List of Canadian Ministers of Veterans Affairs

Canadian Ministers of Veterans Affairs

1.	Ian Alistair Mackenzie	under King	October 18 1944 – January 18 1948
2.	Milton Gregg	under King	January 19 1948 – November 15 1948
	Milton Gregg (cont'd)	under St-Laurent	November 15 1948 – August 6 1950
3.	Hugues Lapointe	under St-Laurent	August 7 1950 – June 20 1957
4.	Alfred Johnson Brooks	under Diefenbaker	June 21 1957 – October 10 1960
5.	Gordon Churchill	under Diefenbaker	October 11 1960 – February 11 1963
6.	Marcel Lambert	under Diefenbaker	February 12 1963 – April 21 1963
7.	Roger Teillet	under Pearson	April 22 1963 – April 19 1968
	Roger Teillet (cont'd)	under Trudeau	April 20 1968 – July 5 1968
8.	Jean-Eudes Dubé	under Trudeau	July 6 1968 – January 27 1972
9.	Arthur Laing	under Trudeau	January 28 1972 – November 26 1972
10.	Daniel J. MacDonald	under Trudeau	November 27 1972 – June 3 1979
11.	Allan McKinnon	under Clark	June 4 1979 – March 2 1980
	Daniel J. MacDonald (2nd time)	under Trudeau	March 3 1980 – September 30 1980
*	Gilles Lamontagne (acting)	under Trudeau	October 1 1980 – September 21 1981
12.	W. Bennett Campbell	under Trudeau	September 22 1981 – June 29 1984
	W. Bennett Campbell (cont'd)	under Turner	June 30 1984 – September 16 1984
13.	George Hees	under Mulroney	September 17 1984 – September 14 1988
14.	Gerald Stairs Merrithew	under Mulroney	September 18 1988 – January 3 1993
15.	Kim Campbell	under Mulroney	January 4 1993 – June 24 1993
16.	Peter McCreath	under Campbell	June 25 1993 – November 3 1993
17.	David Collenette	under Chrétien	November 4 1993 – October 4 1996
18.	Doug Young	under Chrétien	October 5 1996 – June 10 1997
19.	Fred Mifflin	under Chrétien	June 11 1997 – August 2 1999
20.	George Baker	under Chrétien	August 3 1999 – October 17 2000
21.	Ron Duhamel	under Chrétien	October 18 2000 – January 14 2002
22.	Rey Pagtakhan	under Chrétien	January 15 2002 – December 11 2003
23.	John McCallum	under Martin	December 12 2003 – July 19 2004
24.	Albina Guarnieri	under Martin	July 20 2004 -

Prior to 1944, the responsibilities of the current Veterans Affairs portfolio were part of the now-defunct post of Minister of Pensions and National Health (List)

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