Past Mayors and Councils

This list contains the name of every Mayor and Town Councillor that has served since the Town of Alberton was incorporated in 1913:

19 February 2025 – Present

Mayor: Hector MacLeod
Councillors:
• Alan Curtis
• Krista Murphy
• Mary Jean O’Brien
• Cameron Boyce
• Holly Gordon
• Maureen Chaisson

Hector MacLeod was acclaimed as Mayor during the February 2025 by-election, having been the sole nominee.

27 September 2023 – 10 December 2024

Mayor: Brian Poirier
Councillors:
• Alan Curtis
• Krista Murphy
• Mary Jean O’Brien
• Cameron Boyce
• Holly Gordon
• Maureen Chaisson

Following Mayor Gordon’s passing, a by-election was held on September 18, 2023. Brian Poirier was elected Mayor. The three vacant council seats were filled by acclamation (Boyce, Chaisson, Gordon).

Mayor Poirier resigned on December 10, 2024. Deputy Mayor Alan Curtis became Acting Mayor, and Councillor Cameron Boyce became Acting Deputy Mayor.

14 November 2022 – 26 September 2023

Mayor: David Gordon*
Councillors:
• Chester Adams
• Alan Curtis
• Blair Duggan
• Krista Murphy
• Mary Jean O’Brien
• Brian Poirier

Mayor David Gordon served until his passing on March 25, 2023. Deputy Mayor Blair Duggan was appointed Acting Mayor, and Councillor Alan Curtis became Acting Deputy Mayor.

6 December 2018 – 14 November 2022

Mayor: David Gordon
Councillors:
• Connie Bernard
• Donald Bernard
• David Cahill
• Blair Duggan
• Claudia Gallant
• Kelly Williams

Cahill resigned effective June 11, 2019. C. Bernard resigned effective June 28, 2019. D. Bernard and Gallant resigned effective June 30, 2019.

A by-election was scheduled for September 9, 2019. At the close of nominations on August 23, five candidates had come forward. Following a withdrawal on September 3, four candidates—Adams, Curtis, Murphy, and O’Brien—were elected by acclamation.

14 November 2014 – 5 December 2018

Mayor: Micheal Murphy
Councillors:
• Connie Bernard
• David Cahill
• Alan Curtis
• Blair Duggan
• Rosetta Tremblay
• Kelly Williams

19 November 2012 – 14 November 2014

Mayor: Micheal Murphy
Councillors:
• David Cahill
• David Campbell
• Blair Duggan
• Natasha Dunn
• Claudia Gallant
• Krystyna Pottier

16 November 2009 – 19 November 2012

Mayor: Micheal Murphy
Councillors:
• David Cahill
• David Campbell
• Alan Curtis
• Claudia Gallant
• Shane Gillis
• Krystyna Pottier

1 January 2007 – 16 November 2009

Mayor: Perry Morrell
Councillors:
• Alan Curtis
• Shane Gillis
• Fenton Jeffery
• Kelly Dawn Oliver
• John Smith
• Scott Wilson

1 January 2004 – 31 December 2006

Mayor: Pat Murphy
Councillors:
• Glenn Adams
• David Cahill
• Alan Curtis
• Shane Gillis
• Fenton Jeffery
• Larry Profit*

*Councillor Profit resigned on August 18, 2005. Following a by-election on November 21, 2005, Kelly Dawn Oliver was elected to Town Council.

1 January 2001 – 31 December 2003

Mayor: David Campbell
Councillors:
• David Cahill
• Craig Oliver
• Fenton Jeffery
• Keith Peters
• Pat Murphy
• Larry Profit

1 January 1997 – 31 December 2000

Mayor: David Campbell
Councillors:
• Beverley Ashley
• Hilton Barbour
• Myles K. Getson*
• Fenton Jeffery
• David Cahill
• Craig Oliver

*Getson served as Deputy Mayor until his death on April 29, 2000. Cahill was appointed Deputy Mayor in May 2000. Due to municipal amalgamations, the PEI municipal elections were delayed by one year, extending this term to four years.

