Marjorie Hamilton

Marjorie May Hamilton (1898 – December 27, 1990) was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Barrie, Ontario from 1950 to 1952. She was the first woman ever to serve as Barrie's mayor, and one of the earliest women elected as a mayor in all of Ontario.

She also served on the board of the Association of Ontario Mayors and Reeves and the Ontario Hydro Advisory Council.

During the 1952 municipal election, Hamilton became engaged in a public dispute with city clerk and treasurer L. R. Barrand, who tendered his resignation from the city after opposing her plan to separate his position into two distinct job titles to be held by two different people. Council refused to accept Barrand's resignation, or Hamilton's plan. She had not previously worked as a lawyer, but was chosen for the position because of her past work in public service and social welfare. At a provincial conference of the Association of Juvenile and Family Court Judges of Ontario in 1965, she stated in a speech that having been mothers of children gave women a unique advantage in family and juvenile judgeships.

Works Pirates and Pathfinders, authored text of elementary school textbook