Government Houses in Canada
Building name Residents ' positions Location Notes
Rideau Hall Monarch of Canada and Governor General of Canada ( 1867- ) Ottawa Functioning residence
Citadelle of Quebec Monarch of Canada and Governor General of Canada ( 1872- ) Quebec City Functioning residence
Government House Governor of Nova Scotia ( circa 1800-1867 ) Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia ( 1867- ) Halifax Functioning residence
Government House Governor of New Brunswick ( 1828-1867 ) Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick ( 1867-1890 ; 1999- ) Fredericton Other uses 1896-1988 , reoccupied as official residence thereafter , now functioning residence
Government House Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba ( 1885- ) Winnipeg Functioning residence
Government House Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia ( 1959- ) Victoria Functioning residence
Fanningbank Governor of Prince Edward Island ( 1834-1873 ) Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island ( 1873- ) Charlottetown Functioning residence
Government House Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories ( 1889-1905 ) Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan ( 1905-1945 ) Regina Other uses 1945 - 1984 , now offices ( but not residence ) of Lt-Gov
Government House Governor of Newfoundland ( 1827-1949 ) Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador ( 1949- ) St. John 's Functioning residence
Taylor House ( 412 Main Street ) Commissioner of Yukon ( 2015- ) Whitehorse Functioning residence . Built in 1937 for Bill and Aline Taylor
Commissioners Residence - 2554 Iqaluit Commissioner of Nunavut ( 1999- ) Iqaluit Functioning residence
Present government houses
In Canada, Government House is a title given to the royal residences of the country's monarch and various viceroys (the governor general, the lieutenant governors, and territorial commissioners[a]). Though not universal, in most cases the title is also the building's sole name; for example, the sovereign's and governor general's principal residence in Ottawa is known as Government House only in formal contexts, being more generally referred to as Rideau Hall. The use of the term Government House is an inherited custom from the British Empire, where there were and are many government houses. There is currently no government house for the Lieutenant Governors of Ontario (repurposed in 1937 and demolished in 1961), Quebec (destroyed by fire in 1966), Alberta (closed in 1938 and repurchased and repurposed in 1964), or the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories. The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario has a suite within the Ontario Legislative Building.