Charles Bernhard Heyd

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 where his father worked as a carpenter before settling in Brantford, Canada West in 1854.

[1] As an adult, Charles B. Heyd was a Liberal-Reformer and served as an alderman on Brantford's council for five years.

He was also a director for the Royal Loan and Savings Company[1] and of the Brantford Young Ladies' College.

The riding was merged into the new Brantford electoral district for the 1904 federal election in which Heyd was defeated by a margin of 15 votes.