Charles Edward Tisdall

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Charles Edward Tisdall (April 9, 1866 – March 17, 1936) was the 19th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1922 to 1923. Born in Birmingham, England, he moved to Vancouver in 1888 and later became active in business and politics, including serving as Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade in 1899. He married Edith B. White in 1907.

A member of the British Columbia Conservative Party, Tisdall represented Vancouver City in the provincial legislature from 1898 to 1900 and again from 1909 to 1916. In December 1915 he was named Minister of Public Works and Minister of Railways. He lost a by-election in March 1916 to Malcolm Archibald Macdonald and failed to win reelection in the 1916 general election.

Vancouver adopted a proportional representation system in 1921, and Tisdall was elected mayor in 1922. He was re-elected in December 1922 after a four-round vote. In June 1923, voters chose to abandon proportional representation, and the 1924 election used a first-past-the-post system. He continued to serve as an alderman and on the city parks board until his death in 1936, dying while in office.