List of mayors of St. Catharines explained

This is a list of mayors of St. Catharines, Ontario.

Mayors

Mayor	Term began	Term ended	Ref
1	Alpheus Spencer St. John	1845	1845
2	Elias Smith Adams	1846	1849
3	Bernard Foley	1850	1850
4	Eleazer Williams Stephenson	1851	1852
(2)	Elias Smith Adams	1852	1859
5	James Currie	1860	1862
6	William McGiverin	1863	1863
7	William Morgan Eccles	1864	1865
8	Thomas Burns	1866	1868
(5)	James Currie	1869	1870
9	Patrick Marren	1871	1871
10	Henry Haight Collier	1872	1873
11	James Norris	1874	1874
12	James A. Douglas	1875	1876	^[1]
13	Calvin Ernest Brown	1876	1877
14	Lucius Sterne Oille	1878	1878	^[2]
15	Henry Carlisle	1879	1881
16	Patrick Larkin	1882	1883	^[3]
17	Roswell Hinman Smith	1884	1884
18	Henry Albert King	1885	1886
19	John Evers Cuffe	1887	1888
20	John Brewer McIntyre	1889	1890
21	Edwin Goodman	1891	1892
22	Donald Robertson	1893	1894
23	John Charles Rykert	1895	1896
24	William Beamer Gilleland	1897	1898
25	Michael Yates Keating	1899	1900
(20)	John Brewer McIntyre	1901	1902
26	William Bartlett Burgoyne	1903	1903
27	Alexander William Marquis	1904	1904
28	Theodore Sweet	1905	1905
29	Andrew Riddell	1906	1907	^[4]
30	John Samuel Campbell	1908	1909
31	James Maitland McBride	1910	1911
32	William Hamilton Merritt	1912	1913
33	James Thomas Petrie	1914	1915
(26)	William Bartlett Burgoyne	1916	1917
34	James Alexander Wiley	1918	1918
35	John Melbourne Elson	1919	1919
36	Edwin John Lovelace	1920	1921
37	Edwin Cyrus Graves	1922	1922	^[5]
(36)	Edwin John Lovelace	Jan 1923	Apr 1923
38	Howard Eugene Rose	Apr 1923	Dec 1923
39	Jacob Smith	1924	1927
40	John David Wright	1928	1929	^[6]
41	Frank McCordick	1930	1931	^[7]
42	Frederick Avery	1932	1934	^[8]
43	Norman Lockhart	1935	1935	^[9]
44	Walter Westwood	1936	1936	^[10]
(40)	John David Wright	1937	1938	^[11]
45	Charles Daley	1939	1943	^[12]
46	William John Macdonald	1943	1948	^[13]
47	Richard Robertson	1949	1951	^[14]
48	John Franklin	1952	1953	^[15]
49	John Smith	1954	1957	^[16]
(48)	Arthur Franklin	1958	1958	^[17]
50	Wilfrid Bald	1959	1960	^[18]
51	Ivan Buchanan	1961	1964	^[19]
52	Robert Mercer Johnston	1965	1968	^[20]
53	Mackenzie Chown	1968	1972	^[21]
54	Joseph Reid	1973	1976	^[22]
55	Roy Adams	1976	1985	^[23]
56	Joe McCaffery	1985	1994	^[24]
57	Alan Unwin	1994	1997	^[25]
58	Tim Rigby	1997	2006	^[26]
59	Brian McMullan	2006	2014	^[27]
60	Walter Sendzik	2014	2022	^[28]
61	Mat Siscoe	2022	present	^[29]

Notes and References

1. "Provincial Municipal Elections". The Globe, January 8, 1876.
2. "Political Intelligence: Lincoln Reform Convention". The Globe, March 22, 1878.
3. "Ontario's City Mayors: Biographical Sketches of the Principal Mayors-elect: The Mayors of Toronto, Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Kingston, Belleville, St. Catharines, St. Thomas, and Brantford". The Globe, January 4, 1882.
4. "Want Cheap Power: Emphatic Request Made to Hon. Mr. Whitney". Windsor Star, April 12, 1906.
5. "Ratepayers To Vote Again On Radial Scheme". Financial Post, November 10, 1922.
6. "St. Catharines Is Well-Governed By Council Of Ten". Financial Post, March 29, 1929.
7. "Seven Mayors Are Elected In Ontario". Windsor Star, January 2, 1930.
8. "St. Kitts Mayor Assails Hydro". Windsor Star, March 22, 1932.
9. "Four Ontario Mayors Elected: Toronto, Owen Sound, St. Catharines and Peterborough Vote". Ottawa Journal, January 2, 1935.
10. "Won't Attend: St. Catharines Mayor Says Conference of Mayors Waste of Time". Windsor Star, April 2, 1936.
11. "St. Catharines Mayor". Ottawa Citizen, January 2, 1937.
12. "Crowded Day Precedes Rulers' Entry to U.S.". Windsor Star, June 8, 1939.
13. "Dr. Macdonald St. Kitts Mayor". The Globe and Mail, January 3, 1944.
14. "St. Kitts Elects New Mayor; Sargent Back in Owen Sound". The Globe and Mail, January 3, 1949.
15. "200 Students On Two-Day Capital Tour". Ottawa Citizen, March 23, 1953.
16. "Seeks Re-Election". Windsor Star, November 11, 1954.
17. "City Governments Need Businessmen". Financial Post, June 7, 1958.
18. "St. Catharines Fire Destroys Historic Cabin". The Globe and Mail, May 4, 1959.
19. "St. Catharines Elects Buchanan As New Mayor". The Globe and Mail, January 3, 1961.
20. "Mayor to quit for Legislature". The Globe and Mail, December 2, 1967.
21. "Chown chosen as interim mayor in St. Catharines". The Globe and Mail, January 16, 1968.
22. [Graham Fraser]
23. "Decision gets mixed reaction from Niagara councillors". The Globe and Mail, February 18, 1977.
24. Rudy Platiel, "Seven mayors defeated in Ontario voting upsets". The Globe and Mail, November 14, 1985.
25. "New Ontario mayors". Toronto Star, November 16, 1994.
26. Colleen Turner, "Team Rigby under way: In inaugural address new mayor proposes economic planning group". St. Catharines Standard, December 2, 1997.
27. Mike Zettel and Alison Bell, "Brian McMullan thrashes his mayoral opponents". Niagara This Week, November 15, 2006.
28. Eric Vienneau, "St. Catharines mayor talks lifted capacity limits, city budget, Halloween parade". CHCH-DT, October 28, 2021.
29. Don Mitchell, "St. Catharines, Ont. elects Niagara regional councillor Mat Siscoe as next mayor". Global News, October 24, 2022.