Henry George (Harry) Simpson (1886-1967) was a municipal politician in East York, Ontario, in Metropolitan Toronto.
A retired bank manager, he served as Reeve of East York for seven years, and was a founding member of Metropolitan Toronto Council.
Simpson was first elected to East York township council in 1945 and served a year as deputy reeve.
He attempted to return to the reeveship in 1958, running on a conservationist platform[1] of protecting the township's parkland and green belt from commercial development, and against pro-development incumbent reeve Jack Allen's proposal for extending Cosburn Avenue through Taylor-Massey Creek parkland in the Don River valley.
[2][3] Simspon opposed Allen's proposal for the road extension, which was to be accompanied by apartment developments, saying "we're losing parkland at a terrific rate and we can't afford any more", adding that his "fear is that the apartment buildings will degenerate into tenements within 10 years or so.