Sydney Charles Tweed Explained

Sydney Charles Tweed
Birth Date:25 September 1886
Birth Place:Vankleek Hill, Ontario
Death Place:Winnipeg, Manitoba
Office:MPP for Waterloo North
Term:September 30, 1929 – April 03, 1934
Party:Ontario Liberal Party

Sydney Charles Tweed (September 25, 1886  - February 8, 1942) was a businessman and political figure in Ontario. He represented Waterloo North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1929 to 1934 as a Liberal member.[1]

He was born in Vankleek Hill in 1886,[2] the son of William A. Tweed and Alice Sproule, of Irish descent. In 1906, he married Winnifred Hobson. Tweed was president and managing directory of the Ontario Equitable Life and Accident Insurance Co. He served as a member of the Public Utilities Commission for Waterloo from 1926 to 1930.[2] He died suddenly at Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1942, and was buried at Brookside Cemetery at that city.[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sydney Charles Tweed, MPP . Legislative Assembly of Ontario . 2011-06-17.
  2. Book: Normandin, A L. Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1931 . 1931 .
  3. Web site: Last Name . www.winnipeg.ca . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140502210113/http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/cemeteries/Brookside/BrooksideTR_TZ.html . 2014-05-02.
  4. "Mr. S. C. Tweed", Winnipeg Free Press, Monday, February 09, 1942, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada