Mayor

• Margeree Edwards was raised in the Welland
  Welland, Ontario
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   area and attended Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
   in New York, where she received a Master's Degree
  Master's degree
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   in communications and a Ph.D.
  Ph.D.
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   in education (curriculum and instruction). She also holds a Bachelor of Science
  Bachelor of Science
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   degree in nutritional science from the University of Guelph
  University of Guelph
  The University of Guelph, also known as U of G, is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College, the Macdonald Institute, and the Ontario Veterinary College...
  
   (1964). She taught at Brock University
  Brock University
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  's College of Education before moving to Peterborough in 1979. She moved to Toronto
  Toronto
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   in 1981 to work at the old City of York
  York, Ontario
  York is a dissolved municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is located northwest of Old Toronto, southwest of North York and east of Etobicoke, where it is bounded by the Humber River. Formerly a separate city, it was one of six municipalities that amalgamated in 1998 to form...
  
  's health unit; after leaving this employment, she returned to Peterborough in 1989. In 1994, she started a communications company. She has also co-ordinated the Ontario Drug Awareness Partnership, and in 2000 she authored a book entitled First I bought a Paddle: A Beginner's Guide to Canoeing in the Kawarthas. Edwards served on the Peterborough Utilities Commission from 1991 until her first election to city council in 1997. Following this election, she chaired the community funding committee and the transportation committee. She was re-elected in 2000
  Peterborough municipal election, 2000
  The 2000 Peterborough municipal election was held in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada on November 13, 2000, to chose the mayor and city councillors to sit on the Peterborough city council. Electors in Peterborough also voted for the city's representatives on the regional public and...
  
  , promising to improve transportation and health care and to revitalize Peterborough with programs celebrating its diversity. She returned to the utilities commission in 2001 as a council representative. In the same year, she worked to establish an effective anti-loitering bylaw. She also supported a grant to Showplace Peterborough, although she unsuccessfully tried to have the grant reduced from forty-five thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars. She opposed a controversial parkway extension through municipal green space. In 2003, she supported a symbolic motion asking Canada to stay out of the American invasion of Iraq
  2003 invasion of Iraq
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  . Sixty-two years old in the 2003 mayoral election, she refused to accept donations from Peterborough developers or Ontario numbered companies. During the campaign, she was diagnosed with colon cancer and took time off for surgery and recuperation. This delayed her campaign launch, but she did not withdraw from the contest; her campaign highlighted environmental issues, youth employment, and affordable housing. There was some discussion that Edwards could become the New Democratic Party
  New Democratic Party
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   candidate for Peterborough
  Peterborough (electoral district)
  Peterborough is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953.The riding's borders have differed slightly since its creation in 1953, but has always included most or all of Peterborough County and its county seat of...
  
   in the 2004 federal election
  Canadian federal election, 2004
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  , but nothing came of this. She later became chair of the group Peterborough Green-Up. In 2008, she was appointed to the council of the College of Midwives of Ontario.

Council

• Allan Deck ran for the Peterborough City Council in the elections of 1997, 2000
  Peterborough municipal election, 2000
  The 2000 Peterborough municipal election was held in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada on November 13, 2000, to chose the mayor and city councillors to sit on the Peterborough city council. Electors in Peterborough also voted for the city's representatives on the regional public and...
  
   and 2003. He finished third in his first campaign and received 1,768 votes (21.02%) for another third-place finish in 2000. A businessman, he was sixty-four years old in 2003 and called for more parkland, lower taxes, and more activities for seniors. He also supported hiring more police officers.

Peterborough County

Peterborough County, Ontario

Peterborough County is located in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is projected to reach a population of 159,840 by 2031, according to the Ontario Ministry of Finance's Ontario Population Projections Update...