Archival record
The details currently attached.
- Role or occupation
- City Council member
- Year or term
- 1891
Research note
What the surviving sources tell us.
The City Clerk’s typed list of elected officials records that the first Council meeting was held March 20, 1891, in Alexander Spithill’s basement. The World War I service records in the Barracks No. 142 record volume in the museum library list Mathew J. Spithill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Spithill, who served with the Canadian forces.