Ken Whillans

[1] Son Doug Whillans has run for public office on multiple ballots, was successful in 2014 and now serves as a City Councillor for Wards 2 and 6.

[2] Whillans led efforts to revamp Citizens Advisory Committees while in office as an alderman.

[3] Whillans was elected mayor in 1982 following the death of James Archdekin, who died while in office of a heart attack.

[6] With Premier of Ontario William G. Davis announcing that he would not seek re-election in the 1985 Ontario general election, Whillans considered seeking the Progressive Conservative nomination in the Brampton riding against Bob Callahan, an alderman on Brampton city council since 1969, who had won the Liberal party nomination.

Future Brampton mayor Peter Robertson would lose the nomination to Jeff Rice,[7] despite being favoured in polls.