Grenville W. Goodwin (c. 1898 - 27 August 1951) was Mayor of Ottawa for several months in 1951. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January This is a list of the Mayors of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His hometown was Prescott, Ontario and he was an optometrist by profession. Prescott is a town of approximately 4200 people on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Ontario, Canada, directly across from Ogdensburg Optometry is a health care profession concerned with Eyes and related structures as well as vision, Visual systems and vision information
Goodwin defeated incumbent mayor E.A. Bourque in December 1950 by approximately 10,000 votes. E A Bourque was Mayor of Ottawa in 1949 and 1950. Bourque was born in Ottawa's Lower Town. But Goodwin's term in office was cut short at age 53 when he sustained an unexpected heart failure and died shortly afterwards at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The Ottawa Hospital or L'Hopital d'Ottawa is a major Non-profit, Public, University Teaching hospital in Ottawa made up Charlotte Whitton was immediately appointed the city's next mayor. Charlotte Whitton, OBE, OC ( March 8, 1896 in Renfrew Ontario – January 25, 1975) was a Canadian
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- "Ottawa Mayor Dies of Heart Attack", The Globe and Mail, 28 August 1951, p. The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English language nationally distributed Newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January 9.
| Preceded by E.A. Bourque |
Mayor of Ottawa 1951 |
Succeeded by Charlotte Whitton |