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1980 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality Elections
Elections were held on November 10, 1980 in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. This page lists the election results for local mayors, reeves and councils of the RMOC in 1980. Cumberland Reeve race Council ''Four to be elected'' Gloucester Reeve race Betty Stewart was re-elected After a judicial recount conducted December 9–10. Election night results showed her opponent, Fred Barrett ahead as did a recount conducted on November 16. Council ''Six to be elected; top two to sit on regional council'' Goulbourn Mayoral race Council Kanata Mayoral race Council Nepean Mayoral race ''(216 of 218 polls)'' Council Nepean voters also voted to legalize wine stores in the city. Osgoode Reeve race Council ''4 to be elected'' Ottawa Mayor race Rideau Reeve race Council Rockcliffe Park Rockcliffe Park ( French: ''Parc Rockcliffe'') is a neighbourhood in Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward, close to the centre of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Municipality Of Ottawa-Carleton
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment ( environmental geography). Geographic regions and sub-regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined, and sometimes transitory boundaries, except in human geography, where jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law. More confined or well bounded portions are called ''locations'' or ''places''. Apart from the global continental regions, there are also hydrospheric and atmospheric regions that cover the oceans, and discrete climates above the land and water masses of the planet. The land and water global regions are divided into subregions geographically bounded by large geological features that influence large-scale ecologies, such as plains and features. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des Adam
Des Adam (born 9 September 1945 in Perth, Ontario) served as the second mayor of Kanata, Ontario Kanata (, ) is a satellite city, satellite community and former city within Ottawa, Ontario. It is located about west of the city's Downtown Ottawa, downtown core. As of 2021, the former City of Kanata had a population of 98,938, with the ... from 1985 to 1991. Adam served for two terms as mayor until he was defeated by Merle Nicholds in the 12 November 1991 municipal election. He currently remains in the community working as a real estate lawyer. References * * * 1945 births Living people Mayors of Kanata People from Perth, Ontario 20th-century mayors of places in Ontario {{Ontario-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Turmel
John C. Turmel (born February 22, 1951) is a perennial candidate for election in Canada, and according to the ''Guinness World Records'' holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost, having contested 112 elections and lost 111. The other contest was a by-election that was pre-empted by a general election call. Background Turmel, who describes himself as a "Libertarian Socred", believes in Louis Even's Quebec social credit theory of monetary reform and has also campaigned for the legalization of gambling, the adoption of " Local Employment Trading Systems" (LETS) which are interest-free barter arrangements, and for the legalization of marijuana. He describes his platform as "I want no cops in gambling, sex or drugs or rock and roll, I want no usury on loans, pay cash or time, no dole." He has participated in several protests outside of Canada's major banking institutions, saying that bank interest promotes poverty and starvation in the thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Nicol
Patricia Marilyn Nicol (' Ready; March 23, 1935 – October 20, 2023) was a Canadian politician, developer, television commentator and newspaper columnist. She served as an alderman on Ottawa City Council from 1975 to 1976, and on the Ottawa Board of Control from 1977 to 1978. Considered to be on the "extreme right end" of the political spectrum at city hall, she was known for her "fiery speaking style" and her divisiveness led her to stand "alone... against the rest of city council on big issues". She was also known for her political rivalry with Ottawa's left leaning mayor, Marion Dewar, whom she ran against twice for Ottawa's top job. Early life Nicol was born and raised in Elmdale-Victoria Ward in Ottawa, the daughter of Catholic farmer Thomas P. Ready and Hilda Margaret Waters. She grew up in a large, poor family in the Westboro neighbourhood during the Depression. She was taught as a child that "anything (she) wanted was there to go after". Nicol attended Immaculata High S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Dewar
Marion Hilda Dewar (February 17, 1928 – September 15, 2008) was a prominent member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), List of mayors of Ottawa, mayor of Ottawa from 1978 to 1985 and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1987 to 1988. Early life Dewar was born Marion Bell in 1928 in Montreal, the daughter of Agnes and Wilson Bell. She was raised in the town of Buckingham, Quebec, just outside Ottawa. She graduated from Hotel Dieu Hospital (Kingston, Ontario)#St. Joseph's School of Nursing, Saint Joseph's School of Nursing in Kingston, Ontario, in 1949 and was a nurse in the Ottawa region until 1952. She married civil servant Ken Dewar in 1951 and went into public health with the Victorian Order of Nurses. A devoted Catholic Church, Roman Catholic, she would have 5 children, the last in 1963. She later studied nursing science and public health at the University of Ottawa, and was a public health nurse from 1969 to 1971. Ottawa city politics Dewar became an Ottawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (Canada), National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the list of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, fourth-largest city and list of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and the headquarters of the federal government. The city houses numerous List of diplomatic missions in Ottawa, foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Government of Canada, Canada's government; these include the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Thompson
