C. T. Bate

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Charles Thornton Bate (1823 - April 10, 1889), was mayor of Ottawa in 1884.

He was born in Cornwall, England in 1823 and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario. He owned a grocery store in Ottawa with his brother, Henry, who became the first head of the Ottawa Improvement Commission, later the National Capital Commission. Mr. Bate was mayor when Ottawa became the first city in Canada to be completely lit by electricity, after nearly two years of debate. Bate served on the first board of the Bank of Ottawa, which later merged with Scotiabank.

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Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Chain of Office: Biographical Sketches of the Early Mayors of Ottawa (1847-1948), Dave Mullington (ISBN 1-897113-17-X)

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