This is a list of the premiers of the province of Quebec since Canadian Confederation in 1867. Quebec uses a unicameral (originally bicameral) Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the National Assembly (previously called the Legislative Assembly). The premier is Quebec's head of government, while the king of Canada is its head of state and is represented by the lieutenant governor of Quebec. The premier picks a cabinet from the elected members to form the Executive Council of Quebec, and presides over that body.
Members are first elected to the legislature during general elections. General elections must be conducted every five years from the date of the last election, but the premier may ask for early dissolution of the legislative assembly. An election may also happen if the Governing party loses the confidence of the legislature, by the defeat of a supply bill or tabling of a confidence motion.
This article only covers the time since the Canadian Confederation was created in 1867. For the premiers of the Canada East from 1840 to 1867, see List of joint premiers of the Province of Canada. The governments of Lower Canada from 1792 to 1840 were mostly controlled by representatives of the Crown.
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Hello, learned and astonishingly attractive pupils. My name is John Green and I want to welcome you to Crash Course World History. Over the next forty weeks together, we will learn how in a mere fifteen thousand years humans went from hunting and gathering... Mr. Green, Mr. Green! Is this gonna be on the test? Yeah, about the test: The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm-rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates; in job interviews; while watching football; and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages; whether you'll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric; and whether you'll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, make your life yours. And everything — everything — will be on it. I know, right? So pay attention. [Intro] In a mere fifteen thousand years, humans went from hunting and gathering to creating such improbabilities as the airplane, the Internet, and the ninety-nine cent double cheeseburger. It's an extraordinary journey, one that I will now symbolize by embarking upon a journey of my own ... over to camera two. Hi there, camera two ... it's me, John Green. Let's start with that double cheeseburger. Ooh, food photography! So this hot hunk of meat contains four-hundred and ninety calories. To get this cheeseburger, you have to feed, raise, and slaughter cows, then grind their meat, then freeze it and ship it to its destination; you also gotta grow some wheat and then process the living crap out of it until it's whiter than Queen Elizabeth the First; then you gotta milk some cows and turn their milk into cheese. And that's not even to mention the growing and pickling of cucumbers or the sweetening of tomatoes or the grinding of mustard seeds, etc. How in the sweet name of everything holy did we ever come to live in a world in which such a thing can even be created? And HOW is it possible that those four-hundred and ninety calories can be served to me for an amount of money that, if I make the minimum wage here in the U.S., I can earn in ELEVEN MINUTES? And most importantly: should I be delighted or alarmed to live in this strange world of relative abundance? Well, to answer that question we're not going to be able to look strictly at history, because there isn't a written record about a lot of these things. But thanks to archaeology and paleobiology, we CAN look deep into the past. Let's go to the Thought Bubble. So fifteen thousand years ago, humans were foragers and hunters. Foraging meant gathering fruits, nuts, also wild grains and grasses; hunting allowed for a more protein-rich diet ... so long as you could find something with meat to kill. By far the best hunting gig in the pre-historic world incidentally was fishing, which is one of the reasons that if you look at history of people populating the planet, we tended to run for the shore and then stay there. Marine life was: A) abundant, and B) relatively unlikely to eat you. While we tend to think that the life of foragers were nasty, brutish and short, fossil evidence suggests that they actually had it pretty good: their bones and teeth are healthier than those of agriculturalists. And anthropologists who have studied the remaining forager peoples have noted that they actually spend a lot fewer hours working than the rest of us and they spend more time on art, music, and storytelling. Also if you believe the classic of anthropology, NISA, they also have a lot more time for skoodilypooping. What? I call it skoodilypooping. I'm not gonna apologize. It's worth noting that cultivation of crops seems to have risen independently over the course of milennia in a number of places ... from Africa to China to the Americas ... using crops that naturally grew nearby: rice in Southeast Asia, maize in in Mexico, potatoes in the Andes, wheat in the Fertile Crescent, yams in West Africa. People around the world began to abandon their foraging for agriculture. And since so many communities made this choice