- This page is about the Municipality of Tweed, for the village see Tweed, Ontario (village).
Tweed is a municipality and a village located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Hastings.
The Municipality of Tweed is an amalgamated municipality comprising the former Village of Tweed and the former Townships of Hungerford and Elzevir & Grimsthorpe. The Municipality was officially incorporated as of January 1, 1998 as a lower tier municipality within the County of Hastings two tier governing system.
Approximately 30% of the population resides the Village of Tweed, the only urban centre. The remainder of the Municipality consists of five hamlets (Actinolite, Marlbank, Queensborough, Stoco, and Thomasburg) and a large rural area which reaches from Wadsworth Lake in the north to Roslin to the south. The residents of the hamlets and the rural area comprise the other 70% of the population. As of 2004, there were approximately 2870 households.
As of 2004, the total land area was approximately 230,000 acres (930 km²), 30% of which was Crown land. Lakes, rivers and streams account for approximately 4,650 acres (18 km²). There are approximately 600 kilometres of roads throughout the Municipality.
The total 2004 property assessment for the Municipality of Tweed was $309,000,000. Its composition was 84% residential, 7% farm, 6% commercial and industrial, and 3% other categories.
Tweed is reported to be home of the world's smallest jail.
Lake Stoco, which borders the town of Tweed, is home to a popular and uncommon sport-fish, the muskellunge or Muskie (Esox masquinongy). The Black River joins the Moira River near the Village of Tweed.
According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:
- Population: 5,612
- % Change (1996-2001): -1.6
- Dwellings: 2,807
- Area (km²): 896.98
- Density (persons per km²): 6.3
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Forest fire protection history
The Tweed Forest Fire District was founded by the former Ontario Department of Lands and Forests (now the MNR) in 1922 as one of 17 districts to help protect Ontario's forests from fire by early detection from fire towers. The headquarters for the district were housed at Hungerford Road in town. It was the central headquarters for 21 fire lookout towers. When a fire was spotted in the forest a towerman would get the degree bearings from his respective tower and radio back the information to headquarters. When one or more towermen from other towers in the area would also call in their bearings, the forest rangers at headquarters could get a 'triangulation' read and plot the exact location of the fire on their map. This way a team of forest firefighters could be dispatched as soon as possible to get the fire under control. In 1958 the 100-foot (30 m)-tall Hungerford firetower was erected beside the station. However, in the 1970s all the towers had been decommissioned as aerial fire fighting techniques were employed. The Hungerford tower was disassembled in 1996 and placed behind the Tweed Heritage Centre.
Notable stories
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.
Communities
- Actinolite
- Bogart
- Buller
- Chapman
- Cosy Cove
- Coulters Hill
- Duff Corners
- East Hungerford 44°30′07″N 77°09′04″W / 44.502°N 77.151°W
- Elzevir
- Farrell Corners 44°27′07″N 77°08′02″W / 44.452°N 77.134°W
- Hungerford
- Larkins
- Lime Lake
- Lodgeroom Corners
- Lost Channel 44°25′08″N 77°18′58″W / 44.419°N 77.316°W
- Marlbank
- Moneymore
- Otter Creek
- Queensborough
- Stoco
- Sulphide 44°31′19″N 77°13′55″W / 44.522°N 77.232°W
- Thomasburg 44°23′20″N 77°20′45″W / 44.388961°N 77.345896°W [1]
- Tweed
References
External links
- Municipality of Tweed
- Tweed Chamber of Commerce
- The Tweed News
- Tweed Heritage Centre
- Tweed Public Library
- Elvis Sighting Society
- Elvis has left the building
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