Presidents of the University of Ottawa
1848-1849 Édouard Chevalier, o.m.i.
1849-1850 Jean-François Allard, o.m.i.
1850-1851 Napoléon Migneault, o.m.i.
1851-1853 Augustin Gaudet, o.m.i.
1853-1864 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, o.m.i.
1864-1867 Timothy Ryan, o.m.i.
1867-1874 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, o.m.i.
1874-1877 Antoine Paillier, o.m.i.
1877-1886 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, o.m.i.
1886 Philémon Provost, o.m.i.
1886-1887 Antoine Paillier, o.m.i.
1887-1889 Jean-Marie Fayard, o.m.i.
1889-1898 James M. McGuckin, o.m.i.
1898-1901 Henri-Antoine Constantineau, o.m.i.
1901-1905 Joseph-Édouard Émery, o.m.i.
1905-1911 William Murphy, o.m.i.
1911-1914 Adrien-Bruno Roy, o.m.i.
1914-1915 Henri Gervais, o.m.i.
1915-1921 Louis Rhéaume, o.m.i.
1921-1927 François-Xavier Marcotte, o.m.i.
1927-1930 Uldéric Robert, o.m.i.
1930-1936 Gilles Marchand, o.m.i.
1936-1942 Joseph Hébert, o.m.i.
1942-1946 Philippe Cornellier, o.m.i.
1946-1952 Jean-Charles Laframboise, o.m.i.
1952-1958 Rodrigue Normandin, o.m.i.
1958-1964 Henri F. Légaré, o.m.i.
1964-1984 Roger Guindon, o.m.i.
1984-1990 Antoine D'Iorio
1990-2001 Marcel Hamelin
2001-2008 Gilles G. Patry
2008- Allan Rock
The title «rector» was first used in 1889 the year the University
received a pontifical charter.