William Henry Brydon

1918 - 1999  (80 years)

• Name	William Henry Brydon
  Born	4 Sep 1918	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1921	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Residence	1931	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  	Address      Main St
  Graduation	1941	Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada
  	Univ. of Toronto, Mechanical Engineering grad
  Died	4 Aug 1999	Huntsville, Muskoka Dist., Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I30	Brydon family tree
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Dr. William Hall Brydon,   b. 1 Dec 1879, King Twp., York Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1 Oct 1962, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Ethel Dale,   b. 17 Mar 1893, Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 Apr 1943, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 50 years)
  Married	29 Apr 1914	Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
  Photos		'Dale girls in lake' photo courtesy Robert Jenkins
  Histories		'Sundridge cottage originals' 2012 is the 100 year anniversary of the Dales, Beattys, Algies, Campbells and Brydons summer presence on Lake Bernard. Cropped off the right of the picture is Bill Algie's sons Mac (i218) and Harry (i216).
  		First summer in Sundridge, Aug. 1912 the Dale family photo courtesy Robert Jenkins
  Articles and Galleries		Uncle Ted's Diary Thanks to Ethel Dale Sivell for many photos and stories, to Don and Dorothy Beatty for help putting names to faces in pictures plus more stories and Brydon Brown for copies of Ted's letters written from overseas.
  		Uncle Ted's cinema A movie poster sampling of the movies Edward Dale Brydon watched in early 1941
  		Above Southern Ontario in the late 1940's From an air field on McLaughlin Road on the west edge of Brampton we fly over Peel County, Brampton and the farmers' fields that will later become Mississauga.
  Albums		Brydon - Miller family, my Brydons (95) From the Ettrick Valley in Selkirkshire to Ontario in 1830.
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Dianne Marie,   b. 7 Mar 1924,   d. 15 Jan 2005, Oakville, Halton Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 80 years)
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2009
  Family ID	F101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Amelia Elizabeth Archer,   b. 18 Aug 1919, Port Perry, Ontario Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 Nov 2011, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 92 years)
  Married	28 Nov 1941	Port Perry, Ontario Co., Ontario, Canada
  _STAT	1964
  	Divorced
  Children	+ 1. Wendy Elizabeth Brydon,   b. 14 Apr 1943,   d. Bef 1999  (Age 55 years) + 2. Ethel Laraine Brydon   3. William Harold Brydon,   b. 1949,   d. 20 May 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada  (Age 70 years)
  Articles and Galleries		Uncle Ted's cinema A movie poster sampling of the movies Edward Dale Brydon watched in early 1941
  Last Modified	20 Oct 2015
  Family ID	F19	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 4 Sep 1918 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Residence - 1921 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Residence - 1931 - Brampton, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada Graduation - Univ. of Toronto, Mechanical Engineering grad - 1941 - Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Married - 28 Nov 1941 - Port Perry, Ontario Co., Ontario, Canada Died - 4 Aug 1999 - Huntsville, Muskoka Dist., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos		Dr. William Brydon His kids in this shot are Tom Kate and Bill.
  		Bill Brydon

  
  

  Histories

  William Henry Brydon from Torontonensis 1941

  
  

  Newspapers

  "Will protest bubble gum..." Opponent complains about William Brydon election campaign. Ottawa Citizen

  
  

  Obituaries

  "..former mayor of Brampton and teacher.." Bill Brydon

  
  

  Weddings		"Bride in taffeta with pearls and nosegay" Bill Brydon - Beth Archer marriage
  		Brydon - Archer wedding

  
  

