The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on January 6, 1919 to elect members of the 1919 Ottawa City Council.
The election saw a woman elected in the city for the first time, with Marion McDougall (wife of the late John Lorn McDougall)[1] being elected as a public school trustee in Dalhousie Ward.
Fisher won seven of the city's nine wards, while Parent won the city's two francophone wards, By and Ottawa.
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Harold Fisher |
7,624 |
62.16
|
| Rufus H. Parent |
4,642 |
37.84
|
Plebiscites
| Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission before 1923.
|
| Option
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Yes |
8,234 |
75.31
|
| No |
2,700 |
24.69
|
| Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission in 1923.
|
| Option
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Yes |
8,771 |
79.12
|
| No |
2,314 |
20.88
|
| By-law to provide for an expenditure of $150,000 on a bridge of the Rideau Canal at Somerset Street
|
| Option
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Yes |
2,658 |
50.08
|
| No |
2,649 |
49.92
|
The plebiscite lost in all but three wards, but won St. George Ward (which the bridge would connect with Downtown) by a large enough margin to pass city-wide by just nine votes.[2] Despite the result, a bridge would not be built at that location until the Corktown Footbridge was built in 2006.
| By-law to secure authority to expend $150,000 on the establishment and maintenance of a civic coal yard
|
| Option
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Against |
3,161 |
59.73
|
| For |
2,163 |
40.63
|
(4 elected)
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Frank H. Plant |
6,666 |
18.54
|
| Joseph Kent |
6,501 |
18.08
|
| Napoléon Champagne |
6,206 |
17.26
|
| J. W. Nelson |
5,298 |
14.74
|
| James Muir |
5,229 |
14.55
|
| Thomas Brethour |
4,985 |
13.87
|
| Peter Glavey |
1,062 |
2.95
|
(2 elected from each ward)
| Rideau Ward
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Douglas H. Macdonald |
352 |
33.78
|
| Breary Slinn |
285 |
27.35
|
| William Cherry |
206 |
19.77
|
| Daudelin |
199 |
19.10
|
| By Ward
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Edward Gaulin |
652 |
37.86
|
| Fred Desjardins |
613 |
35.60
|
| Labelle |
457 |
26.54
|
| Capital Ward
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Arthur R. Ford |
1,417 |
35.35
|
| William Y. Denison |
1,094 |
27.30
|
| McCormick |
848 |
21.16
|
| Walsh |
649 |
16.19
|
| Victoria Ward
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Ernest Laroche
|
Acclaimed
|
| David Rice
|
Acclaimed
|
| Central Ward
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| John F. McKinley
|
Acclaimed
|
| Charles Pepper
|
Acclaimed
|
References
[3]
[4]
- ^ "Life of service closes in the sudden passing today of Mrs. J. L. McDougall Sr". Ottawa Citizen. August 18, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ "Citizens favor (sic) taking over of street railway". Ottawa Citizen. January 7, 1919. p. 5. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ "Fisher, Plant, Kent, Champagne, and Nelson are Elected". Ottawa Journal. January 7, 1919. p. 8. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ "Denison, McKinley, Guertin, Slinn, New Aldermen Elected". Ottawa Journal. January 7, 1919. p. 9. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
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