Walter Halbert

Walter Halbert served on Barrie council in nine terms, 1937 to 1946, on the City of Barrie's own list of council members.

This page records a public role and nothing more: the council terms, offices and notes as the City prints them.

It holds no contact details and no biography. If you are related to Walter Halbert and something here is wrong, the corrections page says how to tell us.

This profile is built from the City's list, which prints the name as “Walter Halbert”; the entries are counted as one person by the rules set out on Barrie's mayors and councils.

In office: Ward 1

Offices Walter Halbert held (lines, coloured by office) and federal or provincial races lost (dots).

Council terms come from the City of Barrie's list, which gives years only, so each is drawn from the year it begins to the year the next begins; a seat in Parliament or the legislature runs to the next general election. Hover or tap a mark for the detail; the lists below are the record.

On the City's list of council members

The terms the City of Barrie's own list of council members, 1837 to 2022, shows Walter Halbert serving, with the office and any note as the City prints them, and the milestones of each council: events from the City's history and notes, dated. The full list is on Barrie's mayors and councils.

1937 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert” 1937: No municipal election: every civic office but one is filled by acclamation.
1938 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert” 1938: No municipal election for a fourth straight year: every civic office is acclaimed, one of them decided by the flip of a coin.
1939 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert”
1940 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert” 1940: No municipal election: the mayor and council are returned by acclamation, and three vacancies are filled without an election.
1941 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert”
1942 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert”
1943 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert”
1944 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert”
1946 Alderman, Ward 1, as “Walter Halbert” 1946: Mary Laurie becomes the first woman on Barrie's town council.

Source: City of Barrie, Members of Barrie Councils, 1837 to 2022 (updated November 2022).