Leonard Lee
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Leonard G. Lee, C.M., is a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963 from Queen's University and worked for the federal government for sixteen years. 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. With his son Robin now running Lee Valley Tools, Lee has 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". [1]
[edit] Bibliography
- The Complete Guide to Sharpening. Taunton Press, 1995. ISBN 1-56158-067-8 (hard cover) ISBN 1-56158-125-9 (soft cover).
