Incumbents Crown. Monarch – Elizabeth II; Federal government. Governor General – Jules Léger; Prime Minister – Pierre Trudeau; Chief Justice – Bora Laskin (); Parliament – 30th; Provincial governments Lieutenant governors. Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Ralph Steinhauer; Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Walter Stewart Owen; Lieutenant Governor of …

Post-Confederation Canada (1867–1914) is history of Canada from the formation of the Dominion to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Canada had a population of 3.5 million, residing in the large expanse from Cape Breton to just beyond the Great Lakes, usually within a hundred miles or so of the Canada–United States border.One in three Canadians was French, and about …