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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Wanklyn, Frederick Lumb, 1860-1930
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Other form(s) of name
- Wanklyn, Frederick Lamb, 1860-1930
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Description area
Dates of existence
1860-1930
History
Frederic Lumb “Fred” Wanklyn was born on February 25, 1860, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He was educated at Marlborough College, England, where he studied engineering. He became an engineer of the Tramways and General Works lines and later a general manager and engineer of the Lombardy Roads Railway company in Italy. Upon coming to Canada, he was named assistant mechanical superintendent of the Grand Trunk railway and manager of the road locomotive works. In 1897, he was appointed general manager and chief engineer of the Toronto Street railway. In 1910, he was elected a member of the first board of commissioners of the City of Montreal. He also worked as a Canadian Pacific Railway executive; vice-president of the Windsor Hotel, Montreal; President of the Montreal Terminal Railway, and a vice-president and later a director of the Dominion Coal Company.
In 1887, he married Edith Margaret Angus (d. 1907). In 1912, he married Lucy Helen Mc-Connel. He died on August 3, 1930, Grimsby, England, and is buried in Montreal, Quebec.