Brampton City Council

Brampton City Council is the governing body for the City of Brampton, Ontario.

It consists of the mayor of Brampton (currently Linda Jeffrey), five elected regional councillors and five elected city councillors. Each councillor represents two city wards.

2014-2018 Council

Wards	City	Region	Community
Mayor	Linda Jeffrey		At-large
1 & 5	Elaine Moore	Grant Gibson	Madoc, Brampton North, Brampton West, Northwood Park, Credit Valley
2 & 6	Doug Whillans	Michael Palleschi	Heart Lake, Snelgrove, Fletcher's Meadow
3 & 4	Jeff Bowman	Martin Medeiros	Fletcher's West, Brampton South, Brampton East, Fletcher's Creek South
7 & 8	Pat Fortini	Gael Miles	Bramalea
9 & 10	Gurpreet Dhillon	John Sprovieri	Springdale

2010-2014 Council

• Mayor Susan Fennell
• Wards 1 and 5 - Grant Gibson (city), Elaine Moore (region)
• Wards 2 and 6 - John Hutton (city), Paul Palleschi (region)
• Wards 3 and 4 - Bob Callahan (city), John Sanderson (region)
• Wards 7 and 8 - Sandra Hames (city), Gael Miles (region)
• Wards 9 and 10 - Vicky Dhillon (city), John Sprovieri (region)

Previous councils

1853^[1]

• Revee John Lynch
• John Elliot Senior
• John Holmes
• Peleg Howland

As of 1874^[1]

• Mayor John Haggert
• Reeve Kenneth Chisholm, Deputy-Reeve D. S. Leslie
• East Ward: William McCulla, John W. Cole, John Robertson
• South Ward: James Golding, John Anthony, Thomas Milner
• West Ward: William Milner, Patrick Purcell, S. Williamson
• North Ward: R. H. Lewis, J. W. Beynon, Alexander Pattullo

As of 1953^[1]

• Mayor B. Harper Bull
• Reeve C. Carman Core, Deputy-Reeve W. G. Thompson
• F. F. Beckett
• J. E. Calvert
• A. Dyball
• E. F. Furness
• Mrs. S. B. Horwood
• Cyril O'Reilly
• City executives: Clerk-Treasurer J. Galway, Assessor Norman E. Hale, Engineer George F. Kimball, Building Inspector Dennis Warren, Water Commissioners John Patterson, E. A. Ingram, Hydro Commissioners W. J. Abell, and W. P. Dale.

2003-2006

Listed as regional councillor, city councillor

• Mayor Susan Fennell
• Ward 1 and 5 - Elaine Moore, Grant Gibson
• Ward 2 and 6 - Paul Palleschi, John Hutton
• Ward 3 and 4 - Susan DiMarco, Bob Callahan
• Ward 7 and 8 - Gael Miles, Sandra Hames
• Ward 9 and 10 - John Sprovieri, Garnett Manning

2006 election

The 2006 election was held November 13, 2006; the following people were elected.

• Mayor Susan Fennell
• Ward 1 and 5 - Grant Gibson (Region), Elaine Moore (Region)
• Ward 2 and 6 - John Hutton (City), Paul Palleschi (Region)
• Ward 3 and 4 - Bob Callahan (City), John Sanderson (Region)
• Ward 7 and 8 - Sandra Hames (City), Gael Miles (Region)
• Ward 9 and 10 - Vicky Dhillon (City), John Sprovieri (Region)

Biographical information on previous councillors

Bill Cowie

Cowie unsuccessfully challenged Susan Fennell in the 2003 election. He was the Sesquicentennial co-chair, with Sandra Hames.^[2]

Susan DiMarco

Wards 3 & 4 regional, until 2006.

Susan Fennell

Before becoming Mayor, Fennell was a councillor.

Linda Jeffrey

former councillor and Ontario MPP, Mayor elect 2014

Ed Ludlow

Ward 8, 1988-1991. Unsuccessfully ran for wards 2 and 6 in the 2003 election. Age 65 as of December 2006, guilty of molesting four boys between 1971 and 1975, when he was master instructor at Tora Martial Arts.^[3] Many more victims have yet to come forward

Garnett Manning

Wards 9 and 10, 2003-2006. Lost to Vicky Dhillon. In May 2006, he won the African Canadian Achievement Award (ACAA) for Excellence in Politics.

Peter Robertson

Before becoming Mayor, Robertson was a councillor.

References

1. Uncredited author, Brampton Centennial Souvenir 1853-1853. Brampton, ON: Charters Publishing Company Limited, 1953.
2. The Official Website of the City of Brampton, Ontario - www.brampton.ca
3. http://www.northpeel.com/br/news/story/3822637p-4422016c.html[]

External links

• Brampton City Council

Coordinates: 43°41′06″N 79°45′34″W / 43.685028°N 79.759433°W