Douglas Thompson was a councillor in the city of Ottawa for the Osgoode Ward. Thompson was also the former mayor of Osgoode Township prior to the amalgamation with the new City of Ottawa. Prior to being mayor of Osgoode, Thompson was a municipal councillor in the township for 14 years. Prior to entering politics, Thompson was a teacher for 35 years before retiring. He lives in the community of Greely where he has lived since 1967. He has coached minor hockey and baseball. He graduated from Carleton University, with a degree in History and Political Science. Thompson served as acting mayor of Ottawa for one month in 2009 while mayor Larry O'Brien took a leave of absence to deal with a criminal investigation. Electoral history Thompson was elected as mayor of Osgoode in the 1997 elections, defeating Jim Waddell and the incumbent mayor Lloyd Cranston. Osgoode was amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001. In the first municipal elections for the amalgamated city, held in 2000, Thompson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osgoode Township, Ontario
Osgoode Township is a former township that is now a part of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The township along the Rideau River was established in 1798 and incorporated in 1850. It was an independent township in Carleton County, Ontario, Carleton County until its amalgamation with the city in 2001. It remains a largely rural area with only some 23,285 inhabitants as of the 2016 census. As of the Canada 2021 Census, this had increased to 24,199. On Ottawa city council it is represented by George Darouze. Several branches of the Castor River (Ontario), Castor River, a tributary of the South Nation River, flow through the township. The township took its name from William Osgoode, the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada. History Originally the territory of the Mississaugas, the land for the township was acquired by the British in the 1780s. But not until 1827 did the first European settlers, the McDonnell and York families, arrive. The early settlers were attracted to the are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Reid (Canadian Football)
Clifford Frank Reid (February 11, 1946–October 20, 2022) was a Canadian football player and politician. He played for the Ottawa Rough Riders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and played college football at the University at Buffalo. After his football career, he spent 11 years on Nepean City Council, including six years as a member of the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council. The son of Clifford and Kathleen Reid, Frank Reid moved to Ottawa at the age of 12, and attended Fisher Park High School. After his football career, he moved back to the Ottawa area in 1976, and began a career as a computer salesman.Nepean councillor joins race for region's top post: inal EditionYonson, Doug. The Ottawa Citizen ttawa, Ont02 Jan 1991: C1. He later entered politics, running twice unsuccessfully for a spot on Nepean City Council before being elected in 1980. At the time of the 1980 election, he was a tax consultant and promised to "improve rapport between business and council, provide more activiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gord Hunter
Gordon W. Hunter (born January 20, 1946) was an Ottawa City Councillor. He represented Knoxdale-Merivale Ward. On January 31, 2010, he announced that he would not be running re-election to city council in 2010. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Hunter was born into a military family and moved frequently during his childhood. He attended Lakefield College School, Dalhousie University, and University of Toronto, graduating in 1968. He moved to Nepean in 1968 to become a teacher at Confederation High School, and taught physical education there for thirty-one years until the school closed in 1999. He was also a national champion at orienteering. He ran for the federal Liberal Party in the 1980 federal election, but lost to Progressive Conservative Walter Baker by more than 12,000 votes. He ran again in the 1984 federal election, and lost by almost 21,000 votes. (This was the election where the Progressive Conservatives swept to power with a majority government.) Hunter entered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beryl Gaffney
Beryl Gaffney ( Clark; April 1, 1930) is a Canadian former politician and public servant. She served as a city councillor in Nepean, Ontario from 1978 to 1988 serving concurrently on the council of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, she was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as the Liberal MP for Nepean in the 1988 federal election and was re-elected in 1993 and served as chair of the Standing Committee on Human Rights and the Status of Disabled Persons from 1994 to 1996. During this period she was diagnosed with a brain tumour and, after successful surgery, was able to return to the House of Commons to resume her valuable contribution to health issues. She did not run for re-election in 1997. In 1998, Gaffney was appointed to the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre by Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy Lloyd Norman Axworthy (born December 21, 1939) is a Canadian politician, elder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
