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Tenth Ministry |
UNIONIST
[1]PRIME MINISTER
The Right Honourable Sir Robert Laird Borden
THE MINISTRY
| Minister of Agriculture | |
| Hon. Thomas Alexander Crerar L | 12 Oct. 1917 - 11 June 1919 |
| Vacant | 12 June 1919 - 17 June 1919 |
| Hon. James Alexander Calder L Acting Minister | 18 June 1919 - 11 Aug. 1919 |
| Hon. Simon Fraser Tolmie C | 12 Aug. 1919 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Customs[2] | |
| Hon. Arthur Lewis Sifton [3] L | 12 Oct. 1917 - 17 May 1918 |
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| Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue[4] | |
| Hon. Arthur Lewis Sifton[5] L | 18 May 1918 - 1 Sept. 1919 |
| Hon. John Dowsley Reid C Acting Minister | 2 Sept. 1919 - 30 Dec. 1919 |
| Hon. Martin Burrell C | 31 Dec. 1919 - 7 July 1920 |
| Vacant | 8 July 1920 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Secretary of State for External Affairs[6] | |
| Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird Borden C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Finance and Receiver General | |
| Hon. Sir William Thomas White C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 1 Aug. 1919 |
| Hon. Sir Henry Lumley Drayton C | 2 Aug. 1919 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Immigration and Colonization[7] | |
| Hon. James Alexander Calder L | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs[8] | |
| Hon. Arthur Meighen C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Inland Revenue[9] | |
| Hon. Albert Sévigny C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 1 Apr. 1918 |
| Vacant | 2 Apr. 1918 - 13 May 1918 |
| Hon. Arthur Lewis Sifton[10] L | 14 May 1918 - 17 May 1918 |
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| Minister of the Interior[11] | |
| Hon. Arthur Meighen C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Justice and Attorney General | |
| Hon. Charles Joseph Doherty C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Labour | |
| Hon. Thomas Wilson Crothers C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 6 Nov. 1918 |
| Vacant | 7 Nov. 1918 |
| Hon. Gideon Decker Robertson Lab. Senator | 8 Nov. 1918 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Marine and Fisheries[12] | |
| Vacant[13] | 13 12 Oct. 1917 |
| Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne L | 13 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Militia and Defence | |
| Hon. Sydney Chilton Mewburn L | 12 Oct. 1917 - 15 Jan. 1920 |
| Hon. James Alexander Calder L Acting Minister | 16 Jan. 1920 - 23 Jan. 1920 |
| Hon. Hugh Guthrie L | 24 Jan. 1920 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Mines[14] | |
| Hon. Martin Burrell C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 30 Dec. 1919 |
| Hon. Arthur Meighen C | 31 Dec. 1919 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of the Naval Service[15] | |
| Vacant | 12 Oct. 1917 |
| Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne L | 13 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of the Overseas Military Forces[16] | |
| Hon. Sir Albert Edward Kemp C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 1 July 1920 |
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| Postmaster General | |
| Hon. Pierre-Édouard Blondin C Senator | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| President of the Privy Council[17] | |
| Hon. Newton Wesley Rowell L | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Public Works | |
| Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne[18] L | 12 Oct. 1917 |
| Hon. Frank Broadstreet Carvell L | 13 Oct. 1917 - 1 Aug. 1919 |
| Vacant | 2 Aug. 1919 - 5 Aug. 1919 |
| Hon. John Dowsley Reid C Acting Minister | 6 Aug. 1919 - 2 Sept. 1919 |
| Hon. Arthur Lewis Sifton[19] L | 3 Sept. 1919 - 30 Dec. 1919 |
| Hon. John Dowsley Reid C Acting Minister | 31 Dec. 1919 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Railways and Canals | |
| Hon. John Dowsley Reid C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Secretary of State of Canada[20] | |
| Hon. Martin Burrell[21] C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 30 Dec. 1919 |
| Rt. Hon. Arthur Lewis Sifton L | 31 Dec. 1919 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment[22] | |
| Hon. Sir James Alexander Lougheed C Senator | 21 Feb. 1918 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Solicitor General of Canada[23] | |
| Hon. Hugh Guthrie[24] L | 5 July 1919 - 23 Jan. 1920 |
| Hon. Hugh Guthrie L | 24 Jan. 1920 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister of Trade and Commerce | |
| Rt. Hon. Sir George Eulas Foster C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 10 July 1920 |
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| Minister without Portfolio | |
| Hon. Francis Cochrane C | 12 Oct. 1917 - 22 Sept. 1919 |
| Hon. Sir James Alexander Lougheed[25] C Senator | 12 Oct. 1917 - 20 Feb. 1918 |
| Hon. Alexander Kenneth Maclean L | 23 Oct. 1917 - 24 Feb. 1920 |
| Hon. Gideon Decker Robertson[26] Lab. | 23 Oct. 1917 - 7 Nov. 1918 |
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| NOT OF THE CABINET | |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for External Affairs | |
| Hugh Clark[27] | 12 Oct. 1917 - 6 Nov. 1918 |
| Francis Henry Keefer | 7 Nov. 1918 - 1 July 1920 |
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| Parliamentary Secretary of Militia and Defence | |
| Fleming Blanchard McCurdy[28] | 12 Oct. 1917 - 22 Feb. 1918 |
| Vacant | 23 Feb. 1918 - 6 Nov. 1918 |
| Hugh Clark | 7 Nov. 1918 - 1 July 1920 |
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| Parliamentary Secretary of Soldiers' | |
| Civil Re-establishment[29] | |
| Vacant | 21 Feb. 1918 - 22 Feb. 1918 |
| Fleming Blanchard McCurdy | 23 Feb. 1918 - 6 Nov. 1918 |
| Vacant | 7 Nov. 1918 - 1 July 1920 |
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| Solicitor General of Canada[30] | |
| Hon. Hugh Guthrie L | 12 Oct. 1917 - 4 July 1919 |
[1] The Tenth Ministry was in effect are-organization of the Ninth with the addition of a number of Liberal and Labour Ministers. In addition to Borden, it was composed of 15 Conservatives, 9 Liberals and 1 Labour.
