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Dr. James Andrews Leith was a Professor in the Department of History, Queen's University. He was a leading historian of revolutionary France, whose publications are being featured. Educated at University of Toronto and Duke University, Dr. Leith taught at the University of Saskatchewan before coming to Queen's. Dr. Leith was author or co-editor of about a dozen books and innumerable articles. Two of his best known works are "The Idea of Art as Propaganda in France, 1750-1799 : a study in the history of ideas" and "Space and Revolution : projects for monuments, squares and public buildings in France 1789-1799." Dr. Leith was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was award the Diamond Jubilee medal from the Canadian Historical Association in 2013. Dr. Leith passed away in Kingston on 7 October 2017.

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Leon Pamphile Le May was a Quebecois novelist, poet, translator, librarian and lawyer born in Lotbiniere in 1837. In 1858, he became the translator of the legislative Parliament, and was later admitted into the Bar of Quebec in 1865. In 1867, Le May became the first overseer of the Library of the French National Assembly Of Quebec, having been appointed the position by Pierre Chaveau. His accomplishment in this position included building a library of legislation to a total of 33, 804 volumes of work. Lemay was also the founder of the Royal Company of Canada (1882), an honourary doctorate of Laval University in 1888, and was awarded Rosette d’Officier de l’instruction publique by the French government in 1910. He composed poems to honour Wilfred Laurier, Felix-Gabriel Marchand and Louis Riel. Although he passed away in 1918, he was named to the French National Assembly of Quebec in 1980.

Barbara Lemoine (née Simpson) was a nurse at Kingston General Hospital. She graduated from Queen's University in the 1940s.

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Leonard Lemoine was a graduate of Queen's University.

Ethelwyn Bruce Lemon was an Educationist and book collector. Ethelwyn was a native of Northumberland and attended Gateshead High School. As an undergraduate she served on the Executive Committee of the SRC for 1895/96, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in the same Arts class as Arthur Berriedale Keith, Sir Stewart Macpherson and Frances Helen Melville. For more than 40 years she was a successful classical coach in Edinburgh, including among her students the families of Lord Oxford and Asquith and of the Haldanes of Cloan. For 20 years she was an Assistant in History at the University, and acted as an Inspector for the Scottish Education Department.

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