The 1994 Brantford municipal election was held on November 14, 1994, to elect a
mayor, councillors, and school trustees in the city of
Brantford,
Ontario.
Bob Lancaster was raised in the small community of
Little Lake, Ontario. He was first elected to the
Brantford City Council in
1978, winning a seat in the city's second ward. He was re-elected without opposition in
1980 and was returned again in
1982. After standing down in 1985, he returned to council in
1991 and served another term. Lancaster was fifty-four years old in 1994, worked as a realtor, and was seen as a pro-business candidate.[1] After the 1994 election, he complained to the
Ontario Press Council about election coverage in the Brantford Expositor. The case was dismissed.[2] He later chaired both the Brantford police services board and the Brant and Brantford Housing Authority as a citizen appointee.[3] His nephew Stephen Lancaster has also been a councillor.[4]
Robert E. Smith (died November 15, 2009) was a veterinarian. He graduated from the
Ontario Veterinary College (later a part of the
University of Guelph) in 1956 and operated a hospital practice in
Indianapolis,
Indiana, until 1975. He later moved to Brantford and opened a new practice in 1978. He became a founding member of the
Society of Ontario Veterinarians and retired in 2002.[5] Smith served one year on the Brantford city council after defeating incumbent councillor
Charles Bowen for the second position in the city's fifth ward in
1991.[6] He was narrowly defeated by Marguerite Ceschi-Smith in 1994. A decade later, he wrote public letters calling for increased protection for the elderly, for the dismissal of Brantford's highest-paid municipal staff, and against granting legal status for religious arbitration in Ontario.[7] He died in 2009, at age seventy-seven, after a farming accident.[8]
Source: Brantford Expositor, 15 November 1994, p. 7.
^"Complaint against Expositor dismissed," Kitchener Record, 6 July 1995, F8.
^Heather Ibbotson, "Mayor lashes out at judge for comments," Brantford Expositor, 17 February 1999, A1; "Second term for Lancaster," Brantford Expositor, 17 June 1999, A3; "Lancaster back as housing chair," Brantford Expositor, 13 June 2000, A6; Richard Beales, "Lancaster remains as police board chairman," Brantford Expositor, 17 January 2002, A3.
^Vincent Ball, "Council table shake up: Four new faces elected by Brantford voters wanting change," Brantford Expositor, 11 November 2003, A3.
^Susan Gamble, "Aliens sighted in fright fan's garage," Brantford Expositor, 7 June 2002, A3; "Former Brantford councillor, veterinarian killed in tractor mishap," Hamilton Spectator, 16 September 2009, A2.
^Robert E. Smith, "Suggestions to protect the elderly" [letter], Brantford Expositor, 12 February 2004, A10; "Ex-councillor offers radical advice," Brantford Expositor, 8 March 2004, A8; Dr. Robert E. Smith, "Check out religious arbitrations" [letter], Brantford Expositor, 17 September 2005, A13.