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| x Joseph-Balsura Turgeon | Mayor of Ottawa | ||||
| x Larry O'Brien |
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Lawrence Robert O'Brien (born July 19, 1949), was the 58th mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is also a current director of Calian Technologies Ltd. and its former CEO and chairman.
O'Brien attended Elmdale Public School and Fisher Park High...
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Mayor of Ottawa | Nov 13, 2006 | |
| x Allan Higdon |
Allan L. Higdon served as acting mayor of Ottawa, Canada from July 2000 to 2001.
Born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, he immigrated to Canada in 1957. He received a BA from Queen's University in English and History and received a B.Ed from the...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 2001 | Jul 2000 | |
| x Bob Chiarelli |
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Robert "Bob" Chiarelli (born September 24, 1941 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1997, and was subsequently re-elected to the legislature in 2010 after serving as regional chair...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 2006 | 2000 |
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| x Jim Watson |
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James Alexander "Jim" Watson (born 1961) is the current mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is a former Ottawa city councillor (1991–1997) and mayor (1997–2000), and subsequently represented the riding of Ottawa West—Nepean in the Legislative...
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Mayor of Ottawa | Aug 1, 2000 | Dec 1, 1997 |
| Ottawa City Councilor | 1997 | 1991 | |||
| Member of Provincial Parliament | Feb 1, 2010 | Oct 2, 2003 | |||
| x Jacquelin Holzman |
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Jacquelin Holzman (born c. 1936) served as mayor of Ottawa, Canada, from 1991 to 1997. Never attending university, she married at age nineteen and started a family. She became a volunteer, especially on causes relating to the disabled.
She was...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1997 | 1991 |
| x Marc Laviolette |
Marc Laviolette (born Ottawa, Ontario) was Mayor of Ottawa for much of 1991. He was declared Mayor on 18 February 1991 after Jim Durrell resigned to become president of the fledgling Ottawa Senators ice hockey team. Laviolette had been an alderman...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1991 | 1991 | |
| x Jim Durrell |
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James A. Durrell is a former Mayor of Ottawa and former president of the Ottawa Senators hockey team. He now works as the owner of a car dealership. Durrell, an insurance executive, was elected to Ottawa City Council in 1980. When long serving mayor...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1991 | 1985 |
| x Marion Dewar |
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Marion Dewar, CM (March 31, 1928 – September 15, 2008) was a prominent member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), mayor of Ottawa from 1978 to 1985 and a member of the Parliament of Canada from 1986 to 1988.
Born Marion Bell in Montreal in 1928, she...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1985 | 1978 |
| x Lorry Greenberg |
Lawrence "Lorry" Greenberg (1933 - 30 June 1999) was Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario from 1975 to 1978.
He graduated from Lisgar Collegiate in 1952.jl He was one of the founding members of Minto Developments Inc., but left the company in 1960. While mayor,...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1978 | 1975 | |
| x Pierre Benoit |
J. Pierre Benoit (born ca. 1939) was mayor of Ottawa from 1972 to 1974. He was a lawyer by career.
Benoit studied law at the University of Ottawa and played Canadian football with the Ottawa Gee-Gees from 1957 to 1961. He then practised law in the...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1974 | 1972 | |
| x Kenneth Hubert Fogarty |
Kenneth Hubert "Ken" Fogarty, MA, LL.M, QC (1923-14 January 1989) was Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1970 to 1972 and afterwards an Ontario district court judge until his death.
Fogarty was born in Ottawa, where he earned Bachelor of Arts...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1972 | 1970 | |
| x Donald Bartlett Reid |
Donald Bartlett "Don" Reid (30 June 1926 - 11 August 2001) was Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario from 1965 to 1969.
Reid was born in Capreol, Ontario. He died at the Ottawa Heart Institute aged 75, leaving behind his wife Jean (née Armstrong) and five...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1969 | 1965 | |
| x George H. Nelms |
George H. Nelms (1905 - September 17, 1999) was mayor of Ottawa from 1957 to 1960. He was an optician by profession. Nelms was born in Thame, Oxfordshire, England in 1905 and came to Canada in 1912. He had one son, Larry.
During his term as Mayor,...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1960 | 1957 | |
| x Charlotte Whitton |
Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, OC, CBE (March 8, 1896 – January 25, 1975) was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964. (Whitton is...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1956 | 1951 | |
| Mayor of Ottawa | 1964 | 1960 | |||
| x Grenville Goodwin |
Grenville W. "Gren" Goodwin (c. 1898 - 27 August 1951) was Mayor of Ottawa for several months in 1951. His hometown was Prescott, Ontario and he was an optometrist by profession.
