8. No report or recommendation made by the controllers to be executed without the acceptation of the majority of the council;
9. No amendment to a report or recommendation of the controllers to be made without the approbation of two-thirds of the members of the council present at the meeting.
The work now to be given to the Board of Control was that hitherto done by eleven committees of the aldermen of seven members in each.
The Citizens’ Association undertaking the campaign for good government and the conduct of the forthcoming elections formed up in the middle of 1909, and was hailed by all good citizens, receiving the support of all public and volunteer associations having a civic tendency. About this time an important association was formally inaugurated on April 12, 1909, by His Excellency Earl Grey entitled the “City Improvement League,” and lent its aid in the campaign of education on good government and civic progress. Other societies also cooperated. The women associations under the local Council of Women on the English-speaking side, and La Fédération Nationale St. Jean Baptiste on the French, entered more largely than ever before into the movement for civic progress and influenced the women voters for clean government. The choice of the people for the new officers was made on February 1, 1910, when the “whole slate for the board” prepared by the Citizens’ Association was unanimously adopted at the polls as follows: Mayor, J.J. Guerin, M.D.; controllers, E.P. Lachapelle, M.D., president of the Provincial Board of Health; L.N. Dupuis, merchant; Joseph Ainey, labour candidate; and F.L. Wanklyn, a civil engineer and former manager of the Montreal Street Railway. (The latter resigned in the fall of 1911 and was succeeded by the election in the spring of 1912 of Mr. C.H. Godfrey.) The thirty-one wards were represented as follows:
East L.A. Lapointe Centre J.Z. Resther West S.J. Carter * St. Ann T. O’Connell * St. Joseph U.H. Dandurand St. Andrew Joseph Ward * St. George Leslie H. Boyd, K.C. * St. Louis Jean B. Lamoureaux St. Laurent James Robinson * Papineau J.A.E. Gauvin St. Mary J.P. Roux, M.D. St. Jacques A.N. Brodeur Lafontaine Eudore Dubeau Hochelaga J.H. Garceau, M.D. St. Jean Baptiste Noé Leclaire St. Gabriel Patrick Monahan * St. Denis Ernest D. Tétreau Duvernay Ludger Clément St. Henry O. Letourneau, M.D. St. Cunegonde N. Lapointe Mount Royal A.E. Prud’homme, N.P. De Lorimier George Mayrand, N.P. Laurier N. Turcot Notre Dame de Graces George Marcil St. Paul M. Judge Ahuntsic T. Bastien Emard J.U. Emard, K.C. Longue Pointe E. Larivière Bordeaux E. Lussier Cote des Neiges A.S. Deguire Rosemount J.N. Drummond
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