council

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an elective administrative body at the municipal level, as for a village, town, city, township, county, or district.

Quotations

1852

[They] choose from among the council a town reeve, and in certain cases a deputy town reeve, the same as in townships.

1958

. . . the councils of the town of Leduc, the Municipal District of Strathcona. . . .