The Board of Control of

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, Ontario, Canada, was a part of its municipal government until it was abolished in 1969. It served as the

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of the

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. When it was initially created in 1896 by mandate of the provincial government, it consisted of three Controllers appointed from and by the

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, and presided over by the

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. Beginning in 1904, the Board of Control was directly elected by the city's electorate and consisted of four Controllers, presided over by the Mayor. Each voter could vote for up to four candidates, and the four with the most votes were elected. By tradition the controller who received the most votes would get the powerful budget chief position.

Functions

Under the ''Municipal Act'', the Board of Control had the following duties and powers: #the preparation and certification of all estimates for expenditures #the preparation of specifications for tenders, and making awards thereon # the nomination to council of all heads of departments and related staff, and the recommendation of appropriate salaries #the inspection and reporting (at least monthly) on all municipal works carried on or in progress #the submission of by-laws to the council #the authority to amalgamate departments and sub-departments #other powers as the council has delegated by-law or resolution With respect to the first three items, the board's actions could only be overturned by a two-thirds vote of the council.

History

From 1896 until 1904, the Toronto Board of Control was an executive branch of Council, chaired by the Mayor. It handled all daily business of Council and reported to Council. In the early 20th century, elected Boards of Control were introduced as a reform measure for all cities in Ontario. The board was designed to be the equivalent of a cabinet for municipal governments. It had certain specific duties such as issuing tenders and appointing department heads. In Toronto it often did not function as such. Since the controllers were elected separately from the mayor, there was no guarantee they would be allied. Moreover, since controllers contested citywide elections they were often seen as the natural contenders for the mayoralty and as challengers to the incumbent mayor. Many controllers thus had a self-interest in blocking the mayor from succeeding. Relations between the Board of Control and council were also sometimes difficult, with the Board often acting as an independent council at odds with the larger body. In 1961 the provincial government allowed cities with more than 100,000 people to abolish the Board of Control.

voted to do so in December 1968 after a long debate. The move was opposed by Mayor William Dennison along with three of the sitting controllers, but it was passed by a significant majority of council. The Board of Control was replaced with a new executive committee that would be composed of and elected by city council members. The size of city council was expanded by four to retain the same overall number of councillors. William Peyton Hubbard, the son of American slaves who had escaped to Canada through the

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, was elected to the first Board of Control in 1904 and served for four terms - he would be he only Black person or

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to sit on the body; Joseph Singer became the first Jewish candidate to win citywide office in 1923; Jean Newman was the first woman elected to the Board and served from 1957 to 1960.Former Alderman and Controller, Ms. Jean Newman dies at 66." ''Toronto Star.'' October 6, 1971.

City of Toronto Controllers

Names in

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indicate Controllers that became

in other years. Names in

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are individuals who only sat on the Board of Control as mayor. :X = elected as Controller
:M = sitting as Mayor :B = elected as Controller in a

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:A = appointed Controller to fill a vacancy

From 1896 to 1903

Municipal Boards of Control were created by the provincial government as a reform measure. From 1896 to 1903 the Toronto Board of Control was appointed by vote of Toronto City Council from among its own members and acted as an

or municipal cabinet. Controllers were chosen at the first council meeting in January after the annual municipal election. Three Controllers sat on the Board, in addition to the Mayor, until 1901 when the number of Controllers was increased to four. *Fleming resigned as mayor on August 6, 1897. Council elected Shaw to complete his term.

From 1904 to 1929

Originally, the Board of Control was appointed by the city council. In 1903, the Ontario legislature passed a law requiring municipal boards of control to be chosen through direct election by the municipality's voters. This requirement became effective in Toronto with the 1904 municipal election. * Richardson resigned after his election agent was charged with bribery. Shaw was elected to replace him in a by-election.

