List of mayors of Vancouver
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The following is a list of mayors of Vancouver, British Columbia. It includes the mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

s of Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 since 1886, of which there is a total of 39 individuals.
Dates Mayor Political Affiliation
1886–1887 M.A. MacLean
Malcolm Alexander MacLean
Malcolm Alexander MacLean was the first Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1886 to 1887. He beat his opponent, sawmill manager Richard H. Alexander, by 17 votes.- References :...

 
Independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

1888–1891 David Oppenheimer
David Oppenheimer
David Oppenheimer was a successful entrepreneur, the second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, and a National Historic Person of Canada.-Early life:...

 
Independent
1892–1893 Frederick Cope
Frederick Cope
Frederick Cope was the third Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving from 1892 to 1893. He was born in Oxford, England.-External links:*...

 
Independent
1894 R. A. Anderson  Independent
1895–1896 Henry Collins
Henry Collins (politician)
Henry Collins , merchant, was the fifth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He served from 1895 to 1896....

 
Independent
1897 William Templeton  Independent
1898–1900 James F. Garden
James Garden
James Ford Garden was a Canadian engineer and the seventh Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1898 to 1900. Under his tenure the city developed a street car system, sidewalks, road grades and water connections.Born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, the son of son of H. M. G. and E...

 
Independent
1901 Thomas Owen Townley
Thomas Townley
Thomas Owen Townley was a Canadian lawyer and the eighth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving one term in 1901....

 
Independent
1902–1903 Thomas Fletcher Neelands
Thomas Neelands
Thomas Fletcher Neelands was the ninth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1902 to 1903....

 
Independent
1904 Dr. William J. McGuigan
William McGuigan
Dr. William J. McGuigan was the tenth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia and served one term in 1904. He was born in Stratford, Ontario and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver.-References:...

 
Independent
1905–1906 Frederick Buscombe
Frederick Buscombe
Frederick Buscombe , merchant, was the 11th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1905 to 1906. He served as President of the Vancouver Board of Trade in 1900....

 
Independent
1907–1908 Alexander Bethune
Alexander Bethune
Alexander Bethune , merchant, was the 12th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1907 to 1908. He had previously served five years as alderman. He was a Freemason, and was a founding member of Acacia Lodge No. 22. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery....

 
Independent
1909 Charles S. Douglas  Independent
1910–1911 Louis Denison Taylor  Independent
1912 James Findlay
James Findlay (Vancouver mayor)
James Findlay was the 15th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia. Born in Montreal, he moved to Vancouver in June 1887....

 
Independent
1913–1914 Truman Smith Baxter
Truman Smith Baxter
Truman Smith Baxter was the 16th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia. He was born on a farm near Carlingford, Ontario, part of Fullertown Township in Perth County. He was the...

 
Independent
1915 Louis Denison Taylor  Independent
1915–1917 Malcolm Peter McBeath
Malcolm Peter McBeath
Malcolm Peter McBeath was the 17th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1915 to 1917.Born in Allenford, Bruce County, Ontario, the son of Thomas and Lena McBeath, McBeath moved with his family to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1892. In 1894, he apprenticed to be a printer...

 
Independent
1918–1921 Robert Henry Otley Gale
Robert Henry Otley Gale
Robert Henry Otley Gale was the 18th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1918 to 1921. He was born in Quebec....

 
Independent
1922–1923 Charles Edward Tisdall
Charles Edward Tisdall
Charles Edward Tisdall was the 19th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1922 to 1923. He was born in Birmingham, England and moved to Vancouver in April 1888. In 1899 he was elected Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade....

 
Independent
1924 William Reid Owen
William Reid Owen
William Reid Owen was the 20th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1924. He was born in Ontario and moved to Vancouver in 1899....

 
Independent
1925–1928 Louis Denison Taylor  Independent
1929–1930 William Harold Malkin
William Harold Malkin
William Harold Malkin was the 21st mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1929 to 1930, after serving as Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade in 1902...

 
Independent
1931–1934 Louis Denison Taylor  Independent
1935–1936 Gerald Grattan McGeer  Independent
1937–1938 George Clark Miller
George Clark Miller
George Clark Miller was the 23rd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1937 to 1938. He was born in Huron County, Ontario, moving to Manitoba, then in 1941 to Vancouver....

 
Independent
1939–1940 James Lyle Telford
James Lyle Telford
James Lyle Telford was the 24th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1939 to 1940 and a founder of the British Columbia branch of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation . He was born in Valens, Ontario....

