David Tisdale, PC (September 8, 1835 – March 31, 1911) was a Canadian politician.

[2] Born in Charlotteville Township, Upper Canada,[2] the son of Ephraim Tisdale and Hannah Price,[1] he was educated at the Simcoe Grammar School and called to the Ontario bar in 1858.

He served in the Canadian Militia at the time of the Trent Affair in 1861, was promoted Captain in 1862 and at Niagara in 1865.

He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 39th Norfolk Battalion of Rifles on September 28, 1866.

[1] He ran but was defeated for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1874 federal election in the riding of Norfolk North, but was elected in 1887 in Norfolk South.