Bill Smeaton is a former Canadian

Canada

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 politician, who served as mayor of Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Falls is a Canadian city on the Niagara River in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario. The municipality was incorporated on June 12, 1903...

, Ontario

Ontario

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 from 1983 to 1991. First elected to Niagara Falls City Council

Niagara Falls City Council

The Niagara Falls City Council is the governing body of the City of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.The council consists of the mayor plus eight elected Councillors representing the city as a whole.-Councillors:* Mayor Jim Diodati* Wayne Gates...

 as an alderman in 1973, he was elected mayor in a 1983 by-election

By-election

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 following the resignation of Wayne Thomson

Wayne Thomson

Wayne Thomson is a Canadian politician, formerly the mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario. He served two separate terms in the office, from 1978 to 1983 and from 1991 to 2003....

, and was subsequently re-elected in the municipal elections of 1985 and 1998. In the 1991 municipal election, Thomson ran for mayor again, while Smeaton ran for a seat on Niagara Regional Council

Niagara Regional Council

The Niagara Regional Council is the governing body of the Regional Municipality of Niagara in Ontario, Canada.The council consists of a Regional Chair, the Mayors of all twelve Niagara Regional municipalities, and eighteen additional regional councillors elected to represent the various...

, serving on that body until his retirement from politics in 2010.

He was appointed as a citizenship judge

Citizenship judge

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in February 2011.