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Drummond, Thomas Joseph, 1860-1916
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Dates of existence
1860-1916
History
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.