The city of Ottawa , Canada held municipal elections on January 6, 1919 to elect members of the 1919 Ottawa City Council .
The election saw a woman elected in the city for the first time, with Marion McDougall (wife of the late John Lorn McDougall )[1] Dalhousie Ward .
Mayor of Ottawa [ ] Fisher won seven of the city's nine wards, while Parent won the city's two francophone wards, By and Ottawa.
Plebiscites [ ]
Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission before 1923.
Option
Votes
%
Yes
8,234
75.31
No
2,700
24.69
Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission in 1923.
Option
Votes
%
Yes
8,771
79.12
No
2,314
20.88
By-law to provide for an expenditure of $150,000 on a bridge of the Rideau Canal at Somerset Street
Option
Votes
%
Yes
2,658
50.08
No
2,649
49.92
The plebiscite lost in all but three wards, but won St. George Ward (which the bridge would connect with Downtown) by a large enough margin to pass city-wide by just nine votes. [2] Corktown Footbridge was built in 2006.
By-law to secure authority to expend $150,000 on the establishment and maintenance of a civic coal yard
Option
Votes
%
Against
3,161
59.73
For
2,163
40.63
(4 elected)
Candidate
Votes
%
Frank H. Plant 6,666
18.54
6,501
18.08
Napoleon Champagne 6,206
17.26
5,298
14.74
5,229
14.55
4,985
13.87
Peter Glavey
1,062
2.95
(2 elected from each ward)
Rideau Ward
Candidate
Votes
%
352
33.78
285
27.35
206
19.77
Daudelin
199
19.10
By Ward
Candidate
Votes
%
652
37.86
613
35.60
Labelle
457
26.54
Capital Ward
Candidate
Votes
%
1,417
35.35
1,094
27.30
McCormick
848
21.16
Walsh
649
16.19
References [ ] [3] [4]
^ "Life of service closes in the sudden passing today of Mrs. J. L. McDougall, Sr" . Ottawa Citizen . August 18, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .^ "Citizens favor (sic) taking over of street railway" . Ottawa Citizen . January 7, 1919. p. 5. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .^ "Fisher, Plant, Kent, Champagne, and Nelson are Elected" . Ottawa Journal . January 7, 1919. p. 8. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .^ "Denison, McKinley, Guertin, Slinn, New Aldermen Elected" . Ottawa Journal . January 7, 1919. p. 9. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
Bytown Ottawa Regional Municipality
