Lean, Captain Allan MacLean Cumming^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]}

1864 - 1945  (81 years)

• Name	Lean, Allan MacLean Cumming
  Prefix	Captain
  Born	12 Aug 1864	Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1899	Grand Forks, BC
  Business Address/Year	1900-1901	Nelson, BC
  	Address: Baker St. Queen Studio Nelson, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1902-1904	Nelson, BC
  	Address: 180 Baker St. Queen Studio Nelson, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1905	Nelson, BC
  	Address: 182 Baker St. Queen Studio Nelson, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1906-1909	Nelson, BC
  Business Address/Year	1910	Nelson, BC
  	Address: 403 1/2 Baker St. Queen Studio Nelson, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1911-1912	Nelson, BC
  Business Address/Year	1913-1914	Nelson, BC
  	Address: 505 Kootenay Queen Studio Nelson, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1915	Nelson, BC
  	Address: 421 Baker St., no. 10 (Griffin Block) Queen Studio Nelson, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1916-1918	Nelson, BC
  Died	19 Sep 1945	Vancouver, BC   [20]
  Buried	Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC
  Association	Queen Studio (Relationship: Proprietor)
  Association	Kean, Arthur David (Relationship: Undetermined)
  Person ID	I628	Camera Workers | L, vol. 2, 1901-1950
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2021

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		A.M.C. Lean notice, Kootenaian, 9 Mar 1899, p. 1. About the establishment of his Queen Studio at Grand Forks.
  		Queen Studio ad, Nelson Daily Miner, 14 Apr 1900, p. 3.
  		Queen Studio ad, Nelson Daily Miner, 24 Nov 1900, p. 4.
  		Queen Studio ad, Nelson Daily Miner, 26 Nov 1900, p. 4.
  		Queen Studio ad, Nelson Daily Miner, 27 Feb 1901, p. 4.
  		Queen Studio ad, Nelson Daily News, 31 Jul 1904, p. 2. He advises his customers he has moved for the third time in four years.
  		Queen Studio ad, Nelson Daily News, 4 Nov 1904, p. 4.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Captain A.M.C. Lean, who began his BC career in the early 1890s as a marine pilot in the Kootenays, established his Queen Studio in Grand Forks, BC, in late Feb or early Mar 1899. He subsequently relocated the operation to Nelson, BC, and operated there from at least 1901 to 1918. In a 1921 visit to Nelson where A.D. Kean was filming on behalf of the BC Patriotic and Educational Picture Service, he claimed in a talk to the Nelson Board of Trade to have learned photography around 1903 as an amateur from Captain Allan Lean of the Queen Studio. Lean likely left photography during or after his first wife's illness and death from cancer in Feb 1919. He then went to work for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. (Cominco) in Trail, remarried on 16 Nov 1921 to widow Jean (nee Bell) McIntosh, and retired from Cominco in 1932. He became a fishing guide after moving to Proctor, BC, then fully retired in 1937 to Vancouver. Along with his second wife, he is buried in Mountain View Cemetery.

  
  

• Sources

  [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), Ref. NW 324.1 B862., 1903, 1916. Nelson [S743] (Kaslo) Kootenaian, 1 (Reliability: 3), 9 Mar 1899. "Captain Alan Lean, for many years a pilot on Kootenay lake and river, is now engaged in running a photographic studio at Grand Forks, B.C." [S744] (Nelson) Daily News, 10, 1 Nov 1911. Ad for Queen Studio [S744] (Nelson) Daily News, 3, 18 Jul 1921. "Shoots Nelson for the Movies: Provincial Official Photographer Takes Films for Distribution Over Empire" [S694] Postview, (Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Postcard Club), 4-5 (Reliability: 3), v. 27, no. 5 (Dec 2009). "Lean, Allan MacLean Cumming, 1864-1945." Compiled by Margaret Waddington [S40] WIL99, Williams, R.T., comp., (Victoria, B.C.: Province Publishing Co., 1899). Grand Forks: not listed [S39] HEN99, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1899). Grand Forks and Nelson: not listed [S41] HEN00, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1900). Grand Forks and Nelson: not listed [S42] HEN01, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1901), 410. Nelson: Lean Allan photographer W Baker [S781] HEN02, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1902), 395. Nelson: Lean Allan photographer and picture framer (Queen studio) 180 Baker [S782] HEN03, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1903), 399-400. Nelson: Lean Allan photographer and picture framer (Queen studio) 180 Baker [S783] HEN04, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1904), 414. Nelson: Lean Allan Photographer and Picture Framer Queen Studio 180 Baker [S785] HEN05, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1905), 380. Nelson: Lean Allan photographer 182 Baker [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910), 894. Nelson: Lean Allan prop Queen Studio 403 1/2 Baker h 303 Observatory [S1034] JEFNELSON13, (Nelson, BC: W.A. Jeffries and Company, 1913?), 80. Nelson: Lean Allan (Florence M) propr Queen Studio h 505 Kootenay [S1033] JEFNELSON14, (Nelson, BC: W.A. Jeffries and Company, 1914?), 80. Nelson: Lean Allan (Florence M) (Queen Studio) h 505 Kootenay [S1019] JEFNELSON15, (Nelson, BC: W.A. Jeffries and Company, 1915?), 64. Nelson: Lean Allan (Florence M) (Queen Studio) r Victoria Blk [S740] WRI18, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1918), 310. Nelson: Lean Allan prop Queen's Studio [S738] WRI19, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1919). Nelson: not listed [S652] BVIPA death registration index. Registration no. 1945-09-668523 (microfilm reel B13188)