Showing 12535 results

A.W.A. Lane was a historian.

Allie L. Lane lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

No information available on this creator.

The Landon family lived in the township of Lansdown, County of Leeds, District of Johnstown in the province of Upper Canada. Both Joseph and Abner Landon served as Town Clerks for a number of years.

Romuald (Rom) R. Landau (1899-1974) was a sculptor, author, educator and Arabist. He was born in Poland, and became a British citizen, serving as a volunteer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He authored many works in regards to Morocco and the Middle East during the 1950s and 1960s. Landau taught Islamic Studies at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Califonia, and was also an artist and art critic. He had extensive knowledge of Arabic issues, which earned him a place on the Arab committee of the Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office.

Gustave Lanctot is a historian, archivist, journalist, and soldier born at Sain-Constant, Quebec. He was educated at the College de Montreal and the Universite de Montreal. In 1907, he was called to the bar, and Lanctot soon abandoned law for journalism and worked for Le Canada and La Patrie before being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. In 1912, Lanctot found work as at the Public Archives of Canada. He was later the director of the Public Archive’s French Section and taught at the University of Ottawa. In 1937, Lanctot was appointed the deputy minister and Dominion Archivist. He remained in that position until 1948. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1926, and was also the president of the Canadian Historical Association in 1941. Lanctot was awarded a number of distinctions over the course of his career, including the French Legion d’honneur and the Royal Society of Canada’s J.B. Tyrrell Medal for outstanding work in the history of Canada

No information available on this creator.

Archibald Lampman (1861-1899) was born in Morpeth, Ontario. As a child Lampman was crippled by a bout with rheumatic fever. Lampman was educated at F.W. Barron's school in Gore's Landing, Trinity College, Port Hope, and Trinity College, Toronto. After teaching briefly in Orangeville, Lampman became a clerk in the Post Office Department in Ottawa where he worked until his death. In 1888 he published his first book of poetry, Among the Millet; and in 1895, Lyrics of Earth was published. When he died he was working on a third book, Alycone and other Poems, which was published posthumously. In 1895, Lampman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

No information is available about this creator.