Birthday profile
Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2025)
Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2025) In 1976, Lumley became parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Regional Economic Expansion. Following his electoral defeat, Lumley returned to the private sector and became an influential corporate figure.
Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.
Ed Lumley was born in 1939. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
These figures put everyday life in Ed Lumley's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.
| Measure | 1939 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.19 | $3.45/gal |
| Average home | $5,200 | $435,000 |
| Average income | $2,900 | $67,500 |
| Minimum wage | $0.30 | $7.25/hr (federal) |
| Movie ticket | $0.25 | $11.95 |
| Postage stamp | $0.03 | $0.73 |
| Population | 130.9M | 341 million |
This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Library of Congress, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.
Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.