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Black and white photographic print of Welland Council of 1954.

From left to right: Top row: H. W. Diffin; S. H. S. Hughes; Joseph Edmond Lemelin; B. A. Phillips. Middle row: A. W. Harcourt; Mayor A. L. McCrae; J. D. Watt. Bottom row: C. J.…

Black and white photographic print of Welland Council of 1953. From left to right: Top row: H. W. Diffin; S. H. S. Hughes; J. R. Joyce; Joseph Edmond Lemelin. Middle row: A. W. Harcourt; Mayor A. L. McCrae; J. D. Watt. Bottom row: B. A. Phillips; D.…

Black and white photographic print of Welland Council of 1951.

From left to right: Top row: H. W. Diffin; Mayor Dav J. Thomas; Joseph Edmond Lemelin. Front row: P. O. Bitner; A. McCrae; Miss D. Porter; Miss A. Oram; D. Walker; J. R. Joyce.

Black and white photographic print of Welland Council of 1950.

From left to right: J. R. Joyce; P. Biliur; J. R. Valencourt; Joseph Edmond Lemelin; H.W. Diffin; Miss A. M. Oram; A. B. Phillips; A. McCrae; D. Thomas.

Brief biography of Joseph Edmond Lemelin, Grocer and the first French Canadian to be elected to public office in Welland County.

From the book "History of the Niagara Peninsula" by Albert Ernest Coombs, c. 1950.