Charles Bernhard Heyd (February 23, 1842 – September 16, 1929) was a Canadian parliamentarian, grocer and fiddler. The eldest son of Swiss immigrant Bernhard Heyd, Charles was born in
Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in W ...
where his father worked as a carpenter before settling in
Brantford, Ontario
Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully indepen ...
in 1854. His father worked for the railway for a year before establishing a grocery store.
As an adult, Charles B. Heyd was a
Liberal
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Reformer and served as an
alderman
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on Brantford's council for five years. In 1865, he married Janet Davey, a native of
Scotland
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. He was also a director for the Royal Loan and Savings Company
and of the Brantford Young Ladies' College. Heyd served as mayor of Branford twice, in 1886 and 1888–89 and was elected to the
House of Commons of Canada in an 1897 by-election as a Liberal representing
Brant South
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It was also called the South ...
and was re-elected in the
1900 federal election, defeating
Robert Henry each time. The riding was merged into the new
Brantford
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electoral district for the
1904 federal election in which Heyd was defeated by a margin of 15 votes.
Electoral record
References
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1842 births
1929 deaths
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Mayors of Brantford
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