Vivian Burrill (1854-1937) was a local politician in

Shawinigan, Quebec Shawinigan (; ) is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,620 as of the 2021 Canadian census. Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) ...

. He was the first mayor of

Shawinigan Shawinigan (; ) is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,620 as of the 2021 Canadian census. Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) ...

.Vivian Burrill (1854-1937), maire et entrepreneur, Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Shawinigan
/ref> He was born in 1854 in

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and moved to Canada in 1872. Burrill sat on the city council from 1901 to 1913 and served as mayor of the city from 1901 to 1902 and from 1908 to 1913. He was in office when the first public infrastructures were laid out, including the first bridge to link Shawinigan and

Shawinigan-Sud Shawinigan-Sud is a predominantly French-speaking settlement in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River. In 1996, its population was 11,804. History Shawinigan-Sud was incorporated as a village in 1912 and was called Alm ...

and a local plant owned by Northern Aluminum Co. claimed the first production of aluminum in Canadian history. Burrill moved to nearby

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, ; ) is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ...

in 1914 and died in 1937. Rue Burrill (Burrill Street), where Industrial Park #1 is located, was named to honour him.

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