The position of Provincial Secretary was particularly important in Manitoba from 1870 to 1874, as that province's institutions were being established. The province had no Premier during this period, and its Lieutenant-Governor acted as the de facto leader of government. The early Provincial Secretaries (including Alfred Boyd and Henry Joseph Clarke) were the most prominent elected officials in the province, and are retrospectively regarded as Premiers in many modern sources. List of Provincial Secretaries Alfred Boyd 1870-1871 Marc-Amable Girard 1871-1872 Thomas Howard 1871-1872 Henry Joseph Clarke 1872-1874 Joseph Royal 1872-1874 Marc-Amable Girard 1874 John Norquay 1875-1876 Corydon Partlow Brown 1878-1879 Marc Amable Girard 1879-1881 Alphonse Alfred Clement Riviere 1881-1883 Alexander MacBeth Sutherland 1883-1884 David Henry Wilson 1884-1886 Corydon Partlow Brown 1886-1887 John Norquay 1886-1887 Joseph Burke 1887-1888 James Emile Pierre Prendergast 1888-1889 Daniel Dennis McLean 1889-1892 John Donald Cameron 1893-1896 Charles Julius Mickle 1895-1900 David Henry McFadden 1900-1907 Stanley William McInnis 1908 George Robson Coldwell KC 1907-1908 James Henry Howden 1908-1915 Rodmond Palen Roblin 1911-1913 William James Armstrong 1915-1922 Duncan Lloyd McLeod 1922-1923 Charles Reginald Lionel Cannon 1927 Donald Gordon McKenzie 1928-1929 Duncan Lloyd McLeod 1929-1935 John Bracken 1935-1939 John Stewart McDiarmid 1939-1946 Charles Edwin Greenlay 1946-1948 Wallace Conrad Miller 1948-1950 Charles Edwin Greenlay 1950-1953 Edmond Prefontaine 1953-1958 Marcel Boulic 1958-1959 John Benson Carroll 1959 Edward Gurney Vaux Evans 1959-1963 Maitland Steinkopf 1963-1966 Reference: References Government of Manitoba