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Mayor Of Ottawa
The mayor of Ottawa () is head of the executive branch of the Ottawa City Council. The mayor is elected alongside the city council every four years on the fourth Monday of October; there are no term limits. While in office, mayors are styled ''Worship (style), His/Her Worship''. Mark Sutcliffe has served as the 59th and current mayor of Ottawa since taking office on November 15, 2022, following the 2022 Ottawa municipal election, 2022 municipal election. Role and authority The position of the mayor of Ottawa is set out in the ''City of Ottawa Act'', a provincial statute which was first introduced in 1999, which outlines the mayor's role as head of council. The duties and powers of the Mayor are outlined in ''Municipal By-law No. 2022-410''. In September 2022, the province passed legislation known as the ''Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, Strong Mayors, Building More Homes Act, 2022'', followed by the ''Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022'', both of which expanded the Exec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Ottawa
The following is a list of mayors of Ottawa. Until 1854, Ottawa was known as Bytown. Over the course of Ottawa's history, the borders of the municipality have greatly expanded through annexations. This most recently occurred in 2001 when a number of neighbouring communities were amalgamated with Ottawa. Bytown *1847 – John Scott *1848 – John Bower Lewis *1849 – Robert Hervey *1850 – John Scott *1851 – Charles Sparrow *1852 – Richard William Scott *1853 – Joseph-Balsora Turgeon *1854 – Henry J. Friel Ottawa, pre-amalgamation (1855–2001) *1855–1857 – John Bower Lewis *1858–1859 – Edward McGillivray *1860–1862 – Alexander Workman *1863 – ? – Henry J. Friel *1864–1866 – Moss Kent Dickinson *1867 – Robert Lyon *1868–1869 – Henry J. Friel *1870–1871 – John Rochester *1872–1873 – Eugène Martineau *1874–1875 – John Peter Featherston *1876 – G. B. Lyon-Fellowes *1876–1877 – William Henry Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ex Officio Member
An ''ex officio'' member is a member of a body (notably a board, committee, or council) who is part of it by virtue of holding another office. The term ''ex officio'' is Latin, meaning literally 'from the office', and the sense intended is 'by right of office'; its use dates back to the Roman Republic. According to ''Robert's Rules of Order'', the term denotes only how one becomes a member of a body. Accordingly, the rights of an ''ex officio'' member are exactly the same as other members unless otherwise stated in regulations or bylaws. It relates to the notion that the position refers to the position the ex officio holds, rather than the individual that holds the position. In some groups, ''ex officio'' members may frequently abstain from voting. Opposite notions are dual mandate, when the same person happens to hold two offices or more, although these offices are not in themselves associated; and personal union, when two states share the same monarch. For profit and nonprofi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stittsville Ward
Stittsville (Ward 6) is a city ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, represented on Ottawa City Council. It consists of the community of Stittsville in suburban Ottawa. Prior to the 2006 election, the Ward was known as Goulbourn Ward which consisted of the former Goulbourn Township (including Stittsville and Richmond). The ward was altered in 2006, by losing all of the rural parts of Goulbourn (including urban Richmond) and gaining a tiny bit of the former city of Kanata around the Canadian Tire Centre. The ward was created when Goulbourn was amalgamated into Ottawa in 2000. It was known as Stittsville-Kanata West Ward until 2010. In 2014, the ward expanded to gain the newly built Blackstone subdivision from Rideau-Goulbourn Ward. Following the 2020 Ottawa Ward boundary review, the ward will gain new territory on its northern and southern edges to accommodate proposed housing developments. Stittsville's current councillor is Glen Gower, who replaced Shad Qadri after defeating him in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Gower
Glen Edward Gower (born April 20, 1978) is a Canadian politician. He was elected to Ottawa City Council representing Stittsville Ward in the 2018 Ottawa municipal election. Gower was born at the Grace Hospital, the son of Alen and Gail Gower (née Cheesman). Gower grew up in the neighbourhood of Tanglewood in Nepean, Ontario, now part of Ottawa. He attended Merivale High School, where he helped start a school newspaper. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Carleton University. While at Carleton, he started a website to track gas prices in Ottawa, which would later be bought out by GasBuddy. Later, he would start the website OttawaStart.com. He moved to Stittsville in 2009. After moving there, he helped create a community association for the neighbourhood. Prior to being elected, he was the director of Marketing and Communications with Iceberg Networks. He has also worked in marketing and communications with the Ottawa 67's and Ottawa Senators hockey teams, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Ward
Bay Ward or Ward 7 (French: ''Quartier Baie'') is a municipal ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada represented on Ottawa City Council. It covers much of the western portion of the old city of Ottawa as well as some portions of what was once Nepean. The ward runs from Sherbourne and Maitland in the east to March Road in the west. The southern border is the Queensway while the northern border is the Ottawa River. The ward makes up the northern portion of the federal and provincial riding of Ottawa West—Nepean. The ward contains a number of neighbourhoods, with quite diverse populations. Some of the neighbourhoods in the ward are Bayshore, Woodroffe North, Michele Heights, Glabar Park, Lincoln Heights, Britannia, and Crystal Beach. The westernmost part of the ward also contains a large section of the Greenbelt. Some of these neighbourhoods, especially those by the Ottawa River are quite wealthy. However, there are also many much poorer parts of the ward with many residents livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Kavanagh
Theresa Kavanagh (born October 10, 1957) is a Canadian politician. She was elected to Ottawa City Council representing Bay Ward in the 2018 Ottawa municipal election. Early life and career Kavanagh is the daughter of immigrants, having an Irish father and British mother. Her father was a steelworker at Stelco. She grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. She received a fine arts degree at the University of Guelph. In her youth, she joined Canada World Youth. Kavanagh worked for a number of New Democratic Party Members of Parliament and worked for 21 years in the party whip's office. Kavanagh is married to Alex Cullen, who was the city councillor for Bay Ward for 2000 to 2010 and was also the Liberal-turned- NDP Member of Provincial Parliament for Ottawa West from 1997 to 1999. Political career Kavanagh's first venture into electoral politics was a run for the New Democratic Party in the 1988 Canadian federal election in the riding of Ottawa West. She finished third, behind Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osgoode Ward
