Neil Lumsden

Lumsden played high school football at Northern Secondary School and graduated from Crescent School in Toronto.^{[citation needed]}

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 and was awarded 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]}

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]

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]

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

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v t e 2022 Ontario general election: Hamilton East—Stoney Creek
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
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on May 18, 2023. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on May 21, 2023.

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