Lennox Farrell

Lennox Victor Farrell is a Canadian community activist and retired teacher from Toronto, Ontario.
Farrell was born in Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago, and raised in Morvant in a family of 15 brothers and sisters, 6 of whom were adopted by his parents, Philippa and Medford Farrell. He emigrated to Canada in 1969, and attended the University of Toronto, from which he earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1974 and Bachelor of Education in 1976, qualifying to teach both history and mathematics. He earned his Master of Education in 1980.
Farrell ran as a New Democratic Party of Ontario candidate in the riding of Oriole in the 1990 provincial election, receiving 33% of the vote to come in second place behind Elinor Caplan. Four years later, he ran for Mayor of North York against incumbent Mel Lastman in 1994, over a dispute over the musical Show Boat being staged in North York, finishing third.
In 1988, Farrell was a founding member of the Black Action Defence Committee.
In the 1990s and again in 2005, Farrell was head of the Caribbean Cultural Committee, which put on the Caribana parade.

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