List of mayors of Vancouver
Thirty-nine persons have held the office of mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, since 1886.
List[edit]
# | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Malcolm A. MacLean (1842–1895) |
1 January 1886 | 31 December 1887 | Independent | |
2 | David Oppenheimer (1834–1897) |
1 January 1888 | 31 December 1891 | Independent | |
3 | Frederick Cope (1860–1897) |
1 January 1892 | 31 December 1893 | Independent | |
4 | Robert Anderson (1858–1916) |
1 January 1894 | 31 December 1894 | Independent | |
5 | Henry Collins (1844–1904) |
1 January 1895 | 31 December 1896 | Independent | |
6 | William Templeton (1853–1898) |
1 January 1897 | 31 December 1897 | Independent | |
7 | James Garden (1847–1914) |
1 January 1898 | 31 December 1900 | Conservative Party | |
8 | Thomas Townley (1862–1935) |
1 January 1901 | 31 December 1901 | Independent | |
9 | Thomas Neelands (1862–1944) |
1 January 1902 | 31 December 1903 | Independent | |
10 | William McGuigan (1853–1908) |
1 January 1904 | 31 December 1904 | Independent | |
11 | Frederick Buscombe (1862–1938) |
1 January 1905 | 31 December 1906 | Independent | |
12 | Alexander Bethune (1852–1947) |
1 January 1907 | 31 December 1908 | Independent | |
13 | Charles Douglas (1852–1917) |
1 January 1909 | 31 December 1909 | Progressive Conservative Party | |
14 | Louis D. Taylor (1857–1946) |
1 January 1910 | 31 December 1911 | Independent | |
15 | James Findlay (1854–1924) |
1 January 1912 | 31 December 1912 | Independent | |
16 | Truman S. Baxter (1867–1931) |
1 January 1913 | 31 December 1914 | Liberal Party | |
17 | Louis D. Taylor (1857–1946) |
1 January 1915 | 1915 | Independent | |
18 | Malcom P. McBeath (1880–1957) |
1915 | 31 December 1917 | Independent | |
19 | Robert Gale (1880–1957) |
1 January 1918 | 31 December 1921 | Independent | |
20 | Charles E. Tisdall (1866–1936) |
1 January 1922 | 31 December 1923 | Progressive Conservative Party | |
21 | William R. Owen (1864–1949) |
1 January 1924 | 31 December 1924 | Independent | |
22 | Louis D. Taylor (1857–1946) |
1 January 1925 | 31 December 1928 | Independent | |
23 | William H. Malkin (1868–1959) |
1 January 1929 | 31 December 1930 | Independent | |
24 | Louis D. Taylor (1857–1946) |
1 January 1931 | 31 December 1934 | Independent | |
25 | Gerald McGeer (1888–1947) |
1 January 1935 | 31 December 1936 | Liberal Party | |
26 | George C. Miller (1882–1968) |
1 January 1937 | 31 December 1938 | Progressive Conservative Party | |
27 | James L. Telford (1889–1960) |
1 January 1939 | 31 December 1940 | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | |
28 | Jonathan Cornett (1883–1973) |
1 January 1941 | 31 December 1946 | Non-Partisan Association | |
29 | Gerald McGeer† (1888–1947) |
1 January 1947 | 11 August 1947 | Non-Partisan Association | |
30 | Charles E. Jones (1881–1948) |
12 August 1947 | 31 December 1947 | Non-Partisan Association | |
31 | George C. Miller (1882–1968) |
12 August 1948 | 31 December 1948 | Non-Partisan Association | |
32 | Charles E. Thompson (1890–1966) |
12 August 1949 | 31 December 1950 | Non-Partisan Association | |
33 | Frederick Hume (1892–1967) |
12 August 1951 | 31 December 1958 | Non-Partisan Association | |
34 | Albert T. Alsbury (1904–1990) |
1 January 1959 | 31 December 1962 | Non-Partisan Association | |
35 | William Rathie (1914–1994) |
12 August 1963 | 31 December 1966 | Non-Partisan Association | |
36 | Thomas Campbell (1927–2012) |
1 January 1967 | November 1972 | Independent | |
37 | Arthur Phillips (1930–2013) |
November 1972 | 31 December 1976 | TEAM | |
38 | Jack Volrich (1928–2010) |
1 January 1977 | 31 December 1980 | TEAM | |
39 | Michael Harcourt (Born in 1943) |
1 January 1981 | 8 December 1986 | Independent | |
40 | Gordon Campbell (born in 1948) |
8 December 1986 | 8 December 1993 | Non-Partisan Association | |
41 | Philip Owen (born in 1933) |
8 December 1993 | 8 December 2002 | Non-Partisan Association | |
42 | Larry Campbell (born in 1948) |
8 December 2002 | 8 December 2005 | COPE | |
43 | Sam Sullivan (born in 1959) |
8 December 2005 | 8 December 2008 | Non-Partisan Association | |
44 | Gregor Robertson (born in 1964) |
8 December 2008 | Incumbent | Vision Vancouver |
- Notes
† died in office
List of mayors who held higher office[edit]
Two former mayors, Mike Harcourt and Gordon Campbell, went on to become Premier of British Columbia.
George Clark Miller, Sam Sullivan, Art Phillips and James Garden became a provincial MLA after being mayor.
Larry Campbell became a Senator after being mayor.
Gregor Robertson, Charles Douglas, James Lyle Telford, Jonathan Webster Cornett and Charles Edward Tisdall were a provincial MLA prior to becoming mayor.
Jonathan Webster Cornett was reeve of South Vancouver before being Vancouver mayor.
Gerry McGeer was a MLA and cabinet minister before being mayor and became a federal MP and Senator after.
Fictional Mayors[edit]
Dominic Da Vinci, was a fictional mayor of Vancouver played by Nicholas Campbell and was based on real life mayor Larry Campbell.