1 January 1994 – 31 December 1996

Mayor: Leslie Hardy
Councillors:
• David Campbell*
• Joseph W. Foley
• Frank White
• Claude Gavin*
• Perry Morrell
• Myles Getson

*Campbell resigned in June 1995 and was replaced by Hilton Barbour in August 1995.
*Gavin resigned in December 1995 and was replaced by Campbell, who returned in January 1996 and served until the end of the term.

1 January 1991 – 31 December 1993

Mayor: Hector MacLeod*
Councillors:
• Gordon Champion
• Leslie Hardy*
• David Cahill
• Myles Getson
• Beth McRae
• Michael DesRoches*

*Morrell replaced DesRoches in October 1992.
*Hardy replaced MacLeod as Mayor in May 1993.

1 January 1988 – 31 December 1990

Mayor: Hector MacLeod*
Councillors:
• Frank Weeks
• Myles Getson
• Wayne Shea
• David Cahill
• Gordon Champion
• Bonnie Barbour

*McRae replaced MacLeod as Mayor in 1989, becoming the first woman to serve as Mayor of Alberton.

1 January 1985 – 31 December 1987

Mayor: Hector MacLeod
Councillors:
• Gordon Champion
• William Essery
• Leslie Hardy
• Beth McRae
• Wayne Shea
• Frank Weeks

1 January 1983 – 31 December 1984

Mayor: Hector MacLeod
Councillors:
• Leslie Hardy
• Beth McRae
• Gordon Champion
• William Essery
• Wayne Shea
• Frank Weeks

1981 – 31 December 1982

Mayor: Hector MacLeod
Councillors:
• Hilton Barbour
• Dean Carpenter
• Leslie Hardy
• Wayne Shea
• Beth McRae
• Frank Weeks

1979 – 1981

Mayor: Hector MacLeod
Councillors:
• Frank Weeks
• R.D. MacKinnon
• Dean Carpenter
• Hilton Barbour Jr.
• Wayne Shea
• Leslie C. Hardy

1977 – 1979

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• J.E. Tremblay
• Hector MacLeod
• Perley Hardy
• Frank MacNeill
• Frank Weeks
• R.D. MacKinnon

1975 – 1977

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• R.D. MacKinnon
• Frank Weeks
• Frank MacNeill
• Perley Hardy
• Hector MacLeod
• J.E. Tremblay

1973 – 1975

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• Thomas Barbour
• Frank MacNeill
• Charles Gordon
• Dean Carpenter
• Wesley Hardy
• R.D. MacKinnon

1971 – 1973

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• Charles Gordon
• Dean Carpenter
• Frank MacNeill
• Arthur MacRae
• Wesley Hardy
• Thomas Barbour

1969 – 1971

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• Thomas Barbour
• Frank MacNeill
• Frank Weeks
• Arthur MacRae
• Wesley Hardy
• Charles Gordon

1967 – 1969

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• Arthur MacRae
• Frank MacNeill
• Frank Weeks
• Raigh Callbeck
• Thomas Barbour
• Wesley Hardy

1965 – 1967

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• Charles Gordon
• Arthur MacRae
• Frank MacNeill
• Frank Weeks
• Wesley Hardy
• Raigh Callbeck

1963 – 1965

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• Charles Gordon
• J.C. Profit
• Arthur MacRae
• Wesley Hardy
• Douglas Rix*
• Vernon Hudson*

*Rix was replaced by Frank MacNeill in December 1963.
*Hudson was replaced by Walter Millman in January 1964.

1961 – 1963

Mayor: Roy Leard
Councillors:
• Albert Clarke
• Norman Hardy
• Douglas Rix
• Leo O’Meara*
• Charles Gordon
• Cedric Hunter

*O’Meara was replaced by Arthur MacRae in April 1962.

1959 – 1961

Mayor: W.W. Currie
Councillors:
• Albert Clarke
• Clayton Travers*
• J.W.D. Campbell*
• Gerald Rooney
• Roy Leard
• Richard Jeffery*

*Travers was replaced by Justin McAlduff in October 1959.
*Campbell was replaced by Douglas Rix in October 1959.
*Jeffery was replaced by Raigh Callbeck in December 1959.