Osgoode Ward (Ward 20) is a municipal ward located in the rural southeast corner of the City of Ottawa. It mostly consists of the former Osgoode Township and parts of the former city of Gloucester and Cumberland. It has been represented on Ottawa City Council by Isabelle Skalski since her election in a by-election in June 2025. The ward contains the communities of Greely, Osgoode, Metcalfe, Vars, Edwards, Carlsbad Springs, Kenmore, Vernon, South Gloucester, Ficko, Limebank, Johnston Corners and Piperville. The ward was created for the 2000 municipal elections in preparation for Osgoode Township's amalgamation into the city of Ottawa. From 1994 to 2000, Osgoode Township was located in Cumberland-Osgoode Ward on the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton regional council. From 1969 to 1994 the mayor/reeve of the Township was the area's representative on regional council. From 2000 to 2006, the ward consisted solely of the former Township of Osgoode. Beginning with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Darouze
George Darouze (born November 1964) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario following the 2025 Ontario general election as the Member of Provincial Parliament for Carleton. Previously, he was the Ottawa City Councillor for Osgoode Ward from 2014 to 2025. He was elected for the first time in the 2014 Ottawa municipal election. Darouze immigrated from Lebanon in 1990, settling in the community of Greely, Ontario in Osgoode Township, which would be amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001. Darouze graduated from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts with a degree in Telecommunications. After moving to Canada, he worked in a number of odd-jobs such as busboy, baker, dishwasher and fast food employee before purchasing a pizzeria. Later, he became a sales representative for a Bell Mobility dealer, which led him to work in a number of managerial positions for various telecommunications companies. He speaks English, French and Arabic. He is the former pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orléans West-Innes Ward
Orléans West-Innes Ward (Ward 2) is a city Ward (subnational entity), ward in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the eastern end of the city, containing the western half of Orleans, Ontario, Orleans subdivision plus the community of Blackburn Hamlet, Ontario, Blackburn Hamlet. The ward is represented on Ottawa City Council by Laura Dudas. Within Orleans, it contains the neighbourhoods of Hiawatha Park, Convent Glen, Orleans Wood, Orléans Village, Chapel Hill, Ottawa, Chapel Hill and Orleans South. History From 1994 to 2022, the ward included the community of Blackburn Hamlet, Ontario, Blackburn Hamlet as well as the neighbourhoods of Orléans Village, Châteauneuf, Ottawa, Châteauneuf and Chapel Hill, Ottawa, Chapel Hill in Orléans, Ontario, Orléans. It also included the part of the community of Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Ontario, Notre-Dame-des-Champs formerly in the city of Gloucester, Ontario, Gloucester and the newer Bradley Estates development. The ward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Dudas
Laura Lee Dudas ( Czekaj; born November 3, 1978) is a Canadian politician and journalist who was elected to Ottawa City Council in the 2018 Ottawa municipal election representing Innes Ward. She was re-elected in the 2022 Ottawa municipal election in the renamed Orléans West-Innes Ward. Early life Dudas was born at St. Mary's General Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, the daughter of Richard Czekaj, a welder, and Linda Czekaj (nee Murchie), a Sears employee. She has a younger sister named Elizabeth. She grew up in Kitchener. Dudas married Michael Dudas, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, in 2008 and together they are parents to two children and a stepdaughter. The family moved to Blackburn Hamlet in 2006. Education and early career Dudas attended Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener, graduating with a diploma in Journalism. Dudas started her journalism career at the Cambridge Reporter, in Cambridge, Ontario, Cambridge, before joining the newsroom at the St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Ward
Capital Ward or Ward 17 (French: ''Quartier Capitale'') is a city ward located in the centre of Ottawa, Ontario. Situated just south of downtown Ottawa, the ward includes the communities of Old Ottawa East, Old Ottawa South, the Glebe, Heron Park, Carleton University, and Riverside Out of all the wards currently in existence, Capital ward has existed the longest. It was originally created in 1909 from parts of Wellington Ward and Central Ward when the Glebe was settled. The original capital ward consisted solely of the Glebe. It eventually annexed Old Ottawa South before assuming its current borders. Its first aldermen were John Carnochan and J. W. Nelson.Ottawa City Council minutes, 1910 Councillors Election results 1974 Ottawa municipal election 1976 Ottawa municipal election 1978 Ottawa municipal election 1980 Ottawa municipal election 1982 Ottawa municipal election 1985 Ottawa municipal election 1988 Ottawa municipal election 1991 Otta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawn Menard
Shawn Michael Menard (born April 14, 1982) is a Canadian politician. He was elected to Ottawa City Council representing Capital Ward in the 2018 Ottawa municipal election. Menard grew up in Ottawa, the son of a single mother. He graduated from Sir Robert Borden High School, and studied criminology and public administration at Carleton University. At Carleton, Menard was the president of the Rideau River Residence Association and later the president of the Carleton University Students' Association. He graduated from Carleton with a master's degree in Public Policy and Administration. After university, Menard worked as a strategic analyst for the Department of Justice and then as manager of government relations for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He was also involved in neighbourhood politics, serving as president of the Centretown Citizens Community Association and established an umbrella group of community associations called "Our Ottawa". Menard was elected as a pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
