Person Profile

Fromme, Julius Martin

1857–1941

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Biography

He arrived in Port Moody BC in 1883.

In 1896 he was appointed as the Superintendent of the Hastings Mill shingle board camp- later known as Lynn Valley. When the mill closed in 1906 he and a partner purchased it and renamed it was the Lynn Valley Lumber Company.

He was the Reeve of the District of North Vancouver 1924-30.

Named Features

Mount Fromme (BC), Fromme Road (Lynn Valley)

References

Brissenden, Constance with Larry Loyie. (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press.

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