 1st John S. Hall (1875-1881) |  2nd Louis S. Lesage (1882-1883) |  3nd John Molson Crawford (1884-1892) |  4th S.S. Bain (1893-1895) |
 5th Henry Hadley (1896-1899) |  6th Joseph Allen (1900-1901) |  7th Edward May (1902-1903) |  8th Joseph Rielle (1904-1905) |
 9th P.-Z. Millette (1906-1907) | 10th Joseph Allen (1907-1915) |  11th Charles Manning (1915-1917) |  12th J.A.A Leclair (1917-1925) |
 13th J.-P. Dupuis (1925-1929) |  14th Ch. A. Allen (1929-1933) |  15th Hervé Ferland (1933-1939) |  16th Edward Wilson (1939-1960) |
 17th George O'Reilly (1960-1966) |  18th J. Albert Gariépy (1966-1977) |  19th Lucien Caron (1977-1985) |  20th Raymond Savard (1985-1993) |
 21th Georges Bossé (1993—2005) | |||
6 comments:
Thanks Steve, we have the list at the society but I am posting it in my album.
Guy
Edward Wilson the 16 th Mayor was my fathers cousin. We used to see him after he had retired. He used to come to stay with another cousin at Latham St Anne’s and we would walk along the sea front. People would turn round to look at him as he was walking along, wondering who he was. He was a character and great fun to be with. He told us how he would go to Florida during the worst winter months and how he would meet up with the cousin from Latham in Canada and she would get out colourful brochures of the glass top train carriages that took them through the Rocky Mountains. Because he was such a full of life fun character, I was always wondering why he banned all drinking and gambling in Verdun where he was mayor for twenty one years. Then last year, a family of three generations came to stay with us in one of our hotel annexes in Ambleside. The grandmother said she was originally from Latham, but whilst working abroad she met and married a man from Verdun Canada where she and the family live. What a coincidence. I told her of my fathers cousin and his long service as Mayor and she said yes she had heard of a very long serving mayor. I spoke about how he banned drinking and gambling for the time when he was mayor and wondered why. She was able to tell me that workers came over from Ireland to work in Verdun, in quite large numbers. Being far from home and missing their families, they spent their free time drinking and gambling , but this got out of hand , until they were causing upset to the residents even just walking down the street. Something drastic had to be done , so Ted Wilson banned all pubs and gambling. Interestingly she said that Verdun had only just got its first pub in 2019 after Ted Wilson’s ban so long ago.
Great story Diane, thanks for taking the time to post it here.Cheers! Les
Diana Cameron,
Ted Wilson was a very good friend to my husband’s family. His middle name is Edward after his “Uncle Ted”. Winnie was a good friend of Audrey’s. The family name is also Wilson and would be interested to know if they were related.
Barbara Wilson, who's input is last above, is married to my cousin, Steve. My mother, and 3 of her 5 sisters, were born in Verdun. Mom was born in 1925. I was born in 1951 and I recall visits to "uncle Ted and auntie Sissy" where we were entertained by their grandfathers clock and treated to "humbugs" from Stillwells. Uncle Ted helped my mother get het first job.
Barbara Wilson's daughter thanks for sharing your memories,and your visits to Uncle Ted & Aunt Sissy...........what great memories,amazing how the real simple things are still fondly in our memories. Again Thanks for surfing by and sharing. your input is appreciated
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