Leonard Lee, Chairman, Lee Valley Tools Ltd.

• Personal:
• Born 1938, Wadena, Saskatchewan
• Married and has two sons
• Education:
• Grade School and High School
  Algrove and Archerwill, Saskatchewan
• 1960       Diploma, Civil Engineering
                  Royal Roads Military College
                  Victoria, British Columbia
• 1963      Honours B.A. (Economics)
                 Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
• Employment History
• 1963-69   Canadian Foreign Service: Vice-Consul, Chicago; Head of Commercial Division, Canadian Embassy,
                     Lima, Peru
• 1969-71   Executive Director, Canadian Consumer Council
• 1971-72   Executive Director, National Dairy Council of Canada
• 1972-78   Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce
• 1978         Founded Lee Valley Tools, retailing quality woodworking and gardening tools by mail order, nationally and                   internationally, as well as through stores from Halifax to Vancouver.
• 1985        Founded Veritas Tools Inc. (Lee Valley's manufacturing arm) which holds 60 patents in the tool field.
• 1991        Founded Algrove Publishing Ltd., specializing in woodworking and gardening titles.
• 1998        Founded Canica Design Inc., which designs and develops medical tools.
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  Currently:
• Chairman, Lee Valley Tools Ltd.
• Chairman, Veritas Tools Inc. (Canada)
• President, Veritas Tools Inc. (U.S.A.)
• President, Canica Design Inc.
• President, Algrove Publishing Ltd.
• Honorary Director, The Public Policy Forum
• Vice-Chairman, Almonte General Hospital Foundation
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  Honours & Awards
• 1992    Popular Mechanics Magazine Design and Engineering Award
• 1993   Canada Awards for Business Excellence in Industrial Design
• 1994   Canada Awards for Business Excellence in Marketing
• 1995   One of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Private Companies
• 1998   Ottawa-Carleton Board of Trade Business Person of the Year
• 1999   Doctor of Engineering (Honorary), Carleton University, Ottawa
• 2003   Order of Canada
• 2003   Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal
• 2007   Doctor of Laws (Honorary), Royal Military College, Kingston
  
• Publications
• Honorary Colonel, 14 Air Maintenance Squadron, Greenwood, NS
• 1995  The Complete Guide to Sharpening, published by Taunton Press, publishers of Fine Woodworking magazine.