Charles Sparrow

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Charles Sparrow
Mayor of Bytown
Incumbent
Assumed office 1851
Preceded by	John Scott
Succeeded by	Richard William Scott
Mayor of Ottawa
Personal details
Born	1808 Quebec
Died	after 1852 Ottawa

Charles Sparrow (1808 – after 1852) was the fifth mayor of Bytown.^[1]

He was born in Quebec in 1808 and moved to Bytown while still young. Sparrow owned a general store and tannery on Sussex Street in the Lower Town part of Bytown. He was elected to municipal council in 1850 and became mayor in 1851. He is buried at St. Marks cemetery in Pakenham.

References

↑ Dave Mullington "Chain of Office: Biographic Sketches of Ottawa's Mayors (1847-1948)" (Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 2005)

Bytown: The early days of Ottawa, Nick and Helma Mika

External links

Laroque-Lafortune College, Recognized Federal Heritage Building at 445-447 Sussex Drive was once owned by Charles Sparrow

v t e Mayors of Ottawa

Bytown (1847-1855)	J. Scott J.B. Lewis Hervey Sparrow R.W. Scott Turgeon Friel

Ottawa (1855-2001)	J.B. Lewis McGillivray Workman Friel Dickinson Lyon Rochester Martineau Featherston Lyon-Fellowes Waller Bangs Mackintosh St. Jean Bate McDougal Stewart Erratt Birkett Durocher Cox Borthwick Bingham Payment Morris Davidson Cook J. Ellis Hastey D. Scott Champagne Hopewell Hinchey J. Ellis McVeity Porter Fisher Plant Watters Balharrie A. Ellis Allen Nolan J.E.S. Lewis Bourque Goodwin Whitton Nelms Reid Fogarty Benoit Greenberg Dewar Durrell Laviolette Holzman Watson Higdon

Ottawa (2001 amalgamation-present)	Chiarelli O'Brien Watson

Preceded by John Scott	Mayor of Bytown 1851	Succeeded by Richard William Scott

Persondata
Name	Sparrow, Charles
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian mayor
Date of birth	1808
Place of birth
Date of death	after 1852
Place of death

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