Sidney Labe Buckwold, OC (November 3, 1916 – June 27, 2001) was a Canadian politician, soldier, and businessman.
[1] Afterwards, he returned to Saskatoon and worked for his father's dry goods store, Buckwold’s Ltd.[2] During the Second World War he served as an officer with the Canadian Army Service Corps from 1942 to 1945.
[1] Buckwold himself resigned as mayor in 1963 in order to run as a Liberal candidate in the federal election in the Saskatoon riding.
During his time in office, Buckwold help to lay the groundwork for a revitalization of downtown Saskatoon by moving the Canadian National Railway lines outside of the city.
[5] In 1971, he resigned again as mayor, this time to accept an appointment to the Canadian Senate on the recommendation of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
[1] Buckwold married Clarice Rabinovitch in 1939 and they had three children named Jay, Judy, and Linda.