About the Court
Judges of the Court
Current and Former Puisne Judges
| Names of Judges | Date of
Appointment |
Date of
Departure |
|---|---|---|
| Hon. William Johnstone Ritchie | 1875-09-30 -- | 1879-01-11* |
| Hon. Samuel Henry Strong | 1875-09-30 -- | 1892-12-13* |
| Hon. Jean-Thomas Taschereau | 1875-09-30 -- | 1878-10-06 |
| Hon. Télesphore Fournier | 1875-09-30 -- | 1895-09-12 |
| Hon. William Alexander Henry | 1875-09-30 -- | 1888-05-03 |
| Hon. Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau | 1878-10-07 -- | 1902-11-21* |
| Hon. John Wellington Gwynne | 1879-01-14 -- | 1902-01-07 |
| Hon. Christopher Salmon Patterson | 1888-10-27 -- | 1893-07-24 |
| Hon. Robert Sedgewick | 1893-02-18 -- | 1906-08-04 |
| Hon. George Edwin King | 1893-09-21 -- | 1901-05-08 |
| Hon. Désiré Girouard | 1895-09-28 -- | 1911-03-22 |
| Hon. Sir Louis Henry Davies | 1901-09-25 -- | 1918-10-23* |
| Hon. David Mills | 1902-02-08 -- | 1903-05-08 |
| Hon. John Douglas Armour | 1902-11-21 -- | 1903-07-11 |
| Hon. Wallace Nesbitt | 1903-05-16 -- | 1905-10-04 |
| Hon. Albert Clements Killam | 1903-08-08 -- | 1905-02-06 |
| Hon. John Idington | 1905-02-10 -- | 1927-03-31 |
| Hon. James Maclennan | 1905-10-05 -- | 1909-02-13 |
| Hon. Lyman Poore Duff | 1906-09-27 -- | 1933-03-17* |
| Hon. Francis Alexander Anglin | 1909-02-23 -- | 1924-09-16* |
| Hon. Louis-Philippe Brodeur | 1911-08-11 -- | 1923-10-10 |
| Hon. Pierre-Basile Mignault | 1918-10-25 -- | 1929-09-30 |
| Hon. Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin | 1924-01-30 -- | 1924-10-01 |
| Hon. Edmund Leslie Newcombe | 1924-09-16 -- | 1931-12-09 |
| Hon. Thibaudeau Rinfret | 1924-10-01 -- | 1944-01-08* |
| Hon. John Henderson Lamont | 1927-04-02 -- | 1936-03-10 |
| Hon. Robert Smith | 1927-05-18 -- | 1933-12-07 |
| Hon. Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon | 1930-01-14 -- | 1939-12-25 |
| Hon. Oswald Smith Crocket | 1932-09-21 -- | 1943-04-13 |
| Hon. Frank Joseph Hughes | 1933-03-17 -- | 1935-02-13 |
| Hon. Henry Hague Davis | 1935-01-31 -- | 1944-06-30 |
| Hon. Patrick Kerwin | 1935-07-20 -- | 1954-07-01* |
| Hon. Albert Blellock Hudson | 1936-03-24 -- | 1947-01-06 |
| Hon. Robert Taschereau | 1940-02-09 -- | 1963-04-22* |
| Hon. Ivan Cleveland Rand | 1943-04-22 -- | 1959-04-27 |
| Hon. Roy Lindsay Kellock | 1944-10-03 -- | 1958-01-15 |
| Hon. James Wilfred Estey | 1944-10-06 -- | 1956-01-22 |
| Hon. Charles Holland Locke | 1947-06-03 -- | 1962-09-16 |
| Hon. John Robert Cartwright | 1949-12-22 -- | 1967-09-01* |
| Hon. Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux | 1949-12-22 -- | 1970-03-23* |
| Hon. Douglas Charles Abbott | 1954-07-01 -- | 1973-12-23 |
| Hon. Henry Grattan Nolan | 1956-03-01 -- | 1957-07-08 |
| Hon. Ronald Martland | 1958-01-15 -- | 1982-02-10 |
| Hon. Wilfred Judson | 1958-02-05 -- | 1977-07-20 |
| Hon. Roland Almon Ritchie | 1959-05-05 -- | 1984-10-31 |
| Hon. Emmett Matthew Hall | 1962-11-23 -- | 1973-03-01 |
| Hon. Wishart Flett Spence | 1963-05-30 -- | 1978-12-29 |
| Hon. Louis-Philippe Pigeon | 1967-09-21 -- | 1980-02-08 |
| Hon. Bora Laskin | 1970-03-19-- | 1973-12-27* |
| Hon. Robert George Brian Dickson | 1973-03-26 -- | 1984-04-18* |
| Hon. Jean Beetz | 1974-01-01 -- | 1988-11-10 |
| Hon. Louis-Philippe de Grandpré | 1974-01-01-- | 1977-10-01 |
| Hon. Willard Zebedee Estey | 1977-09-29 -- | 1988-04-22 |
| Hon. Yves Pratte | 1977-10-01 -- | 1979-06-30 |
| Hon. William Rogers McIntyre | 1979-01-01 -- | 1989-02-15 |
| Hon. Julien Chouinard | 1979-09-24 -- | 1987-02-06 |
| Hon. Antonio Lamer | 1980-03-28 -- | 1990-07-01* |
| Hon. Bertha Wilson | 1982-03-04 -- | 1991-01-04 |
| Hon. Gerald Eric Le Dain | 1984-05-29 -- | 1988-11-30 |
| Hon. Gérard V. La Forest | 1985-01-16 -- | 1997-09-30 |
| Hon. Claire L'Heureux-Dubé | 1987-04-15 -- | 2002-07-01 |
| Hon. John Sopinka | 1988-05-24 -- | 1997-11-24 |
| Hon. Charles Doherty Gonthier | 1989-02-01 -- | 2003-07-31 |
| Hon. Peter deCarteret Cory | 1989-02-01 -- | 1999-06-01 |
| Hon. Beverley McLachlin | 1989-03-30 -- | 2000-01-07* |
| Hon. William Stevenson | 1990-09-17 -- | 1992-06-05 |
| Hon. Frank Iacobucci | 1991-01-07 -- | 2004-06-30 |
| Hon. John C. Major | 1992-11-13 -- | 2005-12-25 |
| Hon. Michel Bastarache | 1997-09-30 -- | 2008-06-30 |
| Hon. William Ian Corneil Binnie | 1998-01-08 -- | 2011-10-20 |
| Hon. Louise Arbour | 1999-09-15 -- | 2004-06-30 |
| Hon. Louis LeBel | 2000-01-07 | |
| Hon. Marie Deschamps | 2002-08-07 | 2012-08-07 |
| Hon. Morris J. Fish | 2003-08-05 | |
| Hon. Rosalie Silberman Abella | 2004-08-30 | |
| Hon. Louise Charron | 2004-08-30 -- | 2011-08-30 |
| Hon. Marshall Rothstein | 2006-03-01 | |
| Hon. Thomas Albert Cromwell | 2008-12-22 | |
| Hon. Michael J. Moldaver | 2011-10-21 | |
| Hon. Andromache Karakatsanis | 2011-10-21 | |
| Hon. Richard Wagner | 2012-10-05 | |
* Date of appointment as Chief Justice.