Provincial Premiers in Canada

The provincial premiers in Canada are the most powerful politicians in the provinces, and their responsibilities reflect that role.

Check by province or territory for an historical list of Canadian Premiers since Confederation.

Contact information for provincial premiers in Canada - mailing addresses, email addresses, phone and fax numbers.

A human rights lawyer with extensive international experience, Alison Redford is Alberta's first woman premier.

Christy Clark, a former Deputy Premier of British Columbia and popular radio talk show host, became the Premier of British Columbia in March 2011.

After 10 years as Manitoba's Minister of Finance, Greg Selinger became Premier of Manitoba in 2009 when he won the leadership of the NDP after the resignation of Gary Doer.

David Alward, Premier of New Brunswick, led the Progressive Conservatives to a majority government in the 2010 New Brunswick provincial election.

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Kathy Dunderdale became Newfoundland and Labrador's first female premier when she took over from Danny Williams on his retirement in December 2010.

With 28 years experience as a public servant, and in just his second term as an MLA, Bob McLeod became the Premier of the Northwest Territories in 2011.

In 2009, Darrelll Dexter led the Nova Scotia NDP to a majority government, making it the first time an NDP government had been elected in Atlantic Canada.

The only woman elected to the Nunavut Legislative Assembly in the 2008 Nunavut election, Eva Aariak became Nunavut's second premier.

Dalton McGuinty, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, has been Premier of Ontario since 2003. A bilingual lawyer from Ottawa, and the oldest of 10 children, McGuinty is sometimes aloof, but always steady.

Young and energetic, Robert Ghiz, the son of former PEI Premier Joe Ghiz, defeated the long-standing government of Pat Binns in 2007.

Jean Charest led the Liberals to victory in the 2003 election after nearly a decade of separatist Parti-Québécois government in the province of Quebec.

In 2011, Brad Wall and the Saskatchewan Party won a record high 64 percent of the popular vote and a second majority government.

Darrell Pasloski became Yukon Premier when he won the leadership of the Yukon Party in 2011.

Canada's thirteen premiers have joined forces to create the Council of the Federation, a new mechanism in federal-provincial relations.