Tweed is a municipality located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Hastings County.
History
The Municipality of Tweed is an amalgamated municipality comprising the former Village of Tweed and the former Hungerford Township and former Elzevir & Grimsthorpe Townships. The Municipality was incorporated on 1 January 1998 as a lower-tier municipality within the County of Hastings two-tier governing system.
The post office was established in 1852.
Elzevir Township (formed circa 1869, location of a major gold strike) and Grimsthorpe Township (formed 22 February 1867 during the local gold rush) had been administered as one entity since before 1968 until amalgamation into the Municipality of Tweed.
As of 2004, the total land area was approximately , 30% of which was Crown land. Lakes, rivers and streams account for approximately . There are approximately 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.
A primary attraction in the Municipality of Tweed is a vacation destination located at 115 Varty Road, with cottages and campsites along the Skootamatta River, a part of the Moira River system. From 2000, it was managed as Tipper's Family Campground, run by the family of Canadian violist, Jayden Tipper. Purchased by the Haid family in 2018, it is managed as Haid's Hideaway Family Campground.
Immediately east of the Village of Tweed is Stoco Lake, home to a popular and uncommon sport-fish, the muskellunge or Muskie (Esox masquinongy). Stoco Lake is a part of the Moira River system; the Black River joins the Moira River near the Village of Tweed.
The Napanee, Tamworth and Quebec Railway (later the Bay of Quinte Railway) had a spur from Tamworth, Ontario to Tweed; the Tweed-Yarker and Tweed-Bannockburn segments were abandoned by 1941 and the former Napanee-Smiths Falls mainline abandoned in the late 1970s. From the 1880s, the Canadian Pacific Railway's Havelock Subdivision passed through Tweed to Glen Tay and Smith Falls. The line was abandoned from Glen Tay to Tweed in 1973 then Tweed to Havelock in 1987. A more westerly portion of the line still runs through Peterborough.
Communities
Besides the village proper of Tweed, the Municipality of Tweed comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including the following communities such as Actinolite, Bogart, Buller, Chapman, Cosy Cove, Coulters Hill, Duff Corners, East Hungerford (), Elzevir, Farrell Corners (), Hungerford, Larkins, Lime Lake, Lodgeroom Corners, Lost Channel (), Marlbank, Moneymore, Otter Creek, Queensborough, Stoco, Sulphide, and Thomasburg ( )
Approximately 30% of the population resides in the Village of Tweed, the only urban center. The remainder of the Municipality of Tweed consists of a large rural area which reaches from Wadsworth Lake in the north to Roslin in the south. The Municipality of Tweeds has five hamlets: (Actinolite, Marlbank, Queensborough, Stoco, and Thomasburg). The residents of the hamlets and the rural area comprise the other 70% of the population. In 2004, there were approximately 2870 households.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tweed had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Populations prior to amalgamation (1998): Total Population in 1996: 5,706 Elzevir and Grimsthorpe township: 854 Hungerford township: 3,280 Tweed village: 1,572 Population in 1991: Elzevir and Grimsthorpe township: 781 Hungerford township: 3,085 Tweed village: 1,626
Mother tongue: English as first language: 95.8% French as first language: 0.8% English and French as first language: 0.4% Other as first language: 3.0%