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Leon Bibb

Charles Leon Aurthello Bibb (a.k.a. Lee Charles), OBC, singer, actor, civil rights activist, guitarist (born 7 February 1922 in Louisville, Kentucky; died 23 October 2015 in Vancouver, BC). Leon Bibb was a Tony Award-nominated actor, popular folk singer and trailblazing civil rights activist. After moving to Vancouver in the early 1970s, he made pioneering contributions to professional theatre and Black culture in Canada. He was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame and the Order of British Columbia.
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Léon Dessane

Léon Dessane. Organist, conductor, teacher, b Quebec 15 Dec 1863, d there 7 May 1930. The most notable of Antoine Dessane's children, Léon Dessane was a pupil of Calixa Lavallée, and was organist at St-Roch for 33 years.
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Léon Destroismaisons

Léon Destroismaisons. Organist, teacher, composer, b St-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (now La Pocatière), near Quebec City, 2 Mar 1890, d St-Pacôme, Que, 3 Feb 1980. While preparing for the priesthood he studied music with Father Joseph Bourque at the Collège Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière.
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Leon Edel

Leon Edel, biographer, editor, critic (b at Pittsburgh, Pa 9 Sept 1907; d at Honolulu, Hawaii 5 Sept 1997). Edel's 5-volume life of Henry James, which appeared between 1953 and 1972, is one of the major literary biographies of its time.
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Léon Gérin

Léon Gérin, lawyer, farmer, federal civil servant, sociologist (born 17 May 1863 in Quebec City; died 15 January 1951 in Montreal, QC). The founder of empirical social sciences in French Canada, Gérin had an outstanding reputation because of his numerous well-documented studies of Quebec's rural society.
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Leon Joseph Koerner

Leon Joseph Koerner, lumberman, philanthropist (b at Nový Hrozenkov, Austria-Hungary [Czechoslovakia] 24 May 1892; d at Vancouver 26 Sept 1972).
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Léon Lyonnais II

Lyonnais (Bossu or Bossue, dit Lyonnais), Léon II. Amateur musician, singer, b Quebec City 12 Sep 1851, d ?. A printer by trade, he participated in musical activities in Quebec City on at least two occasions, according to 19th-century accounts.
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Léon Provancher

Léon Provancher, priest, naturalist (b in the parish of Bécancour, Qué 10 Mar 1820; d at Cap-Rouge, Qué 23 Mar 1892).
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Léon Ringuet

Léon Ringuet (b Ringuette). Bandmaster, composer, organist, pianist, teacher, b Louiseville, near Trois-Rivières, Que, 3 Jan 1858, d St-Hyacinthe, Que, 20 Sep 1932. His early musical training took place at the Collège de St-Césaire, near Montreal, and at St-Joseph U in Memramcook, NB.
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Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke, short-story writer, novelist, playwright (b at Roanoke Rapids, NC 11 Sept 1934). He was educated at the U of NC in Chapel Hill (1955-58, 1961-62) and was drafted into the US Army infantry which he served in Alaska
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León Zuckert

Zuckert, León. Composer, violinist, violist, conductor, b Poltava, Ukraine, 4 May 1904, d Toronto 29 May 1992. He studied violin 1916-18 with Boris Brodsky at the Imperial School of Music in Poltava.
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Léonard Beaulne

Léonard Beaulne, actor and company director, drama and diction teacher (b at Ste-Scholastique 8 Aug, 1887; d at Ottawa 10 Oct 1947). Léonard Beaulne grew up in Sainte-Scholastique (Québec) where his father was a blacksmith.
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Léonard Bilodeau

Léonard (Albert Joseph) Bilodeau. Tenor, b Quebec City 11 July 1935, d Québec City, 6 May 2008. He studied singing ca 1955 with Louis Gravel and 1957-61 on scholarship with George Lambert and Irene Jessner at the RCMT.
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Leonard Birchall

Leonard Joseph (Birch) Birchall, CM, O Ont, air force pilot, war hero, educator (born 6 July 1915 in St. Catharines, ON; died 10 September 2004 in Kingston, ON). During the Second World War, Birchall became known as the “Saviour of Ceylon” for alerting Allied forces of an approaching Japanese fleet. Captured after sending his message, he is also renowned for the courage and leadership he displayed while a prisoner of war.
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Leonard Braithwaite

Leonard Austin Braithwaite, CM, OOnt, QC, lawyer, politician (born 23 October 1923 in Toronto, ON; died 28 March 2012 in Toronto). Braithwaite was the first Black Canadian elected to a provincial legislature. He served as a Liberal member of the Ontario Legislature from 1963 to 1975.
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