Mary Temple (1903 — December 2, 1995) was an

alderman An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many Jurisdiction, jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council membe ...

on Toronto City Council in the 1960s at a time when few women were elected officials. She also sat on

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as a senior alderman for Ward 7 (High Park), and had been chairman of the Toronto Board of Education in the 1950s. Temple was a school teacher in Saskatchewan before moving to Toronto in 1936, after marrying

William Horace Temple William Horace (Bill) Temple (28 November 1898 – 9 April 1988), nicknamed "Temperance Bill" or "Temperance Willie", was a Canadian democratic socialist politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. As a youth he wo ...

, a travelling sweater salesman who would go on to be an Ontario MPP for the

Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section) – The Farmer-Labor Party of Ontario, or more commonly known as the Ontario CCF, was a democratic socialism, democratic socialist provincial political party in Ontario that existed from 19 ...

in the 1940s and was a

temperance Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture *Temperance (group), Canadian danc ...

crusader in Toronto's west end."

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