1930s and 1940s

From 1950 to abolition

With the formation of

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in April 1953, the two most senior controllers, in terms of votes at the municipal election, also sat on Metropolitan Toronto Council along with the

, the senior alderman from each of Toronto's nine wards, and mayors and reeves elected from the suburbs. * Mayor Summerville died in office, Givens was appointed mayor in his place. Archer was appointed to the Board of Control to fill the vacancy. ** In 1954, Controller Shannon died and Ward 9 Alderman Roy E. Belyea was appointed in his place."Precedent Cited for Filling Vacancies From City Council, ''The Globe and Mail'' (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. oronto, Ont2 Nov 1963: 4 *** Mayor Lamport resigned as mayor to become vice-chairman of the

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, Saunders was appointed mayor in his place and Ward 8 Alderman Ross Lipsett was appointed to the Board of Control to fill the vacancy.

Election results

; 1966 :

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- 88,036 : June Marks - 77,655 : Herbert Orliffe - 76,412 : Allan Lamport - 67,677 :

George Ben George Ben (September 5, 1925 – December 17, 1978) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Bracondale and then Humber in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1965 as a Liberal member until his defeat in the 1971 provi ...

- 63,206 : Joseph Piccininni - 58,122 :Phyllis Clarke - 10,162 :Arthur Young - 9,550 :John Charles Ewing - 6,071 :Dorothy Cureatz - 4,262 :Shaba Musa - 2,399 ;

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...

: William Dennison - 68,892 : Herbert Orliffe - 66,280 :

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- 65,593 :

- 60,900 :

- 59,751 : Richard Horkins - 47,906 :Harry Bradley - 12,949 :Phyllis Clarke - 10,284 :Fred Graham - 9,673 :Patricia Mitchell - 6,750 ;

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

Philip Givens Philip Gerald Givens, (April 24, 1922 – November 30, 1995) was a Canadian politician and judge. He was the Mayor of Toronto, a Member of Parliament (MP) and Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP). He was born and raised in Toronto and at ...

- 88,629 : Allan Lamport - 84,902 : William Dennison - 76,504 : Herbert Orliffe - 73,118 :

- 72,108 : Ken Waters - 62,019 :Phyllis Clarke - 16,151 :Frederick Graham - 10,475 :Dorothy Cureatz - 6,752 ; 1960 : Donald Summerville - 110,893 :

William Allen William Allen may refer to: Politicians United States *William Allen (congressman) (1827–1881), United States Representative from Ohio *William Allen (governor) (1803–1879), U.S. Representative, Senator, and 31st Governor of Ohio *William ...

- 110,256 : William Dennison - 76,169 :

- 66,972 : Herbert Orliffe - 65,418 : Francis Chambers - 30,696 :William Harris - 14,493 :Jessie Jackson - 14,062 :Burke - 13,240 ;

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

: Jean Newman - 59,243 :

- 52,462 : Donald Summerville - 49,476 : William Dennison - 33,612 : Leslie Saunders - 33,469 : Roy E. Belyea - 27,024 :

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- 25,195 :James Karfilis - 10,971 :Harry Bradley - 10,499 :

Ross Dowson Ross Jewitt Dowson (September 4, 1917 – February 17, 2002) was a Canadian Trotskyist political figure. Early life Dowson was born on September 4, 1917, the third of what was eventually a family of seven children in a working-class family in ...

- 4,539 :George Rolland - 3,834 ; 1956 : Jean Newman - 54,785 : Ford Brand - 54,178 :

- 54,038 : Joseph Cornish - 49,385 : Leslie Saunders - 47,048 :Harry Bradley - 16,450 :Charles Sims - 6961 :George Rolland - 5,632 ; 1955 : Ford Brand - 59,264 : Joseph Cornish - 55,162 :

- 53,455 : Leslie Saunders - 46,528 :Arthur Brown - 41,351 :Harry Bradley - 14,802 : Alex Hodgins - 13,503 :Harry Hunter - 9,493 :George Rolland - 3,923 :George Stanton - 3,863 ; 1954 : Ford Brand - 69,540 : Roy E. Belyea - 66,223 : David Balfour - 62,871 : Joseph Cornish - 55,277 : Ross Lipsett - 45,385 :Harry Bradley - 20,488 :Harry Hunter - 14,114 :Nobleman - 9,413 :George Rolland - 5,280 ; 1953 : Leslie Saunders - 62,397 : Louis Shannon - 57,635 : Ford Brand - 54,635 : David Balfour - 51,393 : Joseph Cornish - 46,701 :Harry Bradley - 18,686 :Harry Hunter - 14,194 ;

