Thomas Foster (Canadian politician)

Thomas Foster ( born July 24, 1852 in Lambton Mills, Ontario, † December 10, 1945 ) was a Canadian politician and 41st mayor of Toronto.

Foster began his career as a butcher 's assistant in Toronto. Later he started his own business with its own butcher and thus became wealthy. His political career began in 1891 with the election of the City Council. He was reelected in 1892 and 1894. In 1895, he lost his re-election and did not return until 1900 in the City Council back, for whom he worked until 1909. A further period as the city council had Foster 1912 until 1917. During the years 1917-1921 he was a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Unionist Party of Canada. When he had no more support in the party, he ran unsuccessfully in 1921. Thomas Foster returned to the city politics and in 1925 was elected the 41st Mayor. The post he held until January 1928. Through his 25 years of service up to that point in the city council, he was known informally as " Honest Tom" ( Honorable Tom) called. During his tenure, he saved due to its rigid economic activity of the city on a fortune of two million dollars.

With over 70 years visited Foster India and was of the Temple Taj Mahal so impressed that he built a temple-like memorial in 1935/36 on a hill between Leaskdale and Uxbridge. The now named after him, Thomas Foster Memorial houses two graves of his family members and his own. The building was modeled after the Byzantine architecture of the two architects JH Craig and H.H. Madill built.

Foster was very socially involved and donated a total of over $ 500,000 for cancer research and organized at his own expense a year until today instead -find picnic for children at Exhibition Park.