Joyce Trimmer

Joyce Trimmer ( born November 10, 1927 in London, † 17 May 2008) was a Canadian politician.

Trimmer emigrated in 1954 with her ​​husband from England to Canada and moved to Toronto Islands. She worked as a business woman and a teacher at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute. In the 1970s she began to become politically active. In 1974 she was first elected in local elections. She imagined the 1988 mayoral elections for Scarborough and won this office with 4800 votes ahead of the second placed Kelly norm. She stayed until 1994 Mayor and was thus the first woman in Scarborough in this office. After she retired from politics.