Grant Hill (politician)

Grant Hill is a Canadian retired physician, surgeon and politician, born on 20 September 1943. He moved to Okotoks, Alberta in 1970 to take over the medical practice of Dr. Morris Gibson, with whom he later co-founded the Sheep River Medical Clinic. After serving as an Okotoks town councillor from 1974 to 1977 he was elected to the House of Commons for the Alberta riding of Macleod in 1993 and sat until 2004, as a member of the Reform Party, the Canadian Alliance and then the Conservative Party of Canada. In early 2004 he served as interim leader of the Official Opposition. He returned to medical practice in Okotoks, worked at the town's urgent care clinic until retiring, and in 2014 the town named Dr. Grant Hill Park in his honour.