Thomas George McNall was a merchant and political figure in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada. He was mayor of Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...

 from 1945 to 1946.

He was born in Creemore, Ontario

Creemore, Ontario

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 and taught school for several years in Ontario

Ontario

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. In 1898, he married Henrietta McLeod. Around 1900, he moved to Toronto

Toronto

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, where he was employed with George Weston

George Weston

George Weston , Canadian businessman and founder of George Weston Limited, became Toronto’s biggest baker with Canada’s largest bread factory. Weston began his career at the age of twelve as a baker's apprentice and went on to become a bread route salesman...

's company. In 1907, he went to Regina as head of a new branch opening there. He bought out the branch in 1914 and opened his own wholesale business. In 1950, he sold the business to the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...

but continued on as corporate director. McNall served on Regina city council from 1926 to 1944.