List of mayors of Vancouver

Thirty-nine persons have held the office of mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, since 1886.

List

# Name
(Birth–Death)
Term of office Political Party
1 Malcolm A. MacLean
(1842–1895)
1 January 1886 31 December 1887 Independent
2 David Oppenheimer
(1834–1897)
1 January 1888 31 December 1891 Independent
3 Frederick Cope
(1860–1897)
1 January 1892 31 December 1893 Independent
4 Robert Anderson
(1858–1916)
1 January 1894 31 December 1894 Independent
5 Henry Collins
(1844–1904)
1 January 1895 31 December 1896 Independent
6 William Templeton
(1853–1898)
1 January 1897 31 December 1897 Independent
7 James Garden
(1847–1914)
1 January 1898 31 December 1900 Conservative Party
8 Thomas Townley
(1862–1935)
1 January 1901 31 December 1901 Independent
9 Thomas Neelands
(1862–1944)
1 January 1902 31 December 1903 Independent
10 William McGuigan
(1853–1908)
1 January 1904 31 December 1904 Independent
11 Frederick Buscombe
(1862–1938)
1 January 1905 31 December 1906 Independent
12 Alexander Bethune
(1852–1947)
1 January 1907 31 December 1908 Independent
13 Charles Douglas
(1852–1917)
1 January 1909 31 December 1909 Progressive Conservative Party
14 Louis D. Taylor
(1857–1946)
1 January 1910 31 December 1911 Independent
15 James Findlay
(1854–1924)
1 January 1912 31 December 1912 Independent
16 Truman S. Baxter
(1867–1931)
1 January 1913 31 December 1914 Liberal Party
17 Louis D. Taylor
(1857–1946)
1 January 1915 1915 Independent
18 Malcolm P. McBeath
(1880–1957)
1915 31 December 1917 Independent
19 Robert Gale
(1880–1957)
1 January 1918 31 December 1921 Independent
20 Charles E. Tisdall
(1866–1936)
1 January 1922 31 December 1923 Progressive Conservative Party
21 William R. Owen
(1864–1949)
1 January 1924 31 December 1924 Independent
22 Louis D. Taylor
(1857–1946)
1 January 1925 31 December 1928 Independent
23 William H. Malkin
(1868–1959)
1 January 1929 31 December 1930 Independent
24 Louis D. Taylor
(1857–1946)
1 January 1931 31 December 1934 Independent
25 Gerald McGeer
(1888–1947)
1 January 1935 31 December 1936 Liberal Party
26 George C. Miller
(1882–1968)
1 January 1937 31 December 1938 Progressive Conservative Party
27 James L. Telford
(1889–1960)
1 January 1939 31 December 1940 Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
28 Jonathan Cornett
(1883–1973)
1 January 1941 31 December 1946 Non-Partisan Association
29 Gerald McGeer
(1888–1947)
1 January 1947 11 August 1947 Non-Partisan Association
30 Charles E. Jones
(1881–1948)
12 August 1947 31 December 1947 Non-Partisan Association
31 George C. Miller
(1882–1968)
12 August 1948 31 December 1948 Non-Partisan Association
32 Charles E. Thompson
(1890–1966)
12 August 1949 31 December 1950 Non-Partisan Association
33 Frederick Hume
(1892–1967)
12 August 1951 31 December 1958 Non-Partisan Association
34 Albert T. Alsbury
(1904–1990)
1 January 1959 31 December 1962 Non-Partisan Association
35 William Rathie
(1914–1994)
12 August 1963 31 December 1966 Non-Partisan Association
36 Thomas Campbell
(1927–2012)
1 January 1967 November 1972 Independent
37 Arthur Phillips
(1930–2013)
November 1972 31 December 1976 TEAM
38 Jack Volrich
(1928–2010)
1 January 1977 31 December 1980 TEAM
39 Michael Harcourt
(Born in 1943)
1 January 1981 8 December 1986 Independent
40 Gordon Campbell
(born in 1948)
8 December 1986 8 December 1993 Non-Partisan Association
41 Philip Owen
(born in 1933)
8 December 1993 8 December 2002 Non-Partisan Association
42 Larry Campbell
(born in 1948)
8 December 2002 8 December 2005 COPE
43 Sam Sullivan
(born in 1959)
8 December 2005 8 December 2008 Non-Partisan Association
44 Gregor Robertson
(born in 1964)
8 December 2008 Incumbent Vision Vancouver
Notes

died in office

List of mayors who held higher office

Two former mayors, Mike Harcourt and Gordon Campbell, went on to become Premier of British Columbia.

George Clark Miller, Sam Sullivan, Art Phillips and James Garden became a provincial MLA after being mayor.

Larry Campbell became a Senator after being mayor.

Gregor Robertson, Charles Douglas, James Lyle Telford, Jonathan Webster Cornett and Charles Edward Tisdall were a provincial MLA prior to becoming mayor.

Jonathan Webster Cornett was reeve of South Vancouver before being Vancouver mayor.

Gerry McGeer was a MLA and cabinet minister before being mayor and became a federal MP and Senator after.

Fictional Mayors

Dominic Da Vinci, was a fictional mayor of Vancouver played by Nicholas Campbell and was based on real life mayor Larry Campbell.

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