Thomas Payment (1853 – 1920) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1899 to 1900.[1]

Thomas Payment
24th Mayor of Ottawa
In office
1899–1900
Preceded bySamuel Bingham
Succeeded byWilliam Dowler Morris
Personal details
Born(1853-07-06)July 6, 1853
Monotick, Canada West
DiedJanuary 13, 1920(1920-01-13) (aged 66)
Ottawa

He was born in Manotick, Canada West, on July 6, 1853. He worked as a bookkeeper with a railroad company in Maine. Later, he studied at the Ontario College of Pharmacy and opened a drug store in the Byward Market area of Ottawa. During his term as mayor, a massive fire, the Hull-Ottawa fire of 1900, started in Hull and burned across the river at the Lebreton Flats, reaching as far as Dow's Lake.

He died in Ottawa on 13 January 1920 and was buried in the Notre-Dame Cemetery.

References

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  1. ^ Dave Mullington "Chain of Office: Biographic Sketches of Ottawa's Mayors (1847-1948)" (Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 2005)
  • Chain of Office: Biographical Sketches of the Early Mayors of Ottawa (1847-1948), Dave Mullington (ISBN 1-897113-17-X)
Preceded by Mayor of Ottawa
1899-1900
Succeeded by