List of mayors of Brampton

Mayor Fennell warms up the crowd at the Brampton Battalion game "tailgate party".

This list of the mayors of Brampton, Ontario includes the 38+ unique politicians holding such position.

List

1. John Haggert, 1874-February 1877
2. John Golding, 1877–1879
3. Ryan Degen, 1880-1880 (resigned from office)
4. William A. McCulla, 1880–1882
5. Matthew M. Elliott, 1883–1884
6. Thomas Milner, 1886-1887 (died in office)
7. A. F. Campbell, 1887–1888
8. Thomas Holtby, 1889–1890
9. Manton Treadgold, 1891–1892
10. John T. Mullin, 1893–1894
11. Edwin O. Runians, 1895–1896
12. Edward H. Crandell, 1897–1898
13. W. E. Milner, 1899–1900
14. Thomas Thauburn, 1901–1902
15. Benjamin Franklin Justin, 1903–1905
16. W. E. Milner, 1906–1907
17. Samuel Charters, part of 1907
18. W. E. Milner, part of 1907
19. J. Golding, 1908–1909
20. Thomas Thauburn, 1910–1911
21. Samuel Charters, 1911–1912
22. T. W. Duggan, 1912–1913
23. Thomas Mara, 1914–1915
24. A. H. Milner, 1916–1917
25. L. J. C. Bull, 1918–1919
26. W. J. Beatty, 1920–1921
27. J. S. Beck, 1922
28. H. W. Dawson, 1923–1924
29. Franklin W. Wegenast, 1925–1928
30. George Akehurst, 1929–1930
31. Franklin W. Wegenast, 1930–1931
32. George Akehurst, 1931–1932
33. J. S. Beck, 1933–1934
34. E. W. McCulloch, 1935–1936
35. W. J. Abell, 1937–1938
36. Robert P. Worthy, 1939–1942
37. W. A. Bates, 1943–1944
38. R. H. Bull, 1945–1946
39. J. S. Beck, 1946–1948
40. Harold R. Lawrence, 1949–1951
41. R. H. Bull, 1952–1954
42. Nance Horwood, 1955-1958 (born Annie Horwood)^[1]
43. C. C. Core, 1959–1962
44. R. E. Prouse, 1963–1966
45. W. H. Brydon, 1967–1969
46. J. E. Archdekin, 1970–1982
47. Ken Whillans, 1982-September 1990, died in office
48. Paul Biesel, 1990–1991, Whillans' appointed replacement
49. Peter Robertson, 1991–2000
50. Susan Fennell, 2000-on

Note that some publications credit as a Mayor; he never served in this capacity.

Acting mayors

Sandra Hames, serving as Acting Mayor at the grand opening of an extension to Bramalea City Centre.

• C. A. Irvine, as of July 19, 1907^[2]
• Bob Crowley, circa 1980s^[3]
• Linda Jeffrey, as of May 2001^[4]
• John Sprovieri, as of July 2001^[5]
• John Hutton, as of September 2002^[6]
• John Sprovieri, as of November 2004^[7]
• Paul Palleschi, as of July 2007^[8]
• John Sprovieri, May 2009^[9]
• Sandra Hames, as of June 2010^[10]
• Sandra Hames, April 2011^[11][12]
• Gael Miles, May 2011^[11][12]
• Elaine Moore, June 2011^[12]

• Garnett Manning, unknown, multiple times^[13]

Roads named after the mayors

By neighbourhood:

• Eldomar Heights: Golding Avenue, Milner Road, Beatty Avenue, Core Crescent, Lawrence Crescent
• Flowertown area: Holtby Avenue, Campbell Drive, and Horwood Drive.

• Haggert Avenue, Treadgold Road (Humber West Parkway and Castlemore), McCulla Avenue (near Agnes Taylor P.S.), Elliott Street, Charters Road (Hansen and Vodden), Duggan Drive (Charolais and Chingaucousy), Mara Crescent (at Ken Whillians Drive), Dawson Crescent (Centre at Kennedy), Bates Court (Queen and Chinguacousy), Prouse Drive (Williams Parkway and Centre), Brydon Crescent (Queen and Chinguacousy), Archdekin Road (at Rutherford Road, near Vodden), Ken Whillans Drive (Vodden to Church St.), Peter Robertson Boulevard (Great Lakes Drive to Torbram Road)
• Abell Drive (Williams Parkway and Kennedy)

Runians, Thauburn, Irvine, Bull, Beck, Wegenast, Akehurst, McCulloch, Bull, and Biesel do not have roads named after them. Current mayor Fennell also does not have an eponymous road.

The names last names of mayors Mullin, Justin, and Worthy were all rejected at one point or another. There is a Crandall Court, a different spelling than Mayor Crandell.

Statistics

Shortest term as mayor

S. Charters at four months

Longest term as mayor

Ken Whillans, fifteen years

Mayors who died in office

T. Milner in 1887, Ken Whillans in 1989

First woman mayor

N. Horwood (1955–1958); the next would take office in 2000

References

1. ^ "HORWOOD - Annie "Nance"". Brampton Times (Brampton, Ontario): p. 20. November 24, 1986. 
2. ^ "Brampton Cemetery receipt, purchase of two lots, N. Carter", collection of the Region of Peel Archives at the Peel Heritage Complex, 2010.145.
3. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jH0xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iKUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1180,2511310&dq=brampton+city+hall&hl=en
4. ^ "School Children Launch Emergency Preparedness Week - 2001", City of Brampton press release, May 10, 2001.
5. ^ "City Of Brampton Begins Industrial Street Sweeping", City of Brampton press release, July 19, 2001.
6. ^ "City of Brampton: Brampton Fire Welcomes 17 New Graduates", City of Brampton press release, September 20, 2002.
7. ^ "City of Brampton: Sandalwood Parkway Now Open To Traffic", City of Brampton press release, November 19, 2004.
8. ^ "Brampton Launched Elliott House Heritage Build", Habitat for Humanity Brampton press release, July 23, 2007.
9. ^ C.J. LaFrance, "A new season", The Brampton Guardian, May 22, 2009.
10. ^ "Sheridan Convocation 2010 Sees Record Number of Graduates", Sheridan College press release, June 11, 2010.
11. ^ ^{a b} "Mayor in knee rehab", The Brampton Guardian, April 20, 2011.
12. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.brampton.ca/en/City-Hall/meetings-agendas/Committee%20of%20Council%202010/20110420cw_Ag.pdf
13. ^ http://www.garnettmanning.com/about.php