George Gurnett

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Portrait of George Gurnett by Paul Kane, 1845.
Portrait of George Gurnett by Paul Kane, 1845.

George Gurnett (c. 1792 – November 17), 1861) was a Canadian journalist and politician.

Born in England, he emigrated in the 1820s to Virginia and late moved to Ancaster in Upper Canada and finally to York in 1829. When York was incorporated in May 1834 as the city of Toronto, Gurnett was elected to the city council. He served as mayor of the city in 1837 and from 1848 to 1850.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Thomas David Morrison		 Mayor of Toronto
1837		 Succeeded by
John Powell
Preceded by
William Henry Boulton		 Mayor of Toronto
1848–1850		 Succeeded by
John George Bowes
v • d • e
Mayors of Toronto
William Lyon Mackenzie • Robert Baldwin Sullivan • Thomas David Morrison • George Gurnett • John Powell • George Monro • Henry Sherwood • William Henry Boulton • George Gurnett (again) • John George Bowes • Joshua George Beard • George William Allan • John Beverley Robinson • John Hutchison • William Henry Boulton (again) • David Breakenridge Read • Adam Wilson • John George Bowes (again) • Francis Henry Medcalf • James Edward Smith • Samuel Bickerton Harman • Joseph Sheard • Alexander Manning • Francis Henry Medcalf (again) • Angus Morrison • James Beaty • William Barclay McMurrich • Arthur Radcliffe Boswell • Alexander Manning (again) • William Holmes Howland • Edward Frederick Clarke • Robert John Fleming • Warring Kennedy • Robert John Fleming (again) • John Shaw • Ernest A. Macdonald • Oliver Aiken Howland • Thomas Urquhart • Emerson Coatsworth • Joseph Oliver • George Reginald Geary • Horatio Clarence Hocken • Thomas Langton Church • Charles A. Maguire • William W. Hiltz • Thomas Foster • Samuel McBride • Bert Wemp • William James Stewart • James Simpson • Samuel McBride (again) • William D. Robbins • Ralph Day • Frederick J. Conboy • Robert Hood Saunders • Hiram E. McCallum • Allan A. Lamport • Leslie Howard Saunders • Nathan Phillips • Donald Dean Summerville • Philip Givens • William Dennison • David Crombie • Fred Beavis • John Sewell • Art Eggleton • June Rowlands • Barbara Hall • Mel Lastman • David Miller


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