Many Mayors of the City of Victoria have been Freemasons, particularly the Mayors in Victoria’s early history.
Here is a list of Victoria Mayors with those we know to have been Freemasons in bold font. We will be adding pages on, and links to, individual Masonic Mayors of Victoria in due time.
List of Victoria Mayors
- 1862-65 Thomas Harris
- 1865-66 Lumley Franklin
- 1866-67, 1871 William J. MacDonald
- 1867-70 Dr. James Trimble
- 1870-71 Alexander Rocke Robertson
- 1872 Richard Lewis
- 1872-73 James McMillan
- 1873 James D. Robinson
- 1873-75 William Dalby
- 1875-76 James Drummond
- 1876-77 Montague William Tyrwhitt-Drake
- 1877-78 Roderick Finlayson
- 1879-81 John Turner
- 1881-82 Noah Shakespeare
- 1882-83, 1896-99 Charles Redfern
- 1883-84 Joseph W. Carey
- 1884-85 Robert Rithet – Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2
- 1885-87 James Fell
- 1887-91 John Grant
- 1891-93, 1896 Robert Beaven
- 1894-95 John Teague
- 1900-02 Charles Hayward
- 1902-03 Alexander Gilmore McCandless
- 1904-5 G. Harry Barnard
- 1905-7, 1909-11, 1913 Alfred Morley
- 1908-09 Dr. Lewis Hall
- 1912 J.L. Beckwith
- 1914-16 Alexander Stewart
- 1917-19 Albert Edward Todd
- 1919-21 Robert John Porter
- 1921-22 William Marchant
- 1922-24 Reginald Hayward
- 1924-28 J. Carl Pendray
- 1928-31 Herbert Anscomb
- 1931-36 David Leeming
- 1936-44 Andrew McGavin
- 1944-51 Percy E. George
- 1951-55 Claude Harrison
- 1955-61 Percy Scurrah
- 1961-65 Richard Biggerstaff Wilson
- 1965-66 Alfred Toone
- 1966-69 Hugh Stephen
- 1969-71 Courtney Haddock
- 1971-75 & 1981-85 Peter Pollen
- 1975-79 Michael D.W. Young
- 1979-81 William Tindall
- 1985-90 Gretchen Brewin
- 1990-93 David Turner
- 1994-99 Robert Cross
- 2000-2008 Alan Lowe
- 2008-2014 Dean Fortin
- 2015- 2022 Lisa Helps
- 2022- Marianne Alto