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{{Short description|40th mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba}}
{{distinguish|Susanna Thompson|Susan Thompson Buffett}}
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| office              =40th [[Mayor of Winnipeg]]
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'''Susan Ann Thompson''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OM}} was the 40th mayor of [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]].  She was born on 12 April 1947.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://winnipeginfocus.winnipeg.ca/susan-thompson-man|title=Thompson, Susan A. - Winnipeg in Focus|website=winnipeginfocus.winnipeg.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref> She was the first and first to date only woman to serve as mayor of Winnipeg, serving two terms from 1992 to 1998.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/thompson-bears-scars-from-her-time-in-office-92945739.html|title=Thompson bears scars from her time in office|last=Reynolds|first=Lindor|date=5 June 2010|work=Winnipeg Free Press|accessdate=23 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="RazinSmith2006">{{cite book|last1=Razin|first1=Eran|last2=Smith|first2=Patrick J.|title=Metropolitan Governing: Canadian Cases, Comparative Lessons|url=https://archive.org/details/metropolitangove00smit|url-access=registration|accessdate=23 April 2012|year=2006|publisher=University of Alberta|isbn=9789654932851|pages=[https://archive.org/details/metropolitangove00smit/page/132 132]–}}</ref>

Thompson graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from the [[University of Winnipeg]] in 1971.<ref name=":0" /> Thompson worked at [[Eaton's]] and [[Hudson's Bay Company]] in Winnipeg, [[Calgary]], and [[Montreal]].<ref name=":0" /> Because of her father's decline in health, she came back to Winnipeg in 1980 and bought the family's business Birt Saddlery.<ref name=":0" /> While running Birt Saddlery, she worked hard to promote women in business and became involved in Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce.<ref name=":0" /> 

Thompson's second term saw the 1997 [[Red River Flood, 1997|Flood of the Century]]; she was instrumental in directing the fight against the raging river.<ref name=":0" /> She choose not to seek a third term, but in 1999 she became Canada's [[Consul General]] in [[Minneapolis]], United States - the first woman to have this position in its thirty years of existence.<ref name=":0" /> In this role she steadfastly promoted Canadian business and political interests.<ref name=":0" /> In 2003, she became first and founding president and CEO of the University of Winnipeg Foundation.<ref name=":0" /> She remained in this position until 2011.<ref name=":0" />

In 2014, Thompson made local headlines after a 30-minute speech she gave to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. In it she outlined her ideas for the city's future which included a laser pyramid [[Portage and Main]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/is-that-winnipeg-under-a-laser-beam-240976701.html|title=Is that Winnipeg under a laser beam? Ex-mayor Thompson has some interesting ideas|last=Kives|first=Bartley|date=18 January 2014|work=Winnipeg Free Press|accessdate=19 October 2014}}</ref>

In 2017, a building at the Winnipeg City Hall Campus was renamed the Susan A. Thompson Building after her.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/winnipeg-building-renamed-for-citys-first-female-mayor/ |title=Winnipeg building renamed for city’s first female mayor &#124; CTV News Winnipeg |publisher=Winnipeg.ctvnews.ca |date=2017-06-19 |access-date=2017-06-23}}</ref>

The City of Winnipeg Archives has the [https://winnipeginfocus.winnipeg.ca/f00037 Susan Thompson Fonds] including of textual records, photograph albums, framed memorabilia, and artifacts.<ref name=":0" />

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