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Waterloo County Councillors from Wellesley Township, 1852 - 1972

The early history of Waterloo County Council has been exhaustively documented by Elizabeth Bloomfield and Linda Foster in their book "Waterloo County Councillors: A Collective Biography," (c) 1995 Caribou Imprints. The list of councillors and biographies posted here have been published with the kind permission of Dr. Bloomfield. 

"The first Waterloo County Council met in the Waterloo Township Hall in May 1852, and the new County of Waterloo was officially proclaimed in January 1853 ...  The Waterloo County Council began with 12 councillors in 1852, two for each of the five townships of North Dumfries, Waterloo, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich, and one each for the villages of Galt and Preston.

The county council was soon enlarged by reeves for the new villages of Berlin (1854), Waterloo (1857), New Hamburg (1858) and Hespeler (1859). Galt qualified for a deputy-reeve in 1861. In 1867, when Berlin had a deputy-reeve and Waterloo Township a second deputy-reeve, the county council had 19 members. The county’s size increased steadily to a maximum of 31 members by 1892. Second deputy-reeves were elected by Galt in 1876, Wellesley in 1877, Wilmot in 1878 and Woolwich in 1880. Ayr (incorporated as a village in 1884) and Elmira (in 1887) sent their reeves. Berlin elected a second deputy reeve in 1886 and a third deputy-reeve in 1889, while Galt and Waterloo Township elected their third deputies from 1887. Waterloo and Preston qualified for their first deputy-reeves in 1887 and 1892."


Click on the links below to access information about Wellesley Township councillors for that decade. 
1852 - 1859
1860 -1869
1870 -1870
1880 - 1879
1890 - 1899
1900 - 1909
1910 - 1919
1920 - 1929
1930 - 1939 ​
1940 - 1949
1950 - 1959
1960 - 1972