Thomas Payment
Thomas Payment (July 6, 1853 – January 13, 1920) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1899 to 1900.[1]
Thomas Payment | |
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| Mayor of Ottawa | |
| In office 1899–1900 | |
| Preceded by | Samuel Bingham |
| Succeeded by | William Dowler Morris |
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| Born | July 6, 1853 Manotick, Ontario |
| Died | January 13, 1920 (aged 66) Ottawa |
He was born in Manotick, Ontario, in 1853. He worked as a bookkeeper with a railroad company in Maine. Later, he studied at the Ontario College of Pharmacy and opened a drug store in the Byward Market area of Ottawa. During his term as mayor, a massive fire, the Hull-Ottawa fire of 1900, started in Hull and burned across the river at the Lebreton Flats, reaching as far as Dow's Lake.
He died in Ottawa in 1920 and was buried in the Notre-Dame Cemetery.
References
- Dave Mullington "Chain of Office: Biographic Sketches of Ottawa's Mayors (1847-1948)" (Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 2005)
- Chain of Office: Biographical Sketches of the Early Mayors of Ottawa (1847-1948), Dave Mullington (ISBN 1-897113-17-X)
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| Ottawa (1855–2001) |
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| Ottawa (2001 amalgamation – present) | |
| Preceded by Samuel Bingham |
Mayor of Ottawa 1899-1900 |
Succeeded by William Dowler Morris |
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