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

: Leslie Saunders - 71,597 : Louis Shannon - 61,154 : David Balfour - 58,898 : Ford Brand - 58,648 : Joseph Cornish - 41,086 : John McMechan - 30,219 : Stewart Smith - 19,061 :Harry Bradley - 17,480 :Frederick Vacher - 7,065 :Mahoney - 7,046 ;

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

: Leslie Saunders - 95,838 : Ford Brand - 92,725 : David Balfour - 91,474 : Louis Shannon - 87,440 : Stewart Smith - 31,317 :Frederick Vacher - 20,039 ; December 1950 : John Innes - 93,656 : David Balfour - 81,577 : Leslie Saunders - 80,703 : Louis Shannon - 74,859 : Ford Brand - 66,235 : W.H. Collings - 59,380 : Stewart Smith - 28,309 :Mahoney - 8,210 :Frederick Vacher - 7,653 ; January 1950 : John Innes - 96,139 : Leslie Saunders - 87,799 : David Balfour - 78,090 : Allan Lamport - 72,436 : Louis Shannon - 72,059 : Stewart Smith - 45,251 :Harry Bradley- 21,719 :Frederick Vacher - 9,850 ; 1949 : John Innes - 53,599 : Leslie Saunders - 57,746 : David Balfour - 55,271 : Allan Lamport - 52,037 : Stewart Smith - 43,364 : Kenneth Bert McKellar (incumbent) - 41,846 : Leonard Reilly - 20,756 : E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 11,905 :Harry Bradley- 9,701 ; 1948 : Hiram E. McCallum - 83,812 : John Innes - 80,834 : David Balfour - 77,087 : Kenneth Bert McKellar - 75,356 : Stewart Smith - 47,791 :Harry Bradley - 15,711 :Harry Clairmont - 4,858 ;

1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...

: Hiram E. McCallum - 58,524 : John Innes - 53,137 : David Balfour - 51,578 : Kenneth Bert McKellar - 49,680 : Stewart Smith - 42,106 :M.A. Sanderson - 26,136 :Harry Bradley - 10,749 :Harry Clairmont - 4,858 ;

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

: Hiram E. McCallum - 42,126 : Stewart Smith - 41,637 : David Balfour - 40,632 : Kenneth Bert McKellar - 35,627 :

William J. Wadsworth William J. Wadsworth (died March 20, 1949) was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was a long serving municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Flesherton, Ontario and migrated to Toronto when his family moved to the West Toron ...

- 35,477 : Leslie Saunders - 22,040 :Harry Bradley - 6,796 ;

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

: David Balfour - 47,931 :

- 45,942 : Stewart Smith - 41,691 : Hiram E. McCallum - 41,201 : Leslie Saunders - 34,587 : E.C. Bogart - 34,258 : C.D Millen - 30,235 :Harry Bradley - 9,589 ;

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...

Robert Hood Saunders Robert Hood Saunders, CBE, QC (May 30, 1903 – January 16, 1955) was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro (formally named the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario ...

(incumbent) - 73,383 : Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 52,694 :

(incumbent) - 52,485 : David Balfour - 50,599 : Hiram E. McCallum - 50,337 : Stewart Smith - 41,277 : William Dennison - 30,026 :William Muir - 19,061 :Harry Bradley - 7,743 ;

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...

Lewis Duncan James Lewis Duncan (1892 – 8 April 1960) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Early life Duncan was the son of a physician and grandson of a Presbyterian minister. He studied at the University of Toronto and in Paris and won a silver medal a ...

