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About Ted Szilva
- Theodore Arthur "Ted" Szilva, (December 11, 1934 – March 9, 2016) was a Canadian businessman in Greater Sudbury, Ontario.
- He was best known for creating the city's "Big Nickel" landmark.Szilva was born and raised in the old city of Sudbury.
- He proposed the Big Nickel monument in 1963, when he was a 28-year-old firefighter.
- It subsequently became one of Sudbury's most recognizable features, and Szilva owned both the monument and the surrounding park area until 1981.Szilva was an active Roman Catholic.
- During the 1980s, he co-managed a successful private lottery named "Pot `O' Gold" that provided funding for Ontario's Catholic schools.
- When the provincial government of Bill Davis extended full funding to Catholic education in 1984, Szilva helped wind down the lottery and re-establish it as a charity fund.
- Some have suggested that Davis's decision to fund Catholic schools was predicated, in part, on his government's desire to re-establish control over the lottery sector.
- Szilva continued to co-manage the charity fund into the 2000s.Szilva was a longtime member of the Liberal Party of Canada and the Ontario Liberal Party, and played an organizational role in several political campaigns.
- He ran for Mayor of Sudbury against Peter Wong in 1985, but was defeated.
- He endorsed Colin Firth's bid to become mayor in 2003, and unsuccessfully sought a seat on the Roman Catholic School Board in 2006. He was the inventor of the D-Best Keyholder, and was president of D-Best Products. In 2009, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario.
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