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List Of St. Albert Mayors
{{Short description, none List of St. Albert mayors : *Cheri Hebert (1904-1907) * Fleuri Perron (1908) * Lucien Boudreau (1909) *Herbert B. Dawson (1910) *Leon Levasseur (1911-1912) *J. Arthur Giroux (1913-1918) *Alex Perron (1918-1919) * Michael Hogan (1919-1943) *Richard Poirier (1943-1945) *John LeClair (1945-1946) *Eugene Maheux (1946-1947) *Neil M. Ross (1947-1951) *William Veness (1951-1957) *1957–1962: None, designated a New Town, run by a Board of Administrators *William Veness (1962-1965) *John de Bruijn (1965) * Dick Fowler (1965-1968) * Ray Gibbon (1968-1974) * Richard Plain (1974-1977) *Ronald Harvey (1977-1980) * Dick Fowler (1980-1989) * Ray Gibbon (1989) *Anita Ratchinsky (1989-1998) *Paul Chalifoux (1998-2001) * Richard Plain (2001-2004) *Paul Chalifoux (2004-2007) *Nolan Crouse (2007-2017) *Cathy Heron (2017-present) References All information in this page synthesized from St. Albert Historical Society (1985). The Black Robe's Vision, St. Albert: St. Albert His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as the means by which a mayor is elected or otherwise mandated. Depending on the system chosen, a mayor may be the chief executive officer of the municipal government, may simply chair a multi-member governing body with little or no independent power, or may play a solely ceremonial role. A mayor's duties and responsibilities may be to appoint and oversee municipal managers and employees, provide basic governmental services to constituents, and execute the laws and ordinances passed by a municipal governing body (or mandated by a state, territorial or national governing body). Options for selection of a mayor include direct election by the public, or selection by an elected governing council or board. The term ''mayor'' shares a linguistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleuri Perron
Fleuri Perron (also spelled Fleury Perron) (February 4, 1866 - August 1931) was a businessman, politician, and mayor of St. Albert, Alberta. Early life Perron was born in Portneuf in 1866, and moved to Egg Lake in what is now Sturgeon County, Alberta in February 1883, after hearing Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin encouraging francophones to move west. In 1892 he married Lina Laliberté, and soon after moved to St. Albert. Business career In 1896, Perron acquired the Windsor Hotel in St. Albert, which he operated for four years before selling it. In 1900, he opened a brick factory and purchased a general store which he operated with Cheri Hebert until 1907, when he bought out Hebert. In 1912, he re-entered the hotel business by becoming President of the Royal Hotel Company Limited, which opened the Royal Hotel in 1913 to replace another hotel that had burned down. Though the hotel was "the best north of Edmonton, the advent of Prohibition in 1915 put an end to its viability, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Boudreau
Lucien Boudreau (August 6, 1874 – December 16, 1962) was a politician, mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (then called the Provincial Parliament). Early life Boudreau was born in St-Gregoire de Nicolet, Quebec in 1874. In 1893, he moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he spent two years before moving to Alberta. He found employment as a clerk in a store in Strathcona (now part of Edmonton). Before long, he went into business himself, founding a real estate business that he sold in 1901 to Michael Hogan. That same year, he married Marie Renault of St. Albert and became proprietor of the Astoria Hotel in that city. He ran this hotel until it burned down in 1912. Public service When St. Albert was incorporated as a town in 1904, Boudreau was elected as a member of its first town council. He served in this capacity until 1908, when he was elected to serve as mayor during 1909. In the meantime, he became interested in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hogan (Canadian Politician)
Michael Hogan (August 16, 1872 – June 30, 1943) was a businessman, politician, and longest-serving mayor of St. Albert, Alberta. Early life Michael Hogan was born August 16, 1872 in Park Hill, Ontario to Irish immigrants. He was a teacher and farmer in Ontario before immigrating to Alberta in 1900. He taught in Strathcona (which was amalgamated with Edmonton in 1912) before moving to St. Albert. In 1910 he entered the insurance and real estate businesses with Lucien Boudreau; he would eventually buy Boudreau out. Public service Hogan became the secretary of the Municipal District of Ray (which was incorporated into the new Municipal District of Morinville in 1943) in 1905, and held the position until shortly before his death. He also served as Ray's police magistrate between 1917 and 1921, and was involved with the St. Albert Board of Trade and served on the St. Albert Town Council. In 1919, Hogan was elected Mayor of St. Albert, a position that he would hold for twent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John LeClair (politician)
John E. LeClair (1893–1968) was a Canadian politician, who served as the 10th mayor of St. Albert, Alberta from February 1945 to May 1946. Born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, he and his family moved to Lily Lake, Alberta in childhood. Leclair met his wife Sarah Healey in nearby Rochester, Alberta, where he began employment as an auctioneer. The couple resided in Lily Lake before moving to Legal. As their home expanded to include six children, in 1939 the family moved to St. Albert. Their first home was on the east side of St. Albert Trail, just north of the Sturgeon River. He was actively involved in the community as a Justice of the Peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ... and Commissioner of Oaths. To his friends, and all who knew him, he was affectionately kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Fowler (politician)
