Wilbert Hamilton

Controller On October 20, 1956, Hamilton announced he was going to run for the city's Board of Control, council's four member executive branch, in the 1956 election. When running for the Board, he was noted as an "advocate of public ownership of public utilities" due to his support for the establishment of the Ottawa Hydro Commission. Hamilton was successful in his election bid, winning 24,167 votes, placing third on the four seat Board, almost 6,000 votes behind the leading candidate, Paul Tardif. With his win, Hamilton would retain his vice presidency of the CCEA which he had held over the previous term.

Hamilton was named president of the CCEA on January 16, 1957, a position he held until January 1959. In the Fall of 1957, he retired from his job with the federal government's printing bureau. In his first term as controller, he was the spokesman for the Department of Planning and Works. On November 14, 1958, he announced that he would run for re-election to the Board for the 1958 election. On election day, he won 28,763 votes, good enough for fourth place, the last spot on the board. He was roughly 4,600 votes behind Tardif, who topped the poll once again. Also that year, Hamilton was rumoured to be in the consideration to become the Queen's Printer, a position which had become vacant.

Hamilton was re-elected to the Board of Control for a final time in the 1960 election, winning 38,611 votes, finishing in fourth again, over 9,000 votes behind the leader vote getter, Lloyd Francis.

OTC Commissioner Hamilton was appointed as a member of the Ottawa Transportation Commission on November 3, 1962, He replaced C.C. Gibson, who had been appointed as a County Court Judge.

Death Not even two years after his appointment to the OTC, Hamilton was rushed to the Ottawa Civic Hospital on June 7, 1964, where he would have a blood clot removed from his brain. He did not regain consciousness, and died on June 9. She died in 1940. Five years after her death, Hamilton re-married in 1945 to Marjorie Valentine Giddings at First United Church. In total, he had seven children, five with Olive.

Hamilton was a founding member of the Ottawa Club of Printing House Craftsmen, and served as president in 1946. He was a member of the Montgomery Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion. He also served as a director of the Gladstone Football Club and the Montagnard Club, was a member of the Civil Service Association of Ottawa, was director of the Eastern Ontario Development Association, a director of the Ottawa Winter Fair, and a member of the Knockers Club of Ottawa.