This is a list of mayors of Victoria, the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The mayor leads Victoria City Council, the city's governing body, and is elected to a four-year term. The current mayor is Marianne Alto, who was first elected in 2022
List of Mayors
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! align="center" |No.
!Mayor
!Term start
!Term end
|-
| colspan="4" align="center" |Victoria incorporated as a city on August 1, 1862.
|-
|1
|Thomas Harris
|1862
|1865
|-
|2
|Lumley Franklin
|1865
|1866
|-
|3
|William J. Macdonald
|1866
|1867
|-
|4
|James Trimble
|1867
|1870
|-
|5
|Alexander R. Robertson
|1870
|1871
|-
|(3)
|William J. Macdonald (2nd term)
|1871
|1871
|-
|6
|Richard Lewis
|1872
|1872
|-
|7
|James E. McMillan
|1872
|1873
|-
|8
|James D. Robinson
|1873
|1873
|-
|9
|William Dalby
|1873
|1875
|-
|10
|James S. Drummond
|1875
|1876
|-
|11
|Montague W. Tyrwhitt-Drake
|1876
|1877
|-
|12
|Roderick Finlayson
|1877
|1879
|-
|13
|John Herbert Turner
|1879
|1881
|-
|14
|Noah Shakespeare
|1881
|1882
|-
|15
|Charles E. Redfern
|1882
|1883
|-
|16
|Joseph Carey
|1883
|1884
|-
|17
|Robert P. Rithet
|1884
|1885
|-
|18
|James Fell
|1885
|1887
|-
|19
|John Grant
|1887
|1891
|-
|20
|Robert Beaven
|1891
|1893
|-
|21
|John Teague
|1894
|1895
|-
|(20)
|Robert Beaven (2nd term)
|1896
|1896
|-
|(15)
|Charles E. Redfern (2nd term)
|1896
|1899
|-
|22
|Charles Hayward
|1900
|1902
|-
|23
|Alexander G. McCandless
|1902
|1903
|-
|24
|George Henry Barnard
|1904
|1905
|-
|25
|Alfred J. Morley
|1905
|1907
|-
|26
|Lewis Hall
|1908
|1909
|-
|(25)
|Alfred J. Morley (2nd term)
|1909
|1911
|-
|27
|John L. Beckwith
|1912
|1912
|-
|(25)
|Alfred J. Morley (3rd term)
|1913
|1913
|-
|28
|Alexander Stewart
|1914
|1916
|-
|29
|Albert E. Todd
|1917
|1919
|-
|30
|Robert J. Porter
|1919
|1921
|-
|31
|William M. Marchant
|1921
|1922
|-
|32
|Reginald Hayward
|1922
|1924
|-
|33
|John Carl Pendray
|1924
|1928
|-
|34
|Herbert Anscomb
|1928
|1931
|-
|35
|David Leeming
|1931
|1936
|-
|36
|Andrew McGavin
|1936
|1944
|-
|37
|Percy E. George
|1944
|1951
|-
|38
|Claude L. Harrison
|1951
|1955
|-
|39
|Percy B. Scurrah
|1955
|1961
|-
|40
|Richard B. Wilson
|1961
|1966
|-
|41
|Alfred W. Toone
|1966
|1966
|-
|42
|Hugh R. Stephen
|1966
|1969
|-
|43
|Courtney J. Haddock
|1969
|1971
|-
|44
|G. Peter A. Pollen
|1971
|1975
|-
|45
|Michael D. W. Young
|1975
|1979
|-
|46
|William J. Tindall
|1979
|1981
|-
|(44)
|G. Peter A. Pollen (2nd term)
|1981
|1985
|-
|47
|Gretchen Brewin
|1986
|1990
|-
|48
|David Turner
|1991
|1993
|-
|49
|Robert Cross
|1994
|1999
|-
|50
|Alan Lowe
|2000
|2008
|-
|51
|Dean Fortin
|2008
|2014
|-
|52
|Lisa Helps
|2014
|2022
|-
|53
|Marianne Alto
|2022
|present
|}
See also
- Victoria City Council
References
- Victoria Mayors Listed By Date from the city of Victoria archives