Goodwin defeated incumbent mayor E.A. Bourque in December 1950 by...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1951 | 1951 | |
| x E. A. Bourque |
E. A. "Eddy" Bourque (c. 1887 – May 2, 1962) was Mayor of Ottawa in 1949 and 1950.
Bourque was born in Ottawa's Lower Town. He was a longtime city councilor and member of the city's Board of Control from 1937 to 1949, and owner of the Twin City Ice...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1950 | 1949 | |
| x J. E. Stanley Lewis |
J. E. Stanley Lewis (February 29, 1888-August 18, 1970) was Ottawa's longest serving mayor, to date, from 1936 to 1948.
He was born in Ottawa in 1888 to Edward and Isabella Lewis. He owned and operated an electrical store in the city. He was first...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1948 | 1936 | |
| x Patrick Nolan |
Patrick J. "Paddy" Nolan (March 17, 1881 – January 11, 1941) was mayor of Ottawa from 1934 to 1935.
He was born in Ottawa on St. Patrick's Day in 1881, the son of poor Irish parents. He worked as a clerk in a drug store, studied to become a...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1935 | 1934 | |
| x John J. Allen |
John J. Allen (August 2, 1871 – June 7, 1935) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada, from 1931 to 1933.
He was born in Dungannon in Huron County, Ontario in 1871. In 1900, he came to Ottawa and opened a drug store; eventually, he and his partner, William...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1933 | 1931 | |
| x Arthur Ellis |
Arthur Ellis (born February 28, 1890, date of death unknown) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Ottawa from 1928 until 1929.
He was born in Ottawa, the son of Ottawa mayor James A. Dent Ellis. Arthur Ellis studied at Osgoode Hall,...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1929 | 1928 | |
| x John P. Balharrie |
John Paul Balharrie (1883 – April 6, 1952) was mayor of Ottawa from 1925 to 1927.
He was born in Ottawa in 1883 and began work in his family's bakery. Balharrie is said to have made his fortune in real estate. He was first elected to city council in...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1927 | 1925 | |
| x Henry Watters |
Henry Watters (June 1, 1853 – May 10, 1924) was mayor of the city of Ottawa in 1924.
He was born in Bytown in 1853. He worked as a clerk in a drug store, studied to become a pharmacist and opened his own drug store. He was a founding member of the...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1924 | 1924 | |
| x Frank H. Plant |
Frank Henry Plant (November 17, 1883 - November 7, 1952) was mayor of Ottawa from 1921 to 1923 and in 1930.
He was born in London, Ontario in 1883 and came to Ottawa with his family in 1900. As an alderman, he helped introduce the "two platoon"...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1923 | 1921 | |
| Mayor of Ottawa | 1930 | 1930 | |||
| x Harold Fisher |
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Harold Fisher, KC (November 1, 1877–1928) was mayor of Ottawa from 1917–1920 and a Liberal MPP from 1923-1926.
He grew up in Toronto where he attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto, and then got his law degree from Osgoode...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1920 | 1917 |
| x Nelson D. Porter |
Nelson Davis Porter (November 28, 1863 - February 12, 1961) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada from 1915 to 1916.
He was born in Montreal in 1863 and came to Ottawa with his family in 1870. He worked as an insurance and real estate agent. During his term...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1916 | 1915 | |
| x Taylor McVeity |
Taylor McVeity (b. February 20, 1857, Richmond, Ontario – March 21, 1951) was elected mayor of Ottawa in 1914.
McVeity studied law, was called to the bar in 1882 and opened an office in Ottawa. After his term as mayor, he later moved to Windsor,...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1914 | 1914 | |
| x Edward H. Hinchey |
Edward H. Hinchey (March 7, 1872 – July 14, 1936) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada in 1912.
Hinchey worked in the weights and measures department of the federal government. He was first elected to city council in 1909. He replaced Charles Hopewell as...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1912 | 1912 | |
| x Charles Hopewell |
Charles Hopewell (September 22, 1861-May 15, 1931) was mayor of Ottawa from 1909 to 1912.
He was born in March Township in 1861. During his term in office, he negotiated grants in lieu of taxes with the federal government. He also served as...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1912 | 1909 | |
| x Napoléon Champagne |
Napoléon Champagne (May 4, 1861 – November 17, 1925) was mayor of Ottawa in 1908 and 1924, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing Ottawa East from 1911 to 1914.
He was born in Lower Town, Ottawa in 1861, the son of Séraphin...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1908 | 1908 | |
| Mayor of Ottawa | 1924 | 1924 | |||
| x D'Arcy Scott |
D'Arcy Scott (8 March 1872 – 1 October 1926), the son of Sir Richard William Scott, was mayor of Ottawa from 1907 to 1908.
