About Tweed

This page is about the Municipality of Tweed, for the village see Tweed, Ontario (village).

Tweed is both 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.