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Leighton, Alexander H.

  • Person
  • 1908-2007

Alexander H. Leighton was a sociologist and psychologist and the lead researcher of the seminal Stirling County Study in psychiatric epidemiology, the longest running study of its kind to understand the prevalence and types of mental illness across generations in a cross-cultural community. Born on 17 July 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received a BA from Princeton University (1932), an MSc from Cambridge University (1934), and an MD from Johns Hopkins Medical School (1936). He held professorial appointments in both the departments of psychiatry and community health and epidemiology at Dalhousie University, as well as in sociology and anthropology at Cornell, and he was professor emeritus at Harvard. He also served on multiple advisory committees for the governments of Canada and the United States and for the World Health Organization, and over his lifetime received a multitude of awards and honours. He died in 2007.

In 1948 Leighton initiated the first of the post-war studies of the distribution and prevalence of mental illness in a general population. The Stirling County Study is still active and from Leighton's retirement from Harvard University in 1975, it was directed by his wife and research partner, Dr. Jane Murphy Leighton. One of its initial findings in Nova Scotia, was that one in five adults experiences mental illness, most commonly depression, anxiety and/or alcohol abuse. Similar studies were carried out in other settings, including New York City, Alaska, Nigeria and Vietnam. Other investigations of this type now number in the hundreds and have been conducted across the world.

Leighton family

  • Family
  • 1841 -

The Leightons of Philadelphia originated with Archibald Ogilvie Leighton, who emigrated from the north of Ireland in 1906, followed shortly by his financé, Gertrude Kerr Hamilton, who was from County Sligo, in the south. Together they had two children, Alexander (Alec or Alex) and Gertrude ("Gussie").

Archie Leighton was one of eight children born to John Alexander (1841-1928) and Caroline Wilson (1889-1845), who lived in Ballycarry, Northern Ireland. Elizabeth Ogilvie (1870-1904) died without marrying; Margaret Currie (1872-1947) married John Allen Duff and had one daughter, Mary Allen; Caroline Mary (1874-1876); John Murray (1876-1940) married Elizabeth McF. and had five sons: John Alexander, High G.B., William James, Robert Ogilvie and Denis Ponsonby; Robert Henry (1878-1941) married Winifred Coupland from Winipeg, MB; Catherine Campbell (1881-1956) married Joseph Magowan and had two daughters, Caroline Wilson (Carrie) and Ruth Margaret; and Ruth (1884-1947), who remained unmarried and lived in the family home—"Springbrook"—until her death.

Gertrude Kerr Hamilton (Gertie) was one of five children born to William Hamilton (Faddy) and Gertrude Kerr Hamilton (Muddy), who lived in Balincar, County Sligo.The eldest, Wilhemina (Mina, Min, Midge or Mi) remained unmarried and stayed at home; George ("Maggog") married Jessie and had a daughter named Netta; Henry Albert Alexander (Harry) was twice widowed with one stepson, Philip; Angus ("Mooney") married Laura and had three children: Marguerite (Daisy), Angus Kerr, and Harry; and the youngest, Ethel Jean (Ettie, sometimes Jeannie), moved to the United States to train as a nurse and lived with Archie and Gertrude before settling in New Jersey. She married Lewis Link and had one daughter, Betty.

Alexander Leighton married Dorothea Farquar Cross in 1937 and had two children, Frederick (Ted) and Dorothea Gertrude (Doreen). In 1965 they divorced and Alex married Jane Murphy in 1966.

Lehmann, Charlotte

  • Person
  • 1888-1976
Lotte Lehmann was an acclaimed German soprano known for her operatic roles, performances of lieder, and over 500 recordings.

Legault, Mike

  • Person
Mike Legault became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1992 because their video recording “Terrorism: Is It a Justifiable Force?” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Leffek, Kenneth Thomas

  • Person
Kenneth Leffek was a professor of chemistry at Dalhousie. He joined the school on September 5th, 1961 as an assistant professor, after a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Research Council in Ottawa. Leffek later became the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies from 1972-1990. The Kenneth T. Leffek Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Chemistry was established in his honor.

Leffek, Kenneth

  • Person
  • 1934-
Kenneth Leffek was a chemist and professor of organic chemistry at Dalhousie between 1961-1994. He was born in Nottingham, England, on 15 October 1934, and emigrated to Canada in 1959 after earning his Doctor of Philosophy at University College, London. He served as Dean of Graduate Students from 1972-1990. He was chairman of the Atlantic Provinces Interuniveristy Committee on Sciences from 1975-1977. He was also a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Royal Society of Arts; a member of the Chemical Society of London and the Chemical Institute of Canada, which he served as national director of technical and science affairs (1980-1983), national vice president (1985-1986) and president (1986-1987). He was married to Janet Marilyn Wallace in 1958, with whom he had three children.

Leffek, Janet

  • Person
Janet Leffek was a Halifax music teacher who operated her own music studio. She was very active in, and supportive of, the local arts community in Halifax and frequented many local arts events. Her spouse is Dr. Kenneth Leffek, a retired organic chemistry professor from Dalhousie University.

Lee, Meeso

  • Person
Meeso Lee became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because their video recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

LeBlanc, Yvon

  • Person
  • 1918-2020
Yvon LeBlanc was the lead architect for the Dalhousie Arts Centre. He was born 25 July 1918 in Moncton, New Brunswick. After completing high school, he served in the Royal Canadian Airforce as a radar technician from 1940-1945. He received his BArch from McGill University in 1951 and was subsequently employed by CNR Montreal and the National Research Council in Ottawa. After studying theatre architecture in Europe, in 1962 he was hired as a consultant for the building of the Confederation Centre for Performing Arts, Ottawa. In 1966 he designed the Dalhousie Arts Centre, then worked briefly as a regional architect for Parks Canada, Halifax. From 1967-1971 he served as planning architect for Université de Moncton and in 1972 became the first resident architect at the Fortress of Louisbourg. He retired to France in 1983, where he continued to research, write and consult. In 2001 LeBlanc received an Honorary Doctorate from Université de Moncton. He died in 2020 at the age of 101.

LeBlanc, Valerie

  • Person
Valerie LeBlanc is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who has exhibited works throughout Canada and the United States. LeBlanc has been working with her video poetry, fiction, performance and visual and written theory since the 1980s. Since 2013, LeBlanc has been a doctoral candidate in Visual Arts at the University of Sydney, Australia.

LeBlanc, Elizabeth, b. 1761?

  • Person
It is probable that Elizabeth LeBlanc was the daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Marie Barrieau of Acadia, who were deported to New England in 1755 and later settled in Memramcook, New Brunswick. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1761 in Stoughton, MA, while a younger daughter, Anastasie, was born in Pisiguit, New Brunswick in 1770.

Learned Societies Conference

  • Corporate body
  • ca. 1930 -
The Learned Societies conference was established in 1930, and evolved from the older Royal Society's yearly meetings to become Canada's largest annual gathering of academics and professionals working in the social sciences and humanities. Held at a different university each spring, the conference attracts multiple academic societies as well as universities. The 1981 Learned Societies Conference was held at Dalhousie University, and included lectures, panel discussions and readings, as well as city tours, a book publishers' fair and musical performances. In April 1996, the conference name was changed to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The May 2003 conference was held at Dalhousie University and the University of Kings College.
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