predecessor successor death_date birth_place religion office birth_date order term_start spouse article_title term_end name
john lemesurier adolphe guillet dit tourangeau 1896 -lrb- age 82 -rrb- quebec city , quebec protestant member of quebec city council for st. louis ward 12 january 1814 mayor of quebec city 12 november 1869 1861 helen peebles -lrb- m. 1868 -rrb- william hossak
 7 january 1870 1869 william m. hossak
william hossak

william m. hossak -lrb- 12 january 1814 - 1896 -rrb- was a canadian politician , serving as mayor of quebec city from november 1869 to january 1870 .
hossak worked at his father 's grocery business until establishing his own business , a leather tannery .
that enterprise was destroyed in the massive quebec city fire of 1845 after which hossak returned to selling groceries .
after retiring from business and travelling through europe and egypt , hossak returned to quebec city and became a city councillor in the st louis ward for eight years until his appointment as the city 's mayor in november 1869 .
however , hossak was unable to legally maintain the mayor 's chair because of his residency outside the city and therefore left office within two months .
in 1888 , hossak continued to contribute to public life as chair of the protestant board of school commissionners , the vice-president of the literary and historical society and the president of the quebec city mission .
he was a member of the city 's chalmers church serving as treasurer in the late 1880s .
