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Date of Appointment
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A
The Hon. Douglas Charles Abbott
1954-07-01
1973-12-22
The Hon. Rosalie Silberman Abella
2004-08-30
2021-06-30
The Rt. Hon. Francis Alexander Anglin
1909-02-23
1924-09-16
Footnote
1
1924-09-16
1933-02-27
The Hon. Louise Arbour
1999-09-15
2004-06-30
The Hon. John Douglas Armour
1902-11-21
1903-07-11
B
The Hon. Michel Bastarache
1997-09-30
2008-06-30
The Hon. Jean Beetz
1974-01-01
1988-11-09
The Hon. William Ian Corneil Binnie
1998-01-08
2011-10-20
The Hon. Louis-Philippe Brodeur
1911-08-11
1923-10-09
The Hon. Russell Brown
2015-08-31
2023-06-12
C
The Hon. Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon
1930-01-14
1939-12-25
The Rt. Hon. John Robert Cartwright
1949-12-22
1967-09-01
Footnote
1
1967-09-01
1970-03-22
The Hon. Louise Charron
2004-08-30
2011-08-29
The Hon. Julien Chouinard
1979-09-24
1987-02-06
The Hon. Peter deCarteret Cory
1989-02-01
1999-05-31
The Hon. Suzanne Côté
2014-12-01
The Hon. Oswald Smith Crocket
1932-09-21
1943-04-12
The Hon. Thomas Albert Cromwell
2008-12-22
2016-08-31
D
The Rt. Hon. Sir Louis Henry Davies
1901-09-25
1918-10-23
Footnote
1
1918-10-23
1924-05-01
The Hon. Henry Hague Davis
1935-01-31
1944-06-30
The Hon. Louis-Philippe de Grandpré
1974-01-01
1977-09-30
The Hon. Marie Deschamps
2002-08-07
2012-08-06
The Rt. Hon. Robert George Brian Dickson
1973-03-26
1984-04-18
Footnote
1
1984-04-18
1990-06-29
The Rt. Hon. Sir Lyman Poore Duff
1906-09-27
1933-03-17
Footnote
1
1933-03-17
1944-01-06
E
The Hon. James Wilfred Estey
1944-10-06
1956-01-22
The Hon. Willard Zebedee Estey
1977-09-29
1988-04-21
F
The Rt. Hon. Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux
1949-12-22
1970-03-23
Footnote
1
1970-03-23
1973-12-22
The Hon. Morris J. Fish
2003-08-05
2013-08-30
The Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Fitzpatrick
1906-06-04
Footnote
1
1918-10-20
The Hon. Télesphore Fournier
1875-09-30
1895-09-11
G
The Hon. Clément Gascon
2014-06-09
2019-09-14
The Hon. Désiré Girouard
1895-09-28
1911-03-22
The Hon. Charles Doherty Gonthier
1989-02-01
2003-07-31
The Hon. John Wellington Gwynne
1879-01-14
1902-01-07
H
The Hon. Emmett Matthew Hall
1962-11-23
1973-02-28
The Hon. William Alexander Henry
1875-09-30
1888-05-03
The Hon. Albert Blellock Hudson
1936-03-24
1947-01-06
The Hon. Frank Joseph Hughes
1933-03-17
1935-02-12
I
The Hon. Frank Iacobucci
1991-01-07
2004-06-30
The Hon. John Idington
1905-02-10
1927-03-30
J
The Hon. Mahmud Jamal
2021-07-01
The Hon. Wilfred Judson
1958-02-05
1977-07-19
K
The Hon. Andromache Karakatsanis
2011-10-21
The Hon. Nicholas Kasirer
2019-09-16
The Hon. Roy Lindsay Kellock
1944-10-03
1958-01-14
The Hon. Patrick Kerwin
1935-07-20
1954-07-01
Footnote
1
1954-07-01
1963-02-02
The Hon. Albert Clements Killam
1903-08-08
1905-02-05
The Hon. George Edwin King
1893-09-21
1901-05-08
L
The Hon. Gérard Vincent La Forest
1985-01-16
1997-09-29
The Rt. Hon. Antonio Lamer
1980-03-28
1990-07-01
Footnote
1
1990-07-01
2000-01-06
The Hon. John Henderson Lamont
1927-04-02
1936-03-10
The Rt. Hon. Bora Laskin
1970-03-19
1973-12-27
Footnote
1
1973-12-27
1984-03-26
The Hon. Gerald Eric Le Dain
1984-05-29
1988-11-29
The Hon. Louis LeBel
2000-01-07
2014-11-29
The Hon. Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
1987-04-15
2002-06-30
The Hon. Charles Holland Locke
1947-06-03
1962-09-15
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The Hon. James Maclennan
1905-10-05
1909-02-12
The Hon. John C. Major
1992-11-13
2005-12-24
The Hon. Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin
1924-01-30
1924-09-30
The Hon. Sheilah L. Martin
2017-12-18
The Hon. Ronald Martland
1958-01-15
1982-02-09
The Hon. William Rogers McIntyre
1979-01-01
1989-02-14
The Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin
1989-03-30
2000-01-07
Footnote
1
2000-01-07
2017-12-14
The Hon. Pierre-Basile Mignault
1918-10-25
1929-09-29
The Hon. David Mills
1902-02-08
1903-05-08
The Hon. Michael J. Moldaver
2011-10-21
2022-08-31
The Hon. Mary T. Moreau
2023-11-06
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The Hon. Wallace Nesbitt
1903-05-16
1905-10-03
The Hon. Edmund Leslie Newcombe
1924-09-16
1931-12-09
The Hon. Henry Grattan Nolan
1956-03-01
1957-07-08
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The Hon. Michelle O'Bonsawin
2022-09-01
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The Hon. Christopher Salmon Patterson
1888-10-27
1893-07-24
The Hon. Louis-Philippe Pigeon
1967-09-21
1980-02-07
The Hon. Yves Pratte
1977-10-01
1979-06-29
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The Hon. Ivan Cleveland Rand
1943-04-22
1959-04-26
The Hon. Sir William Buell Richards
1875-09-30
Footnote
1
1879-01-10
The Rt. Hon. Thibaudeau Rinfret
1924-10-01
1944-01-08
Footnote
1
1944-01-08
1954-06-21
The Hon. Roland Almon Ritchie
1959-05-05
1984-10-30
The Hon. Sir William Johnstone Ritchie
1875-09-30
1879-01-11
Footnote
1
1879-01-11
1892-09-25
The Hon. Marshall Rothstein
2006-03-01
2015-08-30
The Hon. Malcolm Rowe
2016-10-28
S
The Hon. Robert Sedgewick
1893-02-18
1906-08-04
The Hon. Robert Smith
1927-05-18
1933-12-06
The Hon. John Sopinka
1988-05-24
1997-11-24
The Hon. Wishart Flett Spence
1963-05-30
1978-12-28
The Hon. William Stevenson
1990-09-17
1992-06-04
The Rt. Hon. Sir Samuel Henry Strong
1875-09-30
1892-12-13
Footnote
1
1892-12-13
1902-11-17
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The Rt. Hon. Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau
1878-10-07
1902-11-21
Footnote
1
1902-11-21
1906-05-01
The Hon. Jean-Thomas Taschereau
1875-09-30
1878-10-06
The Rt. Hon. Robert Taschereau
1940-02-09
1963-04-22
Footnote
1
1963-04-22
1967-08-31
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The Rt. Hon. Richard Wagner
2012-10-05
2017-12-18
Footnote
1
2017-12-18
The Hon. Bertha Wilson
1982-03-04
1991-01-03
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