List of reeves of the former townships and villages in Toronto

A number of townships and villages were algamated into the city of Toronto and the boroughs of Metropolitan Toronto in 1967. The remaining municipalities were amalgamated in 1998. These were their reeves and mayors in the years prior:

Forest Hill

Reeves of the Village of Forest Hill:

  • Lawrence H. Baldwin (1924–28)
  • A.H. Keith Russell (1929–30)
  • Andrew Hazlett (1931–32)
  • Dr. Hugh M. Cook (1933–35)
  • Arthur S. Leitch (1936–37)
  • Frederick Goldwin Gardiner (1938–49)
  • Bruce Pettit Davis (1950–51)
  • Stewart Robertson (1952)
  • Charles O. Bick (1953–55)
  • Laurie T. Simonsky (1956–62)
  • Edwin J. Pivnick (1963–67)

Leaside

Mayors of the Town of Leaside:[1]

  • 1913-1914 Randolph McRae
  • 1915-1923 R.P. Ormsby
  • 1924-1930 H. Horsfall
  • 1931-1935 G. Wilkinson
  • 1936-1937 J. Scott
  • 1938-1947 H. Talbot
  • 1948-1950 G.T. Manes
  • 1951-1955 Howard T. Burrell
  • 1956-1961 Charles H. Hiscott
  • 1962 Lloyd M. Dickinson
  • 1963-1966 Beth Nealson

Long Branch

Reeves of the Village of Long Branch:

  • 1931-1932, 1934-1936 John Shannon
  • 1933 Robert A. Westbrook
  • 1937 Joseph C. Deyman
  • 1938-1941, 1944 Samuel Thomas Wright
  • 1942-1943 John O. Elton
  • 1945-1947, 1952-1953 Thomas F. Carter
  • 1948-1950 Lawrence Iles
  • 1954-1962 Marie Curtis
  • 1963-1964 Leonard E. Ford
  • 1965-1966 Thomas Berry

Mimico

Mayors of the Township of Mimico:

  • Robert Skelton (Reeve) 1911-1914
  • Caesar Coxhead (Reeve) 1915
  • John Harrison 1914, 1916-1918 (Mayor from 1917)
  • Louis West 1919-1920
  • John Doughty 1921-1925
  • William Savage 1926
  • Gus Edwards 1927-1929, 1955-1960
  • Robert Waites 1930-1932
  • Archibald Norris 1933-1935, 1941–1942, 1946, 1949–1954
  • Amos Waites 1936-1940, 1943–1945, 1947–1948
  • Hugh Griggs 1961-1966

New Toronto

Mayors of the Town of New Toronto:[2]

  • George Ironside (1913–1917) (Reeve)
  • Charles Lovejoy (1917–1922) Mayor from 1920
  • S. Tucker (1922)
  • George Janes (1923–1926)
  • George Warner (1926–1929)
  • William Jackson (1929–1937, 1938–1952)
  • S. Douglas (1937)
  • E. Grant (1952–1954)
  • Jack L. Strath (1954)
  • Donald R. Russell (1955–1967)[3]

Swansea

Reeves of the Village of Swansea:

  • 1926-1927 J. A. Harvey
  • 1928-1937 Robert J. Wallace
  • 1938-1945 Clarence C. Downey
  • 1946-1951 Elmer Brandon
  • 1952 C. Douglas Cameron
  • 1953-1962 Dorothy Hague
  • 1963-1965 Lucien C. Kurata
  • 1966 James T. Bonham

Weston

Mayors of the Town of Weston:

  • 1914-1918 Dr. W. J. Charlton
  • 1919-1920 John Gardhouse
  • 1921-1925 Robert John Flynn
  • 1926-1928 George Sainsbury
  • 1929-1930 A. Lorne Coulter
  • 1931 W. J. Pollett
  • 1932-1934 Sam J. Totten
  • 1935-1936 Frank Walton Mertens
  • 1937-1939 George Benjamin Evans
  • 1940-1942 Gordon S. Harris
  • 1942-1945 John P. Allan
  • 1946-1948 Thomas Dougherty
  • 1949 Kenneth L. Thompson
  • 1950-1954 Richard C. Seagrave
  • 1955-1958 Harry Clark
  • 1959-1960 Jack L. Holley
  • 1961-1964 George W. Bull
  • 1965-1966 Wesley Boddington

East York

Reeves of the Township of East York (pre-1967) and mayors of the Borough of East York (after 1967)

Etobicoke

Reeves of the Township of Etobicoke (pre-1967) and Mayors of the Borough and City of Etobicoke (after 1967)

North York

Reeves of the Township of North York (pre-1967) and Mayors of the Borough and City of North York (after 1967)

Scarborough

Reeves of the Township of Scarborough and mayors of Borough and City of Scarborough (after 1967)

York

Reeves of the Township of York (pre-1967) and mayors of the Borough and City of York (after 1967)

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=jR0gU_LiC7kC&pg=PA281&lpg=PA281&dq=mcrae+was+reeve+of+the+township+of+leaside&source=bl&ots=sG4wQzsBb_&sig=IcDcu8pIcKPo97do2lBDmx2yekA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6R5xT62wN6fq0gHF5dGeAQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=mcrae%20was%20reeve%20of%20the%20township%20of%20leaside&f=false
  2. ↑ http://www.newtorontohistorical.com/Politics.htm
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-03-04. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
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