| Year | President |
| 1923 | Professor D.W.Carmalt Jones |
| 1924 | Professor G.E.Thompson |
| 1925 | Professor C.E.Hercus |
| 1926 | Professor C.E.Hercus |
| 1927 | A.H.Tonkinson |
| 1928 | Professor W.B.Benham |
| 1929 | W.R.Brugh |
| 1930 | Professor W.N.Benson |
| 1931 | O.V.Davies |
| 1932 | Rev. Dr J.Holloway |
| 1933 | A.C.Stevens |
| 1934 | Professor T.D.Adams |
| 1935 | John Robertson |
| 1936 | Professor V.E.Galway |
| 1937 | Dr W.J.Mullin |
| 1938 | F.B.Adams |
| 1939 | E.J.Smith |
| 1940 | Professor F.G.Soper |
| 1941 | John S.Ash |
| 1942 | H.I.Sinclair |
| 1943 | W.L.Moore |
| 1944 | W.E.Earnshaw |
| 1945 | Dr Roland A.H.Fulton |
| 1946 | Eric Miller |
| 1947 | A.C.Cameron |
| 1948 | Dr A.H.McLintock |
| 1949 | C.R.Nicolson |
| 1950 | Professor G.J.Williams |
| 1951 | Dr R.S.Aitken |
| 1952 | Professor F.W.Mitchell |
| 1953 | A.L.Salmond |
| 1954 | J.G.Warrington |
| 1955 | Professor J.P.Walsh |
| 1956 | C.Roy Spackman and J.W.Hayward |
| 1957 | James Hogg |
| 1958 | J.A.Valentine |
| 1959 | R.H.C.Galbraith |
| 1960 | A.C.McLean |
| 1961 | M.J.Boardman |
| 1962 | Professor E.W.Herd |
| 1963 | F.W.Evans |
| 1964 | Professor R.G.Lister |
| 1965 | W.Hall Masters |
| 1966 | Professor R.G.Lister |
| 1967 | Rev. D.B.Gordon |
| 1968 | Professor A.D.Campbell |
| 1969 | A.R.Black |
| 1970 | Professor T.K.Cowan |
| 1971 | D.R.Brickell |
| 1972 | Dr Murray McGeorge |
| 1973 | G.F.White |
| 1974 | Very Rev. Dr J.S.Somerville |
| 1975 | Jolyon C.Manning |
| 1976 | Dr R.M.Carr |
| 1977 | S.R.Anstice |
| 1978 | Professor F.W.R.Nichol |
| 1979 | R.C.Dalziel |
| 1980 | G.F.Curran |
| 1981 | D.W.Girvan |
| 1982 | G.Mason |
| 1983 | Professor J.D.Omer-Cooper |
| 1984 | W.E.Lemberg |
| 1985 | Professor P.G.Holland |
| 1986 | I.C.Rowe |
| 1987 | Associate Professor J.D.S.McKenzie |
| 1988 | Mrs E.M.Duncan |
| 1989 | T.W.Lindop |
| 1990 | M.H.Stevenson |
| 1991 | Mrs Helen Dalziel |
| 1992 | Dr L.D.Bascand |
| 1993 | Mrs E.A.Hanan |
| 1994 | Rev. D.C.Feist |
| 1995 | Dr Pauline A.Mahalski |
| 1996 | Robin Archer |
| 1997 | Mary McKellar |
| 1998 | Dame Dorothy Fraser |
| 1999 | Dr Albert Moore |
| 2000 | Dr G.A.Wood |
| 2001 | Mary Ronnie |
| 2002 | Hon. Stan Rodger |
| 2003 | Honor Anderson |
| 2004 | R.J.R.Gilbert |
| 2005 | Margaret Feist |
| 2006 | JM.Hanan |
| 2007 | Bill Wilson |
| 2008 | Marie Aubin |
| 2009 | Dr David Bolton |
| 2010 | Eldora Gilbert |
| 2011 | John F.Burton |
| 2012 | Professor Gil Barbezat |
| 2013 | Anne Rodger |
| 2014 | Richard Higham |
| 2015 | Dr Ross Grimmett |
| 2016 | Maria Griffin |
| 2017 | Alister Robinson |
| 2018 | Elisabeth Cunningham |
| 2019 | Dr John Clarkson |
| 2020 | Dr Anna Holmes |
| 2021 | Austen Banks |
| 2022 | Lorraine Isaacs |
| 2023 | Dr John Holmes |
| 2024 | Jeanette Leigh |
| 2025 | Dr Tim Medlicott |