Facts:   - imagesize: 150    - death place: ottawa    - successor: francis mcdougal    - death date: april 10 , 1889    - predecessor: pierre st. jean    - office: mayor of ottawa      - birth date: feb 10 , 1825    - term start: 1884    - name: charles thornton bate    - birth place: cornwall , england   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of c. t. bate .
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charles thornton bate -lrb- feb 10 , 1825 -- april 10 , 1889 -rrb- was mayor of ottawa in 1884 .he was born in cornwall , england in 1825 , the son of henry newell bate and lisette meyer .the family emigrated to st. catharines , ontario in 1833 .in the 1850s he founded a large wholesale grocery business , `` c. t. bate & co. '' , in ottawa , ontario with his brother , henry newell bate , who became the first head of the ottawa improvement commission , later the national capital commission and who was knighted in 1910 .mr. bate was mayor when ottawa became the first city in canada to be completely lit by electricity , after nearly two years of debate -lrb- the move having been rejected as unnecessary by ottawa 's previous mayor charles mackintosh -rrb- .president of the ottawa electric light company and the ottawa gas company , bate served on the first board of the bank of ottawa , which later merged with scotiabank .in `` ottawa , an illustrated history '' , john h. taylor wrote , `` in the late nineteenth century , only the ottawa merchandiser c.t. bate , appears to have had any standing in the canadian financial community '' .