List of mayors of St. Thomas, Ontario

This is a list of reeves and mayors of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. St. Thomas was incorporated as a village in 1852, as a town in 1861, and as a city in 1881.

Village reeves

• 1852–1855 — David Parish
• 1856–1856 — Edward Ermatinger
• 1857–1857 — Asa Howard
• 1858–1858 — Thomas Arkell
• 1859–1859 — Archibald McIntyre
• 1860–1860 — Dr. George Southwick

Town reeve

• 1861–1861 — Archilbald McInytre

Town mayors

• 1861–1861 — M.T.Moore
• 1862–1864 — Dr. George Southwick
• 1865–1871 — Thomas Arkell
• 1872–1872 — Archibald McLachlin
• 1873–1876 — Daniel Drake
• 1877–1878 — Dr. D. McLarty
• 1879–1880 — John E Smith

City mayors

1881–1900

• 1881–1882 — Dr. William C. VanBuskirk

  

  First Panel of Mayors & Reeves of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Located in City Hall, Talbot St. St. Thomas.

• 1883–1883 — Dr. Eliphalet Wilbur Gustin
• 1884–1885 — Edward Horton
• 1886–1886 — John E. Smith
• 1887–1888 — John Midgley
• 1889–1890 — Israel Morse
• 1891–1892 — Robert McCully
• 1893–1894 — George L. Oill
• 1895–1896 — William E. Idsardi
• 1897–1898 — Frederick W. Wright
• 1899–1900 — Patrick Meehan

1901–1950

• 1901–1902 — Sperrin Chant
• 1903–1904 — Charles Francis Maxwell
• 1905–1905 — Thomas Meek
• 1906–1907 — Calvin Lawrence
• 1908–1909 — George Geddes
• 1910–1911 — Dr. Frederick Guest
• 1912–1913 — Robert N. Price
• 1914–1915 — Marshall B. Johnson
• 1916–1917 — William Trott
• 1918–1919 — Edward A. Horton
• 1920–1921 — Frank L. Brinkman
• 1922–1923 — Charles E. Raven
• 1924–1925 — George H. Sloggett
• 1926–1927 — John Handford
• 1928–1929 — William Stokes
• 1930–1933 — John A. Jagoe
• 1934–1935 — Angus W. Johnson
• 1936–1938 — Ernest Duckworth
• 1939–1940 — Peter Laing, Jr.
• 1941–1943 — George T. Dyer
• 1944–1945 — Thomas H. Currah
• 1946–1946 — Richard A. Sanders
• 1947–1949 — J. Bruce Caldwell
• 1950–1950 — Major John F. Peterson

1951–present

• 1951–1951 — Dr. E. Cecil Gliddon
• 1952–1954 — Thomas H. Currah
• 1955–1956 — Peter Laing
• 1957–1958 — John M. Stirling

  

  Second Panel of Mayors & Reeves of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Located in City Hall, Talbot St. St. Thomas.

• 1959–1964 — Vincent A. Barrie
• 1965–1966 — Donald R. Stokes
• 1967–1968 — Vincent A. Barrie
• 1969–1971 — Edward O. Fanjoy
• 1972–1974 — Eber J. Rice
• 1975–1976 — M. Wayne Neal
• 1977–1978 — Cliff Barwick
• 1978–1980 — Don Hitch
• 1980–1985 — Doug Tarry
• 1985–1991 — Janet Golding
• 1991–1999 — Stephen J. Peters
• 1999–2000 — Joanne Brooks
• 2000–2003 — Peter Ostojic
• 2003–2006 — Jeff Kohler
• 2006–2010 — Cliff Barwick
• 2010-2018 — Heather Jackson
• 2018-present — Joe Preston

References

• Talbot Times, Vol. II, Issue 4, December 1983 — Newsletter of the Elgin County branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society
• List of leaders in St. Thomas