Alexander Lumsden (October 4, 1843 – August 5, 1904)https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196341801/alexander-lumsden was an

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lumber merchant and political figure. He represented the riding of

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in the

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from 1898 to 1902 as a

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member. He was born in

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, the son of John Lumsden, and educated at the

Ottawa Collegiate Institute Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal. History In 1843, a grammar school with 40 paying students was ...

. He married Margaret Duncan. He worked for lumbermen

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and

James MacLaren James Maclaren (March 19, 1818 – February 10, 1892) was an early settler and entrepreneur in western Quebec. Maclaren was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1818. He came to Richmond in Upper Canada with his family in 1822. The family then settl ...

before going into business on his own in 1881. Lumsden acquired timber limits in Témiscaming, Québec, Canada region and also owned lumber mills and a fleet of steamships in that region. After his death, his son John took over the operation of the business.

References

* ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1901'', AJ Magurn

External links

Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

''A History of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute, 1843-1903 ...'' (1904)''A cyclopædia of Canadian biography ...'', HW Charlesworth (1919) - biography of his son John
1843 births 1904 deaths Ontario Liberal Party MPPs Lisgar Collegiate Institute alumni {{Liberal-Ontario-MPP-stub