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Lumsden, Hugh David,
Montreal, Dominion Land Surveyor, and Provincial Land Surveyor for the
Province of Ontario, and member of the Institute of Civil Engineers,
England, was born at Belhelvie Lodge, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the 7th
of September, 1844. He is the youngest son of the late Colonel Thomas
Lumsden, C.B., of Belhelvie Lodge, Aberdeenshire, and Hay Burnett, his
wife, second daughter of John Burnett, of Elrich, Aberdeenshire. The other
members of the family were five sons and five daughters, viz:- General Sir
Harry Burnett Lumsden, now of Belhelvie Lodge; John McVeigh Lumsden, now
of Galt, Canada; Thomas Lumsden, late of St. Francoise Xavier, Manitoba
(who was killed in Sept., 1885, by being gored by a bull belonging to
himself); General Sir Peter Stark Lumsden, lately commissioner for the
settlement of the Afghan boundary; William Henry Lumsden, who was killed
in action near Delhi, on the 25th August, 1857, a lieutenant in the 68th,
Native infantry. Of the five daughters, the eldest married the Rev. James
Johnstone, of Potterton, Aberdeenshire; the second married the late
Colonel John Patton, of Grandholme, Aberdeenshire; the third married
Captain George Cleghorn (now Tancred), an officer of the Scots Greys, now
of Weens, Roxboroughshire; the fourth is unmarried, and the fifth married
the late captain Frank Sherlock, of Brighton, England. H. D. Lumsden was
educated at Belleview Academy, Aberdeen, and at Wimbledon School, Surrey,
England. He joined the 34th battalion as lieutenant of No. 7 company, in
the spring of 1867; received a second class M.S. certificate in July of
same year, and continued in that position until promoted to the captaincy
of the same company about the year 1876, when owing to constant absence,
he was allowed to resign, retaining rank. He was reeve of the township of
Eldon, in the County of Victoria, during the year 1870, and president of
the Eldon Branch Agricultural Association for that year. He was
engineer-in-charge of the location party on the northern portion of the
Toronto and Nipissing Railway, in the County of Victoria, under Edmund
Wragge, from October, 1870, to April, 1871; engineer in charge of location
of a portion of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce railway (Dundalk to Berkeley),
from May to August, 1871; engineer in charge of survey for the Northern
Railway from Penetanguishene to Coldwater, from August to November, 1871.
Also from December of the same year to December of 1872, he was in the
employment of the Northern Railway, under Mr. Moberly, making surveys and
the location of the portion of the Meaford branch, Washago to Gravenhurst
and Bracebridge, King to Angus, etc. From the beginning of January, 1873
to December, 1874, he was engineer in charge of surveys on the Credit
Valley and Victoria railways. From May, 1875, to June, 1876, he was in
charge of a survey party for the contractors of the G.B. branch of the
C.P.R., between the mouth of French river and Lake Amabel du Fond. Mr.
Murdoch, C.E. being chief engineer. From August, 1876 to July, 1879, he
was in charge of the Georgian Bay branch surveys location and construction
for the Dominion government. From May, 1880, to march, 1881, he was in
charge of a party on the survey in the North-West territories for the
Canadian Pacific Railway from Bird Tail Creek, north-westward; and from
march, 1881, to November, 1884, was chief engineer of the Ontario and
Quebec Railway. He has been, from the latter date to the present, engineer
on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mr. Lumsden served his tine, and
subsequently practised as a P.L.S. in Woodville, in the County of
Victoria, until 1881, when he removed to Toronto, where he remained until
November, 1881, when he moved to Montreal, where he at present resides. He
is a member of the St. Andrew's Society, of Toronto, and was elected a
member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, England, in March, 1885. He
was baptised in and still is a member of the Church of England. He
married, in Toronto, on the 29th October, 1885, Mary Frederica, only
daughter of J.W.G. Whitney of that city. |
