Canadian humanist and academic. She was the first female president of the Royal Society of Canada serving from 2005 to 2007. Early life and education Demers grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, and received a Bachelor of ...

* 2007–2009

Yvan Guindon Yvan is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Jacques-Yvan Morin, GOQ (born 1931), politician in Quebec, Canada * Marc-Yvan Côté (born 1947), former Quebec politician and Cabinet Minister for the Quebec Liberal Party * Maurice-Yvan ...

* 2009–2011 Roderick A. Macdonald * 2011–2013

Yolande Grisé Yolande Grisé (born 1944) is a Canadian history professor at the University of Ottawa and writer who served as the President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2011 to 2013. In 1982, she wrote the book ''Le suicide dans la Rome antique''. In 2 ...

* 2013–2015 Graham Bell * 2015–2017 Maryse Lassonde * 2017–2019

Chad Gaffield Chad Gaffield is a Canadian historian. He is the University Research Chair Professor in Digital Scholarship at University of Ottawa and also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2017, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada by G ...

* 2019–2022 Jeremy N. McNeil

References

External links

Royal Society of Canada - RSC Presidents (English PDF)

Royal Society of Canada - RSC Presidents (French PDF)
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