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Leonard E. Drummond, a
consulting engineer of high professional attainment, was born in
Winnipeg, in 1880, and is a son of Henry Drummond and a grandson of
Andrew T. Drummond, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and came to the
new world in 1815, settling in Ottawa. He was identified with the Dank
of Montreal to the time of his death. His son, Henry Drummond, was born
in Ottawa and he, too, figured prominently in the public life of the
country, being assistant receiving general from 1872 until 1919, when
death ended his labors in Winnipeg. He was a member of the Presbyterian
church and a man of high standards in every relation of life.
Leonard E. Drummond, an
only child, pursued his education in Manitoba University, while later he
attended the School of Mines at Kingston and also Queen's University,
from which he was graduated with the B. Sc. degree in 1903. He turned
his attention to mine work first in Nova Scotia, where he remained for
four or five years with the Cumberland Railway & Coal Company and the
Dominion Coal Company as engineer. He then went to Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, where he was associated with James W. Elsworth & Company,
prominent coal operators, in the engineer's department, remaining there
for two years, after which he entered the mining department of the
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company and was with that corporation in
Alberta for five years. In 1911 he came to Edmonton and took charge of
the interests of the Mountain Park Coal Company as engineer, while later
he was promoted to the responsible position of manager and so served
until March, 1920. lie then entered upon private practice as a
consulting engineer and his professional work takes him into the
provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
In 1912 Mr. Drummond was
married to Miss Eileen Harris, who was born in Calgary, a daughter of
Michael Harris, a civil engineer, who settled in Calgary in pioneer
times. They have become parents of three children: Dorothy, now in
school; Jean; and Audry. Mr. Drummond is a member of the Board of Trade
at Edmonton and has served on the council for three or four years. He is
also a member of the Kiwanis Club, which he joined about the time of its
organization. He has membership in the Association of Engineers of the
province and he belongs to the Alberta Canadian institute of Mining and
Metallurgy and to the Royal Society of Arts at London. |
