Smith, Sydney John

He played football with the Regina Roughriders.

He eventually settled in Gull Lake, Saskatchewan where he became an alderman and then mayor from 1921 to 1925.

He attempted to win a seat in the Saskatchewan legislature as a Liberal in 1934 but was defeated.

He then moved to Kamloops, British Columbia where he raised cattle and grew hops as well as involving himself in selling automobile sales and heavy equipment.

He organized several businesses, Sydney Smith Ltd., Sydney Smith U Drive Ltd., Sydmar Estates Ltd., and the Highway Equipment Co. Ltd., In in the 1949 provincial election and was elected as MLA for the Kamloops riding for the British Columbia Liberal Party (then in a coalition with the Conservative Party) but was defeated.

In 1951 and 1952 he was chairman of the British Columbia Hospital Insurance Inquiry Board.

He was appointed as a Liberal Senator for British Columbia on 03/01/1957.

He served as Speaker of the Canadian Senate from 1966 to 1968.