List of mayors of Ottawa

Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use mdy dates The following is a list of mayors of Ottawa. Until 1854, Ottawa was known as Bytown. Over the course of Ottawa's history, the borders of the municipality have greatly expanded through annexations. This most recently occurred in 2001 when a number of neighbouring communities were amalgamated with Ottawa.

Bytown

• 1847 – John Scott
• 1848 – John Bower Lewis
• 1849 – Robert Hervey
• 1850 – John Scott
• 1851 – Charles Sparrow
• 1852 – Richard William Scott
• 1853 – Joseph-Balsora Turgeon
• 1854 – Henry J. Friel

Ottawa, pre-amalgamation (1855–2001)

• 1855–1857 – John Bower Lewis
• 1858–1859 – Edward McGillivray
• 1860–1862 – Alexander Workman
• 1863 – ? – Henry J. Friel
• 1864–1866 – Moss Kent Dickinson
• 1867 – Robert Lyon
• 1868–1869 – Henry J. Friel
• 1870–1871 – John Rochester
• 1872–1873 – Eugène Martineau
• 1874–1875 – John Peter Featherston
• 1876 – G. B. Lyon-Fellowes
• 1876–1877 – William Henry Waller
• 1878 – Chauncey Ward Bangs
• 1879–1881 – Charles Herbert Mackintosh
• 1882–1883 – Pierre St. Jean, M.D.
• 1884 – Charles Thornton Bate
• 1885–1886 – Francis McDougal
• 1887–1888 – McLeod Stewart
• 1889–1890 – Jacob Erratt
• 1891 – Thomas Birkett
• 1892–1893 – Olivier Durocher
• 1894 – George Cox
• 1895–1896 – William Borthwick
• 1897–1898 – Samuel Bingham
• 1899–1900 – Thomas Payment
• 1901 – William Dowler Morris
• 1901 – James Davidson
• 1902–1903 – Fred Cook
• 1904–1906 – James A. Ellis
• 1906 – Robert A. Hastey
• 1907–1908 – D'Arcy Scott
• 1908 – Napoléon Champagne
• 1909–1912 – Charles Hopewell
• 1912 – Edward H. Hinchey
• 1913 – James A. Ellis
• 1914 – Taylor McVeity
• 1915–1916 – Nelson D. Porter
• 1917–1920 – Harold Fisher
• 1921–1923 – Frank H. Plant
• 1924 – Henry Watters
• 1924 – Napoléon Champagne
• 1925–1927 – John P. Balharrie
• 1928–1929 – Arthur Ellis
• 1930 – Frank H. Plant
• 1931–1933 – John J. Allen
• 1934–1935 – Patrick Nolan
• 1936–1948 – J.E. Stanley Lewis
• 1949–1950 – E.A. Bourque
• 1951 – Grenville Goodwin
• 1951–1956 – Charlotte Whitton
• 1957–1960 – George H. Nelms
• 1961–1964 – Charlotte Whitton
• 1965–1969 – Donald Bartlett Reid
• 1970–1972 – Kenneth H. Fogarty, Q.C.
• 1972–1974 – Pierre Benoit
• 1975–1978 – Lorry Greenberg
• 1978–1985 – Marion Dewar
• 1985–1991 – James A. Durrell
• 1991 – Marc Laviolette
• 1991–1997 – Jacquelin Holzman
• 1997–2000 – Jim Watson
• 2000–2001 – Allan Higdon (acting)

Amalgamation

When the city of Ottawa amalgamated in 2001, these were the mayors of the municipalities that amalgamated:

• Chair of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton: Bob Chiarelli
• Ottawa: Allan Higdon (acting)
• Gloucester: Claudette Cain
• Kanata: Merle Nicholds
• Nepean: Mary Pitt
• Vanier: Guy Cousineau
• Cumberland: Gerry Lalonde (acting)
• Goulbourn: Janet Stavinga
• Osgoode: Doug Thompson
• Rideau: Glenn Brooks
• West Carleton: Dwight Eastman
• Rockcliffe Park: Patrick J. Murray

Since amalgamation (2001–present)

No.	Photo	Mayor	Terms of office	Took office	Left office
57	File:Bob Chiarelli OTT.jpg		2	January 1, 2001	December 1, 2006
58	File:Larry O'Brien by James Maclennan.jpg		1	December 1, 2006	November 30, 2010
—	File:3x4.svg	(acting)	—Template:Efn	May 2, 2009	July 8, 2009
—	File:3x4.svg	(acting)	—Template:Efn	July 8, 2009	August 6, 2009
56Template:Efn	File:Jim Watson at the 2013 AMO Conference (9538825979) (cropped).jpg		4	December 1, 2010	November 15, 2022
59	File:Mark Sutcliffe (cropped).jpg		1	November 15, 2022	Incumbent

See also

• List of Ottawa municipal elections
• Mayors of Osgoode Township