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Mayor Of London, Ontario
The mayor of London is head of London City Council. The 65th and current mayor of the city is Josh Morgan (politician), Josh Morgan. London was incorporated as a town in 1848, and became a city in 1855. Originally, mayors were elected on January 1 for one-year terms. The following is a list of mayors of London, Ontario, London: Chain of office Since 1957, each sitting mayor has been honoured and presented with the chain of office to wear during their term of office. The chain of office is to be worn by the mayor during council sessions and other official occasions, including opening and closing ceremonies such as London's hosting of national and international sports and athletic competitions. The chain contains medallions engraved with subjects of local significance. The chain is also engraved with the names of the mayors who have worn it since it was commissioned. There are currently eleven names of previous mayors engraved on the chain. Town of London *Simeon Morrill (1848 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of London, Ontario
London (pronounced ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River, approximately from both Toronto and Detroit; and about from Buffalo, New York. The city of London is politically separate from Middlesex County, though it remains the county seat. London and the Thames were named in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital city of Upper Canada. The first European settlement was between 1801 and 1804 by Peter Hagerman. The village was founded in 1826 and incorporated in 1855. Since then, London has grown to be the largest southwestern Ontario municipality and Canada's 11th largest metropolitan area, having annexed many of the smaller communities that surround it. London is a regional centre of healthcare and education, being home to the University of Western Ontario (which brands itse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Cronyn
Benjamin Cronyn (11 July 1802 – 21 September 1871) was the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Huron. Cronyn was born in Kilkenny, Ireland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p195: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 A member of the prominent Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy Cronyn family, and a relative of Robert Whitehead, he emigrated to Canada in 1832. He was posted to London, Ontario, where he completed the church building started by his predecessor. In 1844 he relocated the church to a better site, now occupied by St Paul's Cathedral. When the new Diocese of Huron was created in 1857 he was elected its first bishop and travelled to London, UK to be consecrated, the last Canadian bishop required to go to Britain to do so. A noted Low Church cleric, he distrusted what he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Sydney Little
Edgar Sydney Little (November 5, 1885 – December 23, 1943) was a Canadian businessman and politician. The son of Colonel John William Little and Kate Nicholson Little, he was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He was the fifth boy out of seven. The family lived at 245 Dufferin Avenue, across from Centre Park, now known as Victoria Park. Their home is today the site of the London Life building. He attended Talbot Street School in the first year of the century and later Central Collegiate, and finally the University of Toronto. He majored in English, history and Business, and combined these with an interest in politics - his father being a mayor of London, Ontario, in the years 1895, 1896, and 1897. In 1907, he entered into the employ of the firm of Robinson Little and Company and was secretary of that company from 1913 until it was dissolved. He was also secretary of the Holeproof Hosiery Company of Canada Ltd, which was founded by his father, and held the same position at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Somerville
Charles Ross Somerville (September 9, 1856 – March 28, 1931) was a manufacturer and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of London from 1918 to 1919. Biography The son of John Brown Somerville and Elizabeth McKinnon, he was born in Morton, Leeds County and was educated in Goderich. In 1888, he established himself in business in London as a manufacturer of paper boxes and confections. Somerville retired from business in 1909. His first wife, May Maddocks, died in 1896. He remarried to Christina Wilson on July 1, 1891, and they had two sons. Somerville served on the public school board and on the board of governors for the University of Western Ontario. He ran unsuccessfully for the London seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1921 as a Liberal, losing to John Franklin White. Somerville Limited was purchased in 1910 by J. K. and D. H. McDermid and expanded over time, with five plants in London(2), Walkerville, Strathroy and Neustad. In 1944, the company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Allan Stevenson
Doctor Hugh Allan Stevenson (October 2, 1870 – May 28, 1942) was a physician and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of London in 1915 and from 1916 to 1917. Stevenson represented London in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1923 as a Labour member. He was born in London and was educated there. Stevenson served two years on London city council. He also served two years on the public utilities commission and two years as a water commissioner. Stevenson also served as a major in the local militia. Stevenson was elected to the Ontario assembly in 1919, defeating Adam Beck, who was running as an independent. He ran unsuccessfully for the London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ... seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1935. On May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Judd
Joseph Coulson Judd, (February 1, 1864 – January 14, 1926) was a lawyer and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of London from 1906 to 1907. The son of Hubert Henry Judd, a native of England, and Margaret Coluson, he was born in London, Canada West, and was educated there and at Osgoode Hall Law School. Judd was called to the Ontario bar in 1886 and joined the London law firm of Meredith & Meredith, becoming a partner. He served on London city council from 1891 to 1894. From 1895 to 1897, he was a water commissioner. He also served as chairman of the library board and of the water commission. He ran unsuccessfully for the Middlesex South seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1900, losing to Malcolm McGugan. Also in 1900, he was named police magistrate for London. From 1903 to 1904, Judd was chairman of the city council's finance committee. He was named King's Counsel in 1908. Judd was also president of the London and Port Stanley Railway from 1906 to 1907. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Thomas Campbell