independently, it must have been a good choice ... right? Even though it meant less music and skoodilypooping. Thanks, Thought Bubble. All right, to answer that question, let's take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of agriculture. Advantage: Controllable food supply. You might have droughts or floods, but if you're growing the crops and breeding them to be hardier, you have a better chance of not starving. Disadvantage: In order to keep feeding people as the population grows you have to radically change the environment of the planet. Advantage: Especially if you grow grain, you can create a food surplus, which makes cities possible and also the specialization of labor. Like, in the days before agriculture, EVERYBODY'S job was foraging, and it took about a thousand calories of work to create a thousand calories of food ... and it was impossible to create large population centers. But, if you have a surplus agriculture can support people not directly involved in the production of food. Like, for instance, tradespeople, who can devote their lives to better farming equipment which in turn makes it easier to produce more food more efficiently which in time makes it possible for a corporation to turn a profit on this ninety-nine cent double cheeseburger. Which is delicious, by the way. It's actually terrible. And it's very cold. And I wish I had not eaten it. I mean, can we just compare what I was promised to what I was delivered? Yeah, thank you. Yeah, this is not that. Some would say that large and complex agricultural communities that can support cities and eventually inexpensive meat sandwiches are not necessarily beneficial to the planet or even to its human inhabitants. Although that's a bit of a tough argument to make, coming to you as I am in a series of ones and zeros. ADVANTAGE: Agriculture can be practiced all over the world, although in some cases it takes extensive manipulation of the environment, like y'know irrigation, controlled flooding, terracing, that kind of thing. DISADVANTAGE: Farming is hard. So hard in fact that one is tempted to claim ownership over other humans and then have them till the land on your behalf, which is the kind of non-ideal social order that tends to be associated with agricultural communities. So why did agriculture happen? Wait, I haven't talked about herders. Herders, man! Always getting the short end of the stick. Herding is a really good and interesting alternative to foraging and agriculture. You domesticate some animals and then you take them on the road with you. The advantages of herding are obvious. First, you get to be a cowboy. Also, animals provide meat and milk, but they also help out with shelter because they can provide wool and leather. The downside is that you have to move around a lot because your herd always needs new grass, which makes it hard to build cities, unless you are the Mongols. [music, horse hooves] By the way, over the next forty weeks you will frequently hear generalizations, followed by "unless you are the Mongols" [music, hooves]. But anyway one of the main reasons herding only caught on in certain parts of the world is that there aren't that many animals that lend themselves to domestication. Like, you have sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, horses, camels, donkeys, reindeer, water buffalo, yaks, all of which have something in common. They aren't native to the Americas. The only halfway useful herding animal native to the Americas is the llama. No, not that Lama, two l's. Yes, that llama. Most animals just don't work for domestication. Like hippos are large, which means they provide lots of meat, but unfortunately, they like to eat people. Zebras are too ornery. Grizzlies have wild hearts that can't be broken. Elephants are awesome, but they take way too long to breed. Which reminds me! It's time for the Open Letter. Elegant. But first, let's see what the Secret Compartment has for me today. Oh! It's another double cheeseburger. Thanks, Secret Compartment. Just kidding, I don't thank you for this. An Open Letter to elephants. Hey elephants, You're so cute and smart and awesome. Why you gotta be pregnant for 22 months? That's crazy! And then you only have one kid. If you were more like cows, you might have taken us over by now. Little did you know, but the greatest evolutionary advantage: being useful to humans. Like here is a graph of cow population, and here is a graph of elephant population. Elephants, if you had just inserted yourself into human life the way cows did, you could have used your power and intelligence to form secret elephant societies, conspiring against the humans! And then you could have risen up, and destroyed us, and made an awesome elephant world with elephant cars, and elephant planes! It would have been so great! But noooo! You gotta be pregnant for 22 months and then have just one kid. It's so annoying! Best wishes, John Green. Right, but back to the agricultural revolution and why it occurred. Historians don't know for sure, of course, because there are no written records. But, they love to make guesses. Maybe population pressure necessitated agriculture even though it was more work, or abundance gave people leisure to experiment with domestication or