Jacob Erratt

Jacob Erratt

Mayor of Ottawa
In office 1888 (acting) 1889 – 1890
Preceded by	McLeod Stewart
Succeeded by	Thomas Birkett
Personal details
Born	1848
Died	April 1928 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Jacob Erratt (ca. 1848 – April 1928) was mayor of the city of Ottawa, Canada from 1889 to 1890.^[1]

He was born in West Winchester, Ontario and came to Ottawa in 1869. He owned a furniture store in the city. He served on city council from 1882 to 1884. In 1888, he was named acting mayor. During his term as mayor, he served on the board of the Central Canada Exhibition Association. In 1902, he moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where he opened a real estate office; he died there in 1928.

References

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

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

Mayors of Ottawa

Bytown (1847–55)	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 McLeod Stewart	Mayor of Ottawa 1889-1890	Succeeded by Thomas Birkett

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