List of state and official visits by Canada

The following is a list of state and official visits made by Canada since the country's Confederation in 1867. These trips consist of either the monarch or a representative—the governor general, a lieutenant governor, or another member of the royal family—visiting a foreign country in an official capacity, either representing the Canadian people in a full state visit or simply in ceremonies related to Canada abroad. In some cases, such as royal weddings in the United Kingdom or D-Day commemoration ceremonies in France, the Canadian monarch and/or one or more other members of the Royal Family and the governor general will be present together.

Map of state and official visits in this list

Visits

• 
  King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the Canadian pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair
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  Elizabeth II, Pierre Trudeau, the Duke of Edinburgh, and François and Danielle Mitterrand at the Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France, 1984
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  Governor General Michaëlle Jean with President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in Brasília, Brazil, 2007
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  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, for the 65th anniversary of D-Day, 2009

1860s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
United States of America		Governor General the Viscount Monck	President Andrew Johnson	Official[1]

1920s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
United States of America	1927	Governor General the Viscount Willingdon	President Calvin Coolidge	State[1]

1930s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
France	26 July 1936	King Edward VIII	President Albert Lebrun	Official[2][3][4]
United States of America	1937	Governor General the Lord Tweedsmuir	President Franklin D. Roosevelt	State[5]
	7–11 June 1939	King George VI		State[6][7][8]
Belgium	1939		King Leopold III	Official[9]

1940s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
United States of America	1947	Governor General the Viscount Alexander of Tunis	President Harry S. Truman	State[5][10]
Brazil	June 1948		President Eurico Gaspar Dutra	State[5][10]

1950s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
United States of America	1 November 1951	Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh	President Harry S. Truman	Official[11][12]
	17 October 1957	Queen Elizabeth II	President Dwight David Eisenhower	State[8][13][14]
	26 June 1959		President Dwight D. Eisenhower	Official
	6 July 1959		Governor William Stratton	State[8][15][16]

1970s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
Trinidad and Tobago	1971	Governor General Roland Michener	Governor-General Solomon Hochoy	Official
The Netherlands	April 1971		Queen Juliana	State
Iran	October 1971		Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Official

1980s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
Norway	June 1981	Governor General Edward Schreyer	King Olav V	State[17]
Sweden	June 1981		King Carl XVI Gustaf	State[17]
Denmark	June 1981		Queen Margrethe II	State[17]
Iceland	June 1981		President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir	State[17]
West Germany	1982		President Karl Carstens	State[18]
Italy		Governor General Jeanne Sauvé	President Francesco Cossiga	State[19]
Vatican City			Pope John Paul II	State[19]
France	6 June 1984	Queen Elizabeth II	President François Mitterrand	Official[20]
China	March 1987	Governor General Jeanne Sauvé	President Li Xiannian	State[19][21]
Thailand	27 March-1 April 1987		King Bhumibol Adulyadej	State[19][22][23]
France			President François Mitterrand	State[19][22]
Uruguay	1989		President Julio María Sanguinetti	State[19][24]
Brazil	1989		President José Sarney	State[19][24]

1990s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
Portugal		Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn		State[24]
Ukraine			President Leonid Kuchma	State[25]
Hungary				State[24]
France	6 June 1994		President François Mitterrand	Official[20]
China	April 1994			State[21][24]
South Korea				State[24]
Czech Republic	1996	Governor General Roméo LeBlanc	President Václav Havel	State[26]
The Netherlands	1996		Queen Beatrix	State[26]
Austria				[24]
France	1996		President Jacques Chirac	Official[26]
France	1997		President Jacques Chirac	Official[26]
Guyana	1997		President Sam Hinds	Official[26]
Mexico	1998		President Ernesto Zedillo	Official[26]
Brazil	1998		President Fernando Henrique Cardoso	Official[26]
Argentina	1998		President Carlos Menem	Official[26]
Chile	1998		President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle	Official[26]
India	1998		President K. R. Narayanan	State[26]
Pakistan	1998		President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar	State[26]
United Arab Emirates	1998		President Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan	Official[26]
Côte d'Ivoire	1999		President Henri Konan Bédié	State[26]
Tanzania	1999		President Benjamin Mkapa	State[26]
Mali	1999		President Alpha Oumar Konaré	State[26]
Morocco	1999		King Hassan II	State[26]
Senegal	1999		President Abdou Diouf	Official[26]
Morocco	1999		King Mohammed VI	Official[26]

