He was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the new Literary and Debating Society in January 1913.
James Drummond was accepted into Rebekah Lodge Vermilion #24 by transfer on January 12, 1014.
Recording-Secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) #52, July 1914.
Elected Secretary of the new Presbyterian Church, September 1916.
He was in charge of grocery dept. A.E. House store for several years. He left on January 20, 1917 to take a position in the store of BC Copper Co. at Copper Mountain.
In 1914, James Drummond married Miss Barr in Winnipeg, MB. She had just come to Canada from Scotland.
The Similkameen Star reported in October 1919, that James Drummond, who for several years was connected with stores at Princeton, Allenby and Copper. Mountain, was conducting a successful grocery business at English Bay, Vancouver. His place was formerly the Gibbons Grocery, next door to the Sylvia court.
Similkameen Star, January 10, 1913, page 1; July 14, 1914, page 2; July 17, 1914, page 1; September 8, 1916, page 1; January 12, 1917, page 5; January 26, 1917, page 2; October 17, 1919, page 1