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Memorable Manitobans: Peter Douglas Lyall (1878-1945)
Contractor. Born at Montreal, Quebec on 15 September 1878, son of Peter Lyall (1841-1912) and Christina Simpson Shearer Oman (1843-1919), he attended Montreal public schools and Fettee College before beginning work as a general contractor. Coming to Manitoba, he was President of North West Quarries at Garson and Vice-President of construction firm of Lyall-Mitchell Company in partnership with George Andrews Mitchell. On 12 June 1896, he married Iday May Johnson (?-?) and they had, as of 1913, a daughter, Christina Maud Lyall (?-?). He was a member of the Manitoba Club, St. Charles Country Club, Carleton Club, and Augustine Presbyterian Church, and served as President of the Thistle Curling Club (1909-1910), Manitoba Curling Association (1909-1910), and St. Charles Country Club (1914). He later returned to Montreal and died there on 7 May 1945. Some of his construction works in Manitoba included:
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Sources:“Genial head of Manitoba Curling Association,” Manitoba Free Press, 5 February 1910, page 19. 1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy. The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913. The Leading Financial, Business & Professional Men of Winnipeg, published by Edwin McCormick, Photographs by T. J. Leatherdale, Compiled and printed by Stone Limited, c1913. [copy available at the Archives of Manitoba] “Peter D. Lyall dies in Montreal,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 May 1945, page 21. Peter Douglas Lyall, FindAGrave. We thank Rick Mutton for providing additional information used here. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 26 April 2022
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