Frederick Johnstone (Jack) Bigg

 

Jack Bigg played one season with the Regina Roughriders during the depression years in 1935.  Bigg was a guard or inside using the terminology of the time.  Bigg was a member of the RCMP while playing with the Riders.  Bigg enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces and served overseas during World War II from September, 1939 to March, 1945.  Following the war, Bigg reenlisted in the RCMP and then went on to server as a Member of Parliament from 1958 to 1968.  Jack Bigg passed away on April 16, 1975.

Jack Bigg in Wikipedia

Jack Bigg on the Parliament of Canada Website

 

Frederick (Jack) Bigg