Everett Weaver

Everett Lane Weaver (1901 - 1971) was a Canadian politician, who served on Toronto City Council and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

[1] A lawyer,[1] he was first elected to city council in the 1947 municipal election,[2] and served for three years as councillor for Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale).

[3] He was elected to the provincial legislature in the 1951 election,[4] representing the district of St. David as a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.

He returned to his work as a lawyer, and was appointed as a county court judge in 1958.

[1] As a judge, he was most noted for his ruling in a 1964 trial that the novel Fanny Hill was obscene under the Criminal Code.