Neil Lumsden
Neil Lumsden | |
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| File:Neil Lumsden at Building Faster Fund announcement 2024-03-22 (cropped).jpg Lumsden in 2024 | |
| Minister of Sport | |
| Assumed office June 24, 2022 | |
| Premier | Doug Ford |
| Preceded by | Lisa MacLeod |
| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek | |
| Assumed office June 2, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Miller |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Neil James Lumsden December 19, 1952 London, Ontario, Canada |
| Party | Progressive Conservative |
| Education | Crescent School (Toronto) |
| Football career | |
| No. 32 | |
| Positions | Fullback • Running back |
| Career information | |
| University | Ottawa Gee-Gees |
| CFL draft | 1976 |
| Career history | |
Playing | |
| 1976–1978 | Toronto Argonauts |
| 1978–1979 | Hamilton Tiger-Cats |
| 1980–1985 | Edmonton Eskimos |
Operations | |
| 1996–1999 | Hamilton Tiger-Cats |
| Awards and highlights | |
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Canadian Football Hall of Fame (Class of 2014) | |
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Neil James Lumsden[1] ECO MPP (born December 19, 1952) is a Canadian politician and retired professional football player. Lumsden was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election. He serves as Minister of Sport.
Lumsden played his entire professional career in the Canadian Football League (CFL), mostly as a fullback and also as a running back for the Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Edmonton Eskimos from 1976 to 1985.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Lumsden played high school football at Northern Secondary School and graduated from Crescent School in Toronto.[citation needed]
Football career
[edit | edit source]Some of his career highlights include the Vanier Cup with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in 1975, being the eastern conference nominee for Most Outstanding Rookie in 1976, losing out to John Sciarra of the BC Lions, and winning three Grey Cup Championships with Edmonton Eskimos from 1980 to 1982, and again being a Grey Cup winner in 1999 as General Manager of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In the 1981 Grey Cup game Lumsden with 8 receptions for 91 yards plus a carry for 2 yards was selected as the Outstanding Canadian being awarded with the Dick Suderman Trophy.[citation needed]
In ten seasons, Lumsden played in 141 regular season games and carried the ball 767 times for 3,755 yards and 36 touchdowns. He also had 180 receptions for 1,729 yards and 15 more touchdowns. He was called several times during his career to fill in as a placekicker and punter.[citation needed]
Post-CFL career
[edit | edit source]Lumsden worked briefly in cycling when he was appointed COO of the Hamilton, Ontario, UCI Road World Championships in 2003. This was only the fourth time the road cycling world championships had taken place outside Europe.[citation needed]
Lumsden now heads Drive Marketing,[2] a sports marketing firm and a division of OK&D Marketing Group[3] of Burlington, Ontario.
Lumsden acted as Honorary Chairman of the 2008 Desjardins Vanier Cup in Hamilton, Ontario.[citation needed]
In 2014, Lumsden was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.[4]
Political career
[edit | edit source]In 2022, he was nominated to run as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the provincial electoral riding of Hamilton East—Stoney Creek.[5][6] He was then elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 provincial election.[7] He was appointed Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport in June 2022.[8] In June 2024, he became Minister of Sport.[9]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]His son Jesse Lumsden was also a CFL football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos, and Calgary Stampeders before retiring in 2011. He is now a member of the Canadian Olympic Bobsled Team.[citation needed]
In 2015, he and his daughter, Kristin Lumsden, a makeup artist/skincare specialist living and working in Toronto, competed in the third season of The Amazing Race Canada. In the first six legs, they placed 10th, 6th, 1st, 6th, 7th, and 6th. In the seventh leg, they placed last in 7th place and were eliminated from the show.[citation needed]
Electoral history
[edit | edit source]| 2022 Ontario general election: Hamilton East—Stoney Creek | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Neil Lumsden | 12,166 | 34.60 | +5.78 | $47,580 | |||
| New Democratic | Zaigham Butt | 9,614 | 27.34 | −23.82 | $82,230 | |||
| Liberal | Jason Farr | 7,411 | 21.07 | +8.99 | $73,616 | |||
| Independent | Paul Miller | 2,411 | 6.86 | -44.29 | $8,083 | |||
| Green | Cassie Wylie | 1,740 | 4.95 | +0.67 | $381 | |||
| Ontario Party | Domenic Diluca | 1,052 | 2.99 | $4,627 | ||||
| New Blue | Jeffery Raulino | 693 | 1.97 | $11,785 | ||||
| Electoral Reform | Cameron Rajewski | 79 | 0.22 | $0 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 35,166 | 98.74 | +0.08 | $121,750 | ||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 449 | 1.26 | –0.08 | |||||
| Turnout | 35,615 | 40.95 | –12.11 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 86,774 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | +14.80 | ||||||
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- Canadian football fullbacks
- Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Canadian Football League announcers
- Canadian Football League Rookie of the Year Award winners
- Canadian football people from Hamilton, Ontario
- Canadian football people from London, Ontario
- Canadian football running backs
- Canadian sportsperson-politicians
- Canadian television sportscasters
- Edmonton Elks players
- Hamilton Tiger-Cats general managers
- Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
- Northern Secondary School alumni
- Ottawa Gee-Gees football players
- Participants in Canadian reality television series
- Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario
- Politicians from London, Ontario
- Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
- Toronto Argonauts players
- University of Ottawa alumni
- 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario