Vaughan City Council

Vaughan City Council is the lower-tier municipal governing body for the city of Vaughan, Ontario. It is a part of the upper-tier Regional Municipality of York. Members of the council are elected in three categories: wards councillors, citywide councillors, and a mayor. The wards have remained consistent since the 2010 election.

Council positions

Mayor

Local and regional councillor

Also known as simply regional councillors, anyone filling this position not only serves the people's interest on the Vaughan City Council, they are also responsible for representing the city at the York Regional Council. The regional councillor who receives the most votes in an election is also made the deputy mayor, whose role is to represent the mayor in their absence. For the extra work they do, the deputy mayor receives a 10% higher salary compared to a councillor.

Ward councillors

Current council

Vaughan City Hall

City council and various civic offices are housed at the Civic Centre which was designed by Kubawara, Payne, McKenna and Blumberg and opened in 2011.

Besides the main City Hall building, the complex features:

• Civic Tower with clock
• Chamber of Commerce Building
• Public library building
• Civic Square, Market and Cenotaph
• reflecting pool/skating rink
• public gardens and naturalized park

Previous civic buildings:

• Township Hall in Vellore on Lot 20 in Concession 5 (present day Weston Road between Rutherford Road and Major Mackenzie Drive) 1845–1943
• Township Hall at northeast corner of Major Mackenzie Drive and Keele Street 1943–1957
• 2141 Major Mackenzie Drive 1957-2011 (renovation in 1982)

Previous councils

Township of Vaughan

Town of Vaughan

1971 to 1983

1983 to 1991

City of Vaughan

1991 to 1994

1994 to 2002

2002 to 2010

2010 to 2022

2022 to present

Notes

Controversy

Following the November 2006 election, former mayor Michael Di Biase appealed the results of the elections citing possible errors in the ballot counting machines. The results were reviewed following a decision in his favour in Ontario Superior Court, concluding that the original result, the election of Jackson as mayor, was the correct one.

Mayors

The head of City Council is the mayor. A list of mayors and reeves of Vaughan includes:

Reeves

• Garnett A. Williams 1969–1970
• Brian Bailey 1967–1968
• Albert H. Rutherford 1961–1966
• John W. Perry 1957–1960
• Marshall McMurchy 1952–1956
• John Hostrawer 1949–1951
• Boynton Weldrick 1944–1948
• Robert W. Scott 1936–1943
• George Kellam 1931–1935
• James Henry Robson 1929–1930
• Henry Kellam 1928
• George Kellam 1927
• Thomas B. Weldrick 1925–1926
• John T. Saigeon 1922–1924
• John Whitmore 1917–1921
• Scott McNair 1915–1916
• James A. Cameron 1911–1914
• Daniel Longhouse 1909–1910
• Isaac Devins 1907–1908
• John Boyle 1905–1906
• William Watson 1903–1904
• James H. Kirby 1901–1902
• Alexander Bryson 1898–1900
• Samuel Arnold 1897
• George High 1894–1896
• Andrew Russell 1890–1893
• James McNeil 1889
• Alexander Malloy 1887–1888
• Thompson Porter 1881–1886
• William C. Patterson 1874–1880
• David Boyle 1872–1873
• Peter Patterson 1868–1871
• Henry S. Howland 1864–1867
• Robert J. Arnold 1861–1863
• Henry S. Howland 1859–1860
• David Bridgeford 1858
• John W. Gamble 1850-1857 first reeve of the Township

Acting/Deputy Mayors

The position of Deputy Mayor (earlier called Acting Mayor) is based on the councillor receiving the greatest number of votes in a municipal election, and has included:

Deputy Reeves

• Garnet A. Williams 1965–1968
• Jesse Bryson 1961–1964
• Victor B. Ryder 1959–1960
• Robert A. Kirk 1957–1958
• Albert H. Rutherford 1952–1956, 1969–1970
• Marshall McMurchy 1949–1951
• John Hostrawser 1944–1948
• Boynton Weldrick 1936–1943
• Robert W. Scott 1935
• Robert Dooks 1931–1934
• Thomas Baker 1929–1930
• Arthur Farr 1927–1928
• James Henry Robson 1925–1928
• Thomas B. Weldrick 1922–1924
• George Kellam 1922–1926
• William O. McDonald 1921
• Walter Anderson 1919–1920
• John T. Saigeon 1917–1918, 1921, 1929–1931
• John Whitmore 1915–1916
• Scott McNair 1911–1914
• James A. Cameron 1909–1910
• Daniel Longhouse 1907–1908
• William Watson 1898
• James H. Kirby 1897–1898
• Alexander Bryson 1894–1897
• Samuel Arnold 1890–1896
• George High 1887–1893
• Andrew Russell 1887–1889
• Isaac Reaman 1886–1888
• George Elliott 1886
• Alexander Malloy 1884–1886
• Thomas Webster 1882–1883
• William Cook 1881–1885
• Damiel Reaman 1879–1885
• Isaac Nattress 1879–1881
• John L. Card 1878, 1880
• Daniel Kinnee 1877–1878
• Isaac Chapman 1875–1876
• N. Clarke Wallace 1874–1879
• Thomas Webster 1872–1877
• Thompson Porter 1871–1873
• David Boyle 1870–1871
• William Hartman 1868–1869
• Robert J. Arnold 1867–1870
• Thomas Grahame 1865–1867
• William Cook 1861, 1863
• Alfred Jeffery 1858–1860, 1862, 1864
• David Smellie 1851–1853

References

External links

• Members of the Council at the City of Vaughan website
• Ward and councillor area map