Canada’s First Gay Mayor?

According to Bruce Ricketts’ Mysteries of Canada website, Charlotte Whitton, mayor of Ottawa in the 1950s and early 1960s, and the first female mayor of a Canadian city, had “lived for 32 years with her companion, Margaret Grier, whom she had met at Queen’s University.” Was Whitton our first gay mayor, in the days before such things were discussed? Perhaps it never turned into an issue, because Margaret Grier died in 1947 at the age of 55 years, well before Whitton got into office. According to Ricketts, Whitton is also known for this infamous quote: “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”