List of mayors of Brampton

Mayor Fennell warms up the crowd at the Brampton Battalion game "tailgate party".

This list of the mayors of Brampton, Ontario includes the 38+ unique politicians holding such position.

List

1. John Haggert, 1874-February 1877
2. John Golding, 1877–1879
3. William A. McCulla, 1880–1882
4. Matthew M. Elliott, 1883–1884
5. Thomas Milner, 1886-1887 (died in office)
6. A. F. Campbell, 1887–1888
7. Thomas Holtby, 1889–1890
8. Manton Treadgold, 1891–1892
9. John T. Mullin, 1893–1894
10. Edwin O. Runians, 1895–1896
11. Edward H. Crandell, 1897–1898
12. W. E. Milner, 1899–1900
13. Thomas Thauburn, 1901–1902
14. Benjamin Franklin Justin, 1903–1905
15. W. E. Milner, 1906–1907
16. Samuel Charters, part of 1907
17. W. E. Milner, part of 1907
18. J. Golding, 1908–1909
19. Thomas Thauburn, 1910–1911
20. Samuel Charters, 1911–1912
21. T. W. Duggan, 1912–1913
22. Thomas Mara, 1914–1915
23. A. H. Milner, 1916–1917
24. L. J. C. Bull, 1918–1919
25. W. J. Beatty, 1920–1921
26. J. S. Beck, 1922
27. H. W. Dawson, 1923–1924
28. Franklin W. Wegenast, 1925–1928
29. George Akehurst, 1929–1930
30. Franklin W. Wegenast, 1930–1931
31. George Akehurst, 1931–1932
32. J. S. Beck, 1933–1934
33. E. W. McCulloch, 1935–1936
34. W. J. Abell, 1937–1938
35. Robert P. Worthy, 1939–1942
36. W. A. Bates, 1943–1944
37. R. H. Bull, 1945–1946
38. J. S. Beck, 1946–1948
39. Harold R. Lawrence, 1949–1951
40. R. H. Bull, 1952–1954
41. Nance Horwood, 1955-1958 (born Annie Horwood)
42. C. C. Core, 1959–1962
43. R. E. Prouse, 1963–1966
44. W. H. Brydon, 1967–1969
45. J. E. Archdekin, 1970–1982
46. Ken Whillans, 1982-September 1990, died in office
47. Paul Biesel, 1990–1991, Whillans' appointed replacement
48. Peter Robertson, 1991–2000
49. Susan Fennell, 2000-on

Note that some publications credit as a Mayor; he never served in this capacity.

Acting mayors

Sandra Hames, serving as Acting Mayor at the grand opening of an extension to Bramalea City Centre.

• C. A. Irvine, as of July 19, 1907
• Bob Crowley, circa 1980s
• Linda Jeffrey, as of May 2001
• John Sprovieri, as of July 2001
• John Hutton, as of September 2002
• John Sprovieri, as of November 2004
• Paul Palleschi, as of July 2007
• John Sprovieri, May 2009
• Sandra Hames, as of June 2010
• Sandra Hames, April 2011
• Gael Miles, May 2011
• Elaine Moore, June 2011

• Garnett Manning, unknown, multiple times

Roads named after the mayors

By neighbourhood:

• Eldomar Heights: Golding Avenue, Milner Road, Beatty Avenue, Core Crescent, Lawrence Crescent
• Flowertown area: Holtby Avenue, Campbell Drive, and Horwood Drive.

• Haggert Avenue, Treadgold Road (Humber West Parkway and Castlemore), McCulla Avenue (near Agnes Taylor P.S.), Elliott Street, Charters Road (Hansen and Vodden), Duggan Drive (Charolais and Chingaucousy), Mara Crescent (at Ken Whillians Drive), Dawson Crescent (Centre at Kennedy), Bates Court (Queen and Chinguacousy), Prouse Drive (Williams Parkway and Centre), Brydon Crescent (Queen and Chinguacousy), Archdekin Road (at Rutherford Road, near Vodden), Ken Whillans Drive (Vodden to Church St.), Peter Robertson Boulevard (Great Lakes Drive to Torbram Road)
• Abell Drive (Williams Parkway and Kennedy)

Runians, Thauburn, Irvine, Bull, Beck, Wegenast, Akehurst, McCulloch, Bull, and Biesel do not have roads named after them. Current mayor Fennell also does not have an eponymous road.

The names last names of mayors Mullin, Justin, and Worthy were all rejected at one point or another. There is a Crandall Court, a different spelling than Mayor Crandell.

Statistics

Shortest term as mayor

S. Charters at four months

Longest term as mayor

Ken Whillans, fifteen years

Mayors who died in office

T. Milner in 1887, Ken Whillans in 1989

First woman mayor

N. Horwood (1955–1958); the next would take office in 2000