This week, our history feature wraps up our look at the Town of Timmins amalgamating with Mountjoy, Tisdale and Whitney Townships and adopting a ward system for council
That was put into place in 1973, when local historian Karen Bachmann says Mayor Leo Del Villano led a council of 14 aldermen.
Before long, that number started to prove unwieldy.
“But because it was the time of amalgamation and we wanted to get everything put together and kind of go through that entire process, then started to change the amount of councillors that were involved,” Bachmann tells us.
The number of aldermen was reduced to eight in 1978, and the title was changed to councillor in the early 1990s.
