Tweed, Ontario (village)
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Tweed, Ontario is a community on Stoco Lake and the only urban centre in the Municipality of Tweed in Hastings County, central-eastern Ontario, Canada. Tweed has a population of 1,540 according to the 2001 Canada Census. The principle thoroughfare through Tweed is Highway 37.
Tweed was first settled in the 1830s and named Hungerford Mills, after the surrounding township. The settlement was renamed Tweed after the River Tweed in Scotland. It was incorporated as a Village in 1891.
Tweed, formerly Hungerford Mills, a thriving post village in Hastings County, Ontario, on the Moira River, 25 miles north of Belleville. It possesses good water power, and contains 2 saw mills, a flouring mill, steam tannery, woolen factory, iron foundry, 12 stores, a telegraph office, and churches of 3 denominations. Pop 600. (Lovell’s Gazetteer of British North America, Editted by P.A. Crossby, 1873)
In 1998, Tweed was amalgamated with the Township of Hungerford and the Township of Elzevir & Grimsthorpe to form the Municipality of Tweed.
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In 1996 the town made news when it applied for a CFL team, in an attempt to become the Green Bay of Canada. Had the attempt been successful, the team would have been known as the Tweed Muskies.
In 1989 the Ottawa branch of the Elvis Sighting Society declared Elvis was alive and well and living in Tweed. For several years after that an Elvis is Alive festival was held in July. More recently Tweed and Elvis made the headlines when a reporter from the Toronto Sun came to investigate if there was truth to the rumours. The only evidence that remains now that Elvis may have ever been in the community is a very short road now called Elvis Lane. Oddly enough not far from the proposed site of the Tweed Muskies stadium.
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- Former Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Patrick Lesage was born in Tweed.[1]
- Michael Ondaatje has a holiday house in the area and is occasionally sighted in the village.
[edit] References
- ^ "Hon. Patrick J. LeSage Q.C., Counsel". Gowlings. http://www.gowlings.com/professionals/professional.asp?profid=1040&lang=0. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