Scott was a prominent Ottawa lawyer. He played an important role in the construction of Union Station, now the Government...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1908 | 1907 | |
| x Robert A. Hastey |
Robert A. Hastey (1847-September 8, 1930) was mayor of Ottawa in 1906.
He was born in Bytown in 1847. He worked in the stagecoach business for a number of years. Hastey served on city council as an alderman for twelve years and served as mayor for...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1906 | 1906 | |
| x James A. Ellis |
James Albert Ellis (June 1, 1864 – December 27, 1934) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada, from 1904 to 1906 and in 1913. He represented Ottawa West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1911 to 1914.
He was born in Accrington, Lancashire, England, in...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1906 | 1904 | |
| Mayor of Ottawa | 1913 | 1913 | |||
| x Fred Cook |
Fred Cook (1858 – July 16, 1943) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada, from 1902 to 1903.
He was born in Leeds, England, in 1858 and worked at the Montreal Star and the Toronto Mail (eventually merged with The Globe and Mail) before moving to Ottawa. Cook...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1903 | 1902 | |
| x William Dowler Morris |
William Dowler Morris (August 22, 1857 – April 13, 1931) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada in 1901.
He was born in County Leitrim, Ireland in 1857 and came to Canada in 1877. He became involved in the oil, coal and real estate businesses; he also owned a...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1901 | 1901 | |
| x James Davidson |
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James Davidson (November 1, 1856 – October 6, 1913) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada in 1901.
He was born in Ottawa in 1856. With his brothers, he worked in the timber trade and manufactured doors. He served as alderman from 1898 to 1907; he became mayor...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1901 | 1901 |
| x Thomas Payment |
Thomas Payment (July 6, 1853 - January 13, 1920) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1899 to 1900.
He was born in Manotick, Ontario, in 1853. He worked as a bookkeeper with a railroad company in Maine. Later, he studied at the Ontario College...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1900 | 1899 | |
| x Samuel Bingham |
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Samuel "Sam" Bingham (1845 – 16 June 1905) was the Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada between 1897 and 1898.
He was born in Bytown's Lower Town to Irish Catholic parents in 1845. As a young man, he worked on the log drives on the Gatineau River. With...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1898 | 1897 |
| x William Borthwick |
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William Borthwick (February 13, 1848 – October 17, 1928) was mayor of Ottawa from 1895 to 1896.
He was born near Mer Bleue in Gloucester Township in 1848. He went to California in 1868 and worked in the timber trade there. He returned to Ottawa in...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1896 | 1895 |
| x George Cox |
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George Cox (November 17, 1834 – December 17, 1909) was mayor of the city of Ottawa, Canada in 1894.
He was born on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal in 1834 and came to Ottawa in 1855. He served as alderman on city council from 1882 to 1888 and in...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1894 | 1894 |
| x Olivier Durocher |
Olivier Durocher (1844 - September 3, 1931) was mayor of the city of Ottawa, Canada from 1892 to 1893.
He was born in Saint-Antoine, Quebec in 1844 and moved to Ottawa around 1861. He apprenticed as a shoemaker, later opening his own business. He...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1893 | 1892 | |
| x Thomas Birkett |
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Thomas Birkett (February 1, 1844 – December 2, 1920) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada in 1891 and a member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Ottawa City from 1900 to 1904.
He was born in Ottawa in 1844, the son of Miles Birkett and Elizabeth...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1891 | 1891 |
| x Jacob Erratt |
Jacob Erratt (ca. 1848 - April 1928) was mayor of the city of Ottawa, Canada from 1889 to 1890.
He was born in West Winchester, Ontario and came to Ottawa in 1869. He owned a furniture store in the city. He served on city council from 1882 to 1884....
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1890 | 1889 | |
| x McLeod Stewart |
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McLeod Stewart (1847 – 1926) was an Ottawa lawyer and mayor of Ottawa from 1887 to 1888. He was born in Ottawa in 1847, the son of William Stewart, who represented Bytown (Ottawa) in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1844 to...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1888 | 1887 |
| x Francis McDougal |
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Francis McDougal (April 1826 – March 6, 1910) was a Canadian businessman and mayor of Ottawa from 1885 to 1886.
He was born in Lancaster, Ontario in 1826 and came to Bytown in the 1840s. He worked as clerk in a hardware store and opened his own...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1886 | 1885 |
| x C. T. Bate |
Charles Thornton Bate (1823 – April 10, 1889) was mayor of Ottawa in 1884.
