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1921 Toronto Municipal Election
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1921. Mayor Tommy Church was elected to an unprecedented seventh consecutive term in office. Toronto mayor Church had first been elected mayor in 1915 and had been reelected every year since. He was opposed by Sam McBride, who had also challenged Church for the mayoralty in the previous election. ;Results :Tommy Church - 35,959 :Sam McBride - 19,966 Board of Control Two sitting members of the Toronto Board of Control, Board of Control were defeated: J. George Ramsden and R.H. Cameron. ;Results :Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 34,141 :William W. Hiltz, Wesley Hiltz - 22,615 :Joseph Gibbons (Toronto), Joseph Gibbons (incumbent) - 18,612 :A.R. Nesbitt - 19,202 :William D. Robbins - 18,015 :R.H. Cameron (incumbent) - 17,872 :J. George Ramsden (incumbent) - 17,393 :Herbert Henry Ball - 16,911 City council ;Ward 1 (Riverdale, Toronto, Riverdale) :Richard Honeyford (incumbent) - 3,637 :F.M. Johnson (incumbent) - ... [...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] |