- 40,060 :

- 33,081 : Fred Hamilton - 28,919 :

- 27,031 :C.E. Reynolds - 26,194 :

Minerva Reid Minerva Ellen Reid (20 Oct 1871 – 28 April 1957) was a teacher, medical doctor, and politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1915, Reid became the chief of surgery at Toronto's Women's College Hospital, making her the first woman to hold s ...

- 18,320 :J.C. Irwin - 16,860 :G.P. Granell - 5,010 :Harry Bradley - 3,590 ;

1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...

- 41,656 :

- 28,923 : Fred Hamilton - 28,853 :

- 27,022 :

Ralph Day Ralph Carrette Day (November 24, 1898 – May 21, 1976) was mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1938 to 1940. He was also an accomplished funeral director, owning his own funeral home. He also served as chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission in ...

- 24,208 :

- 20,337 :J.C. Irwin - 18,272 :N. Macmillan - 5,179 :Harry Bradley - 3,102 ;

1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...

- 49,382 : Fred Hamilton - 39,021 :

- 37,417 :

- 33,411 : Adelaide Plumptre - 33,021 : Ernest Bray - 26,391 :

David A. Balfour David Avoca Balfour (1889–1956) was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was active in civic politics from 1939 until 1955. This included twelve years on the Board of Control, a longer service than anyone prior. Balfour was bor ...

- 20,849 :Day - 4,645 :Harry Bradley - 3,271 :Harding - 2,523 ; 1940 : Frederick J. Conboy - 78,672 : Douglas McNish - 68,774 : Fred Hamilton - 60,124 :

- 55,756 :

- 43,261 : Stewart Smith - 19,641 :Harding - 6,548 ; January 1939 : Frederick J. Conboy - 80,720 : Douglas McNish - 73,252 : Fred Hamilton - 54,516 :

- 49,446 :

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- 48,798 :

Tim Buck Timothy Buck (January 6, 1891 – March 11, 1973) was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada (known as the Labor-Progressive Party from 1943 to 1959) from 1929 until 1962. Together with Ernst Thälmann of Germany, Maurice Tho ...

- 43,112 :

- 40,973 : William D. Robbins - 24,745 :Harry Bradley - 3,489 ; December 1937 : Frederick J. Conboy - 60,665 :

- 53,766 : Fred Hamilton - 47,493 : Douglas McNish - 44,402 :

- 44,248 :

- 41,817 :Robert Allen - 15,283 :Harry Bradley - 4,623 ; December 1936 :

- 56,847 : Frederick J. Conboy - 48,976 :

- 48,047 : Fred Hamilton - 39,003 : Douglas McNish - 32,265 :

- 31,342 :Alfred Burgess - 3,983 :Harry Bradley - 3,295 ; January 1936 :

- 68,335 :

- 62,838 : J. George Ramsden - 52,170 : William D. Robbins - 51,465 : Joseph Enoch Thompson - 31,546 :Miller - 30,613 :

- 20,873 :Harry Bradley - 4,986 ; 1935 :

Sam McBride Sam (Samuel) McBride (July 13, 1866 – November 14, 1936) was a two-time Mayor of Toronto serving his first term from 1928 to 1929 and his second term in 1936 which ended prematurely due to his death. He was also a member of the Orange Order ...

- 71,177 :

- 58,783 : William D. Robbins - 44,820 :

- 41,515 : Claude Pierce - 34,064 : Adelaide Plumptre - 32,872 : A.E. Hacker - 29,110 :Frank Regan - 26,242 :

- 9,938 ;

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

- 54,855 : J. George Ramsden - 48,152 : James Simpson - 47,358 : William D. Robbins - 37,714 :

- 36,289 : Claude Pierce - 31,156 :

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- 26,872 :Alice Buck - 9,767 :Harry Bradley - 2,623 ; 1933 : J. George Ramsden - 55,503 :

- 55,323 : James Simpson - 54,218 : William D. Robbins - 48,061 : Albert Hacker - 37,019 :John Boland - 36,645 :William Miller - 18,836 :Cotton - 11,871 :Alice Buck - 10,155 :W.J. Haire - 3,066 :J.H.H. Ballantyne - 2,183 ; 1932 : James Simpson - 42,010 : J. George Ramsden - 38,200 :

