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Cecil Alexander Ralph Lamont
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Grain executive, municipal official.
Born at Melita on 3 January 1901, son of Thomas Russell Lamont (1860-1953) and Jane “Jennie” McDonald (1861-1938), he worked as a legislative reporter for the Manitoba Free Press and Winnipeg Telegram between 1918 and 1922.
He later went into the grain business, becoming President of the North West Line Elevators Association, President of the Grain and Milling Advertising Service, and President of the Equitable Income Tax Foundation. He wrote a short history of the western Canadian train trade entitled Prairie Sentinels.
On 18 March 1926, he married Florence Dennison “Dixie” Smith (1900-2000) at Winnipeg and they subsequently had three children: Joyce Lamont (wife of Roy Hughes), Tom Lamont, and Roger Lamont. In 1950, he was one of the organizers of the Manitoba Flood Relief Fund which provided some $9 million to flood victims in Winnipeg and the Red River valley. He served as President of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce in the mid-1950s, Mayor for the Town of Tuxedo (1951-1961), and a member of the Board of Governors for the University of Manitoba (1952-1958).
He died at Calgary, Alberta on 15 April 1982 and was buried in the Melita Cemetery. He is commemorated by Lamont Boulevard in Winnipeg.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Roberts House (221 Lamont Boulevard, Winnipeg)
Birth registrations [Florence Dennis Smith, Cecil Alexander Ralph Lamont], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Cecil Alexander Ralph Lamont, Florence Dennison Smith], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Jane Lamont], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Cecil Lamont dead at age 81,” Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 1982.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 1982.
Death registration [Florence Lamont], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Joyce Hughes for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 September 2026
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