with Jesse Ketchum, Thomas David Morrison, and Robert Baldwin. He was elected to the directorate in 1835, and re-elected in 1836 and 1837. Cawthra was an anomalous and enigmatic figure in early Toronto society: a wealthy Anglican merchant who was involved in the Mackenzieite reform politics of Toronto who left no surviving evidence of his reasons. Family tradition records his antipathy for the family compact and ascribes his adherence to the Church of England to the personal advice of John Wesley, the father of Methodism, not to leave it. It seems plausible that Cawthra was simply a man of independent views, with sufficient financial independence to indulge them. Legacy Cawthra Road (Peel Regional Road 17) and Cawthra Park Secondary School in Mississauga are named for him. Cawthra Avenue in The Junction is not named for Cawthra but rather for the Cawthra Estate with linkage to Sir William Mulock whom had a son named Cawthra Mulock or his mother Mary Cawthra, daughter of John Cawthra. See also Cawthra House References External links Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Joseph Cawthra 1759 births 1842 deaths English emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario Immigrants to Upper Canada People from Yeadon, West Yorkshire Pre-Confederation Ontario people Toronto city councillors