William Reid Owen

Mayor Owen meets Rear Admiral Field on the visit of HMS Hood to Vancouver with the Battlecruiser Squadron, June 1924

William Reid Owen (25 November 1864 – 22 March 1949) was the 20th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1924. He was born in Ontario and moved to Vancouver in 1899.

He became mayor after winning a narrow victory over Louis Taylor by 53 votes. He lost to Taylor the following year by 640 votes.^[1]

References

↑ Mackie, John (30 November 2002). "The mayors of Vancouver". The Vancouver Sun. p. B4.

External links

Vancouver History: list of mayors, accessed 20 August 2006

Mayors of Vancouver

MacLean Oppenheimer Cope Anderson Collins Templeton Garden Townley Neelands McGuigan Buscombe Bethune Douglas Taylor Findlay Baxter Taylor McBeath Gale Tisdall W. Owen Taylor Malkin Taylor McGeer Miller Telford Cornett McGeer Jones Miller (acting) Thompson Hume Alsbury Rathie T. Campbell Phillips Volrich Harcourt G. Campbell P. Owen L. Campbell Sullivan Robertson

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