Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)

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Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Ministry
Federal

Incumbent: Loyola Hearn
Style:	The Honourable
Appointed by:	Michaëlle Jean as Governor General of Canada
First :	Roméo LeBlanc
Formation:	April 2, 1979


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The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (French: Ministre des Pêches et des Océans) is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for supervising the fishing industry and administrating all navigable waterways in the country. The minister is the head of the federal government's marine department, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, often referred to by its older (and technical) name, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans or DFO. Previously there had been a "Minister of Marine and Fisheries" from 1867 to 1930, a "Minister of Fisheries" from 1930 to 1969 and a "Minister of Forestry and Fisheries" until 1971.

The current minister is Loyola Hearn.

In addition to the Department, the Minister is also responsible for the Canadian Coast Guard and the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation.

Noted fisheries ministers of the past have included Roméo LeBlanc, John Crosbie and Brian Tobin.

1 Ministers

[edit] Ministers

[edit] Marine and Fisheries (1867 - 1930)

1.	Peter Mitchell	July 1, 1867 - November 5, 1873	Cabinet of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
2.	Sir Albert James Smith	November 7, 1873 - October 8, 1878	Cabinet of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie
3.	James Colledge Pope	October 19, 1878 - July 9, 1882	Cabinet of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
4.	Archibald Woodbury McLelan	July 10, 1882 - December 9, 1885
5.	George Eulas Foster	December 10, 1885 - May 28, 1888
6.	Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper	June 1, 1888 - June 6, 1891
		June 16, 1891 - November 24, 1892	Cabinet of Prime Minister John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
		December 5, 1892 - December 12, 1894	Cabinet of Prime Minister John Sparrow David Thompson
7.	John Costigan	December 21, 1894 - April 27, 1896	Cabinet of Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell
7.	John Costigan	May 1, 1896 - July 8, 1896	Cabinet of Prime Minister Charles Tupper
8.	Sir Louis Henry Davies	July 13, 1896 - September 24, 1901	Cabinet of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier
9.	James Sutherland	January 15, 1902 - November 10, 1902
10.	Joseph Raymond Fournier Préfontaine	November 11, 1902 - January 5, 1905
*	Sir Wilfrid Laurier (acting)	January 6, 1906 - February 5, 1906
11.	Louis-Philippe Brodeur	February 6, 1906 - August 10, 1911
12.	Rodolphe Lemieux	August 11, 1911 - October 6, 1911
13.	John Douglas Hazen	October 10, 1911 - October 12, 1917	Cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Borden
14.	Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne	October 13, 1917 - July 10, 1920	Cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Borden
14.	Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne	July 10, 1920 - December 29, 1921	Cabinet of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
15.	Ernest Lapointe	December 29, 1921 - January 29, 1924	Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
16.	Pierre Joseph Arthur Cardin	January 30, 1924 - June 28, 1926	Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
*	William Anderson Black (acting)	June 29, 1926 - July 12, 1926	Cabinet of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
17.	Esioff-Léon Patenaude	July 13, 1926 - September 25, 1926	Cabinet of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
	Pierre Joseph Arthur Cardin (second time)	September 25, 1926 - June 13, 1930	Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

[edit] Fisheries (1930 - 1969)

1.	Cyrus Macmillan	June 17, 1930 - August 7, 1930	Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
2.	Edgar Nelson Rhodes	August 7, 1930 - February 2, 1932	Cabinet of Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett
3.	Alfred Duranleau (acting minister)	February 2, 1932 - November 16, 1934
4.	Grote Stirling (acting minister)	November 17, 1934 - August 13, 1935
5.	William Gordon Ernst	August 14, 1935 - October 23, 1935
6.	Joseph-Enoil Michaud	October 23, 1935 - October 5, 1942	Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
7.	Ernest Bertrand	October 7, 1942 - August 28, 1945
8.	Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges	August 30, 1945 - August 10, 1947
9.	Ernest Bertrand (acting minister)	August 14, 1947 - September 1, 1947
10.	Milton Fowler Gregg	September 2, 1947 - January 18, 1948
11.	James Angus MacKinnon	January 19, 1948 - June 10, 1948
12.	Robert Wellington Mayhew	June 11, 1948 - November 15, 1948
13.	Robert Wellington Mayhew	November 15, 1948 - October 14, 1952	Cabinet of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent
14.	James Sinclair	October 15, 1952 - June 21, 1957	Cabinet of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent
15.	John Angus MacLean	June 21, 1957 - April 22, 1963	Cabinet of Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker
16.	Hédard Robichaud	April 22, 1963 - April 20, 1968	Cabinet of Prime Minister Lester Pearson
16.	Hédard Robichaud	April 20, 1968 - July 5, 1968	Cabinet of Prime Minister Trudeau
18.	Jack Davis	July 6, 1968 - March 31, 1969	Cabinet of Prime Minister Lester Pearson

[edit] Fisheries and Oceans (1979 - present)

1.	Roméo LeBlanc	April 2, 1979 - June 3, 1979	Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
2.	James McGrath	June 4, 1979 - March 2, 1980	Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark
	Roméo LeBlanc (2nd time)	March 3, 1980 - September 29, 1982	Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
3.	Pierre de Bané	September 30, 1982 - June 29, 1984	Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
4.	Herb Breau	June 30, 1984 - September 16, 1984	Cabinet of Prime Minister John Napier Turner
5.	John Fraser	September 17, 1984 - September 23, 1985	Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
*	Erik Nielsen (Acting)	September 23, 1985 - November 19, 1985
6.	Tom Siddon	November 20, 1985 - February 22, 1990
7.	Bernard Valcourt	February 23, 1990 - April 20, 1991
8.	John Crosbie	April 21, 1991 - June 24, 1993
9.	Ross Reid	June 25, 1993 - November 3, 1993	Cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell
10.	Brian Tobin	November 4, 1993 - January 8, 1996	Cabinet of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
*	David Dingwall (Acting)	January 9, 1996 - January 24, 1996
11.	Fred Mifflin	January 25, 1996 - June 10, 1997
12.	David Anderson	June 11, 1997 - August 2, 1999
13.	Herb Dhaliwal	August 3, 1999 - January 14, 2002
14.	Robert Thibault	January 15, 2002 - December 11, 2003
15.	Geoff Regan	December 12, 2003 - February 5, 2006	Cabinet of Prime Minister Paul Martin
16.	Loyola Hearn	February 6, 2006	Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper