Doug Ford Sr.

Douglas Bruce Ford Sr. (February 27, 1933 – September 22, 2006) was a Canadian businessman and politician for the province of Ontario. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999 who represented the riding of Etobicoke—Humber. He was the father of former Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, and the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford. Background Ford was born in 1933 in Toronto, the son of Celia (McNicol 1900-1973) and Ernest Ford (1889-1933), a Home Child, both immigrants from England. He grew up in the Danforth area of East York, Ontario. The youngest of nine children (brother Henry Edsel died at age 6 in 1935 and sister died under age of 1 in 1923), he was raised by a single mother following his father's death in 1933. Ford was a businessman who, along with Ted Herriott, co-founded Deco Labels & Tags Limited of Rexdale, Ontario in 1962.