Thomas Payment

Thomas Payment

Mayor of Ottawa
In office 1899–1900
Preceded by	Samuel Bingham
Succeeded by	William Dowler Morris
Personal details
Born	July 6, 1853 Manotick, Ontario
Died	January 13, 1920 Ottawa
Religion	Roman Catholic

Thomas Payment (July 6, 1853 – January 13, 1920) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1899 to 1900.^[1]

He was born in Manotick, Ontario, in 1853. He worked as a bookkeeper with a railroad company in Maine. Later, he studied at the Ontario College of Pharmacy and opened a drug store in the Byward Market area of Ottawa. During his term as mayor, a massive fire, the Hull-Ottawa fire of 1900, started in Hull and burned across the river at the Lebreton Flats, reaching as far as Dow's Lake.

He died in Ottawa in 1920 and was buried in the Notre-Dame Cemetery.

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 Samuel Bingham	Mayor of Ottawa 1899-1900	Succeeded by William Dowler Morris

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