Lewis A. Mounce
Role: Co-owner of Grant & Mounce sawmill, Cumberland mayor and MLA
Date of birth: 20 Jun 1857
Date of death: 23 Aug 1935
Age at death: 78
Lewis A. Mounce was born in 1857 in Avondale, Nova Scotia. He was Union (Cumberland)'s first mayor, and a partner in the Grant & Mounce sawmill operation. With the backing of Robert Dunsmuir, Lewis Mounce and R. Grant built the Grant & Mounce sawmill where the Cumberland Recreation Institute now sits. It operated from 1888 to 1912, when sawmill burned down. It was later rebuilt in Royston but in 1917, facing financial difficulties, Mounce and Grant dissolved their partnership and the sawmill was sold to a group of Japanese investors. Lewis Mounce would later move to Vancouver, where he died at the age of 78 in 1935.