planting originated as a fertility rite - or as some historians have argued - people needed to domesticate grains in order to produce more alcohol. Charles Darwin, like most 19th century scientists, believed agriculture was an accident, saying, "a wild and unusually good variety of native plant might attract the attention of some wise old savage." Off topic, but you will note in the coming weeks that the definition of "savage" tends to be be "not me." Maybe the best theory is that there wasn't really an agricultural revolution at all, but that agriculture came out of an evolutionary desire to eat more. Like early hunter gatherers knew that seeds germinate when planted. And, when you find something that makes food, you want to do more of it. Unless it's this food. Then you want to do less of it. I kinda want to spit it out. Eww. Ah, that's much better. So early farmers would find the most accessible forms of wheat and plant them and experiment with them not because they were trying to start an agricultural revolution, because they were like, you know what would be awesome: MORE food! Like on this topic, we have evidence that more than 13,000 years ago humans in southern Greece were domesticating snails. In the Franchthi Cave, there's a huge pile of snail shells, most of them are larger than current snails, suggesting that the people who ate them were selectively breeding them to be bigger and more nutritious. Snails make excellent domesticated food sources, by the way because A) surprisingly caloric B) they're easy to carry since they come with their own suitcases, and C) to imprison them you just have to scratch a ditch around their living quarters. That's not really a revolution, that's just people trying to increase available calories. But one non-revolution leads to another, and pretty soon you have this, as far as the eye can see. Many historians also argue that without agriculture we wouldn't have all the bad things that come with complex civilizations like patriarchy, inequality, war, and unfortunately, famine. And, as far as the planet is concerned, agriculture has been a big loser. Without it, humans never would have changed the environment so much, building dams, and clearing forests, and more recently, drilling for oil that we can turn into fertilizer. Many people made the choice for agriculture independently, but does that mean it was the right choice? Maybe so, and maybe not, but, regardless, we can't unmake that choice. And that's one of the reasons I think it's so important to study history. History reminds us that revolutions are not events so much as they are processes; that for tens of thousands of years people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today. Just as today we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions. Next week we're going to journey to the Indus River Valley - whoa - very fragile, our globe, like the real globe. We're going to travel to the Indus River Valley. I'll see you then. Crash Course is produced and directed by Stan Muller. Our script supervisor is Danica Johnson. The show is written by my high school history teacher, Raoul Meyer, and myself, and our graphics team is Thought Bubble. If you want to guess at the phrase of the week, you can do so in comments. You can also suggest future phrases of the week. And if you have a question about today's video, please leave it comments where our team of semi-professional quasi-historians will aim to answer it. Thanks for watching, and as we say in my hometown, Don't Forget To Be Awesome.
Premiers of Quebec since 1867
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Electoral mandates (Assembly) | Political party | Riding | Ref. | ||
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1 | Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (1820–1890) |
15 July 1867 |
25 February 1873 |
Title created (caretaker government)
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Conservative | MLA for Québec-Comté | |||
Resigned to accept appointment to the Senate of Canada. | |||||||||
2 | Gédéon Ouimet (1823–1905) |
27 February 1873 |
22 September 1874 |
Appointment (2nd Leg.) | Conservative | MLA for Deux-Montagnes | |||
Resigned over Tanneries scandal. | |||||||||
3 (1 of 2) |
Charles Boucher de Boucherville (1822–1915) |
22 September 1874 |
8 March 1878 |
Appointment (2nd Leg.)
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Conservative | Councillor for Montarville | |||
Dismissed by Lieutenant Governor Luc Letellier de St-Just after Letellier refused to approve legislation. | |||||||||
4 | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (1829–1908) |
8 March 1878 |
31 October 1879 |
Appointment (3rd Leg.)
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Liberal | MLA for Lotbinière | |||
5 | Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (1840–1898) |
31 October 1879 |
31 July 1882 |
Appointment (4th Leg.)
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Conservative | MLA for Terrebonne | |||
6 | Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (1837–1886) |
31 July 1882 |
23 January 1884 |
Appointment (5th Leg.) | Conservative | MLA for Jacques-Cartier | |||
7 | John Jones Ross (1831–1901) |
23 January 1884 |
25 January 1887 |
Appointment (5th Leg.)
