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1911 Toronto Municipal Election
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 2, 1911. Mayor George Reginald Geary was easily reelected mayor. Toronto mayor Mayor George Reginald Geary had been elected mayor the year previous 1910. His only opposition were two candidates who had never before held elected office. Herbert Capewell, who finished second, had no intention of winning and declared his campaign a protest against the city taking over public transit in the city from private companies. ;Results :George Reginald Geary (incumbent) - 30,931 :Herbert Capewell - 2,671 :Robert Buist Noble - 530 Board of Control There was one change to the Toronto Board of Control, Board of Control as ''Toronto Daily Star'' founder Horatio Clarence Hocken won a seat at the expense of incumbent Thomas Foster (Canadian politician), Thomas Foster. :Horatio Clarence Hocken - 22,761 :Francis Spence, Frank S. Spence (incumbent) - 16,187 :J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 15,999 :Tommy Church (incumbent) - 15,760 :Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
