The below article is from the Orillia Paper the Packet and Times. Interesting article. As you read down you will find that he was a WWII Royal. I am on the road and unable to verify at this time.
City's first mayor mourned
Posted By COLIN MCKIM, THE PACKET AND TIMES
Posted 12 hours ago
The man who was mayor when Orillia was incorporated as a city in 1969 passed away last week just days after his 85th birthday.
Albert (Burt) McIsaac served as a member of council before being elected mayor during that landmark year in Orillia's history.
Orillia was established as a village in 1867, the same year as the Confederation of Canada. The first council was headed by Reeve James Quinn.
It took more than a century for the community to reach the 20,000 population required to become incorporated as a city.
Politics ran in the McIsaac family. Burt's uncle John R. McIsaac was Mayor of Orillia in 1954 and 1955. And 14 years after Burt McIsaac's single term in office, his wife, Irene Pat McIsaac, was elected mayor, serving in that capacity from 1983 to 1985. Pat McIsaac died in August of 2008.
With McIsaac's passing, only seven of the 50 men and women who have served as Orillia's chief magistrate are still living -- Jack Andre, Dave Macdonald, Ted Emond, Clayt French, Ken McCann, Maggie Buchanan and current mayor Ron Stevens.
A parishioner at Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church, Burt McIsaac was an honorary life member of the Knights of Columbus and longtime member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 34.
He served Canada during World War II as a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment.
McIsaac's life will be celebrated at a funeral at 10 a. m. this morning at Guardian Angels.
