All municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario held elections on November 10, 1980, to elect mayors, reeves, councillors, and school trustees.[1] Some areas also held local referendums.
In the town of Tecumseh, outgoing councillor and unsuccessful mayoral candidate Cameron Frye came out as gay at the outgoing council's last caretaker meeting before the new council was sworn in, making him one of Canada's first known openly gay holders of political office.[4] The campaign had been marked by rumours about Frye's sexuality, including the distribution of hate literature claiming that Frye would promote a "gay lifestyle" as mayor and would lead the town into "moral decay",[5] although Frye had refused to confirm or deny the claims about his sexuality during the campaign.[6]
1980, ontario, municipal, elections, municipalities, canadian, province, ontario, held, elections, november, 1980, elect, mayors, reeves, councillors, school, trustees, some, areas, also, held, local, referendums, incumbent, mayors, were, defeated, several, ci. All municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario held elections on November 10 1980 to elect mayors reeves councillors and school trustees 1 Some areas also held local referendums Incumbent mayors were defeated in several cities The most closely watched contest was in Toronto where challenger Art Eggleton defeated incumbent mayor John Sewell In Hamilton Jack MacDonald was ousted by William Powell 2 In Brantford Dave Neumann defeated incumbent mayor Charles Bowen while in Oshawa Allan Pilkey defeated incumbent Jim Potticary 2 3 Several other incumbent mayors were reelected including Marion Dewar in Ottawa Jim Gordon in Sudbury Ross Archer in Barrie Hazel McCallion in Mississauga Bert Weeks in Windsor and Morley Rosenberg in Kitchener 2 3 In the town of Tecumseh outgoing councillor and unsuccessful mayoral candidate Cameron Frye came out as gay at the outgoing council s last caretaker meeting before the new council was sworn in making him one of Canada s first known openly gay holders of political office 4 The campaign had been marked by rumours about Frye s sexuality including the distribution of hate literature claiming that Frye would promote a gay lifestyle as mayor and would lead the town into moral decay 5 although Frye had refused to confirm or deny the claims about his sexuality during the campaign 6 Contents 1 Results 1 1 Brantford 1 2 Ottawa 1 3 Toronto 2 ReferencesResults editBrantford edit Main article Brantford municipal election 1980 Ottawa edit Main article Ottawa municipal election 1980 Main article 1980 Ottawa Carleton Regional Municipality elections Toronto edit Main article Toronto municipal election 1980References edit Voters go to polls in 801 municipalities The Globe and Mail November 10 1980 a b c Stunning upset makes pensioner Hamilton mayor Toronto Star November 11 1980 a b Incumbents ousted in major centres The Globe and Mail November 11 1980 Reeve gauche A sad come out The Body Politic February 1981 Victim of hate mail loses in bid for mayor The Body Politic December 1980 Hate mail clouds campaign in town that promotes love Toronto Star November 2 1980 nbsp This Ontario related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1980 Ontario municipal elections amp oldid 1219942499, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
