George Melville Drew (1883-1959) was a former warden of Frontenac County and was a reeve of both Olden and Oso townships. He was a conservation officer with the Department of Lands and Forests for a number of years, and was active in municipal and county affairs.
The Drummond family is the line of Capt. Peter Drummond of Jessup's Loyal Rangers.
Andrew Thomas Drummond was born at Kingston, 1843, the son of Andrew Drummond Sr. and Margaret Pringle. He attended Queen's University where he received his B.A. in 1860 and his LLB in 1863. He was called to the bar in 1865 and practised law in Ottawa for a number of years. Increasing deafness forced him to give up his career in law and in 1868 he embarked on a financial career which involved him in various railway, land development, navigation and industrial enterprises in Ontario and western Canada. Drummond was a trustee of Queen's University and held the post of university librarian in 1863. Towards the end of his life he returned to Kingston where he died in 1923.
Student, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. B.A. 1877. Accountant and Navigator (freshwater).
Jane Redpath Drummond was an artist based in Kingston, Ontario. She was born in 1845 to Andrew Drummond. She was a well-regarded artist, who studied under masters in Europe in her youth. She passed away on 11 April 1923 in Kingston.
May Harvey Drummond was raised in Jamaica. In 18902 she met her future husband, William Henry Drummond, on a trip to Montreal with her father. The two were married in Jamaica in 1894. They settled in Montreal where they had four children. Following the death of her husband in 1907, May Harvey Drummond wrote his biography, which was published in 1908. She died in Ivry North, just north of Motreal after a long illness in 1939.
Peter Drummond left his native Scotland and arrived in the Province of New York, settling with Major Daniel McAlpine at Sarasota in 1774. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Drummond formed his own small loyal company and fought his way to Crown Point where Lord Dorchester gave him a Lieutenant's commission in Jessup's Loyal Rangers. Drummond took part in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and then the Battle of Saratoga, where he was captured and imprisoned in Albany. Drummond escaped through a subterfuge in 1779 and made his way to Canada where he was given command of all British and Loyalist Troops at Vercheres with the rank of Captain. Drummond saw no further combat.
For his services, Drummond received a significant amount of land in the Johnstown District. His most southerly property is now the village of New Wexford, immediately east of Prescott. Here, his original post and beam house still stands which appears to have existed well before 1796 when Lord Simcoe asked Drummond to oversee the moving of the British Fort at Michelmackinac to St. Joseph's Island in response to the terms of Jay's Treaty. To effect this operation, Simcoe formed the Royal Canadian Volunteers and appointed Drummond as Captain. As officer commanding, Drummond's signature appears on "Treaty #2" for the purchase of St. Joseph's Island. Simcoe then solicited Drummond to serve on his Executive Council, where members are perhaps best described Ministers of the Crown. In 1800 Peter Hunter appointed Drummond a Justice of the Johnstown District. Peter Drummond's signature also appears on a Loyalist petition which resulted in the Canada Act, creating what is now Ontario and Quebec.
David Ross Drummond was born at Toronto in 1953. He graduated from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Honours) in Political Science (1976) and a Bachelor of Law degree (1978). He was called to the bar in 1981 and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He was appointed a member of the National Parole Board from 1986 to 1991 and was reappointed for a second five year term. Mr. Drummond has been active as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and Canada, holding various positions including the Chair of the 1984 Election Company. He has been a delegate to numerous provincial and federal conventions including all of the leadership conventions between 1976 and 1991.
In 1978 Mr. Drummond married Arletta Ruth Ranson.