Mayor of Victoria | |
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Incumbent Marianne Alto since November 3, 2022 | |
Style | Mayor |
Member of | City Council |
Seat | Victoria City Hall (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) |
Appointer | Direct election by residents of Victoria |
Term length | 4 years |
Formation | August 1, 1862; 162 years ago (1862-08-01) |
First holder | Thomas Harris |
Website | https://www.victoria.ca/ |
This is a list of mayors of Victoria, the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The mayor leads Victoria City Council, the city's governing body, and is elected to a four-year term. The current mayor is Marianne Alto, who was first elected in 2022
List of Mayors
No. | Mayor | Term start | Term end |
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Victoria incorporated as a city on August 1, 1862. | |||
1 | Thomas Harris | 1862 | 1865 |
2 | Lumley Franklin | 1865 | 1866 |
3 | William J. Macdonald | 1866 | 1867 |
4 | James Trimble | 1867 | 1870 |
5 | Alexander R. Robertson | 1870 | 1871 |
(3) | William J. Macdonald (2nd term) | 1871 | 1871 |
6 | Richard Lewis | 1872 | 1872 |
7 | James E. McMillan | 1872 | 1873 |
8 | James D. Robinson | 1873 | 1873 |
9 | William Dalby | 1873 | 1875 |
10 | James S. Drummond | 1875 | 1876 |
11 | Montague W. Tyrwhitt-Drake | 1876 | 1877 |
12 | Roderick Finlayson | 1877 | 1879 |
13 | John Herbert Turner | 1879 | 1881 |
14 | Noah Shakespeare | 1881 | 1882 |
15 | Charles E. Redfern | 1882 | 1883 |
16 | Joseph Carey | 1883 | 1884 |
17 | Robert P. Rithet | 1884 | 1885 |
18 | James Fell | 1885 | 1887 |
19 | John Grant | 1887 | 1891 |
20 | Robert Beaven | 1891 | 1893 |
21 | John Teague | 1894 | 1895 |
(20) | Robert Beaven (2nd term) | 1896 | 1896 |
(15) | Charles E. Redfern (2nd term) | 1896 | 1899 |
22 | Charles Hayward | 1900 | 1902 |
23 | Alexander G. McCandless | 1902 | 1903 |
24 | George Henry Barnard | 1904 | 1905 |
25 | Alfred J. Morley | 1905 | 1907 |
26 | Lewis Hall | 1908 | 1909 |
(25) | Alfred J. Morley (2nd term) | 1909 | 1911 |
27 | John L. Beckwith | 1912 | 1912 |
(25) | Alfred J. Morley (3rd term) | 1913 | 1913 |
28 | Alexander Stewart | 1914 | 1916 |
29 | Albert E. Todd | 1917 | 1919 |
30 | Robert J. Porter | 1919 | 1921 |
31 | William M. Marchant | 1921 | 1922 |
32 | Reginald Hayward | 1922 | 1924 |
33 | John Carl Pendray | 1924 | 1928 |
34 | Herbert Anscomb | 1928 | 1931 |
35 | David Leeming | 1931 | 1936 |
36 | Andrew McGavin | 1936 | 1944 |
37 | Percy E. George | 1944 | 1951 |
38 | Claude L. Harrison | 1951 | 1955 |
39 | Percy B. Scurrah | 1955 | 1961 |
40 | Richard B. Wilson | 1961 | 1966 |
41 | Alfred W. Toone | 1966 | 1966 |
42 | Hugh R. Stephen | 1966 | 1969 |
43 | Courtney J. Haddock | 1969 | 1971 |
44 | G. Peter A. Pollen | 1971 | 1975 |
45 | Michael D. W. Young | 1975 | 1979 |
46 | William J. Tindall | 1979 | 1981 |
(44) | G. Peter A. Pollen (2nd term) | 1981 | 1985 |
47 | Gretchen Brewin | 1986 | 1990 |
48 | David Turner | 1991 | 1993 |
49 | Robert Cross | 1994 | 1999 |
50 | Alan Lowe | 2000 | 2008 |
51 | Dean Fortin | 2008 | 2014 |
52 | Lisa Helps | 2014 | 2022 |
53 | Marianne Alto | 2022 | present |
See also
References
- Victoria Mayors Listed By Date from the city of Victoria archives
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