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Peterborough City Council (Ontario)
The Peterborough City Council is a city council that governs Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It consists of the mayor of Peterborough, Diane Therrien Diane Therrien (born 1985 or 1986) is a Canadian politician who served as the 62nd mayor of Peterborough, Ontario, Peterborough from 2018 to 2022. She was elected in the 2018 Ontario municipal elections. Prior to her mayoral election, she was a ... and ten councillors, who are elected in five two-member wards across the city. Each member serves on various city committees. The council meets on Monday evenings on a three-week rotating basis. City of Peterborough, accessed 16 January 2011. Members 2018-2022 Council Council elected in the 2018 Peterborough municipal elections.References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Therrien
Diane Therrien (born 1985 or 1986) is a Canadian politician who served as the 62nd mayor of Peterborough, Ontario, Peterborough from 2018 to 2022. She was elected in the 2018 Ontario municipal elections. Prior to her mayoral election, she was a city councillor for Ward 3 (Town Ward) from 2014 to 2018. Prior to her political career, Therrien worked for Ontario's Ministry of Indigenous Affairs (Ontario), Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and for the Peterborough Poverty Reduction Network. Early life and education Therrien was born in Mississauga and started studying History and Peace Studies at McMaster University when she was 17-years-old. After getting a bachelor's degree from McMaster University, she obtained her master's degree Trent University, where she studied canadian indigenous issues. Career After graduation, Therrien worked at the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs (Ontario), Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs in Toronto, and for three years as a facilitator of community educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterborough City Hall
Peterborough City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It is a -storey building, located at 500 George Street North, across the street from Confederation Park, the Drill Hall and Armouries and Peterborough Collegiate. The complex consists of two buildings: the City Hall built in 1951 and the former Carnegie Library built in 1911. History Carnegie Building The north wing of the City Hall was the original location of the Peterborough Public Library. Built 1910-1911 using funds from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, it was one of only 125 Carnegie libraries in Canada. The library was built in the Beaux-Arts style by prominent local architect John E. Belcher. The building also housed the collection of the Victoria Museum, the precursor to the Peterborough Museum & Archives. City Hall The cornerstone was laid on December 1, 1950, by Leslie Frost, Premier of Ontario, and City Hall was officially opened in October 1951 by Charlotte Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterborough, Ontario
Peterborough ( ) is a city on the Otonabee River in Ontario, Canada, about 125 kilometres (78 miles) northeast of Toronto. According to the 2021 Census, the population of the City of Peterborough was 83,651. The population of the Peterborough Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), which includes the surrounding Townships of Selwyn, Cavan Monaghan, Otonabee-South Monaghan, and Douro-Dummer, was 128,624 in 2021. In 2021, Peterborough ranked 32nd among the country's 41 census metropolitan areas according to the CMA in Canada. The current mayor of Peterborough is Jeff Leal. Peterborough is known as the gateway to the Kawarthas, "cottage country", a large recreational region of the province. It is named in honour of Peter Robinson, an early Canadian politician who oversaw the first major immigration to the area. The city is the seat of Peterborough County. Peterborough's nickname in the distant past was "The Electric City" as it was the first town in Canada to use electric streetlig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...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] |
Municipal Councils In Ontario
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special district (United States), special-purpose district. The term is derived from French language, French and Latin language, Latin . The English language, English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction (area), jurisd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
