List of Canadian ambassadors and high commissioners to Ireland

This is a list of Canadian ambassadors and high commissioners to Ireland.

From 1928 to 1949 Canada sent High Commissioners to the Irish Free State, which was a fellow member of the Commonwealth at the time.

With the passage of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948, Ireland left the Commonwealth, and Canada and Ireland have exchanged ambassadors since.

Canadian Embassy and Official Residence

The Canadian Embassy is located at 7-8 Wilton Terrace in Dublin near St Stephen's Green.

The ambassador lives at 22 Oakley Road, Ranelagh a rowhouse in the The Triangle area. From 1954 to 2008 the ambassador lived at Strathmore (Killiney).

Canadian High Commissioner to the Irish Free State

From 1928 to 1959, while Ireland was a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Dominion of Canada and the Irish Free State exchanged High Commissioners.

High Commissioner	Start of Term	End of Term
John Hall Kelly	December 28, 1929	March 9, 1941	^{[NB 1]}^{[NB 2]}
John Doherty Kearney	July 31, 1941
Merchant M. Mahoney	November 19, 1945	May 4, 1946	^{[NB 1]}
Edward Joseph Garland	May 4, 1946	March 19, 1947
Hon. William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon	October 24, 1946	June 30, 1949	^{[NB 3]}

Canadian Ambassador to Ireland

From 1949 onwards, after Ireland left the Commonwealth, Canada and the Republic of Ireland have exchanged ambassadors.

Ambassador	Start of Term	End of Term
David Moffat Johnson	July 17, 1949	December 1949	^{[NB 3]}
Hon. William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon	January 23, 1950	April 20, 1955
Joseph Marc Antoine Jean Chapdelaine	January 23, 1950	July 17, 1950	^{[NB 4]}
Alfred Rive	August 16, 1955	July 7, 1963
Paul Vernon McLane	July 7, 1963	March 29, 1965	^{[NB 4]}
Evan William Thistle Gill	November 6, 1964	March 22, 1968
James Joachim McCardle	October 8, 1968
Harold Morton Maddick	May 25, 1972	August 31, 1976
Albert Edgar Ritchie	June 29, 1976	November 7, 1980
Alan William Sullivan	February 12, 1981
Hon. Edgar J. Benson	September 3, 1982
Gustav Gad Rezek	1985	May 12, 1986	^{[NB 4]}
Dennis McDermott	January 28, 1986	May 24, 1989
Michael A. Wadsworth	August 24, 1989	October 22, 1994
Barry Michael Mawhinney	July 12, 1994	October 4, 1996
Michael B. Phillips	September 24, 1996	September 11, 1998
Ron Irwin	September 4, 1998
William Gusen	October 10, 2001	August 1, 2002	^{[NB 4]}
Mark Moher	July 2, 2002	August 8, 2006
Christopher William Westdal	September 20, 2006	December 7, 2006
Carl Schwenger	December 7, 2006	August 30, 2007	^{[NB 4]}
Pat Binns	August 30, 2007	November 19, 2010	^{[NB 5]}
Loyola Hearn	November 19, 2010	January 19, 2015	^{[NB 5]}
Kevin Vickers	January 19, 2015		^[1]^{[NB 5]}

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 Died in office
1 2 3 4 Ambassador Kelly is the only Canadian ambassador to be buried in Ireland, where he died as High Commissioner.
1 2 Canada severed its formal association with Ireland on 17 April 1949. The Canadian Embassy in the Republic of Ireland was established on 17 July 1949, with representatives having the rank of Ambassador.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Chargé d'Affaires a.i.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Ambassadors Binns, Hearn and Vickers are a few Irish-Canadians whom have had the honour of serving the post.

References

↑ "Kevin Vickers named ambassador to Ireland". CBC News. 8 January 2015.

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