1957 – 1959

Mayor: Herbert S. Matthews
Councillors:
• Richard Jeffery
• Perley Hardy
• J.W.D. Campbell
• Frank Carpenter
• J.C. Profit
• Clayton Travers

1955 – 1957

Mayor: H.E. Barbour
Councillors:
• H.S. Matthews
• D.B. Nicholson
• Earle Atkinson
• J.R. Bonyman
• S.M. Burke
• Perley Hardy

1953 – 1955

Mayor: H.E. Barbour
Councillors:
• H.S. Matthews
• H.D. Corbett
• Earle Atkinson
• D.B. Nicholson
• S.M. Burke
• J.C. Profit

1951 – 1953

Mayor: C.R. Profit
Councillors:
• C.H. Weeks
• H.D. Corbett
• S.M. Burke
• J.C. Profit
• W.W. Currie
• H.S. Matthews

1949 – 1951

Mayor: C.R. Profit
Councillors:
• H.S. Matthews
• W.R. Oulton
• H.D. Corbett
• C.H. Weeks
• W.W. Currie
• John Moran

1948 – 1949

Mayor: C.R. Profit
Councillors:
• W.R. Oulton
• H.D. Corbett
• M.E. Callaghan
• B.A. Profit
• J.F. Black
• C.H. Weeks

1947 – 1948

Mayor: C.R. Profit
Councillors:
• H.D. Corbett
• W.R. Oulton
• Merritt Callaghan
• John Black
• Hilton Barbour
• B.A. Profit

1946 – 1947

Mayor: Wilfred Tanton
Councillors:
• John Wallace
• Arthur Wilkie
• H.D. Corbett
• John Black
• B.A. Profit
• Hilton Barbour

1945 – 1946

Mayor: Wilfred Tanton
Councillors:
• John Black
• B.A. Profit
• Hilton Barbour
• John Wallace
• Arthur Wilkie
• H.D. Corbett

1944 – 1945

Mayor: Wilfred Tanton
Councillors:
• John Black
• B.A. Profit
• Hilton Barbour
• John Wallace
• Arthur Wilkie
• H.D. Corbett

1943 – 1944

Mayor: Wilfred Tanton
Councillors:
• John Black
• B.A. Profit
• Hilton Barbour
• John Wallace
• Arthur Wilkie
• H.D. Corbett

1942 – 1943

Mayor: Wilfred Tanton
Councillors:
• Hilton Barbour
• John Black
• B.A. Profit
• Arthur Wilkie
• A.C. Green
• John Wallace

1941 – 1942

Mayor: J.W. Waugh
Councillors:
• A.C. Green
• John Wallace
• Arthur Wilkie
• Howard Clark
• B.A. Profit
• Hilton Barbour

1940 – 1941

Mayor: J.W. Waugh
Councillors:
• B.A. Profit
• John Wallace
• Howard Clark
• A.D. Seaman
• Arthur Wilkie
• Everett MacKendrick

1939 – 1940

Mayor: S.R. Burke
Councillors:
• Arthur Wilkie
• A.D. Seaman
• John Wallace
• B.A. Profit
• Everett MacKendrick
• Howard Clark

1938 – 1939

Mayor: S.R. Burke
Councillors:
• E.W. Hardy
• Joseph MacMillan
• Everett MacKendrick
• Howard Clark
• B.A. Profit
• A.D. Seaman

1937 – 1938

Mayor: Emerson Matthews
Councillors:
• A.D. Seaman
• Joseph MacMillan
• E.W. Hardy
• Charles McAlduff
• Everett MacKendrick
• B.A. Profit

1936 – 1937

Mayor: T.C. Bell
Councillors:
• Charles McAlduff
• Everett MacKendrick
• E.O. Barbour
• B.A. Profit
• Emerson Matthews
• Joseph MacMillan

