Michael Applebaum voted Montreal's first anglophone mayor in 100 years

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MONTREAL — For the first time in 100 years, Montreal has an anglophone mayor following a string of improbable events that rocked the administration of a scandal-weary city.

Michael Applebaum won a vote at city council, 31-29, to become the city’s first non-francophone mayor since just before the First World War.

He will be an interim mayor and will serve for only a year, with a promise not to run in the next municipal election of November 2013.

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