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