Born in
Montreal,
Quebec, the son of Kolman and Manya Reisman, Reisman graduated from
Baron Byng High School He was a veteran of the Second World War, having served in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany with the
Royal Canadian Artillery. After the war, he studied at the
London School of Economics. Reisman rose to senior positions in the public service, including
deputy minister in the Department of Finance and the Department of Industry before retiring in 1975. and received the Outstanding Public Service Award in 1974. He was married to Constance Carin for 65 years. They had three children, Joe, Anna, and Harriet, and nine grandchildren. He is uncle to
Heather Reisman of
Indigo Books of
Toronto. He died at
Ottawa,
Ontario on March 9, 2008, at the age of 88. ==References==