Toronto municipal election, 1948

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Municipal elections were held in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1948. Robert Hood Saunders was re-elected as mayor in an election that also saw no changes on the Board of Control or City Council.

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.

Robert Hood Saunders Canadian mayor

Robert Hood Saunders, Q.C., CBE was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.

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Toronto mayor

Mayor Robert Hood Saunders faced only Trotskyist Ross Dowson and was easily reelected.

Ross Jewitt Dowson was a Canadian Trotskyist political figure.

Results
Robert Hood Saunders - 118,097
Ross Dowson - 15,008

Board of Control

Results
Hiram E. McCallum (incumbent) - 83,812
John Innes (incumbent) - 80,834
David Balfour (incumbent) - 77,087
Kenneth McKellar (incumbent) - 75,356
Stewart Smith - 47,791
Harry Bradley - 15,711
Harry Clairmont - 4,858

City council

Ward boundaries used in the 1948 election Toronto ward map 1964.PNG
Ward boundaries used in the 1948 election
Ward 1 (Riverdale)
Leslie Saunders (incumbent) - 7,970
Charles Walton (incumbent) - 7,059
Eugene Murdoch - 4,730
Harry Marley - 2,501
Arnold Lorenz - 1,967
Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 6,628
Everett Weaver (incumbent) - 5,288
May Birchard - 4,048
William Dennison - 2,892
Roy Boskett - 356
Ward 3 (West Downtown and Summerhill)
Harold Fishleigh (incumbent) - 4,712
Allan Lamport (incumbent) - 3,848
Frank Nasso - 943
Will Smith - 514
Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District)
Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 7,346
Norman Freed (incumbent) - 6,304
Francis Chambers - 6,243
William Gallaher - 588
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods
Arthur Frost (incumbent) - 9,525
Charles Sims (incumbent) - 8,030
Joseph Gould - 7,333
Margaret Luckock - 3,192
Patrick McKeown - 796
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)
Frank Clifton (incumbent) - 13,924
George Granell (incumbent) - 15,589
Dewar Ferguson - 7,830
Samuel Thomas - 2,331
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
William Butt (incumbent) - 7,629
E.C. Roelofson (incumbent) - 7,115
John Lenglet - 3,259
Ward 8 (The Beaches)
W.H. Collings (incumbent) - acclaimed
Roy Mealing (incumbent) - acclaimed
Ward 9 (North Toronto)
Leonard Reilly (incumbent) - 12,643
Melville Wilson (incumbent) - 11,458
Frank Nash - 9,366

Results taken from the January 2, 1949 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies. Ward 4 results from January 5, 1948 issue.

Changes

Ward 7 Alderman William Butt died January 10, 1948; Charles Rowntree was appointed replacement January 19.

Mayor Robert Hood Saunders resigned February 23, 1948 when he was appointed Chairman of Ontario Hydro; Controller Hiram E. McCallum was unanimously appointed Mayor; Ward 7 Alderman E.C. Roelfson was appointed Controller February 24; William Davidson appointed Alderman March 1, 1948.

Ontario Hydro company

Ontario Hydro, established in 1906 as the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, was a publicly owned electricity utility in the Province of Ontario. It was formed to build transmission lines to supply municipal utilities with electricity generated by private companies already operating at Niagara Falls, and soon developed its own generation resources by buying private generation stations and becoming a major designer and builder of new stations. As most of the readily developed hydroelectric sites became exploited, the corporation expanded into building coal-fired generation and then nuclear-powered facilities. Renamed as "Ontario Hydro" in 1974, by the 1990s it had become one of the largest, fully integrated electricity corporations in North America.

Hiram E. McCallum Canadian politician

Hiram Emerson McCallum was a mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1948-1951. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.

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