Legg & Co. was a British firm providing flags, decorations, banner painting, stage fittings, and limelight effects. It was founded by George William Legg in Birmingham, England, and it was active from the 1880s to the early 1900s.
John Henry Lefroy was born on January 28, 1817, in Ashe, Hampshire, England.
He was an English military man, colonial administrator, and scientist. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in London in 1831 and became a 2nd lieutenant of the Royal Artillery in 1834. When the British government launched a project to study terrestrial magnetism, he was chosen to set up and supervise the observatory on Saint Helena. In 1842, Lefroy was sent to Toronto as the superintendent of the new Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory. He participated in the expedition to the Canadian Northwest in an attempt to map the geomagnetic activity of British North America from Montreal to the Arctic Circle, and locate the North Magnetic Pole (1843-1844). In 1848, he was made a member of the Royal Society. He remained in Toronto until 1853, continuing his observations and managing the observatory. He also helped found the Royal Canadian Institute, where he was the first vice-president in 1851-1852 and then president in 1852-1853. Before his return to London, England, he managed the transfer of the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory to the provincial government. In London, he held various office positions in the British Army. Later, he became Inspector General of army schools and finally in 1868, director of the Ordnance Office. Lefroy was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1870 and knighted in 1877 (KCMG).
In 1846, he married Emily Mary Robinson (1821–1859) and in 1860, he remarried Charlotte Anna Dundas (1824–1903). He died on April 11, 1890, in Liskeard, Cornwall, England.
Born in Belleville, Ontario, of Irish immigrants, oldest of seven children, future poet Lily Alice Cooke was sent to the Villa Maria Convent in Montreal for her education. In 1886, she married Dr. John Lefevre, the Pacific District surgeon for Canadian Pacific, and the couple moved to Vancouver where she spent the rest of her life. She was left a widow with no children when the doctor died in 1906, having had a successful career not only in medicine but also as a city councillor and as president of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Their home, known as “Langaravine,” was a magnet for artists, writers and intellectuals; she became a patron of the arts, while continuing to write and publish her own poety both in Montreal and Vancouver. Among her frequent guests were fellow members of the Vancouver Poetry Society, the editor of the Vancouver Sun, Robert Cromie, William and Annie Dalton, E.J. Pratt, and Pelham Edgar. In 1931, she helped found the Vancouver Art Gallery. When Edward VII was crowned in 1901, she organized a Vancouver branch of the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire.
