Toronto municipal election, 1922
Encyclopedia
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 2, 1922. Incumbent mayor Tommy Church did not run for reelection. Charles A. Maguire
was the only candidate who ran to succeed him and he was acclaimed.
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Ward 2 (Cabbagetown
and Rosedale
)
Ward 3 (Central Business District
and The Ward)
Ward 4 (Kensington Market
and Garment District)
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale
)
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
Ward 8 (East Toronto
)
Results taken from the January 1, 1922 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.
Charles A. Maguire
Charles Alfred Maguire was mayor of Toronto from 1922-1923.Charles Alfred Maguire was born in Toronto, the son of James Maguire and Elizabeth Brown....
was the only candidate who ran to succeed him and he was acclaimed.
Board of Control
Results- Thomas Foster - 23,355
- Wesley HiltzWilliam W. HiltzWilliam Wesley Hiltz called 'Bill Hiltz' was Mayor of Toronto in 1924. During his term, he introduced time clocks for Toronto city workers. He had a son and grandson, Bill Hiltz, with the same names....
(incumbent) - 20,001 - Joseph GibbonsJoseph Gibbons (Toronto)Joseph Gibbons was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born on a farm outside of Waterloo, Ontario and moved to Toronto in the 1890s. There he found worked as a streetcar driver. He first piloted the horse drawn streetcars up Yonge Street and then served for fifteen years as a driver...
(incumbent) - 18,647 - A.R. Nesbitt (incumbent) - 16,453
- William D. RobbinsWilliam D. RobbinsWilliam Dullam Robbins was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also...
- 16,814 - R.H. CameronR.H. CameronRobert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s....
- 15,403 - J. George RamsdenJ. George RamsdenJoseph George Ramsden was a long active municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Thornhill and first became active in politics working for Alexander Mackenzie in a York East by-election. He served for fifteen years as Chief Inspector for the Department of Indian Affairs, which saw...
- 14,721 - Clifford Blackburn - 12,950
- William Varley - 3,419
City council
Ward 1 (RiverdaleRiverdale, Toronto
Riverdale is a large neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by the Don River Valley to the west, Danforth Avenue and Greektown to the north, Jones Avenue, the CN/GO tracks, and Leslieville to the east, and Lake Shore Boulevard to the south....
)
- W.A. Summerville - 4,282
- F.M. Johnson (incumbent) - 3,829
- Robert Luxton - 2,587
- A.J. Stubbings - 1,893
Ward 2 (Cabbagetown
Cabbagetown, Toronto
Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood located on the east side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It comprises "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association....
and Rosedale
Rosedale, Toronto
Rosedale is an affluent neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was formerly the estate of William Botsford Jarvis, and so named by his wife, granddaughter of William Dummer Powell, for the wild roses that grew there in abundance....
)
- John Winnett (incumbent) - 2,523
- Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,520
- J.R. Beamish (incumbent) - 2,413
- Herbert Henry BallHerbert Henry BallHerbert Henry Ball was a Canadian politician and journalist.On October 24, 1885, he married Mary Ann Martin in Bristol, Somerset, England. In 1886, Ball and his wife emigrated to Canada, settling north of Toronto in an area then known as Davisville...
- 2,243 - J.N. Day - 912
- W.J. Street - 803
- Andrew Ruppert - 486
Ward 3 (Central Business District
Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don River to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west...
and The Ward)
- Harry W. Hunt - 2,742
- Alfred Burgess (incumbent) - 1,547
- C.A. Reed - 1,547
- Andrew Carrick - 1,423
- F.W. Johnston - 1,808
- George Rose (incumbent) - 1,088
- Aubrey Bond - 877
- Constance Boulton - 814
- C.W. Mogridge - 433
- Joseph Kent - 413
- W.H. Scott - 168
Ward 4 (Kensington Market
Kensington Market
Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that "Kensington...
and Garment District)
- Joseph Singer (incumbent) - 2,179
- John Cowan (incumbent) - 2,146
- Ethel SmallEthel SmallEthel Small in 1921 became the second woman elected to the Toronto city council. She was the younger daughter of Ferdinand Oden Horstmann and Harriett Kelley Horstmann...
(incumbent) - 2,060 - Claude Pearce - 1,707
- Lewis LeGrow - 1,007
- Harry Winberg - 862
- A. Draimin - 725
- J.J. Higgins - 586
- P.W. Benner - 452
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
- W.R. Plewman - 2,900
- A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 2,895
- Wesley Benson - 2,117
- James Phinnemore (incumbent) - 2,110
- Thomas Jones - 1,896
- Ben Spence - 1,233
- George Gustar - 1,113
- Robert Prince - 885
- Caroline Brown - 866
- Albert Plenty - 692
- Water Boon - 231
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale
Parkdale, Toronto
Parkdale is a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, west of downtown. The neighbourhood is bounded on the west by Roncesvalles Avenue, on the north by Queen Street. It is bounded on the east by Dufferin Street from Queen Street south, and on the south by Lake Ontario...
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- George Birdsall (incumbent) - 5,991
- Brook Sykes (incumbent) - 5,629
- D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 5,389
- John A. Austin - 3,269
- Earl Hodgson - 1,203
- James Stockley - 928
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
- Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 1,991
- H.M Davy (incumbent) - 1,880
- Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 1,576
- William Maher - 1,852
- Thomas Bond - 782
Ward 8 (East Toronto
East Toronto
East Toronto, Ontario was an incorporated community in what is today a part of the city of Toronto, Canada. It covered much of what is today the Upper Beaches neighbourhood, stretching up to Danforth Avenue in the north. The central street in the community was Main Street, running south from...
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- Robert Baker (incumbent) - 2,301
- George Cruise (incumbent) - 2,168
- Frances Maxwell (incumbent) - 1,997
- J.T. Turner - 1,286
- J.V. Conroy - 971
- A.H. Chambers - 971
- W.H. Ford - 880
- Hector Demers - 612
- Isaac Pimblett - 443
- Thomas Scott - 382
Results taken from the January 1, 1922 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.