Toronto municipal election, 1925

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Municipal elections were held in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1925. Thomas Foster was elected mayor ousting incumbent Wesley Hiltz. The election included a referendum where voters passed a motion in favour of building a new water plant. This eventually became the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada, with a population of 2,731,571 in 2016. Current to 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), of which the majority is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. Toronto is the anchor of an urban agglomeration, known as the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Thomas Foster (Canadian politician) Mayor of Toronto

Thomas Foster was the Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1925 to 1927.

R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant

The R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is both a crucial piece of infrastructure and an architecturally acclaimed historic building named after the longtime commissioner of Toronto's public works R.C. Harris. It is located in the east of the city at the eastern end of Queen Street and at the foot of Victoria Park Avenue along the shore of Lake Ontario in the Beaches neighbourhood in the former city of Scarborough.

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Toronto mayor

Hilz had been elected to office the year previously. he was challenged for the mayoralty by long serving politician Thomas Foster. Foster won by a narrow margin in what was a very low turnout election. Two fringe candidates with no previous elected office also ran.

Results
Thomas Foster - 32,885
Wesley Hiltz - 31,408
Harry Winberg - 2,263
Samuel Fieldhouse - 282

Board of Control

There were two new members of the Board of Control returned in this election: D.C. MacGregor and labour leader William D. Robbins. Defeated was R.H. Cameron, a close ally of the mayor.

The Board of Control of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a part of its municipal government until it was abolished in 1969. It served as the executive committee of the Toronto City Council, consisting of four "controllers" elected citywide and presided over by the Mayor. Beginning in 1904, the Board of Control was directly elected by the city's electorate. 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.

William D. Robbins Canadian mayor

William Dullam Robbins was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also a member of the Conservative Party. He served 18 years on city council and the Board of Control before becoming mayor. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada. He died after years of ill health at his Toronto home in 1952.

R.H. Cameron

Robert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s.

Results
Joseph Gibbons (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
James Birks - 4,321

City council

Ward 1 (Riverdale)
Robert Luxton (incumbent) - acclaimed
George J. Smith (incumbent) - acclaimed
W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - acclaimed
Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
Bert Wemp (incumbent) - 4,059
John Winnett (incumbent) - 3,482
Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 3,293
Herbert Henry Ball - 2,913
A.E. Brocklesby - 3,301
Ward 3 (Central Business District and The Ward)
Harry W. Hunt (incumbent) - 3,458
J. George Ramsden - 2,974
Joseph Singer - 2,685
Andrew Carrick (incumbent) - 2,476
John Boland - 1,887
John R. Beamish - 1,790
Charles Mogrdige - 613
Ward 4 (Kensington Market and Garment District)
Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 3,282
Sam McBride (incumbent) - 2,889
Claude Pearce (incumbent) - 2,827
Ian Macdonnell - 2,479
James Muldowney - 516
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
Clifford Blackburn (incumbent) - 5,262
Benjamin Miller (incumbent) - 3,934
William James Stewart (incumbent) - 3,703
Wesley Benson - 2,567
Sumner Graham - 2,280
John Macdonald - 1,349
Arthur E. Fegan - 754
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)
Brook Sykes (incumbent) - 8,477
Samuel Thomas Wright (incumbent) - 7,488
John Laxton (incumbent) - 5,676
Guy Roach - 4,716
Richard Tuthill - 2,318
James Gill - 825
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 3,646
Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 3,385
W.A. Baird - 3,303
Robert Hall - 398
James Morrow -375
Ward 8 (East Toronto)
Robert Dibble (incumbent) - 5,846
Robert Baker (incumbent) - 5,427
William Robertston - 3,993
Joseph Turner (incumbent) - 3,867
Florence Custance - 819

Results taken from the January 1, 1925 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.

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