The position of Provincial Secretary was particularly important in

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from 1870 to 1874, as that province's institutions were being established. The province had no Premier during this period, and its

Lieutenant-Governor A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction. Often a lieutenant governor is the deputy, or lieutenant, to or ranked under a governor — a " second-in-com ...

acted as the de facto leader of government. The early Provincial Secretaries (including Alfred Boyd and

Henry Joseph Clarke Henry Joseph Clarke (July 7, 1833 – September 13, 1889), who sometimes used the middle names Hynes and O'Connell, was a lawyer and politician in Manitoba, Canada. Born in Donegal (now in the Republic of Ireland) on July 7, 1833, Clarke mo ...

) were the most prominent elected officials in the province, and are retrospectively regarded as Premiers in many modern sources.

List of Provincial Secretaries

* Alfred Boyd 1870-1871 *

Marc-Amable Girard Marc-Amable Girard (April 25, 1822 – September 12, 1892) was the second premier of Manitoba, and the first Franco-Manitoban to hold that post. The ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide'' lists Girard as having been Premier (or ''Chief Minister'' ...

1871-1872 * Thomas Howard 1871-1872 *

1872-1874 *

Joseph Royal Joseph Royal (7 May 1837 – 23 August 1902) was a Canadian journalist, lawyer, politician, businessman, and Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories. Early life and career Royal studied at St. Mary's Jesuit college in Montreal. Hi ...

1872-1874 *

1874 *

John Norquay John Norquay (May 8, 1841 – July 5, 1889) was the fifth premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887. He was born near St. Andrews in what was then the Red River Colony, making him the first Premier of Manitoba to have been born in the region. ...

1875-1876 * Corydon Partlow Brown 1878-1879 * Marc Amable Girard 1879-1881 * Alphonse Alfred Clement Riviere 1881-1883 * Alexander MacBeth Sutherland 1883-1884 * David Henry Wilson 1884-1886 * Corydon Partlow Brown 1886-1887 *

1886-1887 * Joseph Burke 1887-1888 * James Emile Pierre Prendergast 1888-1889 * Daniel Dennis McLean 1889-1892 * John Donald Cameron 1893-1896 * Charles Julius Mickle 1895-1900 * David Henry McFadden 1900-1907 * Stanley William McInnis 1908 * George Robson Coldwell KC 1907-1908 * James Henry Howden 1908-1915 * Rodmond Palen Roblin 1911-1913 * William James Armstrong 1915-1922 * Duncan Lloyd McLeod 1922-1923 * Charles Reginald Lionel Cannon 1927 * Donald Gordon McKenzie 1928-1929 * Duncan Lloyd McLeod 1929-1935 *

John Bracken John Bracken (June 22, 1883 – March 18, 1969) was a Canadian agronomist and politician who was the 11th and longest-serving premier of Manitoba (1922–1943) and later the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–19 ...

1935-1939 * John Stewart McDiarmid 1939-1946 * Charles Edwin Greenlay 1946-1948 * Wallace Conrad Miller 1948-1950 * Charles Edwin Greenlay 1950-1953 * Edmond Prefontaine 1953-1958 * Marcel Boulic 1958-1959 * John Benson Carroll 1959 * Edward Gurney Vaux Evans 1959-1963 *

Maitland Steinkopf Maitland Bernard Steinkopf (September 10, 1912 – November 22, 1970) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1962 to 1964, and again from 1964 to 1966. Stein ...

1963-1966 Reference:

References

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