1997 St. Catharines Municipal Election

	1997 St. Catharines Municipal Election The St. Catharines municipal election of 1997 was held to elect a mayor and councillors for the city of St. Catharines, Ontario. Results Results taken from the Hamilton Spectator, 11 November 1997, B9. The final official results were not significantly different. {{St. Catharines Elections, state=expanded 1997 Ontario municipal elections 1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Alan Unwin Alan Unwin is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as Mayor of St. Catharines from 1994 to 1997. Career Unwin served as principal at Carlton School and Ferndale School in St. Catharines (''Toronto Star'', 20 October 1987; ''Hamilton Spectator'', 28 June 1994). He also chaired the St. Catharines Transit Commission in the mid-1980s (''Globe and Mail'', 23 March 1985). He was elected mayor in late 1994, winning election in a crowded field of nine candidates (''Toronto Star'', 13 October 1997). He attempted to ban lap dancing in the city, and strongly opposed a 1995 court decision which legalized the practice (''Winnipeg Free Press'', 9 December 1995). He attended a rally for the Reform Party in May 1997, in which party leader Preston Manning called for federal prisoners to be stripped of their voting rights (''Kitchener-Waterloo Record'', 16 May 1997). (It may be noted that Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, two of Canada's most notorious killers, are former residents of St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tim Rigby (politician) Timothy H. Rigby is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as Mayor of St. Catharines from 1997 to 2006, and is currently a Niagara Regional Councillor. Rigby is an insurance broker in private life, and was a partner with the Rose, Horne and Stevenson Group from 1979 to 1997. He has also been active in the sports community, serving as the president of Rowing Canada and leading a successful drive for St. Catharines to host the 1999 World Rowing Championships. In 1996, he was inducted into the St. Catharines Sports Hall of Fame. Rigby was endorsed by outgoing Mayor Alan Unwin in 1997, and defeated city councillor Rick Dykstra by a significant margin. As Mayor of St. Catharines, he received an automatic position on the Niagara Regional Council. He was re-elected without opposition in 2000. Rigby has tried to reduce St. Catharines's traditional dependence on industry, and to permit diversification in the high-tech sector. He nonetheless joined with other southern Ontario m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1997 Ontario Municipal Elections The 1997 Ontario municipal elections were led in all municipalities across the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario on November 10, 1997, to elect mayors and reeves, councillors, and school trustees. There were also referendum questions in some municipalities. The most closely watched contest was in the newly amalgamated city of Toronto, where Mel Lastman narrowly defeated Barbara Hall (politician), Barbara Hall to win the mayoralty. In other results, Hazel McCallion was re-elected in Mississauga, Ontario, Mississauga, Bob Morrow was returned in Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, and Dianne Haskett was elected in London, Ontario, London.Murray Campbell and Susan Delacourt, "Ontario Municipal Elections," ''Globe and Mail'', 11 November 1997, A1. Elected mayors Ajax, Ontario, Ajax: Steve Parish Barrie, Ontario, Barrie: Janice Laking Brampton: Peter Robertson (politician), Peter Robertson Brantford, Ontario, Brantford: Chris Friel (politician), Chris Friel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]