- 31,939 : William D. Robbins - 31,067 : Albert Hacker - 30,348 :

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- 23,659 :Cotton - 6,440 :

- 5,974 :Harry Bradley - 1,726 ;

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

: J. George Ramsden - 51,043 : William D. Robbins - 50,801 : James Simpson - 48,105 : Albert Hacker - 43,763 : John Boland - 41,779 :

(incumbent) - 40,431 : W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 19,087 :Foster - 13,491 :Cotton - 9,014 :King - 3,154 :

- 3,010 ;

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...

: W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 47,418 :

- 46,692 : James Simpson - 44,921 : William D. Robbins - 39,023 :Benjamin Miller - 37,156 : Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 31,772 :Brook Sykes - 28,043 :Wesley Benson - 25,054 :Harry Bradley - 2,617 ;

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

Bert Wemp Bert Sterling Wemp (July 3, 1889 – February 5, 1976) was a Canadian journalist and mayor of Toronto. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada. Born in Tweed, Ontario, he was raised in Cabbagetown and attended Dufferin School and J ...

(incumbent) - 43,464 :

Joseph Gibbons Joseph Gibbons may refer to: * Joseph Gibbons (Florida politician) (born 1948), Florida businessman and Democratic politician * Joseph Gibbons (Toronto politician) (died 1946), municipal politician in Toronto, Canada See also * * Joe Gibbon (1935 ...

(incumbent) - 32,734 : W.A. Summerville - 30,292 : A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 28,667 : R.H. Cameron - 27,266 :

- 27,245 : William D. Robbins (incumbent) - 23,796 : James Simpson - 12,816 ;

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

(incumbent) - 47,153 :

(incumbent) - 45,655 : A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 33,433 : William D. Robbins - 29,359 : D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 28,858 :Brook Sykes - 24,427 :Miller - 18,122 : James Simpson - 12,954 ; 1927 :

(incumbent) - 48,739 : A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 43,153 : D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 34,813 :

- 34,450 : J. George Ramsden - 26,489 :

Clifford Blackburn Clifford Blackburn (30 October 1927 – 3 June 2017) was a Canadian boxer. He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as L ...

- 22,959 : Frank Whetter - 21,878 : James Simpson - 10,946 ; 1926 :

(incumbent) - 37,608 :

- 36,211 : A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 31,427 : D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 30,975 : William D. Robbins - 30,320 :

William C. McBrien William Carson McBrien (12 January 1889 – 18 June 1954) was a Canadian business owner and civic administrator. He was a long-serving chairman of the Toronto Transportation Commission and oversaw the construction of Canada's first underground rapi ...

- 29,923 :

- 28,024 : Frank Whetter - 21,722 :W.E. Hamilton - 2,590 ;

1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...

(incumbent) - 39,299 : A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 34,369 : William D. Robbins - 33,172 : D.C. MacGregor - 30,326 : R.H. Cameron (incumbent) - 29,086 : James Simpson - 14,573 :Birks - 4,321 ; 1924 :

(incumbent) - 42,778 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 34,435 : A.E. Hacker - 32,689 : R.H. Cameron - 30,621 : D.C. MacGregor - 26,637 : William D. Robbins - 26,594 :F.M. Johnston - 22,542 :J.R. Beamish - 20,161 ; 1923 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 36,040 :

(incumbent) - 33,740 : Wesley Hiltz (incumbent) - 32,551 : Joseph Singer - 32,033 :

- 30,606 : A.R. Nesbitt (incumbent) - 29,947 :Alfred Burgess - 24,876 :James Russell Lovett Starr - 25,931 ;

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

: Thomas Foster - 23,355 : Wesley Hiltz (incumbent) - 20,001 :

(incumbent) - 18,647 : A.R. Nesbitt (incumbent) - 16,453 : William D. Robbins - 16,814 : R.H. Cameron - 15,403 : J. George Ramsden - 14,721 :

- 12,950 :William Varley - 3,419 ;

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...

: Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 34,141 : Wesley Hiltz - 22,615 :

(incumbent) - 18,612 : A.R. Nesbitt - 19,202 : William D. Robbins - 18,015 : R.H. Cameron (incumbent) - 17,872 : J. George Ramsden (incumbent) - 17,393 : Herbert Henry Ball - 16,911 ; 1920 : Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 28,438 :

- 23,269 : R.H. Cameron (incumbent) - 21,055 : J. George Ramsden - 18,473 : William D. Robbins (incumbent) - 17,716 : Herbert Henry Ball - 16,506 : James Simpson - 10,832 :Wright - 7,927 ;

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...

: Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 19,963 : R.H. Cameron - 19,094 :

(incumbent) - 18,476 : William D. Robbins (incumbent) - 19,270 :

- 16,397 :Garnet Archibald - 15,603 :Fred McBrien - 13,570 ; 1918 : John O'Neill (incumbent) - 24,952 : William D. Robbins - 19,000 :

- 17,850 : Charles A. Maguire - 17,711 : William Henry Shaw (incumbent) - 14,255 :D.C. MacGregor - 14,468 :Garnet Archibald - 8,992 :Miles Vokes - 2,720 :Edward Meek - 2,262 ; 1917 : R.H. Cameron (incumbent) - 15,615 : John O'Neill (incumbent) - 15,141 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 13,939 : William Henry Shaw - 11,967 : James Simpson - 10,779 :

- 10,085 : Frank S. Spence - 9,281 ; 1916 :

Joseph Elijah Thompson Joseph Elijah Thompson (July 19, 1867 – March 16, 1941) was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario from 1924 to 1926 and served as Conservative MLA for St. David and Toronto Northeast from 1919 to 1929. This was the period of the Ontario ...

(incumbent) -18,209 : John O'Neill (incumbent) - 17,572 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 16,085 : R.H. Cameron - 15,391 : James Simpson (incumbent) - 13,080 : Frank S. Spence (incumbent) - 12,652 :John Dunn - 11,009 ;

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...

: John O'Neill (incumbent) - 20,751 : Thomas Foster - 18,608 : Frank S. Spence - 17,747 :

- 16,505 : James Simpson (incumbent) - 16,349 :Fred McBrien - 15,447 :John Wanless - 13,044 ;

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...

: James Simpson - 20,695 : J.O. McCarthy (incumbent) - 17,490 :

Tommy Church Thomas Langton "Tommy" Church (1873 – February 7, 1950) was a Canadian politician. After serving as Mayor of Toronto from 1915 to 1921, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1921 election as a Conservative from the riding ...

(incumbent) - 17,085 : John O'Neill (incumbent) - 14,597 :

- 14,233 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 13,929 :Robert Yeomans - 11,708 :Eckardt - 7,755 ;

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...

: Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 15,861 : John O'Neill - 14,600 : J.O. McCarthy (incumbent) - 14,036 :

(incumbent) - 12,765 : Frank S. Spence (incumbent) - 11,976 :Robert Yeomens - 10,713 : James Simpson - 10,122 : Charles A. Maguire - 9,388 : J.J. Ward - 9,278 :George R. Sweeny - 1,643 :Richard Woods - 498 ;

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

Horatio Clarence Hocken Horatio Clarence Hocken (October 12, 1857 – February 18, 1937) was a Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto, social reformer, a founder of what became the ''Toronto Star'' and Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of British America from ...

(incumbent) - 16,904 : J.O. McCarthy - 14,897 : Thomas Foster - 14,462 :

(incumbent) - 12,149 : Frank S. Spence (incumbent) - 12,003 : J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 11,735 :O'Donohue - 4,022 :George R. Sweeny - 3,921 ; 1911 :

- 22,761 : Frank S. Spence(incumbent) - 16,187 : J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 15,999 :

(incumbent) - 15,760 : Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 15,540 :Thomas Davies - 3,285 ; 1910 : Frank S. Spence - 13,879 : J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 13,401 :

- 12,657 : Thomas Foster - 10,841 : William Spence Harrison (incumbent) - 9,946 : William Peyton Hubbard - 9,498 :Mark Bredin - 8,708 :James Henry McGhie - 7,511 :James Hales - 5,852 :Albert Chamberlain - 2,730 ;

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Januar ...

