- List of mayors of Scarborough, Ontario
-
This is a list of reeves and mayors of Scarborough, Ontario. The township of Scarborough was created in 1850. The head of the local government was a reeve until the incorporation of Scarborough as a borough in 1967, at which point the head of the local government was styled as mayor and continued after becoming a city in 1983. Since 1998, Scarborough has been a community within the city of Toronto, and the head of the local government is the mayor of Toronto.
The only living mayor of the former municipality is Paul Cosgrove.
Contents
Township Reeves
- 1850 : Peter Secor
- 1851 - 1853 : J.P. Wheler
- 1854 : J. Torrance
- 1855 - 1864 : J.P. Wheler
- 1865 : D.G. Stephenson
- 1866 : T. Brown
- 1867 - 1870 : G. Chester
- 1871 - 1875 : J.P. Wheler
- 1876 : G. Chester
- 1877 - 1880: D.G. Stephenson
- 1881 - 1894 : John Richardson
- 1895 : J. Chester
- 1896 - 1901 : L. Kennedy
- 1902 - 1907 : A. Young
- 1908 - 1912 : W.D. Annis
- 1913 - 1919 : J.G. Cornell
- 1920 - 1921 : J.T. Stewart
- 1922 : E.M. Croker
- 1923 - 1925 : R. McCowan
- 1926 : T.E. Allen
- 1927 : G. Moore
- 1928 - 1931 : G.B. Little
- 1932 : F.L. Barchard
- 1933 - 1934 : T.H. Sanders
- 1935 : G. Moore
- 1936 - 1938 : B.J. Wheeler
- 1939 - 1945 : B.L. Clutterbuck
- 1946 : A.P. Wheler
- 1947 : R.H. Palmer
- 1948 - 1955 : Oliver E. Crockford
- 1956 : A. Harris
- 1957 - 1967 : Albert Campbell
Borough Mayors
After 1967, the title of reeve of the Township of Scarborough was changed to the Mayor of the Borough of Scarborough:
- 1967 - 1969 : Albert Campbell
- 1969 - 1972 : Robert W. White
- 1973 - 1978 : Paul Cosgrove
- 1978 : Ken Morrish - interim
- 1979 - 1983 : Gus Harris
City Mayors
Scarborough became a city in 1983 with the former mayor of the borough becoming mayor of the city:
- 1983 - 1987 : Gus Harris
- 1988 - 1993 : Joyce Trimmer
- 1994 - 1998 : Frank Faubert
Mayors of Toronto
After 1998, the Mayor of Scarborough ceased to exist and replaced by the Mayor of Toronto:
- 1998 - 2003 : Mel Lastman
- 2003 - 2010 : David Miller[1]
- 2010 - present: Rob Ford
References
- A History of Scarborough, ed. Robert R. Bonis (1965)
- ^ Ulli S. Watkiss (November 13, 2003). "Declaration of the results of voting November 10, 2003". City Clerk's Office, City of Toronto. http://www.toronto.ca/vote2003/results/officialdeclaration.pdf.
External links
Categories:- Lists of mayors of places in Ontario
- People from Scarborough, Ontario
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
