Andrew Walker Fleck

Born on October 17, 1848 in Montreal to Alexander Fleck, a wealthy businessman, and Lillias Walker. Fleck moved to Ottawa in 1869 to work for his father's iron foundry on Wellington Street, then in lumbering for Alanson H. Baldwin.

Andrew Fleck served as secretary-treasurer to the CAR for 21 years.

Andrew Fleck married J.R.Booth’s eldest daughter, Gertrude on June 15, 1881. They had four children, two boys and two girls. They lived in a large sandstone Queen Anne Revival mansion designed by Ottawa architect John W.H. Watts and located at 500 Wilbrod Street.

Died at home on May 6, 1924.[http://www.foreveryoungottawa.ca/pdf/FYA.2010.03.003.pdf]