Chief Secretaries
The Ceif Secretary must be an example to all concerned of spiritual power and personal devotion, and of that out-and-out zeal and enterprise which have so much to do with all real sucess.
William Booth - Orders and Regulations for Territorial Commissioners and Chief Secretarties, Part 2 - Section 2-1, 1899
The following is a cronologoical list of Chief Secretaries:
- Staff-Captain James Eastwood - August 18, 1884 to August 15, 1885
- Staff-Captain John Margetts - September 5, 1885 to November 27, 1886
- Staff-Captain Reuben Bailey - February 12, 1887 to january 15, 1890
- Major Arthur Young - January 16, 1890 to August 19, 1891
- Brigadier Thomas Holland - August 20, 1891 to July 6, 1892
- Colonel George Mackenzie - July 7, 1892 to June 10, 1896
- Colonel C. T. Jacobs - June 11, 1896 to August 14, 1905
- Colonel Philip Kyle - August 15, 1905 to August 31, 1907
- Colonel Charles Sowton - September 1, 1907 to August 29, 1908
- Colonel Henry Mapp - August 30, 1908 to October 23, 1912
- Colonel Sydney Maidment - October 24, 1912 to May 29, 1914
- Colonel Albert Gaskin - August 7, 1914 to August 3, 1916
- Colonel John McMillan - August 4, 1916 to October 31, 1923
- Colonel Albert Powley - November 1, 1923 to March 14, 1926
- Colonel Robert Henry - March 15, 1926 to January 10, 1931
- Colonel William R. Dalziel - January 11, 1931 to March 4, 1937
- Colonel G. Walter Peacock - March 5, 1937 to July 1, 1945
- Colonel Archibald Layman - July 2, 1945 to January 4, 1948
- Colonel William Dray - January 5, 1948 to August 24, 1950
- Colonel Robert S. Harewood - August 25, 1950 to September 12, 1954
- Colonel William Davidson - September 13, 1954 to Feb 28, 1957
- Colonel Clarence Wiseman - March 1, 1957 to April 27, 1960
- Colonel Arthur Cameron - April 28, 1960 to May 15, 1962
- Colonel Herbert G. Wallace - May 16, 1962 to November 10, 1965
- Colonel Leslie Russell - November 11, 1965 to December 5, 1968
- Colonel Geoffrey Dalziel - December 6, 1968 to June 17, 1970
- Colonel Bramwell Tripp - June 18, 1970 to February 2, 1972
- Colonel Jarl Wahlström -February 2, 1972 to January 7, 1976
- Colonel John Waldron - January 8, 1976 to July 8, 1977
- Colonel Kenneth Rawlins - July 9, 1977 to July 31, 1981
- Colonel Harry Read - August 1, 1981 to April 30, 1984
- Colonel Stanley Walter - May 1, 1984 to June 30, 1986
- Colonel Edward Read - July 1, 1986 to March 31, 1987
- Colonel Arthur Waters - April 1, 1987 to June 30, 1992
- Colonel Roy Calvert - July 1, 1992 to November 30, 1993
- Colonel John Busby - December 1, 1993 to June 30, 1992
- Colonel Clyde Moore - July 1, 1997 to ctober 31, 1999
- Colonel Linda Bond - November 1, 1999 to May 31, 2002
- Colonel Robert Redhead - June 2, 2002 to May 31, 2003
- Colonel Glen Shepherd - June 1, 2003 to February 28, 2008
- Colonel Donald Copple - March 1, 2008 to February 28, 2010
- Colonel Floyd Tidd - March 1, 2010 to May 31, 2013
- Colonel Mark Tillsley - June 1, 2013 to December 21, 2016
- Colonel Lee Graves - January 1, 2017 to October 31, 2018
- Colonel Edward Hill - November 1, 2018 to April 30, 2021
- Colonel Evie Diaz - May 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023
- Colonel John Chamness - August 1, 2023 to present
The following is a cronologoical list of Chief Secretaries (Canada West Territory):
