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Canadian Prime Ministers Who Were Knighted

Until the 1919 Nickle Resolution, esteemed Canadians were permitted to receive honours (and titles) from His and Her Majesties of the United Kingdom. Can you name each Prime Minister who had received knighthoods?
As with all other knighted (male) citizens of the Commonwealth, knighted Canadians were/are entitled to use the honorific ‘Sir’
Political affiliation is represented by the colouring of the PM’s numeration
Including Prime Ministers who did not start their term with honours
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Sir John A. Macdonald
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Sir John Abbott
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Sir John Sparrow David Thompson
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Sir Mackenzie Bowell
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Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier
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Sir Robert Borden
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Apr 22, 2026
The Nickle Resolution did not explicitly ban Canadians from receiving knighthoods or other British honours, with the practice being briefly revived in the 1930s under 11th Prime Minister R.B. Bennett. Despite this, no future or past Prime Minister would receive chivalrous honours.

R.B. Bennett would later be elevated to the peerage as 1st Viscount Bennett, though he was never knighted.

Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada, was the only one of Canada’s first eight Prime Ministers to not have been conferred the honour of knighthood.

The only woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell, has not been dubbed a knight. Thus no Canadian Prime Ministers have been made Dames.