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Former Mayor, Slater, Dies at 95

Thursday, 4 July 2013 11:10

The flag has been flying at half-mast this week at City Hall, as a former Woodstock Mayor has passed away. Trevor Slater died on Tuesday, peacefully, at University Hospital in London at the age of 95. Slater was Mayor for just one year in Woodstock, and Museum Curator Karen Houston explains why. "Back in the early and mid-60's the Mayor's were only Mayor for 1-year, every year you had to have another election. So he was Mayor for 1-year in 1966, but he was an Alderman, or Councilman for 3-years before that, starting in 1963." Slater was replaced by popular Woodstock lawyer James Hutchinson in 1967. Houston says that was a time of change, not only in Woodstock, but across the globe. "Hutchinson was the Mayor that came after him, he was very popular locally and that was just as they went to 3-years for Mayor. By that time it was a whole different world, let's face it, after the 1960's the world had changed in a lot of different ways, he (Slater) was onto other things by that time." Slater worked in Woodstock as a shoe salesman at Bartley Shoes, across from City Hall in the 1950's, and later worked as a Manager at Frank Cowan Insurance in the 60's and 70's. Slater was also very active in charity work in the city. He was President of the Kinsmen Club, and was involved in the Masonic Lodge and Royal Canadian Legion. He also made significant financial contributions to the Woodstock Hospital. Slater has a park named after him in the city's northeast.

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