Frank Reid (Canadian football)

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Frank Reid
Born:(1946-02-11)February 11, 1946
Belleville, Ontario
Died:October 20, 2022(2022-10-20) (aged 76)[1]
Career information
CFL statusNational
Position(s)DT
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight235 lb (107 kg)
CollegeBuffalo
Career history
As player
19701975Ottawa Rough Riders
19701971Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Career highlights and awards
  • Grey Cup champion (1973)

Clifford Frank Reid (February 11, 1946–October 20, 2022)

Ottawa-Carleton
Regional Council.

The son of Clifford and Kathleen Reid,

Ottawa-Carleton regional councillor for Nepean from 1985 to 1991.[4] He ran for the Chair position of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton in 1991 and 1994
.

In around 1988, Reid moved to Gloucester, still part of the Ottawa-Carleton Region, which was amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001. He ran for Ottawa City Council in the 2003 Ottawa municipal election in Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward.[6]

As of the 1991 election, he was separated from his wife Connie, and he was living with regional councillor Fiona Faucher.[4] He would later marry Faucher.[6] Later in life, he married Louise Matte.[1] He had three children.[6]

Federal politics

In 1984, he ran for the nomination of the

Bill Tupper.[7] He ran against Tupper again for the Tory nomination in the 1988 Canadian federal election in the new riding of Nepean, but lost again, 717 votes to 427.[8] Reid ran for the nomination again in the 1993 Canadian federal election, but lost to Donna Hicks by just two votes on the second ballot.[9]

Death

Reid died of cancer in 2022.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Frank Reid". Ottawa Citizen. October 29, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  2. ^ "Frank Reid CFL Stats and Bio". profootballarchives.com. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
  3. ^ "Frank Reid football statistics on StatsCrew.com".
  4. ^ a b c Nepean councillor joins race for region's top post: [Final Edition] Yonson, Doug. The Ottawa Citizen [Ottawa, Ont] 02 Jan 1991: C1.
  5. ^ "Ex-Rider urges hustle". Ottawa Citizen. November 3, 1980. p. 77. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  6. ^ a b c "Jobs, taxes, language key as incumbent battles veteran". Ottawa Citizen. November 4, 2003. p. 43. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  7. ^ "Tupper wins Tory nod on third ballot". Ottawa Citizen. April 12, 1984. p. 3. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  8. ^ "Tupper crushes nomination challenge". Ottawa Citizen. April 22, 1988. p. 6. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  9. ^ "The power of one". Ottawa Citizen. May 23, 1993. p. 6. Retrieved September 11, 2022.