2000s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
Argentina	May 2001	Governor General Adrienne Clarkson	President Fernando de la Rúa	State[27]
Chile	May 2001		President Ricardo Lagos Escobar	State[27]
Germany	22–28 October 2001		President Johannes Rau	State[28]
Russia	September 2003		President Vladimir Putin	State[29]
Finland	2003		President Tarja Halonen	State[29]
Iceland	October 2003		President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	State[29]
France	6 June 2004	Queen Elizabeth II Governor General Adrienne Clarkson Prince Charles, Prince of Wales	President Jacques Chirac	Official[30][31]
France	29–30 October 2005	Governor General Michaëlle Jean	President Jacques Chirac	Official[32]
Italy	24–27 February 2006		President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	Official[33]
Vatican City	27 February 2006		Pope Benedict XVI	Official[33]
Chile	11 March 2006		President Michelle Bachelet	Official[32]
Algeria	19–22 November 2006		President Abdelaziz Bouteflika	State[34][35]
Mali	22–27 November 2006		President Amadou Toumani Touré	State[34][35]
Ghana	27 November-4 December 2006		President John Kufuor	State[34][35]
South Africa	4–9 December 2006		President Thabo Mbeki	State[34][35]
Morocco	9–11 December 2006		King Mohammed VI	Official[32][35]
Afghanistan	8–10 March 2007		President Hamid Karzai	Official[36]
France	9 April 2007	Queen Elizabeth II	Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin	Official[4][37][38]
Belgium	14 April 2007	Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex	King Albert II	Official[39][40]
Belgium	12 July 2007	Queen Elizabeth II	King Albert II	Official[41]
Brazil	6–15 July 2007	Governor General Michaëlle Jean	President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	State[42]
Argentina	8–12 December 2007		President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	Official[32]
France	6–12 May 2008		President Nicolas Sarkozy	Official[43]
Afghanistan	7–8 June 2008	Prince Andrew, Duke of York	President Hamid Karzai	Official[44][45]
China	August 2008	Lieutenant Governor David Onley	President Hu Jintao	Official[46]
Hungary	24–26 November 2008	Governor General Michaëlle Jean	President László Sólyom	State[47]
Slovakia	26–29 November 2008		President Ivan Gašparovič	State[47]
Czech Republic	29 November-4 December 2008		President Václav Klaus	State[47]
Slovenia	3 December 2008		President Danilo Türk	State[48]
Haiti	15–18 January 2009		President René Préval	Official[49]
Liberia	7–8 March 2009		President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	Official[50]
Ukraine	23–26 April 2009		President Viktor Yushchenko	State[51]
Norway	28–30 April 2009		King Harald V	State[51]
France	6 June 2009	Prince Charles, Prince of Wales	President Nicolas Sarkozy	Official[citation needed]
Afghanistan	8–9 September 2009	Governor General Michaëlle Jean	President Hamid Karzai	Official[52]
Slovenia	21–22 October 2009		President Danilo Türk	State[53]
Croatia	23–27 October 2009		President Stjepan Mesić	State[53]
Greece	29–31 October 2009		President Karolos Papoulias	State[53]
Mexico	6–9 December 2009		President Felipe Calderón	State[54]
Guatemala	9–12 December 2009		President Álvaro Colom	State[55]
Costa Rica	12–15 December 2009		President Óscar Arias	State[56]

