Brantford municipal election, 1972
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The 1972 Brantford municipal election was held on December 4, 1972, to elect a mayor
, councillors, school trustees, and public utility commissioners in the city of Brantford, Ontario
, Canada
.
Charles Bowen
was elected to his first term as mayor.
Note: Vincent Bucci's city council page indicates that he won the final seat following a recount.
Source: Brantford Expositor, 5 December 1972.
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
, councillors, school trustees, and public utility commissioners in the city of Brantford, Ontario
Ontario
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Charles Bowen
Charles Bowen (Ontario politician)
Charles R. Bowen was a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. He served as mayor of Brantford from 1973 to 1980.Bowen was born in Oshawa and served in the Canadian army for five years during World War II. He graduated from the Canadian Institute of Science and Technology as a mechanical...
was elected to his first term as mayor.
Results
- John Robert (Jack) Arnold (d. August 13, 2010) was born and raised in Brantford and later became a businessman in the city. He served in the Canadian Navy during his youth and was stationed in Halifax, Nova ScotiaNova ScotiaNova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
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. Arnold became a pilot in the 1960s, developed a reputation for his work in aviation history, and restored several vintage planes. He died in 2010, at age eighty-three. - George AuCoin worked at a farm equipment factory in Brantford until 1985. Like some other candidates in the 1972 election, he opposed a proposed expressway that was controversial in his ward. He later moved to VictoriaVictoria, British ColumbiaVictoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
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. In 1997, he criticized the University of VictoriaUniversity of VictoriaThe University of Victoria, often referred to as UVic, is the second oldest public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria. The University's annual enrollment is about 20,000 students...
for giving an honorary degree to ChinesePeople's Republic of ChinaChina , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
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Note: Vincent Bucci's city council page indicates that he won the final seat following a recount.
Source: Brantford Expositor, 5 December 1972.