List of 1985 Canadian incumbents explained

Crown

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé

Cabinet

• Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney
• Deputy Prime Minister - Erik Nielsen
• Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson
• Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark
• Secretary of State for Canada - Walter McLean then Benoît Bouchard
• Minister of National Defence - Robert Coates then Erik Nielsen
• Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp
• Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Sinclair Stevens
• Minister of the Environment - Suzanne Blais-Grenier then Thomas McMillan
• Minister of Justice - John Crosbie
• Minister of Transport - Don Mazankowski
• Minister of Communications - Marcel Masse then Benoît Bouchard then Marcel Masse
• Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - John Fraser then Erik Nielsen (acting) then Tom Siddon
• Minister of Agriculture - John Wise
• Minister of Public Works - Roch LaSalle
• Minister of Employment and Immigration - Flora MacDonald
• Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - David Crombie
• Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Pat Carney
• Minister of State (Forestry) - Gerald Merrithew

Parliament

See: 33rd Canadian parliament

Party leaders

• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Brian Mulroney
• Liberal Party of Canada - John Turner
• New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent

Supreme Court Justices

• Chief Justice

Brian Dickson

• William McIntyre
• Bertha Wilson
• Antonio Lamer
• Gérard V. La Forest (sworn in January 16)
• John Sopinka
• Jean Beetz
• Julien Chouinard
• Gerald Eric Le Dain

Other

• Speaker of the House of Commons - John William Bosley
• Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey
• Chief of the Defence Staff - General G.C.E. Thériault

Provinces

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed then Don Getty
• Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba - Howard Pawley
• Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
• Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford
• Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
• Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis then Frank Miller then David Peterson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - James Lee
• Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque then Pierre-Marc Johnson then Robert Bourassa
• Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine

Lieutenant-governors

• Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton then Helen Hunley
• Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Robert Gordon Rogers
• Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Pearl McGonigal
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - George F.G. Stanley
• Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - William Anthony Paddon
• Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia -Alan Abraham
• Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - John Black Aird then Lincoln Alexander
• Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron then Robert Lloyd George MacPhail
• Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne
• Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Sylvia Fedoruk

Mayors

• Toronto - Art Eggleton
• Montreal - Jean Drapeau
• Vancouver - Michael Harcourt
• Ottawa - Marion Dewar then James A. Durrell

Religious leaders

• Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec - Cardinal Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon
• Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Paul Grégoire
• Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop John Michael Sherlock
• Moderator of the United Church of Canada - Robert F. Smith

See also

• 1984 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 1985
• 1986 Canadian incumbents
• Governmental leaders in 1985
• Canadian incumbents by year