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reeve

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1850, OED Evaluation: Parts of Canada

In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.

ExampleMeaning
It had to be passed by council for hydro to come in. ... Well, I did hear that there was one gentlemen was opposed to it and somebody else had a tendency to vote the same way as he did. ... And when (laughs) the reeve brought up the question and somebody said vote- "Stick up your hand George."
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
And ah, there was may people upset with me. So- but there was two people there that listened to what I was saying. One was Ron-Brown the reeve of Haliburton, and the other was Saint-Nesmurt, the reeve of ah Minden. And they got- we got busy, and got sewers. 'Cause you can't get financing without sewers.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
Well my grandfather was quite interested in politics. He was on- he was warden in nineteen-thirty-one. ...And ah- and my- my dad was- ... He was reeve of the township too. So it just came natural that I take a whack at it too, so (laughs)-
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
...he backed out of the council from reeve and he said he would if I'd run for reeve. But if I wasn't going to run, he wasn't going to quit. So I decided I'd run. He was going to quit anyway. And ah he'd been in there for fifteen or twenty years as reeve. So in eighty I run for reeve and I quit reeve in ninety-four and didn't run any elections.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
So I've got two acres of grass and- um way back then he was the reeve for Ontario county, which is this area, that's all he was kind-of-like the- the mayor I-guess you'd-say.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Cliff you got- you were a councillor and then a reeve and a warden. What got you interested in- in- in being on council? Speaker 2 (Cliff): Well I wouldn't know for sure. Speaker 1: Your father, I think. Your father was reeve.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
Speaker: Dad was only- forty and forty-one I think he was in council and he was the reeve in forty-one. Of course he come to Perth, the country council for a year.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
And my grandfather, Freya's father- ... A reeve and warden twice in Lanark-County.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
At one time Gramp was the reeve, my mother was the clerk, and my father was the road-superintendent. ... In- yeah mid-seventies. Mother was the clerk, Dad was the first superintendent, Gramp was the reeve.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
A mayor, like- ... Like, yeah, a reeve I think they called them. ... Reeves. We used to have a reeve. ... And I had a- my aunt was the reeve. ... And I had ah- and my uncle was the reeve.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
We had ah, we went to the church because our hall is very small so we invited all the other branches and the dignitaries like the reeves of the two- ... Ah, townships and ah, the dignitaries of the head office from the institutes and-that and they were there, yeah.
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
And then um, the provincial president, she ah, presented all our members with a hundred year pin, yeah so- ... We ah, had the- like the ah reeve spoke- ... And the- some of the dignitaries from the institute spoke and then ah, we did a history of our hundred years-
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Now you were- you were the reeve I think of Ratcliff at the time right? I think if you- yeah before amalgamation right? Interviewer: I'm sorry, what exactly is a reeve? Speaker: Same as a mayor. Interviewer: Same as a mayor. Speaker 2: Okay yeah sa-- s-- yeah just the title got- the name really is the change and-all-that, but it used to be ah reeve, so th-- so he was the reeve, but you-know, basically mayor, of ah Ratcliff...
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.
ExampleMeaning
They came out once to our meeting and ah- with a petition. And when they were all done presenting this to the reeve and the Council, they said "What are you going to do for us?" Reeve says "Nothing." I'm telling you, I was so embarrassed at times (laughs).
In parts of Canada: the elected leader of the council of a town or other rural municipality.