The Citizens’ Association undertaking the campaign for good
government and the conduct of the forthcoming elections formed
up in the middle of 1909, and was hailed by all good citizens,
receiving the support of all public and volunteer associations
having a civic tendency. About this time an important association
was formally inaugurated on April 12, 1909, by His Excellency
Earl Grey entitled the “City Improvement League,” and lent its
aid in the campaign of education on good government and civic
progress. Other societies also cooperated. The women associations
under the local Council of Women on the English-speaking side,
and La Fédération Nationale St. Jean Baptiste on the French,
entered more largely than ever before into the movement for civic
progress and influenced the women voters for clean government.
The choice of the people for the new officers was made on
February 1, 1910, when the “whole slate for the board” prepared
by the Citizens’ Association was unanimously adopted at the
polls as follows: Mayor, J.J. Guerin, M.D.; controllers, E.P.
Lachapelle, M.D., president of the Provincial Board of Health;
L.N. Dupuis, merchant; Joseph Ainey, labour candidate; and F.L.
Wanklyn, a civil engineer and former manager of the Montreal
Street Railway. (The latter resigned in the fall of 1911 and
was succeeded by the election in the spring of 1912 of Mr. C.H.
Godfrey.) The thirty-one wards were represented as follows:
East L.A. Lapointe
Centre J.Z. Resther
West S.J. Carter *
St. Ann T. O’Connell *
St. Joseph U.H. Dandurand
St. Andrew Joseph Ward *
St. George Leslie H. Boyd, K.C. *
St. Louis Jean B. Lamoureaux
St. Laurent James Robinson *
Papineau J.A.E. Gauvin
St. Mary J.P. Roux, M.D.
St. Jacques A.N. Brodeur
Lafontaine Eudore Dubeau
Hochelaga J.H. Garceau, M.D.
St. Jean Baptiste Noé Leclaire
St. Gabriel Patrick Monahan *
St. Denis Ernest D. Tétreau
Duvernay Ludger Clément
St. Henry O. Letourneau, M.D.
St. Cunegonde N. Lapointe
Mount Royal A.E. Prud’homme, N.P.
De Lorimier George Mayrand, N.P.
Laurier N. Turcot
Notre Dame de Graces George Marcil
St. Paul M. Judge
Ahuntsic T. Bastien
Emard J.U. Emard, K.C.
Longue Pointe E. Larivière
Bordeaux E. Lussier
Cote des Neiges A.S. Deguire
Rosemount J.N. Drummond *
* English-Speaking.
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