 
Independent
1941–1946 Jack (Jonathan Webster) Cornett
Jonathan Webster Cornett
Jonathan Webster Cornett was the 25th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1941 to 1946. He was born in Lansdowne, Ontario, moving to Vancouver in 1907....

 
Non-partisan Association
Non-Partisan Association
The Non-Partisan Association is a civic-level electoral organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.The NPA was established in 1937 to...

1947 Gerald Gratton McGeer  Non-partisan Association
1947–1948 Charles Jones
Charles E. Jones
Charles E. Jones was the 26th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from August 1947 until September 1948. He was born in Whitby, England and moved to Vancouver in 1905. It is uncertain whether the Whitby of his birth was the fishing port in Yorkshire, or the district of Whitby in Ellesemere Port...

 
Non-partisan Association
1948 George Clark Miller
George Clark Miller
George Clark Miller was the 23rd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1937 to 1938. He was born in Huron County, Ontario, moving to Manitoba, then in 1941 to Vancouver....

 (acting)
Non-partisan Association
1949–1950 Charles Edwin Thompson
Charles Edwin Thompson
Charles Edwin Thompson was a Canadian politician. He served one year as the 27th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia.Born in Grey County, Ontario, Thompson worked as a teacher, rancher, and an automotive dealer....

 
Non-partisan Association
1951–1958 Frederick Hume
Frederick Hume
Frederick J. Hume was the 28th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1951 to 1958. He was born in New Westminster, British Columbia where he served as mayor from 1933 to 1942...

 
Non-partisan Association
1959–1962 A. Thomas Alsbury
A. Thomas Alsbury
Albert Thomas Alsbury was the 29th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1959 to 1962. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and in 1907 moved to Vancouver. He studied education at the University of British Columbia where he received a degree...

 
Independent
1963–1966 William Rathie
William Rathie
William George Rathie was the 30th mayor of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1963 through 1966....

 
Non-partisan Association
1967–1972 Tom Campbell  Independent, later Non-partisan Association
1972–1976 Art Phillips
Art Phillips
Arthur "Art" Phillips served as the 32nd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1973 to 1977. Prior to being elected to this post, he founded the Vancouver investment firm of Phillips, Hager & North. Phillips was instrumental in founding a reform-minded, centrist municipal-level...

 
TEAM
The Electors' Action Movement
TEAM was a centrist political party from 1968 to the mid-1980s at the municipal level in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It fielded candidates for the office of mayor as well as for positions on the city council, school board, and park board...

1976–1980 Jack Volrich
Jack Volrich
Jack Volrich was born in Anyox, British Columbia and was the 33rd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1977 to 1980. Prior to this, he practiced law and served as an alderman on the Vancouver City Council....

 
TEAM, later Independent
1980–1986 Michael Harcourt
Mike Harcourt
Michael Franklin Harcourt served as the 30th Premier of the province of British Columbia in Canada from 1991 to 1996, and before that as the 34th mayor of BC's major city, Vancouver from 1980 to 1986....

 
Independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

1986–1993 Gordon Campbell  Non-partisan Association
1993–2002 Philip Owen
Philip Owen
Philip Walter Owen was the mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1993 to 2002, making him one of Vancouver's longest serving mayors. His father was Walter S. Owen, who was Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1973 to 1978....

 
Non-partisan Association
2002–2005 Larry Campbell
Larry Campbell
Larry W. Campbell was the 37th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is currently a member of the Canadian Senate. Starting in 1969 Campbell worked for the RCMP in Vancouver and then in 1973 as a member of the Drug Squad...

 
Coalition of Progressive Electors
Coalition of Progressive Electors
The Coalition of Progressive Electors is a municipal political party in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia.-Origins:...

 later Vision Vancouver
Vision Vancouver
Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented on Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.-Formation:...

2005–2008 Sam Sullivan
Sam Sullivan
Sam Sullivan, CM served as the 38th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has been invested as a Member of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian award...

 
Non-partisan Association
Non-Partisan Association
The Non-Partisan Association is a civic-level electoral organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.The NPA was established in 1937 to...

2008–present Gregor Robertson
Gregor Robertson (politician)
Gregor Angus Bethune Robertson is a Canadian politician who has been the 39th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, since 2008. He was elected as part of the Vision Vancouver party slate...

 
Vision Vancouver
Vision Vancouver
Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented on Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.-Formation:...



Mike Harcourt and Gordon Campbell went on to become Premier of British Columbia
Premier of British Columbia
The Premier of British Columbia is the first minister, head of government, and de facto chief executive for the Canadian province of British Columbia. Until the early 1970s the title Prime Minister of British Columbia was often used...

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