The eldest daughter of Republican presidential candidate John McCain lives in Toronto and works for the major record label EMI Music.
Unlike some of her siblings, Sidney McCain has generally shied away from the political spotlight. But she has still played a small role in her father's bid for the U.S. presidency, in which he has become his party's presumptive nominee.
“I am trying to keep my life as normal as possible,” Ms. McCain said in a brief e-mail exchange.
“I love my father. I campaigned with him in South Carolina and New Hampshire and was lucky enough to have the time to travel with him during his announcement tour last year.”
Ms. McCain, 41, is one of seven McCain children. Mr. McCain adopted Doug and Andrew, who were from his first wife's former marriage, and the couple had Sidney. In his second family, there's Meghan, Jack, Jim and the McCains' adopted daughter, Bridget, 15.
Ms. McCain moved from New York to Toronto to live with her boyfriend, Mike D'Abramo, who works at Youthography, a marketing company that researches trends in youth culture.
In a Toronto Life article two years ago, Ms. McCain said the two met when she flew into Toronto in 2002 to promote Spiritualized, a group she calls “an epic stoner band from the U.K.” The two are described as the entertainers in their circle of friends, hosting all major holidays.
Ms. McCain has had a long career in the music industry, most recently as general manager of V2 Records. On her father's website, she is described as a baseball fan who makes an annual trek to spring training to cheer on the Blue Jays and Yankees.
She declined a full interview with The Globe and Mail, saying she prefers to remain relatively anonymous.
In a recent New York Times article profiling the children of Mr. McCain, she tells how she was only nine months old when her father was captured. Mr. McCain, a former navy pilot, endured torture during his 51/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
Meanwhile, the McCain family lived modestly in a navy community in Florida. When her father came home in 1973, Ms. McCain said: “I remember my dad just squeezing me and not wanting to let me go.”
“It was very overwhelming at the time,” she said.
Ms. McCain, who until recently was a registered Democrat, according to The Times story, always challenged authority and continues to debate her father on a variety of issues.
“I was the boundary pusher,” she told the newspaper. “In high school I was very rebellious. I needed to look at all sides. At least he would hear me out.”
