# 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.

## Visits

* King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the Canadian pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair
* Elizabeth II, Pierre Trudeau, the Duke of Edinburgh, and François and Danielle Mitterrand at the Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France, 1984
* Governor General Michaëlle Jean with President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in Brasília, Brazil, 2007
* 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 |

### 1920s

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

### 1930s

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

### 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 |
| Brazil | June 1948 | Governor General the Viscount Alexander of Tunis | President Eurico Gaspar Dutra | State |

### 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 |
| United States of America | 17 October 1957 | Queen Elizabeth II | President Dwight David Eisenhower | State |
| United States of America | 26 June 1959 | Queen Elizabeth II | President Dwight D. Eisenhower | Official |
| United States of America | 6 July 1959 | Queen Elizabeth II | Governor William Stratton | State |

### 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 | Governor General Roland Michener | Queen Juliana | State |
| Iran | October 1971 | Governor General Roland Michener | Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Official |

### 1980s

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

### 1990s

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

### 2000s

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

### 2010s

| Visit to | Date | Representative | Received by | Type |
| Afghanistan | 1 March 2010 | Anne, Princess Royal | President Hamid Karzai | Official |
| Haiti | 8–10 March 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | President René Préval | Official |
| Dominican Republic | 10 March 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | President Leonel Fernández | Official |
| Afghanistan | 24 March 2010 | Prince Charles, Prince of Wales | Ambassador William Crosbie | Official |
| United Nations Headquarters | 31 March 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon | Official |
| Senegal | 14–18 April 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | President Abdoulaye Wade | State |
| Congo | 18–20 April 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | President Joseph Kabila | State |
| Rwanda | 20–23 April 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | President Paul Kagame | State |
| Cape Verde | 23–24 April 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | President Pedro Pires | Official |
| China | 30 June-5 July 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | President Hu Jintao | Official |
| United Nations Headquarters | 6 July 2010 | Queen Elizabeth II | Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon | Official |
| Mexico | 13–14 September 2010 | Governor General Michaëlle Jean | President Felipe Calderón | Official |
| Kuwait | 25–27 February 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | Emir Sabah IV | State |
| Qatar | 27 February-1 March 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani | State |
| United Kingdom | 28–29 April 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | High Commissioner James R. Wright | Official |
| Malaysia | 13–16 November 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | King Mizan Zainal Abidin | State |
| Vietnam | 16–19 November 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | President Truong Tan Sang | State |
| Singapore | 19–22 November 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | President Tony Tan Keng Yam | State |
| Italy | 22 December 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | | Official |
| Czech Republic | 23 December 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | President Václav Klaus | Official |
| Afghanistan | 23–25 December 2011 | Governor General David Johnston | President Hamid Karzai | Official |
| France | 8 April 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | | Official |
| Belgium | 8–10 April 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | Minister of Defence Pieter De Crem | Official |
| Brazil | 22–28 April 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | President Dilma Rousseff | Official |
| Barbados | 29–30 April 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | High Commissioner Ruth Archibald | Working |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1–2 May 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | President George Maxwell Richards | State |
| United Kingdom | 3–6 June 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | High Commissioner Gordon Campbell | Official |
| United States of America | 19–22 July 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | Rear-Admiral Ron Lloyd | Official |
| United Kingdom | 25–30 July 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | High Commissioner Gordon Campbell | Official |
| Mexico | 30 November-2 December 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | President Felipe Calderón/ President Enrique Peña Nieto | Working |
| Peru | 2–5 December 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | President Ollanta Humala | Official |
| Guatemala | 5–7 December 2012 | Governor General David Johnston | President Otto Pérez Molina | State |
| South Korea | 24–26 February 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | President Park Geun-hye | Official |
| Vatican City | 18–19 March 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | Pope Francis | Official |
| Netherlands | 29–30 April 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | King Willem-Alexander | Official |
| Ghana | 13–16 May 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | President John Dramani Mahama | State |