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Conservative | Councillor for Shawinigan | |||
8 (1 of 2) |
Louis-Olivier Taillon (1840–1901) |
25 January 1887 |
29 January 1887 |
Appointment (6th Leg.) | Conservative | MLA for Montcalm | |||
9 | Honoré Mercier (1840–1894) |
29 January 1887 |
21 December 1891 |
Appointment (6th Leg.)
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Parti National | MLA for Saint-Hyacinthe (1887-1890) MLA for Bonaventure |
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Dismissed by Lieutenant Governor over charges of corruption. | |||||||||
— (2 of 2) |
Charles Boucher de Boucherville (1822–1915) |
21 December 1891 |
16 December 1892 |
Appointment (7th Leg.)
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Conservative | Councillor for Montarville | |||
— (2 of 2) |
Louis-Olivier Taillon (1840–1901) |
16 December 1892 |
11 May 1896 |
Appointment (8th Leg.) | Conservative | MLA for Chambly | |||
10 | Edmund James Flynn (1847–1927) |
12 May 1896 |
24 May 1897 |
Appointment (8th Leg.) | Conservative | MLA for Gaspé | |||
Last Conservative premier. | |||||||||
11 | Félix-Gabriel Marchand (1832–1900) |
24 May 1897 |
25 September 1900 |
1897 election (9th Leg.) | Liberal | MLA for Saint-Jean | |||
Died in office. | |||||||||
12 | Simon-Napoléon Parent (1855–1920) |
3 October 1900 |
23 March 1905 |
Appointment (9th Leg.)
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Liberal | MLA for Saint-Sauveur | |||
13 | Lomer Gouin (1861–1929) |
23 March 1905 |
23 March 1920 |
Appointment (11th Leg.)
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Liberal | MLA for Montréal division no. 2 (1905-1908) MLA for Portneuf |
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14 | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1867–1952) |
9 July 1920 |
11 June 1936 |
Appointment (15th Leg.)
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Liberal | MLA for Montmorency | |||
Established Quebec Liquor Commission; attempted to create a Jewish school board; Great Depression. | |||||||||
15 (1 of 2) |
Adélard Godbout (1892–1956) |
11 June 1936 |
26 August 1936 |
Appointment (19th Leg.) | Liberal (Ldr. 1938) |
MLA for L'Islet | |||
16 (1 of 2) |
Maurice Duplessis (1890–1959) |
26 August 1936 |
8 November 1939 |
1936 election (20th Leg.) | Union Nationale (Ldr. 1936) |
MLA for Trois-Rivières | |||
Padlock Law. | |||||||||
— (2 of 2) |
Adélard Godbout (1892–1956) |
8 November 1939 |
30 August 1944 |
1939 election (21st Leg.) | Liberal (Ldr. 1938) |
MLA for L'Islet | |||
Women's suffrage; established province's first labour code; nationalized Montreal Light, Heat & Power. | |||||||||
— (2 of 2) |
Maurice Duplessis (1890–1959) |
30 August 1944 |
7 September 1959 |
1944 election (22nd Leg.)
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Union Nationale (Ldr. 1936) |
MLA for Trois-Rivières | |||
"Grande Noirceur", Duplessis Orphans. Died in office. | |||||||||
17 | Paul Sauvé (1907–1960) |
11 September 1959 |
2 January 1960 |
Appointment (25th Leg.) | Union Nationale (Ldr. 1959) |
MLA for Deux-Montagnes | |||
"100 Days of Change". Died in office. | |||||||||
18 | Antonio Barrette (1899–1968) |
8 January 1960 |
5 July 1960 |
Appointment (25th Leg.) | Union Nationale (Ldr. 1960) |
MLA for Joliette | |||
19 | Jean Lesage (1912–1980) |
5 July 1960 |
16 June 1966 |
1960 election (26th Leg.)
|
Liberal (Ldr. 1958) |
MLA for Québec-Ouest | |||
Quiet Revolution; established Ministry of Education; establishment of Hydro-Québec; | |||||||||
20 | Daniel Johnson Sr. (1915–1968) |
16 June 1966 |
26 September 1968 |
1966 election (28th Leg.) | Union Nationale (Ldr. 1961) |
MLA for Bagot | |||
CEGEP; died in office. | |||||||||
21 | Jean-Jacques Bertrand (1916–1973) |
2 October 1968 |
12 May 1970 |
Appointment (28th Leg.) | Union Nationale (Ldr. 1969) |
MLA for Missisquoi (MNA after 1968) | |||
Abolished the Legislative Council and renamed the Legislative Assembly to the National Assembly; Bill 63; last Union Nationale premier. | |||||||||
22 (1 of 2) |
Robert Bourassa (1933–1996) |
29 April 1970 |
25 November 1976 |
1970 election (29th Leg.)
