Second Ministry
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Liberal[1]
7 November 1873 to 8 October 1878
Prime Minister
The Honourable Alexander Mackenzie[2]
The Ministry
Minister of Agriculture
Hon. Luc Letellier de St-Just Senator
7 Nov. 1873 - 14 Dec. 1876
Hon. Isaac Burpee Acting Minister
15 Dec. 1876 - 25 Jan. 1877
Hon. Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier Senator
26 Jan. 1877 - 8 Oct. 1878
Minister of Customs
Hon. Isaac Burpee
7 Nov. 1873 - 8 Oct. 1878
Minister of Finance
Hon. Richard John Cartwright
7 Nov. 1873 - 8 Oct. 1878
Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs [3]
Hon. David Laird
7 Nov. 1873 - 6 Oct.1876
Hon. Richard William Scott Senator - Acting Minister
7 Oct. 1876 - 23 Oct. 1876
Hon. David Mills
24 Oct. 1876 - 8 Oct. 1878
Minister of Inland Revenue
Hon. Télesphore Fournier
[4]7 Nov. 1873 - 7 July 1874
Hon. Félix Geoffrion
8 July 1874 - 8 Nov.1876
Hon. Toussaint Antoine Rodolphe Laflamme
[5]9 Nov. 1876 - 7 June 1877
Hon. Joseph Édouard Cauchon
8 June 1877 - 7 Oct.1877
Hon. Wilfrid Laurier
8 Oct. 1877 - 8 Oct. 1878
Minister of the Interior [6]
Hon. David Laird
7 Nov. 1873 - 6 Oct. 1876
Hon. Richard William Scott Senator - Acting Minister
7 Oct. 1876 - 23 Oct. 1876
Hon. David Mills
24 Oct. 1876 - 8 Oct. 1878
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Hon. Antoine-Aimé Dorion
7 Nov. 1873 - 31 May 1874
Hon. Sir Albert James Smith Acting Minister
1 June 1874 - 7 July 1874
Hon. Télesphore Fournier
[7]8 July 1874 - 18 May 1875
Hon. Dominick Edward Blake
[8]19 May 1875 - 7 June 1877
Hon. Toussaint Antoine Rodolphe Laflamme
8 June 1877 - 8 Oct. 1878
Minister of Marine and Fisheries
Hon. Sir Albert James Smith
7 Nov. 1873 - 8 Oct. 1878
Minister of Militia and Defence
Hon. William Ross
7 Nov. 1873 - 29 Sept. 1874
Hon. William Berrian Vail
30 Sept. 1874 - 20 Jan. 1878
Hon. Alfred Gilpin Jones
21 Jan. 1878 - 8 Oct. 1878
Postmaster General
Hon. Donald Alexander Macdonald
7 Nov.1873 - 17 May 1875
Vacant
18 May 1875
Hon. Télesphore Fournier
19 May 1875 - 7 Oct. 1875
Vacant
8 Oct. 1875
Hon. Lucius Seth Huntington
9 Oct. 1875 - 8 Oct.1878
President of the Privy Council
Vacant
7 Nov. 1873 - 19 Jan. 1874
Hon. Lucius Seth Huntington
[9]20 Jan. 1874 - 8 Oct. 1875
Vacant
9 Oct. 1875 - 6 Dec. 1875
Hon. Joseph Édouard Cauchon
[10]7 Dec. 1875 - 7 June 1877
Hon. Dominick Edward Blake
8 June 1877 - 17 Jan. 1878
Vacant
18 Jan. 1878 - 8 Oct. 1878
Minister of Public Works
Hon. Alexander Mackenzie
7 Nov. 1873 - 8 Oct. 1878
Receiver General
Hon. Thomas Coffin
7 Nov. 1873 - 8 Oct. 1878
Secretary of State of Canada[11]
Hon. David Christie Senator
7 Nov. 1873 - 8 Jan. 1874
Hon. Richard William Scott Senator
9 Jan. 1874 - 8 Oct.1878
Minister without Portfolio
Hon. Dominick Edward Blake
[12]7 Nov. 1873 - 13 Feb. 1874
Hon. Richard William Scott
[13]7 Nov. 1873 - 8 Jan. 1874
[1] On 5 Nov. 1873 Macdonald resigned and
the Governor General invited Mackenzie to form a Government. The Second Ministry assumed
office on 7 Nov. 1873.
[2] Mackenzie was also Minister of Public
Works.
[3] See Minister of the Interior.
[4] Fournier was appointed Minister of
Justice and Attorney General on 3 July 1874.
[5] Laflamme was appointed Minister of
Justice and Attorney General on 8 July 1877.
[6] The Minister of the Interior was ex
officio the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs.
[7] Fournier was appointed Postmaster
General on 19 May 1875.
[8] Blake was appointed President of the
Privy Council on 8 June 1877.
[9] Huntington was appointed Postmaster
General on 9 Oct. 1875.
[10] Cauchon was appointed Minister of
Inland Revenue on 8 June 1877.
[11] The Secretary of State of Canada
was ex officio the Registrar General of Canada.
[12] Blake resigned from the ministry on
13 Feb. 1874, but subsequently rejoined it as Minister of Justice and Attorney General on
19 May 1875.
[13] Scott was appointed Secretary of
State of Canada on 9 Jan. 1874.
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