Lewis Reford
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Lewis Reford (born 1960) is the Conservative Party of Canada's candidate for Toronto Centre in the 2006 federal election
Born in Ottawa, Reford spent his early childhood in Australia and Egypt where his scientist father was posted. Moving back to Canada in time to start kindergarten, he spent the rest of his childhood in Quebec’s Ottawa Valley, where he became fluently bilingual. His childhood days were also spent, helping out in the family's 200-acre beef farm, with summers of hay-bailing, ploughing and fence-mending, and winters of woodcutting and caring for the farm animals.
To further his CEGEP college education, Lewis attended the Colorado School of Mines, where he graduated with a BSc honours degree in geophysical engineering. A summer job with Exxon led to his first career, posting in frontier oil exploration in Perth, Western Australia, where he worked for close to two years. After that stint, he returned to the academic world to undertake post-graduate work in geology at the University of Cambridge in England.
From Cambridge, Reford embarked on a new career path in global finance, first in London with Citicorp Investment Bank, and then in Paris with energy multinational Total S.A. He met his Canadian wife, Susan, in Paris and their eldest son was born there. While based in Europe, Lewis’s work took him further afield to Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.
He returned to Canada and resided in Toronto Centre in 1993, where he worked in investment banking for Smith Barney and J.P. Morgan out of offices in Toronto and New York respectively. It was in Toronto Centre that he became actively involved with the Conservative Party of Canada.
