The current Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia is The Honourable Steven L. Point, OBC.

The Lieutenant Governor is the representative of Her Majesty, the Queen of Canada. All legislation passed by the Legislative Assembly must receive Royal Assent and requires the signature of the Lieutenant Governor. Click for more information about the history and role of the Lieutenant Governor in British Columbia.

Recent Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia are:   

2001 - 2007     Iona V. Campagnolo       
1995 - 2001     Garde Basil Gardom        
1988 - 1995     David See-Chai Lam

Click to read the biographies of the following former Lieutenant Governors:

1983 – 1988     Robert Gordon Rogers
1978 – 1983     Henry Pybus Bell-Irving (1913–2002)
1973 – 1978     Walter Steward Owen (1904–1981)
1968 – 1973     John Robert Nicholson (1901–1983)
1960 – 1968     George Randolph Pearkes (1888–1984)
1955 – 1960     Frank Mackenzie Ross (1897–1971)
1950 – 1955     Clarence Wallace (1894–1982)
1946 – 1950     Charles Arthur Banks (1885–1961)
1941 – 1946     William Culham Woodward (1885–1957)
1936 – 1941     Eric Werge Hamber (1880–1960)
1931 – 1936     John William Fordham Johnson (1866–1938)
1926 – 1931     Robert Randolph Bruce (1863–1942)
1920 – 1926     Walter Cameron Nichol (1866–1928)
1919 – 1920     Edward Gawler Prior (1853–1920)
1915 – 1919     Sir Francis Stillman Barnard (1856–1936)
1909 – 1914     Thomas Wilson Paterson
1906 – 1909     James Dunsmuir (1851–1920)
1900 – 1906     Sir Henry Gustave Joly De Lotbinière (1829–1908)
1897 – 1900     Thomas Robert McInnes (1840–1904)
1892 – 1897     Edgar Dewdney (1835–1916)
1887 – 1892     Hugh Nelson (1830–1903)
1881 – 1887     Clement Francis Cornwall (1836–1910)
1876 – 1881     Albert Norton Richard (1822–1897)
1871 – 1876     Sir Joseph William Trutch (1826–1904)