List of Law Clerks and Parliamentary Counsel of the Canadian House of Commons

This is a list of Law Clerks and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons of Canada.

  • Philippe Dufresne - February 2015 -
  • Richard Denis (acting) – 2014 – 2015
  • Richard Fujarczuk - May 2013 - February 2014
  • Richard Denis (acting) – 2012– 2013
  • Robert R. Walsh – 1999 – 2012
  • Marcel R. Pelletier – 1983 – 1991
  • Joseph Maingot – 1971 – 1982
  • Paul Maurice Ollivier[1] – 1952 – 1970
  • Arthur Angus Fraser – 1938 – 1952
  • Arthur Gordon Troop – 1926 – 1936
  • Paul Maurice Ollivier – 1925 – 1952
  • Arthur Gordon Troop – 1924 – 1925
  • Joseph K. Foran – 1923 – 1924
  • Francis A. Gisborne – 1914 – 1922
  • A.H. O'Brien – 1909 – 1914
  • Frederick Augustus McCord – 1890 – 1908
  • William Wilson – 1887 – 1890
  • Gustavus W. Wicksteed – 1867 – 1887

Notes

  1. Although Paul Maurice Ollivier’s appointment date is 1925, he was acting as Joint Law Clerk during the 1924 session to assist Arthur Gordon Troop (letter from the Clerk, Mr. Northrup, to the Civil Service Commission, 25 November 1924). Paul Maurice Ollivier was Joint Law Clerk with Arthur Gordon Troop, then with Arthur Angus Fraser, and as Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel up to the end of 1970, making him the longest-serving Law Clerk in the history of the House of Commons.

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