Barrie's history on the record: elections, councils, meetings and weather

Elections

• Turnout

  Turnout in Barrie's municipal elections has never reached half: about 42% at its 2010 high and 30.45% in 2022. Every year on record, citywide and by ward, each figure traced to the City's documents or, for years the City published none, the newspapers.

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• Election results

  Who won every Barrie municipal election and by-election since 2003, with the full result of every race from the City Clerk's certificates, and every federal and provincial election in Barrie ridings since 2000. The last municipal election was October 24, 2022; the next is October 26, 2026.

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The city's record

• Weather

  Every winter's snowfall at Environment Canada's Shanty Bay station on Kempenfelt Bay since 1973, heavy-rain days, hot days, warm nights and deep cold, and the annual mean temperature, with the 1985 tornado. The weather behind the snow-clearing and stormwater budgets.

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Council

• Council and committee meetings

  Every meeting of Barrie City Council, General Committee, council's standing committees, advisory committees and tribunals in the City's eScribe record: what each body is, what each meeting dealt with, who attended, and its deputations and correspondence.

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• Past councils

  Every mayor, reeve and council member of Barrie from the first election in 1854 to the council elected in 2022, as the City of Barrie's own list prints them, with the City's notes and unconfirmed entries marked. Beside the heads of council, a column of this site's own research: fuller names, years of life and occupations, sourced row by row.

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