Thomas Payment, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Manotick, Ontario, Canada
About Thomas Payment
- Thomas Payment (July 6, 1853 – January 13, 1920) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1899 to 1900.He was born in Manotick, Ontario, in 1853.
- He worked as a bookkeeper with a railroad company in Maine.
- Later, he studied at the Ontario College of Pharmacy and opened a drug store in the Byward Market area of Ottawa.
- During his term as mayor, a massive fire, the Hull-Ottawa fire of 1900, started in Hull and burned across the river at the Lebreton Flats, reaching as far as Dow's Lake. He died in Ottawa in 1920 and was buried in the Notre-Dame Cemetery.
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