| Botswana | 16–19 May 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | President Ian Khama | State |
| South Africa | 20–22 May 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | President Jacob Zuma | State |
| United States of America | 28–29 May 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | Senator Stan Rosenberg | Official |
| China | 16–24 October 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | President Xi Jinping | State |
| Mongolia | 24–26 October 2013 | Governor General David Johnston | President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj | State |
| India | 22 February-1 March 2014 | Governor General David Johnston | President Pranab Mukherjee | State |
| United States of America | 28 April-2 May 2014 | Governor General David Johnston | Consul General James Villeneuve | Official |
| Poland | 22–26 October 2014 | Governor General David Johnston | President Bronisław Komorowski | State |
| Netherlands | 26–27 October 2014 | Governor General David Johnston | King Willem-Alexander | Official |
| Belgium | 27–29 October 2014 | Governor General David Johnston | King Philippe | Official |
| Chile | 29 November-3 December 2014 | Governor General David Johnston | President Michelle Bachelet | State |
| Colombia | 3–6 December 2014 | Governor General David Johnston | President Juan Manuel Santos | State |
| Saudi Arabia | 25–28 January 2015 | Governor General David Johnston | Prince Abdulaziz bin Majid | Official |
| Singapore | 28–29 March 2015 | Governor General David Johnston | President Tony Tan | Official |
| United States of America | 26–30 April 2015 | Governor General David Johnston | Governor Mark Dayton Governor Rick Snyder | Working |
| United States of America | 26–30 April 2015 | Governor General David Johnston | Governor Mark Dayton Governor Rick Snyder | Working |
| France | 1 July 2016 | Prince Charles, Prince of Wales | | Official |
| Jordan | October 29-November 1, 2016 | Governor General David Johnston | King Abdullah II | State |
| Israel | 1-4 November 2016 | Governor General David Johnston | President Reuven Rivlin | State |
| Palestine | 4-5 November 2016 | Governor General David Johnston | President Mahmoud Abbas | State |
| Cuba | 29 November 2016 | Governor General David Johnston | President Raúl Castro | Official |
| Sweden | 19-23 February 2017 | Governor General David Johnston | 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 | Governor General David Johnston | High Commissioner Janice Charette | Official |
| Thailand | 26 October 2017 | Governor General Julie Payette | King Vajiralongkorn | Official |
| Ukraine | 17–18 January 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Petro Poroshenko | Official |
| Latvia | 18-19 January 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Raimonds Vejonis | Official |
| South Korea | 7–12 February 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Moon Jae-in | Official |
| United States | 26-27 April 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | Consul General John Cruickshank | Official |
| Burkina Faso | 23-26 October 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Roch Marc Christian Kabore | State |
| Ivory Coast | 26-28 October 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Alassane Ouattara | State |
| Nigeria | 28-30 October 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Muhammadu Buhari | State |
| Belgium | 10 November 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | King Philippe | Official |
| Mexico | 30 November-1 December 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Enrique Pena Nieto, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador | Official |
| Kazakhstan | 3-5 December 2018 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Nursultan Nazarbayev | Official |
| Kuwait | 18–19 January 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah | Official |
| Iraq | 19–21 January 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Barham Salih | Official |
| United States | 15–16 March 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | António Guterres | Official |
| Rwanda | 4–9 April 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Paul Kagame | Official |
| France | 4–6 June 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Emmanuel Macron | Official |
| Peru | 23–27 July 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Martin Vizcarra | Official |
| Netherlands | 30–31 August 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | King Willem-Alexander | Official |
| Poland | 1–2 September 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Andrzej Duda | Official |
| France | 30 September 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Emmanuel Macron | Official |
| Lithuania | 24–26 November 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Gitanas Nausėda | Official |
| Estonia | 26–28 November 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Kersti Kaljulaid | Official |
| Italy | 29 November-4 December 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Sergio Mattarella | Official |
| Latvia | 22–23 December 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | | Official |
| Romania | 23 December 2019 | Governor General Julie Payette | | 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 | Governor General Julie Payette | President Andrzej Duda | Official |
| Germany | 17–21 October, 2021 | Governor General Mary Simon | President Frank-Walter Steinmeier | State |
| United Kingdom | 15–17 March 2022 | Governor General Mary Simon | | Official |
| United Arab Emirates | 17–19 March 2022 | Governor General Mary Simon | | Official |
| Qatar | 21 March 2022 | Governor General Mary Simon | | Official |
| Kuwait | 22–23 March 2022 | Governor General Mary Simon | | Official |
| United Kingdom | 2–6 June 2022 | Governor General Mary Simon | | Official |