List of all RCMP Commissioners


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Dates of Office

Commissioner

1 September 25, 1873 - October 17, 1873 Lieutenant-Colonel W. Osborne Smith
2 October 18, 1873 - July 21, 1876 George Arthur French
3 July 22, 1876 - October 31, 1880 James Farquharson Macleod, C.M.G.
4 November 1, 1880 - March 31, 1886 Acheson Gosford Irvine
5 April 1, 1886 - July 31, 1900 Lawrence William Herchmer
6 August 1, 1900 - March 31, 1923 Aylesworth Bowen Perry, C.M.G.
7 April 1, 1923 - July 31, 1931 Cortlandt Starnes
8 August 1, 1931 - March 5, 1938 Sir James Howden MacBrien, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
9 March 6, 1938 - April 30, 1951 Stuart Taylor Wood, C.M.G.
10 May 1, 1951 - March 31, 1959 Leonard Hanson Nicholson, M.B.E.
11 April 1, 1959 - March 31, 1960 Charles Edward Rivett-Carnac
12 April 1, 1960 - October 31, 1963 Clifford Walter Harvison
13 November 1, 1963 - August 14, 1967 George Brinton McClellan
14 August 15, 1967 - September 30, 1969 Malcolm Francis Aylesworth Lindsay
15 October 1, 1969 - December 28, 1973 William Leonard Higgitt
16 December 29, 1973 - August 31, 1977 Maurice Jean Nadon
17 September 1, 1977 - August 31, 1987 Robert Henry Simmonds, O.C.
18 September 1, 1987 - June 24, 1994 Norman Inkster, O.C.
19 June 25, 1994 - September 1, 2000 Philip Murray
20 September 1, 2000 - December 15, 2006 Giuliano (Zack) Zaccardelli
21 December 15, 2006 - July 16, 2007 Bev Busson, C.O.M., O.B.C.
22 July 16, 2007- William J. Elliott
Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police