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

Male 1864 - 1945  (81 years)


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  • Name Lean, Allan MacLean Cumming 
    Born 12 Aug 1864  Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) 1899  Grand Forks, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Business Address/Year 1902-1904  Nelson, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    180 Baker St.
    Queen Studio
    Nelson, BC
    Canada 
    Business Address/Year 1905  Nelson, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    182 Baker St.
    Queen Studio
    Nelson, BC
    Canada 
    Business Address/Year 1906-1909  Nelson, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Business Address/Year 1910  Nelson, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    403 1/2 Baker St.
    Queen Studio
    Nelson, BC
    Canada 
    Business Address/Year 1911-1912  Nelson, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Business Address/Year 1913-1914  Nelson, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    505 Kootenay
    Queen Studio
    Nelson, BC
    Canada 
    Business Address/Year 1915  Nelson, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    421 Baker St., no. 10 (Griffin Block)
    Queen Studio
    Nelson, BC
    Canada 
    Business Address/Year 1916-1918  Nelson, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 19 Sep 1945  Vancouver, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    Buried Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Association Queen Studio (Relationship: Proprietor) 
    Person ID I628  Camera Workers | L, vol. 2, 1901-1950
    Last Modified 6 May 2020 

  • 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. He 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 
    1. [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), Ref. NW 324.1 B862., 1903, 1916.
      Nelson

    2. [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."

    3. [S744] (Nelson) Daily News, 10, 1 Nov 1911.
      Ad for Queen Studio

    4. [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

    5. [S40] WIL99, Williams, R.T., comp., (Victoria, B.C.: Province Publishing Co., 1899).
      Grand Forks: not listed

    6. [S39] HEN99, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1899).
      Grand Forks and Nelson: not listed

    7. [S41] HEN00, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1900).
      Grand Forks and Nelson: not listed

    8. [S42] HEN01, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1901), 410.
      Nelson: Lean Allan photographer W Baker

    9. [S781] HEN02, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1902), 395.
      Nelson: Lean Allan photographer and picture framer (Queen studio) 180 Baker

    10. [S782] HEN03, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1903), 399-400.
      Nelson: Lean Allan photographer and picture framer (Queen studio) 180 Baker

    11. [S783] HEN04, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1904), 414.
      Nelson: Lean Allan Photographer and Picture Framer Queen Studio 180 Baker

    12. [S785] HEN05, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1905), 380.
      Nelson: Lean Allan photographer 182 Baker

    13. [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910), 894.
      Nelson: Lean Allan prop Queen Studio 403 1/2 Baker h 303 Observatory

    14. [S1034] JEFNELSON13, (Nelson, BC: W.A. Jeffries and Company, 1913?), 80.
      Nelson: Lean Allan (Florence M) propr Queen Studio h 505 Kootenay

    15. [S1033] JEFNELSON14, (Nelson, BC: W.A. Jeffries and Company, 1914?), 80.
      Nelson: Lean Allan (Florence M) (Queen Studio) h 505 Kootenay

    16. [S1019] JEFNELSON15, (Nelson, BC: W.A. Jeffries and Company, 1915?), 64.
      Nelson: Lean Allan (Florence M) (Queen Studio) r Victoria Blk

    17. [S740] WRI18, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1918), 310.
      Nelson: Lean Allan prop Queen's Studio

    18. [S738] WRI19, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1919).
      Nelson: not listed

    19. [S652] BVIPA death registration index.
      Registration no. 1945-09-668523 (microfilm reel B13188)