• Notes

  Lorne Scots Regiment Brydon W.H. (Regimental Number: B-47147) 10 Jul 1942: Taken on Strength as Sergeant in No. 8 Defence & Employment Platoon 18 Jul 1943: Struck off Strength as Sergeant in No. 8 Defence & Employment Platoon He ran as a Liberal and placed a close 2nd to Bill Davis in the 1959 provincial election:  Although Peel was an extremely safe Conservative seat for most of its history, rhe election took place soon after the federal Progressive Conservative government of John Diefenbaker  cancelled the Avro Arrow program. Most of the 14,000 Canadians put out of work by this decision were residents of Peel, and many cast protest ballots against Diefenbaker by supporting Bill Brydon , the provincial Liberal candidate. Davis won, but by only 1,203 votes.   -- source: Brampton : An illustrated history, Loverseed,, Helga V., 1947 -- ---------------------------------------- When the town of Brampton was rapidly expanding in the mid-1960s, William H. (Bill) Brydon felt the mayor's job could no longer be part-time. He insisted there were growing planning, traffic, water and sewage issues that needed full-time attention. So the councillor ran for the job, was elected and then gave it his undivided attention, despite receiving a modest salary of $8,000. Warm, personable and good-looking, his popularity had been reflected in earlier Brampton Town Council election results. Even in his first foray into politics as a candidate for councillor in 1958 he got the most votes, 2,250. He often topped later elections in the old town in the days before it was expanded to form the present city. Mr. Brydon died Wednesday after a brief illness at Huntsville District Memorial Hospital. He was 80. In 1959, he ran for the Liberals to represent Peel County in the Ontario Legislature, but in a close race he was defeated by then- rookie politician Bill Davis, who later became Tory premier. Mr. Brydon got 12,075 votes while Davis received 13,278. After his defeat, Mr. Brydon continued on council. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor against Russell Prouse in 1964. In 1966, he ran again and won against Prouse, taking office in 1967 and serving until 1969. Russ Cooper, a long-time friend and one-time Davis campaign manager, remembered Mr. Brydon as "a heck of a nice guy." He had a certain flamboyance and was very much a people person, said Cooper. "He was kind to everybody. I never heard a bad word about him." At the time he was mayor, there was tension between developers of the new satellite community, Bramalea, and the old town of Brampton, which Mr. Brydon sought to defuse, said Dickson. "He was a man of integrity," Dickson said. In 1968, council voted itself pay increases. Mayor Brydon's salary was raised to $12,000 a year. When Mr. Brydon ran again in 1969, his slogan "Vote Brydon for Brampton, full-time" outlined his plans to further improve sewage, water, traffic and planning. Nevertheless, Mr. Brydon came third behind Prouse and the late James Archdekin, who won by a wide margin. Mr. Brydon was born in Brampton in 1918, the son of prominent physician Dr. W. H. Brydon, who was once a Peel coroner, and Ethel Dale Brydon. After attending public and high school in Brampton, he completed his secondary school education at St. Andrew's boys' college in Aurora. He attended the University of Toronto, starting in pre-med but switching to engineering, in which he was granted his degree in 1941. That year he married his first wife, Beth Archer. He embarked on a career in industrial and construction engineering, eventually joining H. H. Angus and Associates, a major Toronto consulting firm. He later joined H. G. Acres and Co. Ltd., consulting engineers, and at one time managed Brampton Optical Co. Ltd. At various points, Mr. Brydon served on the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, and was on the board of governors of Peel Memorial Hospital, chairing its expansion committee. In the 1980s, he served on Credit Valley Conservation. "He was a great member," said Credit Valley's general manager Vicki Barron. "He believed in conservation. He was very committed." In the 1970s and 1980s, he became a teacher of engineering techniques at Sheridan College. In the 1970s he married his second wife Dianne who was a vice- president of Sheridan for several years. For the last 20 years of his life he lived in Oakville, where he doted on his many grandchildren. Mr. Brydon leaves his wife Dianne, sisters Elizabeth Dickson and Ethel Dale Sivell, sons Bill, John, Mike, David and Dana, daughters Laraine and Dianne, and 18 grandchildren.   -- source: the Toronto Star [Toronto, Ont] 06 Aug 1999 --