Mary Temple (politician)

Mary Temple (1903 — December 2, 1995) was an alderman on Toronto City Council in the 1960s at a time when few women were elected officials. She also sat on Metropolitan Toronto Council as a senior alderman for Ward 7 (High Park), and had been chairman of the Toronto Board of Education in the 1950s.[1][2]

Temple was a school teacher in Saskatchewan before moving to Toronto in 1936, after marrying William Horace Temple, a travelling sweater salesman who would go on to be an Ontario MPP for the Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1940s and was a temperance crusader in Toronto's west end.[3][4]

References
  1. Barnes, Alan (1995-12-05). "Politician Mary Temple was proud of city hall". The Toronto Star. Toronto. p. A5.
  2. Downey, Donn (1988-04-11). "William Horace Temple: Tub-thumping prohibitionist kept pocket of Toronto dry". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. A14.
  3. "Obituary: TEMPLE, William Price". Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 1956-08-23. p. 32.
  4. " Tenszen, Michael (1982-01-28). "'Temperance Willie" fights to keep West Toronto dry". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. 4.


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