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About Andrew Carnell
- Andrew Greene Carnell, (April 10, 1877 – January 26, 1951) was a Canadian politician who served as mayor of St.
- John's, Newfoundland. Born in St.
- John's, Carnell received his early education at Bishop Feild College and the Methodist College before going into his father's business as an undertaker.
- He married Mabel Payne in 1904.
- They would have two sons and four daughters.
- His son Geoffrey later served in the Newfoundland assembly.After several failed attempts in colonial politics, he decided to enter municipal politics.
- In the municipal elections of 1929 for St.
- John's, he was elected deputy mayor.
- After the sitting mayor, Charles Howlett, died in 1932, Carnell became acting mayor until he was elected to the post officially by acclamation the following year.
- He would be reelected to the position continuously until 1949.
- Carnell's term spanned the time under which Newfoundland was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom after the Dominion government had gone bankrupt and collapsed.
- To many Newfoundlanders, the mayor was the voice of the people as the highest-ranking official on the island that had been elected.
- To the colonial government, however, the city council was an inefficient nuisance.
- Nevertheless, Carnell was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1939.Throughout his term, Carnell's administration would continue to provide relatively stable and solvent government to St.
- John's, leading the way in debt relief, improving the standard and affordability of housing in the city and beginning construction on Memorial Stadium, which would be finished in 1955.
- The 'LaGuardia of St.
- John's' would be defeated by his deputy mayor, Harry Mews, in the 1949 election.
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