13 Facts About Allan Lamport

Allan Lamport won the 1954 election, but resigned after six months to become vice-chairman of the newly formed Toronto Transit Commission.

Allan Lamport first sat on Toronto City Council in 1937.

Allan Lamport enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II and once rose in the legislature to denounce Henry Ford for his lack of support for the Canadian war effort, calling him a "black-hearted American Quisling".

Allan Lamport returned to city council in 1946 and campaigned for the provincial government of George Drew to permit the opening of cocktail bars in Toronto.

In 1950, Allan Lamport spearheaded a municipal plebiscite that approved the playing of sports on Sundays.

Allan Lamport was defeated in his first campaign for mayor in 1951 but won on his second attempt the next year.

Allan Lamport advocated the creation of Regent Park, Canada's first large scale public housing project.

Allan Lamport resigned as mayor in 1954 to serve on the Toronto Transit Commission first as vice-chairman and then as chairman from 1955 to 1959 and recommended and won approval for the construction of the Bloor-Danforth subway line.

Allan Lamport returned to City Council again in 1966 as a Controller, and then as an alderman when the Board of Control was abolished.

Allan Lamport famously opposed the hippies who populated the neighbourhood of Yorkville pledging to drive them out of Toronto and encouraging police action against them and urged that the neighbourhood be demolished and replaced by a shopping mall.

Allan Lamport clashed with David DePoe, unofficial spokesperson for the Yorkville hippies opposing DePoe's bid to address city council.

The confrontation resulted in Allan Lamport ordering police to remove the hippies from the city council chamber This conflict was documented in the National Film Board of Canada films Flowers on a One Way Street and Christopher's Movie Matinee.

Allan Lamport's funeral was arranged through Ralph Day Funeral Home and services were held at St Paul's Anglican Church and he is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.