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Sunnybrook Hospital

Reid was active in the Suffragette cause, and led several rallies to support the establishment of Sunnybrook Hospital for the care of men. After visiting a hospital Reid discovered wounded soldiers were not receiving proper medical care and as a member of the Toronto Women's Committee she wrote to Prime Minister Mackenzie King that "the building is old, cockroach-infested and rat-ridden, and sick and wounded men are suffering there needlessly." One such rally held by Reid took place at the Royal York Hotel in 1944, as Cabinet Minister Ian Mackenzie was staying there. Another notable figure at this rally was Lady Flora Eaton.

She was politically active and ran provincially in the 1929 Ontario provincial election for High Park district as a Prohibitionist candidate and federally in the 1935 federal election for High Park as a Reconstruction Party of Canada candidate. She also ran twice for the Toronto Board of Control in 1942 and 1943.