Richard S. Fowler (April 12, 1932 – July 8, 2012) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Minister of the Crown in the Government of Alberta, mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, and Judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta. Fowler was first elected mayor of St. Albert in 1965, and served a single term. He did not seek re-election in 1968. He returned to office in 1980 by acclamation to replace the retiring Ronald Harvey. He was acclaimed again in 1983 and re-elected in 1986 with nearly seventy percent of the vote. He resigned in 1989, months before the end of his third term, to run as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1989 provincial election in St. Albert. Incumbent New Democrat Bryan Strong was not seeking re-election, and Fowler defeated his closest challenger, Liberal Len Bracko, by more than two thousand votes. He was appointed Solicitor General by Premier Don Getty and served as such until February 1992, when Getty appointed him to the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Gibbon
Ray M. Gibbon ( – October 16, 1999), "Ald. Ray Gibbon, a 66-year-old life insurance agent"... is a former mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, having served in this capacity from 1968 to 1974, and briefly again in 1989. By profession, Gibbon was a contract life insurance agent. He also served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Gibbon ran for St. Albert Town Council in 1964, and was defeated. However, he challenged the result in court, alleging that the polling stations were not able to properly conduct their function and that many voters were improperly turned away. In response, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench ordered new elections to be held. These took place in 1965, and Gibbon was elected to Council. Three years later, Gibbon was elected to mayor, an office he occupied until being defeated in 1974 by Richard Plain, who accused Gibbon of fostering an environment of unconstrained municipal growth. In 1969 Gibbon joined the executive of the Alberta Urban Municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Plain
Richard Plain (born 1939 or 1940) is a Canadian politician. Plain is the former mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, having served from 1974 to 1977 and again from 2001 to 2004. In February 2007, he announced that he would seek a third term as mayor in the 2007 election.http://www.stalbertgazette.com/news/2007/0228/top2.htm By profession, Plain is a health economist; he retired from the University of Alberta in 2001. In this capacity, he has been critical of several health care initiatives of the Alberta government headed by Ralph Klein. These have included Bill 11 (the 1997 government bill to expand the private sector's role in delivering publicly insured health services), the 2002 report by former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski, and the abortive "third way" plan to change the mix of public and private health care delivery. Plain was elected mayor in 1974, defeating incumbent Ray Gibbon in an election that was fought primarily on issues of development, with Plain fav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Chalifoux
Paul Chalifoux is a politician and the former mayor of St. Albert, Alberta. He served two terms as mayor, first one having taken place from 1998 to 2001 and the second from 2004 to 2007. Career Chalifoux's first attempt at winning elected office was in the 1968 federal election, when he ran for the Liberal Party of Canada in the riding of Pembina. He finished a distant second to Progressive Conservative Jack Bigg. Before serving as mayor, Chalifoux was a city alderman and the assistant principal of St. Albert Catholic High School.http://www.stalbertgazette.com/news/2004/1020/top1.htm In 1998, he defeated three-term incumbent Anita Ratchinsky in an election whose major issue was the alignment of the proposed West Regional Road. Ratchinsky favoured a road that would bypass the developed portion of the city to the west by crossing the Sturgeon River close to the mouth of Big Lake, while Chalifoux supported an alignment that would cross the river further upstream. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nolan Crouse
Nolan Crouse is the former Mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada and a former candidate for the leadership of the Alberta Liberal Party. Background Crouse was born in Viking, Alberta and attended Irma High School in nearby Irma. He received a Master of Business Administration from Cape Breton University. While in Grande Prairie, he was a co-founder of the Grande Prairie Indoor Ice Society, an organization that raised funds for the Canada Games Arena (now Revolution Place) needed to host the 1995 Canada Winter Games. Crouse sat on the bid committee that led preparations to host the Canada Winter Games. He is also a former hockey coach that had stints with both the Fort Saskatchewan Traders and the Brooks Bandits of the Alberta Junior Hockey League as well as the St. Albert Merchants of the Capital Junior Hockey League that plays in the Edmonton Region. Crouse has held managerial positions with several companies, including Procter and Gamble (winner of the Canadian Pulp and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayors Of St
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as the means by which a mayor is elected or otherwise mandated. Depending on the system chosen, a mayor may be the chief executive officer of the municipal government, may simply chair a multi-member governing body with little or no independent power, or may play a solely ceremonial role. A mayor's duties and responsibilities may be to appoint and oversee municipal managers and employees, provide basic governmental services to constituents, and execute the laws and ordinances passed by a municipal governing body (or mandated by a state, territorial or national governing body). Options for selection of a mayor include direct election by the public, or selection by an elected governing council or board. The term ''mayor'' shares a linguistic or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
