William Andrew Porter
1895 – 1896
First mayor of Hantsport, won election by one vote after a ballot was disqualified.
Dr. Charles Inglis Margeson
1896 – 1897
Physician, graduate of Harvard Medical School (1869)
William Smith Whitman
1897 – 1902
Notary Public
Capt. Thomas Albert Marsters
1902 – 1903
Capt. Delancey Trefry Faulkner
1903 – 1907
Hantsport water system installed.
Capt. Simeon H. Mitchner
1907 – 1908
A baker, shoe maker and ship builder.
Frederick Edwin Pentz
1908 – 1910
Pharmacist and drug store owner.
Andrew Welsford Pattison
1910 – 1915
Tinsmith and store owner.
George Davenport Comstock
1915 – 1916
Piano tuner and editor of the Hantsport Advance newspaper.
William King Sterling
1916 – 1923
Dry Goods Merchant
Daniel William Murray
1923 – 1925
Manufacturer and owner of Murray’s Lumber Mill and Hantsport Fruit Basket Company.
Llewellyn Mortimer Wall
1923 – 1930
Hantsport Hotel owner.
In 1927 he convinced Roy Jodrey to build his Pulp Mill in Hantsport rather than in Windsor. The Hantsport & Area Historical Society has voted him Mayor of the last Century.
Dr. Gordon Kant Smith
1930 – 1946
Physician, graduate of Dalhousie Medical School (1922).
Mayor during the Second World War.
Burpee Templeman Smith
1946 – 1952
Commercial Traveller
Arthur Weatherby
1952 – 1958
David Mitchell Freeman
1958 – 1965
Electrician, owner of Freeman’s Electric Store.
Presided at opening of the new Hantsport School.
Lovett Grant Bishop
1965 – 1970
Executive Vice-President, Minas Basin Pulp & Power.
John Alexander Scott
1970 – 1973
Vice-President and General Manager, Minas Basin Lumber Co.
Leonard Douglas McCully
1973 – 1976
1985 – 1991
Chartered Accountant, Minas Basin Pulp & Power and Scotia Investments.
The only person to serve two separate terms as mayor of Hantsport.
Garnet Cranswick McDade
1976 – 1985
President and Chairman of the Board, Minas Basin Pulp & Power.
New Town Hall, Hantsport, N.S.
October 21, 1994 – 7:00 p.m.
Mayors in Attendance
Left to Right
Mr. Garnet McDade
Mr. Leonard McCully
Mr. John Scott
Mr. Lovett Bishop
Mr. H. Wayne Folker
H. Wayne Folker
1991 – 2012
Celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Town of Hantsport – 1995.
Robbie Zwicker
2012 – 2015
The Town of Hantsport was dissolved on 1 July 2015.