List of mayors of Pickering, Ontario

This is a list of mayors, reeves and clerks of the City of Pickering, Ontario, Canada.

Town clerks (1811-1849)

During the early days of Pickering Township the Town Clerk was the town officer with the most authority.[1]

Term[1]Town Clerk[1]
1811 – 1822Thomas Hubbard
1823 – 1835William Sleigh
1836 – 1839James Sharrard
1840 – 1843Joseph Wilson
1844 – 1848George Barclay
1849Hector Beaton1

Note

  1. Hector Beaton was appointed as collector in 1836 and by 1849 he was filling three roles (assessor, collector and clerk).[2] He remained in the role of Town Clerk until 1883, at which point his son Donald R. Beaton filled the roll until 1944.[2][3]

Reeves (1850-1873)

Following the Municipal Corporations Act of 1849, Reeves became part of the Pickering leadership.[1] The first meeting of Pickering Council following the Act was held on January 21, 1850, at Thompson's Inn, located south of Brougham.[4]

Term[1]Reeve[1]
1850 - 1852William Henry Michell
1853 - 1854John MacVeigh Lumsden

Truman P. White

1855 - 1856John MacVeigh Lumsden
1857 - 1864Truman P. White1
1865James McCreight
1866Truman P. White
1867 - 1868James McCreight
1869 - 1874Truman P. White
1875 - 1876John Miller
1877Truman P. White
1878 - 1883John Miller
1884 - 1887Joseph Monkhouse
1888John Miller
1889Sylvester Mackey
1890John Miller
1891 - 1892George Parker
1893 - 1894Ralph R. Mowbray
1895 - 1896George Gerow
1897 - 1898Ralph R. Mowbray
1899 - 1900William G. Barnes
1901 - 1902Thomas Poucher
1903Thomas Beare
1904James Underhill
1905James McBrady
1906 - 1907James Todd
1908 - 1910John A. White
1911Ralph R. Mowbray
1912William George Scott
1913 - 1914William W. Sparks
1915 - 1916Elias B. Hoover
1917 - 1918Ralph R. Mowbray
1918John Forgie
1919 - 1920William George Scott
1921 - 1922Fred H. Richardson
1923 - 1924John Forgie
1925 - 1926Adam Spears
1927 - 1929George M. Forsyth
1930 - 1931George L. Middleton
1932 - 1934Ernest L. Chapman
1935 - 1937Robert C. Reesor
1938 - 1939Ralph E. Mowbray
1940 - 1944William Reesor
1945 - 1947D. Blake Annis
1948 - 1951William H. Westney
1952 - 1955George Todd
1956William G. Newman
1957 - 1958William G. Lawson
1959 - 1963John Sherman Scott
1964 - 1967Clifford Laycox
1968 - 1973John Williams

Note

  1. T.P. White served as Ontario County Warden in 1861.

Mayors (1974-present)
Term[1]Mayor[1]
1974 - 1977George Ashe1
1977 - 1988John E. Anderson1
1988 - 2003Wayne Arthurs
2003–2022David Ryan
2022–presentKevin Ashe[5]

Note

  1. George Ashe resigned and was elected to the Ontario Legislature. John Anderson was appointed Mayor following George Ashe's resignation[6]

References
  1. "Past Council Boards" (PDF). City of Pickering. City of Pickering. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. Higgins, W.H. (1887). The Life and Times of Joseph Gould: Struggles of the Early Canadian Settlers, Settlement of Uxbridge, Sketch of the History of the County of Ontario, the Rebellion of 1837, Parliamentary Career, Etc., Etc. Reminiscences of Sixty Years of Active Political and Municipal Life.
  3. Todd, George T. (1954). By-Laws of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering. Township of Pickering.
  4. Farewell, J.E. (1907). County of Ontario : short notes as to the early settlement and progress of the county and brief references to the pioneers and some Ontario County men who have taken a prominent part in provincial and dominion affairs. Whitby : Gazette-Chronicle Press.
  5. Kristen Calis, "Kevin Ashe elected new mayor of Pickering". DurhamRegion.com, October 24, 2022.
  6. Reeve and Council Years (1959-1976). Township of Pickering. 1976.
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