Vivian Burrill
Deceased Person
1854 – 1937
Who was Vivian Burrill?
Vivian Burrill was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the first mayor of Shawinigan.
He was born in 1854 in Ireland and moved to Canada in 1872.
Burrill sat on the city council from 1901 to 1913 and served as mayor of the city from 1901 to 1902 and from 1908 to 1913.
He was in office when the first public infrastructures were laid out, including the first bridge to link Shawinigan and Shawinigan-Sud and a local plant owned by Northern Aluminum Co. claimed the first production of aluminum in Canadian history.
Burrill moved to nearby Trois-Rivières in 1914 and died in 1937.
Rue Burrill, where Industrial Park #1 is located, was named to honor him.
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