Doctor Clarence Thomas Campbell (December 27, 1843 – 1922) was a physician, historian and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of London in 1905. The son of Thomas Campbell, a native of Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ... who was of Scottish descent, he was born in London and was educated there, going on to study medicine at the Cleveland Western Medical College and the Homeopathic College of Philadelphia. In 1886, he set up practice in London. In 1906, Campbell was named inspector of post offices for London division. He served on London city council from 1901 to 1903. He was also chair of the school board and of the local board of health. He was a long-time member of the Medical Council of Ontario, also serving as its president. He was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Beck
Sir Adam Beck (June 20, 1857 – August 15, 1925) was a Canadian politician and hydroelectricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. Biography Beck was born in Baden, Upper Canada (now Ontario) to German immigrants, Jacob Beck and Charlotte Hespeler (sister of William Hespeler). He was the great-great-grandson of Count Károly Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (1723–1795). He attended school at the Rockwood Academy in Rockwood, Ontario. As a teenager he worked in his father's foundry, and later established a cigar-box manufacturing company in Galt (now Cambridge, Ontario) with his brother William. In 1885, he moved the company to London, Ontario, where it quickly flourished and established Beck as a wealthy and influential civic leader. He was also involved in horse breeding and racing, and at a horse show in 1897 he met Lilian Ottaway of Hamilton daughter of Cuthbert Ottaway and Marion Stinson. Lilian's mother, by then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Rumball
Frederick George Rumball (December 8, 1853 – October 1, 1940) was a Canadian lumber merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of London, Ontario from 1900 to 1901. The son of Benjamin Rumball and Mary Johnson, both natives of England, he was born in Clinton, Huron County, Canada West. Rumball was educated there and apprenticed as a carpenter, later working as a general contractor and then entering the lumber business. He moved to London in 1881. Rumball was president of the Columbia Handle Company, the Southwestern Traction Company, the Monarch Fire Insurance Company of Canada and the Hourde Manufacturing Company. He was first elected to London city council in 1897, serving for two years. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the London seat in the Ontario Legislative Assembly in 1905. Rumball was married twice: first to Agnes Aikenhead in 1878 and then to A. A. Perdue in 1902. Rumball died in London at the Victoria Hospital at the age of 86. His gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Little
Colonel John William Little(JW) was a businessman and mayor of London, Ontario, Canada from 1895 to 1897. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on June 18, 1848, the first-born child of Thomas Little and Rebecca Robinson. He was raised and educated in Montreal. In 1875, he moved to London, Ontario and joined his uncle in a partnership that became Robinson, Little. The company rapidly expanded throughout Ontario, the North-West Territories and British Columbia, buying out, in 1887, J.B. Laing & Co., in 1890, John Birrell & Co., both of London and in 1908 they acquired Greenshields Western Ltd. He was also vice-chair of the Board of Governors of the University of Western Ontario, where he was a major influence in re-organization of the university when in 1908 it became a civic enterprise and also non-denominational. His generosity made possible the building of a stadium for both sports and convocations, which was completed in 1929 and named in his honour the J.W. Little Memori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Essery
Emanuel Thomas Essery, (1843 – March 25, 1937) was a lawyer and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of London, Ontario from 1893 to 1894. The son of William H. Essery, he was born in London, Canada West and was educated there and at Toronto University. Essery was president of the London & Port Stanley Railway. He ran unsuccessfully for the London seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1894. He served during the Fenian raids. Essery married Eliza Jane Wales. In 1908, he was named King's Counsel. Essery was a prominent Orangeman and was president of the local St. George's Society and Sons of England. He was London Grand Master for the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, grand secretary for the Canadian Order of Beavers and grand treasurer for the Ontario chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. He died in 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Smith Hyman
Charles Smith ("C.S.") Hyman, (August 31, 1854 – October 8, 1926) was a Canadian businessman, and notable politician and sportsman. He was a popular tennis player and won a record five Canadian Opens until broken by Ivan Lendl with six titles. Early life and business Born in London, Canada West, the son of Ellis Walton Hyman, a tanner and entrepreneur, and Annie Maria Niles, he was educated at Hellmuth Academy in London and then started a shoe factory with his father in 1874. In 1876, he married Elizabeth Birrell, and two years they had Idlewyld mansion built, which is now an inn. Hyman was president of the London Board of Trade from 1881 to 1882. In 1916 he built a summer estate in Port Stanley Ontario on the shore of Lake Erie. He was also a tannery owner. Politics Hyman was elected to London city council in 1882 and was mayor in 1884. He first ran as a Liberal candidate against John Carling for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1887 election for the riding of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
