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Thomas Joseph Drummond was born on September 26, 1860, in Tawley, Ireland.

He was a pioneer in the enterprise of iron making in Canada. His family moved to Canada in the early 1860s. He was educated in Montreal. In 1886 he founded, together with his brother, George E. Drummond, and J. T. McCall, the well-known firm of Drummond, McCall & Co., Iron and Steel Merchants. He was a director of the Londonderry Iron & Mining Co., Ltd., at Londonderry, N.S., the Canadian Iron & Foundry Co., Ltd., with plants at Hamilton, Ont., and St. Thomas, Ont., the Drummond Mines, Ltd., at Cobalt, Ont., the Montreal Pipe Foundry Co. Ltd. works at Three Rivers, Que. and Londonderry, N.S., and a vice-president of the Canadian Iron & Foundry Co., the Lake Superior Corporation, and the Montreal Water & Power Co.

He was also a director of the Imperial Life Assurance Co. of Canada, an Associate Member of the American Institute of Civil Engineers, and a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and of the Canadian Mining Institute.

In 1892, he married Edith M. Smith Chetlain. He died on August 5, 1916, in Castine, Massachusetts.

William Malcolm Drummond was born in Bristol, Québec, in 1897.

He was a distinguished and internationally respected Canadian economist. He was educated at Queen's University (B.A., 1923), the University of Toronto (M.A., 1924), the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.). As an economist, he lectured at the University of Alberta from 1924 to 1926 and at the University of Toronto from 1929 to 1937. He then became Professor and head of the department of agricultural economics at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph where he stayed for fifteen years. During World War II he served on various federal committees and boards before returning to O.A.C. In 1952, he resigned from this position to serve with the United Nations' economic mission in Korea. He served as a member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in Newfoundland (1953), the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects (1955), and the Royal Commission on Price Spreads (1957). He was a Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada and co-authored two books.

He died at home in 1965.

William Henry Drummond, dialect poet and physician, was born April 13, 1854, at Currawn House, near Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland, the son of George Drummond (originally Drumm), offer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and of Elizabeth Morris Soden. In 1856, the Drummond family moved to Tawley near the "Three Sisters" mountains and the Bay of Donegal, where they lived at Tawley Manor House. Drummond's three brothers, John, George, and Tom, were born here. Paddy McNulty, the teacher at the village school, became Drummond's life-long friend. At this time, Drummond learned the art of finishing which he practised throughout his life.

The family moved to Montreal in 1864. Drummond attended the High School of Montreal, but left at age fifteen to study telegraphy. His work as a telegrapher brought him into contact with the habitant farmers and woodsmen whose broken English he was to imitate in his poetry. Drummond entered McGill in 1878 to study Medicine but failed his second year. He received his M.D. from Bishop's Medical School in 1884. After a short period in Knowlton, Quebec, Drummond set up practice in Montreal. At this time, he became interested in the breeding of Irish Terriers. In 1894, he married May Isabel Harvey of Savanna la Mar, Jamaica. His book, The Habitant, was published in 1897 with an introduction by Louis Frechette. Drummond died in 1907 as a result of a stroke while assisting in a smallpox outbreak at Cobalt, Ontario, where he owned mining property.

Walker Herbert Drury, from Barrie, Ontario, was educated at the Barrie Collegiate Institute. He was a schoolteacher for four years before studying for his M.D. He received his M.D., C.M. from McGill in 1909.

In 1909 he crossed the border to the US and in 1910 he and his family were residing in Pepin, Wisconsin, though he seems not to have been practicing. In 1921, he was practicing in Waterloo, Ontario. In 1922, he immigrated to the US and resided in Amery, Wisconsin, where he died in 1930.

He writes in Old McGill that he was born in 1880, but his gravestone and census records place his birth in 1877.