List of joint premiers of the Province of Canada by time in office

This is a list of joint premiers of the Province of Canada in order of time served in office as joint premier, both as premier and as deputy. This list counts time during an election campaign as belonging to the preceding premier. When adding together days in non-consecutive terms, a month is taken to mean 30 days.


 * 1) Sir John A. Macdonald: 9 years, 0 months, 27 days
 * 2) William Draper: 5 years, 0 months, 25 days
 * 3) Robert Baldwin: 4 years, 9 months, 18 days
 * 4) Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine: 4 years, 9 months, 18 days
 * 5) Sir George-Étienne Cartier: 4 years, 5 months, 25 days
 * 6) Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché: 3 years, 11 months, 30 days
 * 7) Augustin-Norbert Morin: 3 years, 2 months, 30 days
 * 8) Sir Francis Hincks: 2 years, 11 months, 14 days
 * 9) Denis-Benjamin Viger: 2 years, 6 months, 5 days
 * 10) John Sandfield Macdonald: 2 years, 0 months, 6 days
 * 11) Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau: 1 year, 11 months
 * 12) Denis-Benjamin Papineau: 1 year, 8 months, 23 days
 * 13) Sir Allan Napier MacNab: 1 year, 8 months, 13 days
 * 14) Antoine-Aimé Dorion: 1 year, 0 months, 19 days
 * 15) Louis-Victor Sicotte: 11 months, 21 days
 * 16) Samuel Harrison: 11 months, 7 days
 * 17) Henry Sherwood: 9 months, 12 days
 * 18) Charles Richard Ogden: 8 months, 2 days
 * 19) George Brown: 4 days