Charles Frederick Gray (17 December 1879 – 27 June 1954) was a Canadian politician, the 27th Mayor of

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749, ...

in 1919 and 1920. Gray was born in

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, England and moved to Canada, eventually settling in Winnipeg. In 1917, he joined the city's Board of Control, He successfully sought election as mayor the next year. His first year as mayor was marked by the Winnipeg General Strike in which he replaced much of the police force with special constables in an effort to control the protests, ending with a violent confrontation with striking workers on 21 June 1919, known as "Bloody Saturday". He was re-elected mayor in November 1919, getting more votes than his Labour opponent

Seymour Farmer Seymour James Farmer (June 20, 1878 – January 16, 1951) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as Winnipeg MLA from 1922 to 1949. During this time he also served as mayor of Winnipeg 1923-1924 and later as city councillor in the l ...

. presiding over a Citizen's Committee-dominated (anti-labour) city government. He did not run for re-election in 1920, the first city election held using

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. He moved to Ashland, British Columbia in 1941 and managed a salt mining operation there.

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1879 births 1954 deaths English emigrants to Canada Mayors of Winnipeg Politicians from London {{Manitoba-mayor-stub