Pictured are Richmond Municipal councillors (back row, from the left): William Boudreau, Daniel Holmes, Vincent Doiron, John Alex MacAskill, John Cameron, J. Rudolph Boudreau, Onesime Martell, Robert J. Urquhart, and Emile Benoit. (Front row, from the left): councillors Frank J. Mombourquette, Walter Fougere, Joseph Mancini, deputy warden J.H. LeBrun, clerk-treasurer Roy Thomson, warden Byron S. Langley, councillor Joseph Gerroir, and an unnamed councillor.
The history of municipal government in Richmond County does not necessarily begin in 1879 when the county was incorporated. Pre-1820, committees were convened each spring and fall to provide local government. In 1820, the entire island of Cape Breton was classed as one county. Then around 1829-1832 four townships, Arichat, Port Hawkesbury, Maitland, and Lennox…
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