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Brampton
Brampton ( or ) is a city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Brampton is a city in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is a List of municipalities in Ontario#Lower-tier municipalities, lower-tier municipality within Regional Municipality of Peel, Peel Region. The city has a population of 656,480 as of the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, ninth most populous municipality in Canada and the third most populous city in the Greater Golden Horseshoe urban area, behind Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario, Mississauga. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have inhabited the Brampton area for thousands of years. Named after the town of Brampton, Carlisle, Brampton in Cumberland, England, Brampton was incorporated as a village in 1853 and as a town in 1873, and became a city in 1974. The city was once known as "The Flower Town of Canada", a title referring to its larg ...
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Patrick Brown (politician)
Patrick Walter Brown (born May 26, 1978) is a Canadian politician who has served as the 51st and current mayor of Brampton since 2018. Entering politics when he won a seat on the Barrie City Council in 2000, Brown later joined the Conservative Party and became a member of Parliament (MP) in 2006. He represented Barrie in the House of Commons until 2015, when he was elected as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party and resigned his seat in Parliament. Brown was subsequently elected to represent Simcoe North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and became the leader of the Opposition. He served as leader until 2018, when he was expelled from the caucus. He later returned to municipal politics and was elected mayor of Brampton. In 2022, Brown contested for the federal Conservative leadership election, but was disqualified following claims his campaign violated the '' Canada Elections Act''. He was subsequently re-elected as mayor of Brampton. Early life and ...
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List Of Mayors Of Brampton, Ontario
The mayor of Brampton is head of the executive branch of the Brampton City Council. The current mayor is Patrick Brown. The following is a list of mayors of Brampton: List # John Haggert, 1874–February 1877 # James Golding, 1877–1879 # William A. McCulla, 1880–1882 # Matthew M. Elliott, 1883–1884 # Thomas Milner, 1886–1887 (died in office) # A. F. Campbell, 1887–1888 # Thomas Holtby, 1889–1890 # Manton Treadgold, 1891–1892 # John T. Mullin, 1893–1894 # Edwin O. Runians, 1895–1896 # Edward H. Crandell, 1897–1898 # William Edwin Milner, 1899–1900 # Thomas Thauburn, 1901–1902 # Benjamin Franklin Justin, 1903–1905 # William Edwin Milner, 1906–June 1907 # C. A. Irvine, as Acting Mayor, June to July 1907, and as Mayor, July 1907 # Samuel Charters, August to December 1907 # James Golding, 1908–1909 # Thomas Thauburn, 1910–1911 # Samuel Charters, 1911–1912 # Thomas W. Duggan, 1912–1913 # Thomas Mara, 1914–1915 # A. H. Milner, 1916 ...
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Regional Municipality Of Peel, Ontario
The Regional Municipality of Peel (informally Peel Region or Region of Peel, also formerly Peel County) is a regional municipality in the Greater Toronto Area, Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwest of the city of Toronto: the cities of Mississauga and Brampton, and the town of Caledon, each of which spans its full east–west width. The regional seat is in Brampton. The entire Greater Toronto Area is the inner ring of the Golden Horseshoe. With a population of about 1.4 million, Peel Region's growth can be credited largely to immigration and transportation infrastructure: seven 400-series highways serve the region, and most of Toronto Pearson International Airport is located within its boundaries. Mississauga, which occupies the southernmost portion of the region with over 700,000 residents is the largest in population in Peel Region, and is overall the seventh-largest lower-tier municipality in Canada. It reaches from Lake ...
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Charmaine Williams
Charmaine Williams is a Canadian politician, currently serving as Associate Minister of Women's Social and Economic Opportunity. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election, representing the riding of Brampton Centre as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Municipal Politics Williams ran for the vacant Ward 7 & 8 city council seat in the 2018 municipal election. During the campaign, Williams supported a gun amnesty buyback program and supported a municipal by-law banning the sale of marijuana within 500 meters of schools. On October 22, 2018, Williams was elected receiving 25.76% of the vote in a 9 person race. With her victory, Williams became the first black woman ever elected to Brampton City Council. On May 31, 2022, during the Ontario provincial election in which Williams was a candidate, Brampton City Council passed a motion to pre-emptively appoint former city councillor Elaine Moore as William's repl ...
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Brampton City Council
Brampton City Council is the governing body for the City of Brampton, Ontario. It consists of the mayor of Brampton (currently Patrick Brown), five elected regional councillors and five elected city councillors. Each councillor represents two city wards. 2022-2026 Council ''Elected in the 2022 municipal election'' 2018-2022 Council ''Elected in the 2018 municipal election'' 2014-2018 Council 2010-2014 Council * Mayor Susan Fennell * Wards 1 and 5 - Grant Gibson (city), Elaine Moore (region) * Wards 2 and 6 - John Hutton (city), Paul Palleschi (region) * Wards 3 and 4 - Bob Callahan (city), John Sanderson (region) * Wards 7 and 8 - Sandra Hames (city), Gael Miles (region) * Wards 9 and 10 - Vicky Dhillon (city), John Sprovieri (region) Previous councils 1853 * Revee John Lynch * John Elliot Senior * John Holmes * Peleg Howland Uncredited author, ''Brampton Centennial Souvenir 1853-1853''. Brampton, ON: Charters Publishing Company Limited, 1953. As of 1874 * Mayor John ...
