Municipal Politics
At the same time, Sherwood was involved in municipal politics in Toronto. He was alderman of St. David's Ward when chosen as the seventh Mayor of Toronto from 1842 to 1844, succeeding Munro.
He was a successful mayor. Credit belongs to the committees, but he was the mayor that oversaw the regulation of the market, paving the streets and collecting taxes. In 1842, 94 gas lights illuminated King and Yonge Streets and a waterworks was underway.
Mayor Sherwood saw that the Town Hall was too small for the growing civic government and the plans were drawn for Toronto's first municipal offices. Construction began on the new City Hall (now St. Lawrence Hall) in the summer of 1844 at Jarvis and Front Streets.
Sherwood sat on city council after his final mayoralty term until 1849.
Sherwood's brother and tavern owner, Samuel, would serve as the city's police chief from 1852 to 1859.
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