Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Leechman, John Douglas, 1890-1980
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- Leechman, Douglas
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Description area
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Douglas Leechman was born in England and was educated in the United Kingdom, Egypt and Switzerland. In 1917 Leechman came to Canada and entered the University of Washington in 1918 to pursue a career in Library Science. In 1924 he took a position in the Anthropology Division of the National Museum of Canada, where he remained until 1955, when he became the first Director of the Glenbow Foundation in Calgary, Alberta. He retired in 1957 and moved to Victoria, B.C.
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Control area
Authority record identifier
1559
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Sources
Central Name Authority Files.
Maintenance notes
Created by: Dennis Duffy.