George Reginald Geary George Reginald Geary, (August 12, 1872 – April 30, 1954) was a Canadian politician. He was a Conservative member of the House of Commons from 1925 to 1935. He also served as Mayor of Toronto from 1910 to 1912. Background Born August 12 ...

- 19,027 :

(incumbent) - 17,380 : J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 15,782 : William Spence Harrison (incumbent) - 13,509 : Frank S. Spence (incumbent) - 12,933 : William Peyton Hubbard - 11,275 :Hales - 8,171 :Robert Buist Noble - 1,287 :James O'Hara - 779 ; 1908 :

(incumbent) - 16,844 : Frank S. Spence - 11,512 : William Spence Harrison (incumbent) - 10,312 : J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 10,075 : William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 9,203 : John Shaw - 6,385 :Robert Fleming - 5,640 :Oliver Sheppard - 5,099 :John Dunn - 4,434 : John Enoch Thompson - 1,291 : James Lindala - 1,220 :Hugh MacMath - 1,013 :Robert Buist Noble - 745 :James O'Hara - 367 :Joel Marvin Briggs - 232 ; 1907 : J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 9,362 : William Spence Harrison - 9,054 :

- 8,639 : William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 8,483 :Robert Fleming - 7,077 : S. Alfred Jones (incumbent) - 6,710 : John Shaw (incumbent) - 6,465 :John Dunn - 5,038 :Davies - 1,390 :Joel Marvin Briggs - 496 ; 1906 : William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 14,081 : S. Alfred Jones - 14,039 : J.J. Ward (incumbent) - 13,770 : John Shaw (incumbent) - 12,524 :Hastings - 11,308 ; 1905 : Frank S. Spence (incumbent) - 13,032 : J.J. Ward - 12,993 : William Peyton Hubbard (incumbent) - 12,880 : John Shaw - 12,436 :James Russell Lovett Starr - 9,823 : Joseph Oliver - 8,141 : Thomas Foster - 6,395 :G.R. Ramsden - 5,839 :Frank Moses - 5,048 :A.R. Denison - 4,925 :

Edward Hanlan Edward Hanlan (12 July 1855 – 4 January 1908) was a Canadian professional sculler, hotelier, and alderman from Toronto, Ontario. Early life Hanlan was born to Irish parents; one of two sons and two daughters. His mother was Mary Gibbs, his fath ...

- 2,178 ; 1904 : Frank S. Spence - 12,294 : John F. Loudon - 11,121 : William Peyton Hubbard - 8,950 : Fred H. Richardson - 8,923 :William Burns - 8,641 :James Russell Lovett Starr - 8,639 : Joseph Oliver - 8,598 : John Shaw - 7,184

Suburban Boards of Control

Several other municipalities in

also created Boards of Control.

Etobicoke Etobicoke (, ) is an administrative district of, and one of six municipalities amalgamated into, the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Comprising the city's west-end, Etobicoke was first settled by Europeans in the 1790s, and the municipalit ...

created its Board of Control in the 1962 municipal election and

North York North York is one of the six administrative districts of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located directly north of York, Old Toronto and East York, between Etobicoke to the west and Scarborough to the east. As of the 2016 Census, it had a popu ...

first elected its Board of Control in the 1964 municipal election.

Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to: People * Scarborough (surname) * Earl of Scarbrough Places Australia * Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong * Scarborough, Queensland, su ...

and

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

launched their boards at the 1966 election. North York, and Scarborough had 5 person boards consisting of their respective mayors and four controllers elected at large while York's board consisted of a mayor and two Controllers.

