City of Toronto mayor

On my walk through Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, I came across the graves of two former mayors who died while serving the City of Toronto — Sam McBride and Don Summerville. Sam McBride was a two-time Mayor of Toronto, serving his first term from 1928 to 1929 and his second term in 1936 until […]

Phillips was an active Progressive Conservative in his youth in his hometown of Brockville, Ontario. The young man would go on to study law and his love of politics brought him to Toronto where he would serve as Toronto’s 53rd mayor for seven years (1955-62).