The city of Ottawa , Canada held municipal elections on January 6, 1919 to elect members of the 1919 Ottawa City Council .
The election saw a woman elected in the city for the first time, with Marion McDougall (wife of the late John Lorn McDougall )[ 1] being elected as a public school trustee in Dalhousie Ward .
Fisher won seven of the city's nine wards, while Parent won the city's two francophone wards, By and Ottawa.
Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission before 1923. Option Votes % Yes 8,234 75.31 No 2,700 24.69
Ottawa Electric Railway to be taken over and run by a commission in 1923. Option Votes % Yes 8,771 79.12 No 2,314 20.88
By-law to provide for an expenditure of $150,000 on a bridge of the Rideau Canal at Somerset Street Option Votes % Yes 2,658 50.08 No 2,649 49.92
The plebiscite lost in all but three wards, but won St. George Ward (which the bridge would connect with Downtown) by a large enough margin to pass city-wide by just nine votes.[ 2] Despite the result, a bridge would not be built at that location until the Corktown Footbridge was built in 2006.
By-law to secure authority to expend $150,000 on the establishment and maintenance of a civic coal yard Option Votes % Against 3,161 59.73 For 2,163 40.63
(4 elected)
(2 elected from each ward)
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^ "Life of service closes in the sudden passing today of Mrs. J. L. McDougall Sr" . Ottawa Citizen . August 18, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved May 9, 2020 . ^ "Citizens favor (sic) taking over of street railway" . Ottawa Citizen . January 7, 1919. p. 5. Retrieved May 9, 2020 . ^ "Fisher, Plant, Kent, Champagne, and Nelson are Elected" . Ottawa Journal . January 7, 1919. p. 8. Retrieved May 9, 2020 . ^ "Denison, McKinley, Guertin, Slinn, New Aldermen Elected" . Ottawa Journal . January 7, 1919. p. 9. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
Bytown Ottawa Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton