in Nova Scotia, an elected member of a county council; elsewhere an elected town or township reeve sitting on such a council.
- 1903  Jock, the drover, opined that if he ever attained to the high office of a county councillor, it would be necessary to provide him with a double expansion hat or let him go bare-headed.
- 1962  . . . Flemming rode his political career from Carleton (N.B.) county councillor in 1921 to provincial premier in 1952.