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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 .
Fisher won seven of the city's nine wards, while Parent won the city's two francophone wards, By and Ottawa.
Plebiscites [ edit ]
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)
(2 elected from each ward)
References [ edit ] [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