1935 – 1936

Mayor: S.R. Burke
Councillors:
• E.O. Barbour
• A.C. Green
• Joseph MacMillan
• Emerson Matthews
• B.A. Profit
• Everett MacKendrick

1934 – 1935

Mayor: E.O. Barbour
Councillors:
• B.A. Profit
• Everett MacKendrick
• A.C. Green
• J.W. Waugh
• Emerson Matthews
• Charles McAlduff

1933 – 1934

Mayor: E.O. Barbour
Councillors:
• J.W. Waugh
• H.H. Burton
• Charles McAlduff
• T.C. Bell
• Herbert Hodgson
• A.C. Green

1932 – 1933

Mayor: M.M. Foley
Councillors:
• T.C. Bell
• A.C. Green
• Herbert Hodgson
• J.W. Waugh
• E.O. Barbour
• J.W. Whelan

1931 – 1932

Mayor: M.M. Foley
Councillors:
• J.W. Whelan
• E.O. Barbour
• J.W. Waugh
• Thomas Gass
• George Oliver
• Emerson Matthews

1930 – 1931

Mayor: M.M. Foley
Councillors:
• J.T. Profit
• J.W. Whelan
• George Oliver
• Emerson Matthews
• Thomas Gass
• E.O. Barbour

1929 – 1930

Mayor: W.C. Lawson
Councillors:
• C.R. Profit
• Everett MacKendrick
• George Oliver
• J.T. Profit
• J.W. Whelan
• H.W. Brown

1928 – 1929

Mayor: W.C. Lawson
Councillors:
• A.C. Green
• G.H. Hardy
• F.P. Bernard
• C.R. Profit
• Everett MacKendrick
• George Oliver

1927 – 1928

Mayor: W.C. Lawson
Councillors:
• J.W. Waugh
• W.R. Oulton
• F.P. Bernard
• A.C. Green
• G.H. Hardy
• C.R. Profit

1926 – 1927

Mayor: W.C. Lawson
Councillors:
• J.W. Waugh
• W.R. Oulton
• A.C. Green
• Henry Gard
• F.P. Bernard
• C.R. Profit

1925 – 1926

Mayor: S.R. Burke
Councillors:
• A.C. Green
• C.R.S. Leard
• E.O. Barbour
• C.R. Profit
• Henry Gard
• Phil Bernard

1924 – 1925

Mayor: S.R. Burke
Councillors:
• E.O. Barbour
• C.R. Profit
• C.R.S. Leard
• T.C. Bell
• W.D. White
• Henry Gard

1923 – 1924

Mayor: James E. Birch
Councillors:
• T.C. Bell
• F.L. Rogers
• Henry Gard
• George Gard
• E.O. Barbour
• W.D. White

1922 – 1923

Mayor: S.R. Burke
Councillors:
• W.R. Oulton
• Charles McBeth
• F.L. Rogers
• George Gard
• E.O. Barbour
• James Whelan

1921 – 1922

Mayor: James E. Birch
Councillors:
• Herbert Clark
• M.M. Foley
• Charles McBeth
• James Whelan
• W.R. Oulton
• T.C. Bell

1920 – 1921

Mayor: John T. Profit
Councillors:
• W.D. White
• W.C. Lawson
• J.W. Waugh
• T.C. Bell
• M.M. Foley
• Herbert Clark

1919 – 1920

Mayor: M.M. Foley
Councillors:
• John T. Profit
• George Gard
• J.W. Waugh
• E.O. Barbour
• W.D. White
• W.C. Lawson

1917 – 1919

Mayor: W.C. Lawson
Councillors:
• S.R. Burke
• Howard Clark
• M.M. Foley
• George Gard
• Edgar A. McRae
• Edward L. Thomson

1915 – 1917

Mayor: John Agnew
Councillors:
• John T. Profit
• James E. Birch
• M.M. Foley
• A.C. Green
• C.A. Woodman
• Robert Rankin

1913 – 1915

Mayor: John Agnew
Councillors:
• William D. White
• Charles A. Woodman
• James E. Birch
• John P. Fielding
• George B. Ellis
• Malcolm A. MacNeill