List of 1979 Canadian incumbents
Introduction
Crown *Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II
Federal government *Governor General - Jules Léger then Edward Richard Schreyer===Cabinet===*Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau then Joe Clark*Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen then ''Vacant'' *Minister of Finance - Jean Chrétien then John Crosbie *Secretary of State for External Affairs - Don Jamieson then Flora McDonald *Secretary of State for Canada - John Roberts then David MacDonald *Minister of the Environment - Roméo LeBlanc then Leonard Marchand then John Allen Fraser*Minister of Justice - Marc Lalonde then Jacques Flynn*Minister of National Defence - Barney Danson then Allan McKinnon *Minister of Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin then David Edward Crombie *Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Marcel Lessard then ''Vacant'' then Elmer MacKay*Minister of Transport - Otto Lang then Don Mazankowski*Minister of Communications - Jeanne Sauvé then David MacDonald*Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc then James McGrath*Minister of Public Works - André Ouellet then Erik Nielsen*Minister of Employment and Immigration - Bud Cullen then Ron Atkey*Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - James Hugh Faulkner then Jake Epp*Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Alastair Gillespie then Ramon John Hnatyshyn
Parliament See: 31st Canadian parliament===Party leaders===*Liberal Party of Canada - Pierre Trudeau*New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent*Progressive Conservative Party - Joe Clark===Supreme Court Justices===*Chief Justice: Bora Laskin*William McIntyre*Ronald Martland*Louis-Philippe Pigeon*Roland Almon Ritchie*Willard Estey*Jean Beetz*Julien Chouinard*Brian Dickson===Other===*Speaker of the House of Commons - James Jerome*Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey*Chief of the Defence Staff - Air General Robert Hilborn Falls
Provinces ===Premiers===*Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed*Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett*Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon*Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield*Premier of Newfoundland - Frank Moores then Brian Peckford*Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan*Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis*Premier of Prince Edward Island - Bennett Campbell then Angus MacLean*Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque*Premier of Saskatchewan - Allan Blakeney===Lieutenant-governors===*Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton*Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving*Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Francis Lawrence Jobin*Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Robichaud*Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter*Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner*Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Pauline Mills McGibbon*Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Gordon Lockhart Bennett*Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté*Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh
Mayors *Toronto - John Sewell*Montreal - Jean Drapeau*Vancouver - Jack Volrich*Ottawa - Marion Dewar
See also *Events in Canada in 1979* Governmental leaders in 1979* Canadian incumbents by year