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Kamal Khera
Kamalpreet Khera (born February 4, 1989) is a Canadian politician who has been the minister of seniors since October 26, 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Khera was elected to represent the riding of Brampton West in the House of Commons following the 2015 federal election. Career Kamal Khera is a registered nurse. She attended York University where she earned an Honours Bachelors of Science in Nursing. Prior to politics, she worked as a registered nurse in the oncology unit at St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto. Federal politics Khera was nominated as the Liberal Party's candidate in Brampton West in December 2014, and won the seat in the federal election in the following October. When first elected in 2015, Khera was the youngest Liberal MP in the House, and the second-youngest overall behind the NDP's Pierre-Luc Dusseault Pierre-Luc Dusseault (born May 31, 1991) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 federal electio ...
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Amarjot Sandhu
Amarjot Sandhu MPP (Punjabi: ਅਮਰਜੋਤ ਸੰਧੂ) is a Canadian politician. He is a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in 2018 who represents the riding of Brampton West. Amarjot Sandhu was born in Punjab, India. He arrived in Canada in 2008 as an international student and went to George Brown College in Toronto. He later became a realtor with Royal LePage in Brampton. Amarjot Sandhu is the Member of the Provincial Parliament for the riding of Brampton West and the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure. He is also the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs and a member of the Standing Committee on General Government. He is the first international student to be elected as a representative to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He currently resides in his riding of Brampton West with his wife and two kids. Early and personal life Sandhu came to Canada as an interna ...
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Sonia Sidhu
Satinderpal "Sonia" Sidhu is a Canadian politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal electoral district of Brampton South during the 2015 Canadian federal election. Early life Born in India, Sidhu arrived in Canada in 1992. Political career Sonia Sidhu is the Member of Parliament for Brampton South. She was elected on October 19, 2015 as the Liberal candidate. Before politics, she worked for over 18 years in the healthcare field as a diabetes educator and research coordinator. Sonia has worked as a volunteer on political campaigns at all three levels of government, and she also volunteered with numerous organisations. In Parliament, she sits on the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Health, and also was appointed to sit as a member of the Special Committee on Pay Equity. She is also the Chair and the Liberal caucus champion for the All-Party Diabetes Caucus. MP Sidhu is also the General-Secretary of the ...
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Prabmeet Sarkaria
Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria () is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been the president of the Treasury Board of Ontario since June 18, 2021. He has sat as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the riding of Brampton South since the 2018 Ontario provincial election, representing the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party. He was the associate minister of small business and red tape reduction from 2019 to 2021. Sarkaria is the first turban-wearing Sikh Cabinet minister in Ontario. Early and personal life Sarkaria is a Sikh and grew up in Brampton, Ontario. Sarkaria’s parents immigrated from Punjab, India in the 1980s. His father drove a taxi and mother worked in a factory until they later became small business owners, after purchasing an inn outside of Orangeville. He studied finance at Wilfrid Laurier University and after working at TD Securities, Sarkaria completed his law degree at the University of Windsor. He worked at Miller Thomson as an associate corpor ...
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List Of L Postal Codes Of Canada
__NOTOC__ This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is L. Postal codes beginning with L are located within the Canadian province of Ontario. Only the first three characters are listed, corresponding to the Forward Sortation Area. Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, via its smartphone applications for iPhone and Android, and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow customers to properly match addresses and postal codes. Hard-copy directories can also be consulted in all post offices, and some libraries. Central Ontario Central Ontario is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario that lies between Georgian Bay and the eastern end of Lake Ontario. The population of the region was 1,123,307 in 2016; however, this number does not in ... - 165 FSAs Urban Rural (* = retired)ftp://seismo.nrcan.gc.ca/exports/intensity/mlr.txt References ...
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Ruby Sahota
Ruby Sahota (born June 22) is a Canadian Liberal politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal riding Brampton North during the 2015 Canadian federal election. Early life and education Sahota was born in Toronto after her parents arrived in Canada in the late 1970s, and was raised in Brampton. Her father previously was the Chairman of the Ontario Sikhs and Gurdwara Council. Sahota attended the Brampton's Central Peel Secondary School from 1993 to 1998, and then graduated with an Honours bachelor's degree in Political Science and Peace Studies at McMaster University in 2003. She then attended Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, graduating in 2007. Legal career From 2007 to 2012, Sahota practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, focusing on commercial litigation. She became a lawyer after. Political career Sahota sought the Liberal nomination for the newly created riding of Brampton North, winning it on March 1, ...
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Graham McGregor (politician)
Graham James McGregor is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. He represents the riding of Brampton North as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (french: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada .... References Living people Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 21st-century Canadian politicians Politicians from Brampton 1993 births {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MPP-stub ...
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