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Leonard Lee, the founder of Lee Valley Tools, has died.
Lee was one of Ottawa’s most prominent businessmen. He is best known for the Ottawa-based mail order company that offered a wide variety of quality tools, but he also founded Canica Design, a company that developed cutting-edge medical tools for cleft palates and carpal tunnel surgery, and Algrove Publishing, a book publisher.
He was born in 1938 in Wadena, Sask., and grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water.
Lee studied civil engineering at the Royal Military College in Kingston, attended the Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Queen’s University in Kingston, according to information posted on the Lee Valley website.
Lee began his career working in the Canadian Foreign Service and as a civil servant, and founded Lee Valley Tools when he was 39. The company began with sales of cast iron stove parts sold by mail from a rented basement in a strip mall. The first catalogue came out in 1978.
Lee received honorary degrees from Carleton University, Royal Military College, the University of Ottawa and the Telfer School of Management, and was also presented the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals and the Order of Canada.
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Lee was one of Ottawa’s most prominent businessmen. He is best known for the Ottawa-based mail order company that offered a wide variety of quality tools, but he also founded Canica Design, a company that developed cutting-edge medical tools for cleft palates and carpal tunnel surgery, and Algrove Publishing, a book publisher.
He was born in 1938 in Wadena, Sask., and grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water.
Lee studied civil engineering at the Royal Military College in Kingston, attended the Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Queen’s University in Kingston, according to information posted on the Lee Valley website.
Lee began his career working in the Canadian Foreign Service and as a civil servant, and founded Lee Valley Tools when he was 39. The company began with sales of cast iron stove parts sold by mail from a rented basement in a strip mall. The first catalogue came out in 1978.
Lee received honorary degrees from Carleton University, Royal Military College, the University of Ottawa and the Telfer School of Management, and was also presented the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals and the Order of Canada.
More to come.
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