[2] See Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue.
[3] Sifton was also Minister of Inland Revenue. He was appointed Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue on 18 May 1918.
[4] The Department of Customs and the Department of Inland Revenue amalgamated and combined under the name of the Department of Customs and Inland Revenue and the office of Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue was created by Order in Council dated 18 May 1918, pursuant to the Public Service Rearrangement and Transfer of Duties Act. Statutory provision was not made for the office.
[5] Sifton was appointed Minister of Public Works on 3 Sept. 1919.
[6] The Prime Minister was ex officio the Secretary of State for External Affairs.
[7] The office of Minister of Immigration and Colonization was created effective 12 Oct. 1917 by Order in Council dated 29 Oct. 1917, pursuant to the War Measures Act. Statutory provision for the office was made by Statute 8-9 Geo. V, c. 3, and assented to on 12 Apr. 1918.
[8] See Note 11.
[9] See Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue.
[10] Sifton was also Minister of Customs. He was appointed Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue on 18 May 1918.
[11] The Minister of the Interior was ex officio the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs.
[12] The Minister of Marine and Fisheries was ex officio, the Minister of the Naval Service.
[13] Hazen, Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Ninth Ministry, resigned from office on 13 Oct. 1917. Since he could not be considered a member of the Tenth Ministry, the office is shown vacant for 12 Oct.
[14] The Department of Mines was presided over by the minister of another department who was to be named by the Governor in Council and who was to be called "The Minister of Mines". Until 31 Dec. 1919 the Secretary of State of Canada was ex officio the Minister of Mines, at which time the Minister of the Interior was named Minister of Mines.
[15] The Minister of the Naval Service was also the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.
[16] Statute 7-8 Geo. V, c. 35, assented to on 20 Sept. 1917, provided for the termination of the offices of Minister of the Overseas Military Forces, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary of Militia and Defence at the end of the session of Parliament in which the war, which had been declared on 4 Aug. 1914, ended. An Imperial Order in Council declared the war terminated as of 31 August 1921. However, on 20 Dec. 1919 the Governor in Council had approved an Order in Council which recognized that the war had in effect ceased to exist and provided for the repeal of all Orders in Council passed pursuant to the War Measures Act by the end of the next session of Parliament. That session of Parliament terminated on 1 July 1920, and as of that date the Government considered the Act creating these offices to be Spent.
[17] The Department of Health was created by Statute 9-10 Geo. V, c. 24, assented to on 6 June 1919, and was to be presided over by the minister of another department who was to be named by the Governor in Council. During the Tenth Ministry the President of the Privy Council was designated to be ex officio the minister to preside over the department.
[18] Ballantyne was appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries on 13 Oct. 1917.
[19] Sifton was appointed Secretary of State of Canada on 31 Dec. 1919.
[20] The Secretary of State of Canada was ex officio the Registrar General of Canada. See Note 14.
[21] Burrell was appointed Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue on 31 Dec. 1919.
[22] The office of Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment was created by Order in Council dated 21 Feb. 1918, pursuant to the War Measures Act. Statutory provision for the office was made by Statute 8-9 Geo. V, c. 42, and assented to on 24 May 1918.
[23] See also NOT OF THE CABINET, Solicitor General of Canada.
[24] Guthrie was appointed Minister of Militia and Defence on 24 Jan. 1920.
[25] Lougheed was appointed Minister of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment on 21 Feb. 1918.
[26] Robertson was appointed Minister of Labour on 8 Nov. 1918.
[27] Clark was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Militia and Defence on 7 Nov. 1918.
[28] McCurdy was appointed Parliamentary Secretary of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment on 23 Feb. 1918.
[29] The office of Parliamentary Secretary of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment was created by Order in Council dated 21 Feb. 1918. The terms of appointment were similar to those for the two parliamentary secretary offices established during the Ninth Ministry. Statute 8-9 Geo. V, c. 42, assented to on 24 May 1918, made statutory provision for the office, which was abolished by Statute 18-19 Geo. V, c. 39, assented to on 11 June 1928.
[30] See also THE MINISTRY, Solicitor General of Canada.
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