The Honorable Sir George Alexander Drummond, K.C.M.G., C.V.O. (1829-1910)

Born in Scotland, he came to Canada in 1854 to manage the Redpath Sugar Refinery. He is founder of the Canada Sugar Refining Plant, President of the Bank of Montreal … He bought in 1902 land in Beaconsfield and built “Huntlywood”, his 32-room mansion, and a model farm. See his biography in the Dictionairy of Canadian Biography.

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