Frederic Lumb Wanklyn (1860-1930)
of 241 Drummond St., Montreal; President of the Montreal Terminal Railway etc.
He was born at Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was educated at Marlborough College, England. He became an engineer with the Tramways and General Works Lines and before being appointed General Manager of the Lombardy Roads Railway Company in Italy. His next job took him to Canada as Assistant Mechanical Superintendent of the Grand Trunk Railway and Manager of the Road Locomotive Works. In 1897, he was appointed General Manager and Chief Engineer of the Toronto Street Railway. In 1910, he was elected to the first Board of Commissioners of the City of Montreal. He was an executive with Canadian Pacific Railway; Vice-President of the Windsor Hotel, Montreal; President of the Montreal Terminal Railway; and, Vice-President of the Dominion Coal Company. In 1887, he married Edith, daughter of R.B. Angus, Co-Founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway and President of the Bank of Montreal. In 1912, he married his cousin, Lucy Helen McConnel. He had four children (listed).
