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Place of Birth: Wadena, Saskatchewan, Canada
About Leonard Lee
- Leonard G.
- Lee CM (July 17, 1938 – July 7, 2016) was a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools and Canica Design.
- Lee was born in 1938 in Wadena, Sask., and grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water.He received a Diploma in Civil Engineering from Royal Roads Military College and a Bachelor of Economics degree in 1963 from Queen's University.
- He worked for the federal government for sixteen years as a topographical surveyor, member of the Canadian Foreign Service and civil servant in the Department of Industry. In 1978, he founded Lee Valley Tools Ltd., a Canadian woodworking and gardening tools mail-order business which has since grown into a multimillion-dollar enterprise.
- In 1985, he founded Veritas Tools.
- In 1991, he founded Algrove Publishing.
- In 1998, with his son Robin running Lee Valley Tools, Lee started a new business, Canica Design, a medical/surgical instrument company, headquartered in Almonte, Ontario. In 2002, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for "being a successful entrepreneur." In 2007, he was granted an honorary degree from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
- In 2011, he was granted an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa.
- Lee died on July 7, 2016, from effects of vascular dementia.
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