Doug Ford, Sr.
| Doug Ford Sr. | |
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| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Etobicoke—Humber |
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In office June 8, 1995 – June 3, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Jim Henderson |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
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Douglas Bruce Ford February 27, 1933 Toronto, Ontario |
| Died | September 22, 2006 (aged 73) Toronto, Ontario |
| Resting place | Riverside Cemetery |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Diane Campbell |
| Children | Kathy Stirpe (b. 1961) Randy Ford (b. 1962) Doug Ford Jr. (b. 1964) Rob Ford (1969–2016) |
| Occupation | Business owner |
Douglas Bruce Ford Sr. (February 27, 1933 – September 22, 2006) was a Canadian businessman and politician in Ontario. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999 who represented the riding of Etobicoke—Humber.
Ford was born in 1933 in Toronto, the son of Celia (McNicol) and Pte Ernest Ford, both immigrants from England. He grew up in the Danforth area of East York, Ontario. The youngest of nine children, he was raised by a single mother. Ford was a business man who, along with Ted Herriott, co-founded Deco Labels & Tags Limited of Rexdale, Ontario in 1962.
Ford and his wife, Diane, had four children: Randy, Kathy, Doug Jr. and Rob.
Rob was Mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014, and Ward 2 City Councillor from 2000 to 2010 and again from 2014 until his death in 2016.
Doug Jr. worked in the family business before serving as City Councillor for Ward 2 - Etobicoke North from 2010 to 2014.
Randy is a company director and runs the day-to-day operations of Deco.
Kathy briefly ran a gift-basket business before her run-ins with the law.
Ford was elected to the provincial legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating incumbent Liberal Jim Henderson by about 4,500 votes in Etobicoke—Humber. For the next four years, he sat as a backbench supporter of Mike Harris's government.
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