Date Published:
July 2007

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

Louis Henry Drummond

Drummond, Lewis Henry (1848-1929), priest and author, was born in Montreal on October 29, 1848, the son of the Hon. Lewis Thomas Drummond. He was educated at St. Mary's College, Montreal; entered the Society of Jesus in 1868; and was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic church in 1883. He served in various capacities in different parts of Canada, Great Britain, and the United States; and he died at Guelph, Ontario, on July 29, 1929. He was a voluminous contributor of both poetry and prose to various periodicals; and he translated Édouard Richard's Acadia (2 vols., New York, 1895).

Source: W. Stewart WALLACE, The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., pp. 237-238.