East York East York is a former administrative district and municipality within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1967 to 1998, it was officially the Borough of East York, a semi-autonomous borough within the upper-tier municipality of Metropolitan Toron ...

never created a Board of Control. Etobicoke's board consisted of the reeve and two Controllers until the 1966 election when it expanded to four Controllers and the mayor. The top two candidates from the Toronto Board of Control also sat on,

Metro Toronto Council The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was an upper-tier level of municipal government in Ontario, Canada, from 1953 to 1998. It was made up of the old city of Toronto and numerous townships, towns and villages that surrounded Toronto, which ...

. Beginning with the 1966 municipal election, several members of suburban Boards of Control sat on Metro Council as well as their borough's council - the number depended on the number of seats on Metro Council that borough was allocated. With the 1988 municipal election, the suburban Boards of Control were abolished and Metro Councillors were instead directly elected from special Metro Wards (consisting of two local wards).

Etobicoke

Beginning in 1966, the top three candidates for Etobicoke's Board of Control also sat on Metro Council. Names in

indicate Controllers that were or became Reeve or Mayor of Etobicoke in other years.

Italics In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, italics normally slant slightly to the right. Italics are a way to emphasise key points in a printed ...

indicate those who only sat on the Board of Control as mayor. X = elected as Controller
A = appointed Controller to fill a vacancy
M = sitting as Reeve or Mayor *Dennis Flynn resigned as mayor as a result of his appointment as Metro Chairman in August 1984. On September 4, 1984, Etobicoke City Council appointed Controller Bruce Sinclair to replace Flynn as mayor and appointed Lois Griffin to fill the Controller position vacated by Sinclair.

North York

Names in

indicate Controllers that were or became Mayor of North York in other years.

indicate those who only sat on the Board of Control as mayor. Beginning in 1966, all of North York's Controllers also sat on Metro Council. X = elected as Controller
A = appointed Controller to fill a vacancy
M = sitting as Reeve or Mayor * Booth died in 1970 and was replaced by Paul Godfrey who served out the balance of his term. Godfrey was reelected in 1972, but resigned when he was elected Metro Chairman in 1973 following the death of Metro Chairman Albert Campbell. North York Council elected Alderman William Sutherland to replace Godfrey on the Board of Control on July 23, 1973. **Shiner died on December 19, 1987. Councillor

Mario Gentile Mario Gentile (b. 1948 or 1949-) is a former municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He served as a councillor and city controller in North York, and was also a member of the Metropolitan Toronto council. His political career ended with ...

was appointed to the Board of Control in February 1988 to fill Shiner's seat.

Scarborough

All of Scarborough's Controllers also sat on Metro Council. X = elected as Controller
A = appointed Controller to fill a vacancy
M = sitting as Mayor *Albert Campbell resigned as mayor after being elected Metro Chairman on October 1, 1969. Scarborough Council appointed Robert W. White to fill the vacancy as mayor and, on October 6, 1969, appointed Alderman Ken Morrish to the Board of Control to fill White's vacant position as Controller.Alderman gels controller post in Scarboro The Globe and Mail (1936-Current); Oct 7, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail pg. 5 **Paul Cosgrove resigned as mayor after being elected to the

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in an October 16, 1978 by-election. Ken Morrish was appointed acting mayor in Cosgrove's place and Frank Faubert was appointed to the Board of Control to fill Morrish's vacated Controller position. Morrish was defeated by Gus Harris in the mayoral election a month later. ***Trimmer served as mayor from 1988 to 1993; Faubert was mayor from 1994 to 1997

York

York's two Controllers also sat on Metro Council. Names in

indicate Controllers that were or became Mayor of York in other years.

indicate those who only sat on the Board of Control as mayor. X = elected as Controller
A = appointed Controller to fill a vacancy
M = sitting as Reeve or Mayor *Brown served as mayor from 1988 to 1994

References

Bibliography: * Notes: *"Toronto Council Votes to Drop Board of Control." ''Toronto Star''. December 19, 1968. pg 31 *"Farewell Board, of Control?" ''Toronto Star''. December 20, 1968. {{DEFAULTSORT:Toronto Board Of Control Board of Control History of Toronto