Charles Thornton Bate | |
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| 15thMayor of Ottawa | |
| Assumed office 1884 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre St. Jean |
| Succeeded by | Francis McDougal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Feb 10, 1825 Cornwall,England |
| Died | April 10, 1889 Ottawa |
Charles Thornton Bate (February 10, 1825 – April 10, 1889) wasmayor ofOttawa in 1884.[1]
He was born inCornwall,England in 1825, the son of Henry Newell Bate and Lisette Meyer. The family emigrated toSt. Catharines,Ontario in 1833. In the 1850s he founded a large wholesale grocery business, "C. T. Bate & Co.", in Ottawa, Ontario with his brother, Henry Newell Bate, who became the first head of the Ottawa Improvement Commission, later theNational Capital Commission and who was knighted in 1910.
Mr. Bate was mayor when Ottawa became the first city inCanada to be completely lit byelectricity, after nearly two years of debate (the move having been rejected as unnecessary by Ottawa's previous mayor Charles Mackintosh). President of the Ottawa Electric Light Company[2] and the Ottawa Gas Company, Bate served on the first board of the Bank of Ottawa, which later merged withScotiabank.
InOttawa, An Illustrated History, John H. Taylor wrote, "In the late nineteenth century, only the Ottawa merchandiser C.T. Bate, appears to have had any standing in the Canadian financial community".
| Preceded by | Mayor of Ottawa 1884 | Succeeded by |