2010s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
Afghanistan	1 March 2010	Anne, Princess Royal	President Hamid Karzai	Official[57][58]
Haiti	8–10 March 2010	Governor General Michaëlle Jean	President René Préval	Official[59]
Dominican Republic	10 March 2010		President Leonel Fernández	Official[60]
Afghanistan	24 March 2010	Prince Charles, Prince of Wales	Ambassador William Crosbie	Official[58][61]
United Nations Headquarters	31 March 2010	Governor General Michaëlle Jean	Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon	Official[62]
Senegal	14–18 April 2010		President Abdoulaye Wade	State[63]
Congo	18–20 April 2010		President Joseph Kabila	State[63]
Rwanda	20–23 April 2010		President Paul Kagame	State[63]
Cape Verde	23–24 April 2010		President Pedro Pires	Official[63]
China	30 June-5 July 2010		President Hu Jintao	Official[64][65]
United Nations Headquarters	6 July 2010	Queen Elizabeth II	Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon	Official[66]
Mexico	13–14 September 2010	Governor General Michaëlle Jean	President Felipe Calderón	Official[67]
Kuwait	25–27 February 2011	Governor General David Johnston	Emir Sabah IV	State[68]
Qatar	27 February-1 March 2011		Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani	State[68]
United Kingdom	28–29 April 2011		High Commissioner James R. Wright	Official[69]
Malaysia	13–16 November 2011		King Mizan Zainal Abidin	State[70]
Vietnam	16–19 November 2011		President Truong Tan Sang	State[70]
Singapore	19–22 November 2011		President Tony Tan Keng Yam	State[70]
Italy	22 December 2011			Official[71]
Czech Republic	23 December 2011		President Václav Klaus	Official[71][72]
Afghanistan	23–25 December 2011		President Hamid Karzai	Official[71]
France	8 April 2012			Official[73]
Belgium	8–10 April 2012		Minister of Defence Pieter De Crem	Official[73]
Brazil	22–28 April 2012		President Dilma Rousseff	Official[74]
Barbados	29–30 April 2012		High Commissioner Ruth Archibald	Working[74]
Trinidad and Tobago	1–2 May 2012		President George Maxwell Richards	State[74]
United Kingdom	3–6 June 2012		High Commissioner Gordon Campbell	Official[75]
United States of America	19–22 July 2012		Rear-Admiral Ron Lloyd	Official[76]
United Kingdom	25–30 July 2012		High Commissioner Gordon Campbell	Official[77]
Mexico	30 November-2 December 2012		President Felipe Calderón/ President Enrique Peña Nieto	Working[78]
Peru	2–5 December 2012		President Ollanta Humala	Official[78]
Guatemala	5–7 December 2012		President Otto Pérez Molina	State[78]
South Korea	24–26 February 2013		President Park Geun-hye	Official[79]
Vatican City	18–19 March 2013		Pope Francis	Official[80]
Netherlands	29–30 April 2013		King Willem-Alexander	Official[81]
Ghana	13–16 May 2013		President John Dramani Mahama	State[82]
Botswana	16–19 May 2013		President Ian Khama	State[82]
South Africa	20–22 May 2013		President Jacob Zuma	State[82]
United States of America	28–29 May 2013		Senator Stan Rosenberg	Official[83]
China	16–24 October 2013		President Xi Jinping	State[84]
Mongolia	24–26 October 2013		President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj	State[85]
India	22 February-1 March 2014		President Pranab Mukherjee	State[86]
United States of America	28 April-2 May 2014		Consul General James Villeneuve	Official[87]
Poland	22–26 October 2014		President Bronisław Komorowski	State[88]
Netherlands	26–27 October 2014		King Willem-Alexander	Official[88]
Belgium	27–29 October 2014		King Philippe	Official[88]
Chile	29 November-3 December 2014		President Michelle Bachelet	State[89]
Colombia	3–6 December 2014		President Juan Manuel Santos	State[89]
Saudi Arabia	25–28 January 2015		Prince Abdulaziz bin Majid[90]	Official[91]
Singapore	28–29 March 2015		President Tony Tan	Official
United States of America	26–30 April 2015		Governor Mark Dayton Governor Rick Snyder	Working[92]
United States of America	26–30 April 2015		Governor Mark Dayton Governor Rick Snyder	Working[92]
France	1 July 2016	Prince Charles, Prince of Wales		Official[93]
Jordan	October 29-November 1, 2016	Governor General David Johnston	King Abdullah II	State
Israel	1-4 November 2016		President Reuven Rivlin	State
Palestine	4-5 November 2016		President Mahmoud Abbas	State
Cuba	29 November 2016		President Raúl Castro	Official
Sweden	19-23 February 2017		King Carl XVI Gustaf	State
France	9 April 2017	Governor General David Johnston, Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince Harry	President Francois Hollande	Official
China	10–14 July 2017	Governor General David Johnston	President Xi Jinping	Official
United Kingdom	17–19 July 2017	High Commissioner Janice Charette	Official
Thailand	26 October 2017	Governor General Julie Payette	King Vajiralongkorn	Official
Ukraine	17–18 January 2018		President Petro Poroshenko	Official
Latvia	18-19 January 2018		President Raimonds Vejonis	Official
South Korea	7–12 February 2018		President Moon Jae-in	Official
United States	26-27 April 2018		Consul General John Cruickshank	Official[94]
Burkina Faso	23-26 October 2018		President Roch Marc Christian Kabore	State
Ivory Coast	26-28 October 2018		President Alassane Ouattara	State
Nigeria	28-30 October 2018		President Muhammadu Buhari	State
Belgium	10 November 2018		King Philippe	Official
Mexico	30 November-1 December 2018		President Enrique Pena Nieto, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Official
Kazakhstan	3-5 December 2018		President Nursultan Nazarbayev	Official
Kuwait	18–19 January 2019		Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah	Official
Iraq	19–21 January 2019		President Barham Salih	Official
United States	15–16 March 2019		António Guterres	Official
Rwanda	4–9 April 2019		President Paul Kagame	Official
France	4–6 June 2019		President Emmanuel Macron	Official
Peru	23–27 July 2019		President Martin Vizcarra	Official
Netherlands	30–31 August 2019		King Willem-Alexander	Official
Poland	1–2 September 2019		President Andrzej Duda	Official
France	30 September 2019		President Emmanuel Macron	Official
Lithuania	24–26 November 2019		President Gitanas Nausėda	Official
Estonia	26–28 November 2019		President Kersti Kaljulaid	Official
Italy	29 November-4 December 2019		President Sergio Mattarella	Official
Latvia	22–23 December 2019			Official
Romania	23 December 2019			Official

2020s

Visit to	Date	Representative	Received by	Type
Israel	22–24 January 2020	Governor General Julie Payette	President Reuven Rivlin	Official
Poland	27 January 2020		President Andrzej Duda	Official
Germany	17–21 October, 2021	Governor General Mary Simon	President Frank-Walter Steinmeier	State[95]
United Kingdom	15–17 March 2022			Official[96]
United Arab Emirates	17–19 March 2022			Official[97]
Qatar	21 March 2022			Official[97]
Kuwait	22–23 March 2022			Official[97]
United Kingdom	2–6 June 2022			Official[98]
Finland	6-10 February 2023		President Sauli Niinistö	State[99]

See also

• Royal tours of Canada
• United States presidential visits to Canada