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Liberal (Ldr. 1970) |
MNA for Mercier | |||
October Crisis; Official Languages Act (Bill 22); James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement; Cliche commission. | |||||||||
23 | René Lévesque (1922–1987) |
25 November 1976 |
3 October 1985 |
1976 election (31st Leg.)
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Parti Québécois (Ldr. 1968) |
MNA for Taillon | |||
Charter of the French Language (Bill 101); 1980 Quebec referendum; Patriation of the Canadian constitution discussions; beau risque. | |||||||||
24 | Pierre Marc Johnson (b. 1946) |
3 October 1985 |
12 December 1985 |
Appointment (32nd Leg.) | Parti Québécois (Ldr. 1985) |
MNA for Anjou | |||
— (2 of 2) |
Robert Bourassa (1933–1996) |
12 December 1985 |
11 January 1994 |
1985 election (33rd Leg.)
|
Liberal (Ldr. 1983) |
MNA for Saint-Laurent | |||
Meech Lake Accord; Charlottetown Accord. | |||||||||
25 | Daniel Johnson Jr. (b. 1944) |
11 January 1994 |
26 September 1994 |
Appointment (34th Leg.) | Liberal (Ldr. 1993) |
MNA for Vaudreuil | |||
26 | Jacques Parizeau (1930–2015) |
26 September 1994 |
29 January 1996 |
1994 election (35th Leg.) | Parti Québécois (Ldr. 1988) |
MNA for L'Assomption | |||
1995 Quebec referendum; resigned after referendum loss. | |||||||||
27 | Lucien Bouchard (b. 1938) |
29 January 1996 |
8 March 2001 |
Appointment (35th Leg.)
|
Parti Québécois (Ldr. 1996) |
MNA for Jonquière | |||
"Winning conditions"; implemented universal childcare and pharmacare. | |||||||||
28 | Bernard Landry (1937–2018) |
8 March 2001 |
29 April 2003 |
Appointment (36th Leg.) | Parti Québécois (Ldr. 2001) |
MNA for Verchères | |||
29 | Jean Charest (b. 1958) |
29 April 2003 |
19 September 2012 |
2003 election (37th Leg.)
|
Liberal (Ldr. 1998) |
MNA for Sherbrooke | |||
2012 Quebec student protests, lost his own seat in 2012. | |||||||||
30 | Pauline Marois (b. 1949) |
19 September 2012 |
23 April 2014 |
2012 election (40th Leg.) | Parti Québécois (Ldr. 2007) |
MNA for Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré | |||
First woman to hold the office. Quebec Charter of Values. Lost her own seat in 2014. | |||||||||
31 | Philippe Couillard (b. 1957) |
23 April 2014 |
18 October 2018 |
2014 election (41st Leg.) | Liberal (Ldr. 2013) |
MNA for Roberval | |||
Ban on face coverings (Bill 62). | |||||||||
32 | François Legault (b. 1957) |
18 October 2018 |
incumbent | 2018 election (42nd Leg.)
|
Coalition Avenir Québec (Ldr. 2011) |
MNA for L'Assomption | |||
Ban on religious symbols; COVID-19 pandemic. |
See also
- Timeline of Quebec history
- List of deputy premiers of Quebec
- List of leaders of the Official Opposition of Quebec
- List of third party leaders (Quebec)
- List of premiers of Quebec by time in office
For more lists of this type, see Lists of incumbents.
References
- Government of Québec. "Nombre de premiers ministres et de gouvernements depuis 1867". Informations historiques (in French). National Assembly of Quebec. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- Quebec Politique. "Élections English". QuébecPolitique.com. Retrieved December 16, 2006.