Eugène Martineau (1837–1880) was mayor of Ottawa from 1872 to 1873,the first francophone mayor for Ottawa after the town's name was changed from Bytown. [1]
He was born in Saint-Nicholas,Lower Canada in 1837. Martineau came to Ottawa some time before 1860. A stone building on Murray Street in the Byward Market area now known as Heritage House,previously known as the Martineau Hotel,was built by Martineau in 1872. He served at least 16 years as alderman on the City Council. Martineau promoted the building of an aqueduct across the Lebreton Flats to provide water to the city. Late in life,he encountered financial problems in his business interests and died in 1880.
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological,holistic,religious and feminine angle,translated works by Auguste Comte,and,rarely for a woman writer at the time,earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects,including key political,religious,and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other,male or female,of her generation."
The current Ottawa City Hall is the city hall of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada. The downtown complex consists of two connected buildings:a modern wing located on Laurier Avenue and a 19th-century heritage wing located on Elgin Street. Although City Hall has frontage on two major streets,the main entrance is on Laurier Avenue,and the municipal address is 110 Laurier Avenue West.
John Bower Lewis,was the second mayor of Bytown in 1848,the first mayor of Ottawa from 1855 to 1857,and a member of the 2nd Canadian Parliament from 1872 to 1873.
The Stony Monday Riot took place in Bytown,Ontario on Monday September 17,1849.
Eugène Martineau may refer to:
Thomas Birkett was mayor of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada in 1891 and a member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Ottawa City from 1900 to 1904.
Samuel Bingham was the Mayor of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada between 1897 and 1898.
John Peter Featherston was the mayor of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada,from 1874 to 1875.
Martineau is a surname. It is of French origin and may refer to:
Edward H. Hinchey was mayor of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada in 1912.
François Martineau was a Canadian politician.
Richard Chamberlain was a Liberal and later Liberal Unionist politician in the United Kingdom.
The Martineau family is an intellectual,business and political dynasty associated first with Norwich and later also London and Birmingham,England. Many members of the family have been knighted. Many family members were prominent Unitarians;a room in London's Essex Hall,the headquarters building of the British Unitarians,was named after them. Martineau Place in Birmingham's central business district was named in their honour.
John C. Dayton was a Michigan politician.
Charles Thomas Ick was Mayor of Christchurch,New Zealand,from December 1878 to December 1880. Born in Shropshire,he learned the trade of a mercer and draper. The Icks had five children when they emigrated to Otago in 1858. He worked in his learned trade in Dunedin for five years before becoming a farmer in Waikouaiti for seven years. In 1870,he came to Christchurch and set himself up as an auctioneer and later opened a drapery business.
George T. Clark was an American banker and politician.
Richard Barrett Connolly was an American politician from New York.
Frances Elizabeth Lupton was an Englishwoman of the Victorian era who worked to open up educational opportunities for women. She married into the politically active Lupton family of Leeds,where she co-founded Leeds Girls' High School in 1876 and was the Leeds representative of the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women.
Herbert Franklin Sheldon was an American politician and real estate businessman in Ottawa,Kansas. He served as Ottawa's mayor and was a state senator.
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