List of mayors of Ottawa

This is a list of the mayors of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 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, resulting in a new legal entity that took the name of one of its municipal predecessors.

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 (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
• 1877 – William Henry Waller
• 1878 – Chauncey Ward Bangs
• 1879–1881 – Charles Herbert Mackintosh
• 1882–1883 – Pierre St. Jean, M.D.
• 1884 – Charles Thornton Bate
• 1885–1886 – Francis McDougal
• 1887–1888 – McLeod Stewart
• 1889–1890 – Jacob Erratt
• 1891 – Thomas Birkett
• 1892–1893 – Olivier Durocher
• 1894 – George Cox
• 1895–1896 – William Borthwick
• 1897–1898 – Samuel Bingham
• 1899–1900 – Thomas Payment
• 1901 – William Dowler Morris
• 1901 – James Davidson
• 1902–1903 – Fred Cook
• 1904–1906 – James A. Ellis
• 1906 – Robert A. Hastey
• 1907–1908 – D'Arcy Scott
• 1908 – Napoleon Champagne
• 1909–1912 – Charles Hopewell
• 1912 – Edward H. Hinchey
• 1913 – James A. Ellis
• 1914 – Taylor McVeity
• 1915–1916 – Nelson D. Porter
• 1917–1920 – Harold Fisher
• 1921–1923 – Frank H. Plant
• 1924 – Henry Watters
• 1924 – Napoléon Champagne
• 1925–1927 – John P. Balharrie
• 1928–1929 – Arthur Ellis
• 1930 – Frank H. Plant
• 1931–1933 – John J. Allen
• 1934–1935 – Patrick Nolan
• 1936–1948 – J.E. Stanley Lewis
• 1949–1950 – E.A. Bourque
• 1951 – Grenville Goodwin
• 1951–1956 – Charlotte Whitton
• 1957–1960 – George H. Nelms
• 1961–1964 – Charlotte Whitton
• 1965–1969 – Donald Bartlett Reid
• 1970–1972 – Kenneth H. Fogarty, Q.C.
• 1972–1974 – Pierre Benoit
• 1975–1978 – Lorry Greenberg
• 1978–1985 – Marion Dewar
• 1985–1991 – James A. Durrell
• 1991 – Marc Laviolette
• 1991–1997 – Jacquelin Holzman
• 1997–2000 – Jim Watson
• 2000–2001 – Allan Higdon- acting mayor

Amalgamation

When the city of Ottawa amalalgamated in 2001, these were the mayors of the municipalities that amalgamated:

• Chair of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton: Bob Chiarelli
• Ottawa: Allan Higdon-acting mayor
• Gloucester: Claudette Cain
• Kanata: Merle Nicholds
• Nepean: Mary Pitt
• Vanier: Guy Cousineau
• Cumberland: Gerry Lalonde -acting mayor
• Goulbourn: Janet Stavinga
• Osgoode: Doug Thompson
• Rideau: Glenn Brooks
• West Carleton: Dwight Eastman
• Rockcliffe Park: Patrick J. Murray

Post amalgamation

• 2001–06 – Bob Chiarelli
• Since 2006 – Larry O'Brien. (Michel Bellemare (2 May – 8 July 2009) and Doug Thompson (8 July – 6 August 2009) served in the position of Acting Mayor during Mayor O'Brien's leave of absence.)
• 2010- Jim Watson (mayor-elect)

See also

• List of Ottawa municipal elections
• Mayors of Osgoode Township