He was born in Cornwall, England in 1823 and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario. He founded a large wholesale grocery business in Ottawa with his brother, Henry Newell Bate,...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1884 | 1884 | |
| x Pierre St. Jean |
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Pierre St-Jean (September 23, 1833 – May 6, 1900) was a Canadian doctor and politician.
He was born in Bytown in 1833. During the 1840s, he established a French language literary society there with J.B. Turgeon. He studied medicine at McGill College...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1883 | 1882 |
| x Charles H. Mackintosh |
Charles Herbert Mackintosh (May 13, 1843 – December 22, 1931) was a journalist, mayor of Ottawa from 1879–1881, represented Ottawa City as a Liberal-Conservative in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1887, and from 1890 to 1893, and served...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1881 | 1879 | |
| x C. W. Bangs |
Chauncey Ward Bangs (January 19, 1814 – March 21, 1892) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada in 1878.
He was born in Standstead in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada in 1814, the son of Benjamin Bangs. His family came to Canada from the United States...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1878 | 1878 | |
| x W. H. Waller |
William Henry Waller (May 14, 1835 – December 24, 1885) was mayor of Ottawa in 1877.
He was born at Castle Waller in Newport, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1835 and came to Canada with his family in 1853. He settled in Toronto and was employed at The...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1877 | 1877 | |
| x G.B. Lyon-Fellowes |
George Byron Lyon-Fellowes (1815–1876) was a mayor of Ottawa in 1876. He also represented Russell County in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1848 to 1861.
He was born George Byron Lyon at Sorel, Quebec in 1815, the son of...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1876 | 1876 | |
| x J.P. Featherston |
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John Peter Featherston (November 28, 1830–1917) was the mayor of Ottawa, Canada, from 1874 to 1875.
Born in Durham, England in 1830, he came to Canada in 1858. Upon settling in Ottawa, he opened a drug store. In 1867 he was elected to city council,...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1875 | 1874 |
| x Eugène Martineau |
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Eugène Martineau (1837–1880) was mayor of Ottawa from 1872–1873, the first francophone mayor for Ottawa after the town's name was changed from Bytown.
He was born in Saint-Nicolas, Quebec in 1837. Martineau came to Ottawa some time before 1860. A...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1873 | 1872 |
| x John Rochester |
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John Rochester (May 22, 1822 – September 19, 1894) was a Canadian industrialist, mayor of Ottawa, Ontario from 1870 to 1871, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Carleton from 1872 to 1882.
He was born at Rouses Point, New York...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1871 | 1870 |
| x Robert Lyon |
Robert Lyon (July 6, 1829–1888) was a judge and politician in the County of Carleton in eastern Ontario. He was mayor of Ottawa in 1867 and a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1871.
His father, George Lyon, was a...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1867 | 1867 | |
| x Moss Kent Dickinson |
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Moss Kent Dickinson (June 1, 1822 – July 19, 1897) was a Canadian businessman, mayor of Ottawa from 1864 to 1866 and member of the Canadian Parliament from 1882 to 1887.
He was born in Denmark, New York in 1822. His family moved to Cornwall, Ontario...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1866 | 1864 |
| x Alexander Workman |
Alexander Workman (May 28, 1798 - December 12, 1891) was an Anglo-Irish-Canadian politician and the mayor of Ottawa from 1860 to 1862.
Workman was born in County Antrim, Ireland. He settled in Huntley Township in Upper Canada in 1820. In 1823, he...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1862 | 1860 | |
| x Edward McGillivray |
Edward McGillivray (September 15, 1815 - November 24, 1885) was the second mayor of Ottawa, Canada from 1858-1859.
He was born in Glengarry County in 1815, and moved to Bytown at the age 20. He opened a general store there in 1836 and was involved...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1859 | 1858 | |
| x John Bower Lewis |
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John Bower Lewis, QC (March 18, 1817 – January 24, 1874) was the second mayor of Bytown in 1848, the first mayor of Ottawa from 1855 to 1857, and a member of the 2nd Canadian Parliament from 1872 to 1873.
He was born in Paris, France in 1817 and...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1857 | 1855 |
| x Henry J. Friel |
Henry James Friel (1823 – May 16, 1869) was mayor of Bytown in 1854 and then of Ottawa in 1863 and 1868-1869.
He was born in Montreal of Irish Catholic parents in 1823. His family moved to Bytown, which was later renamed Ottawa, in 1827. In 1846, he...
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Mayor of Ottawa | 1854 | 1854 | |
| Mayor of Ottawa | 1863 | 1863 | |||
| Mayor of Ottawa | 1869 | 1868 | |||
