Category: Summer Residents

Son of Sir George Drummond, Huntly Drummond bought farm #25 from R.A. Mainwaring, a real estate dealer, in 1894. His residence was on East Gables Court. He was an accomplished athlete, as a ski jumper and a football player.

Category: Summer Residents

J. Augustine Mann, K.C. (1876-    )

Born in Montreal, J. Augustine Mann bought 470 Lakeshore Road in 1907. That property, with the house now numbered 13 Thomson Point, included the space occupied by all the property on the cul-de-sac named Thompson Point. Mann was created King’s Counsel in 1911.

Category: Summer Residents

J. O. Turgeon (1875-    )

J.O. Turgeon is an architect of international reputation, specialist of churches and institutional works. The Turgeons bought Paschal Ephrem Pilon’s farmhouse from A. Laplante to use it as a summer residence. He was member of the St. Denis Club and director of the Club Canadien.

Category: Summer Residents

James Todd McCall (1857-1937)

Born in Scotland, James Todd McCall arrived in Canada in 1879. With George Drummond he founded the Drummond, McCall and Co. in 1881. He came to Beaurepaire in 1911 and bought 442 Lakeshore, C.H. Godfrey’s house built in 1893. Due to a fire in 1937, the original design of this house has been lost.

Category: Summer Residents

James W. Shaw (1863-1947)

He was mayor of Beaconsfield from 1928 to 1936, founder of the Shaw Piano & Music House and the founder of the Beaurepaire Golf Club in 1925. James-Shaw street goes through what was part of his golf course.

Category: Summer Residents

Jean-Baptiste Letendre (1848-     )

Born in Sorel, Jean-Baptiste Letendre became the epitome of the self-made man. He owned a dry-goods store in the east end of Montreal. He built his residence in 1904 on the shore of Lake St. Louis (36 Lakeshore Road, Beaconsfield).

Category: Summer Residents

John Warrin Peck (1849-1920)

Founder of J.W. Peck & Co, clothing manufacturer, John Warrin Peck moved the head office from Winnipeg to Montreal in the early 1890’s.  He built his home in 1896 on the shore of lake St. Louis (42 Lakeshore Road, Beaconsfield).

Category: Summer Residents

R.W. Truax (1885-    )

Coming from Ontario, R.W. Truax founded the stock brokerage firm of Truax, Carsley and Co. and was also president of the Frontenac Copper Mines Ltd. He bought 460 Lakeshore Road in the early 1920s.

Category: Summer Residents

Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951)

In 1891, the real estate brokers James Armstrong and John Jeremiah Cook from Toronto sold to his father the oldest house in Beaconsfield, 13 Thompson Point, which encompassed all the properties now on the cul-de-sac called Thompson Point. In 1892, Robert Wilson Reford married Elsie Meighen Reford who will later create the Reford Gardens in Métis (les Jardins de Métis). Robert Wilson Reford acquired his father’s property in 1896 for the value of $10,000 to be deducted from his share of his father’s estate. The couple used the house as a summer residence until 1907. Robert Wilson Reford worked for his father’s business, Robert Reford Co., a shipping firm. He owned one of the largest collections of Canadian & European art in Canada and has interest in photography.

Category: Summer Residents

William McMaster came to Beaurepaire in 1892, when he purchased a waterfront lot from John Angell (538 Lakeshore). He had an interest in Montreal Rolling Mills (Stelco). He also owned a golf course in what is now the Apple Hill area of Baie d’Urfé.