1967

D.O.T. Officer Becomes Mayor of Rockland

 

 

A 33-year-old technical officer in the Telecommunications Branch has been elected mayor of Rockland, Ont., a town of 4,000 located 25 miles east of the Capital.

 

Georges Martin, a D.O.T. employee for the past four years and a former town councillor, beat his opponent, who had been mayor of Rockland for six years, in a close race during the December election.

 

Fellow employees presented the youthful mayor with a "chain of office" made from paper and a hand-lettered sign for his desk labelled "Mayor."

 

Mr. Martin, a bachelor who has three brothers and a sister, says he plans to "put Rockland on the map."

 

A member of the Richelieu Club and the Knights of Columbus, the new mayor is an active sports supporter.

 

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