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Lambe, W. B. (William Busby), 1826-1905

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  • 1826-1905

William Busby Lambe was born on January 9, 1826, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a prominent Montreal lawyer and painter. He graduated from McGill University (B.C.L., 1850) and was called to the Quebec and Ontario bars in 1851. He practised in Montreal for many years. In 1882, he was appointed to the office of Collector of Provincial Revenue. He took an active part in the development of McGill University and was one of the founders of the Montreal Art Association. He owned land in Pointe-au-Pic in the Charlevoix-Est Regional County, including the property on which the present Manoir Richelieu was built. In 1866, he was one of the founders of the Protestant Union church in Murray Bay, Quebec. As a talented painter, he beautifully captured many local scenes. In 1896, he published the book "Handbook, Duties on Successions in Province of Quebec with Text of Statutes in English and French and Forms of Declarations". He was the father of Lawrence Morris Lambe (1863 –1919), a well-known Canadian paleontologist and geologist.

In 1852, he married Margaret Jones Morris (1828-1896). He died on August 10, 1905, in Montreal, Quebec.

Lambe, L. M. (Lawrence Morris), 1863-1919

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  • 1863-1919

Lawrence Morris Lambe was born on August 27, 1863, in Montréal, Quebec, the son of William Busby Lambe (1826-1905), a prominent Montreal lawyer and painter.

He was a Canadian geologist, paleontologist, ecologist, and author. He studied at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario (1880–1883). He worked for the Geological Survey of Canada. His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, brought dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden Age of Dinosaurs in the province. During this period, between the 1880s and World War I, dinosaur hunters from all over the world converged on Alberta. In 1902, Lambe described Canada's first dinosaur finds, various species of Monoclonius. In 1917, he created the genus Edmontosaurus. Lambeosaurus, a well-known hadrosaur was named after him as a tribute, in 1923. In addition to paleontology, Lambe discovered a number of invertebrate species ranging from Canada to the Pacific Northwest. He published numerous articles and books related to his discoveries, e.g., several "Bibliography of Canadian Zoology" editions, “Sponges From the Atlantic Coast of Canada” (1896), and “Catalogue of the Recent Marine Sponges of Canada and Alaska” (1900).

In 1892, he married Mabel Maud Schreiber (1869-1930). He died on March 12, 1919, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Lamb, W. A. (William Alexander), 1842-

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  • 1842-

William Alexander Lamb was born in 1842 in Prescott, Ontario. He was a merchant and insurance agent in Ottawa, Ontario.

Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893

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  • 1829-1893

Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb was born on August 13, 1826 or 1829, in Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts.

She was an American author, editor, and historian. Educated at the Williston Seminary in Easthampton and Northampton High School, she published her first article, “A Visit to My Mother’s Birthplace,” in a local newspaper Hampshire Gazette in 1847. In 1857, she moved to Chicago with her husband where she helped found the Home for the Friendless and the Half-Orphan Asylum. In 1863, she became secretary to the U.S. Sanitary Commission Fair. After her divorce, she moved to New York City where she purchased The Magazine of American History and became its editor in 1883. She published a series of children's stories in 1869 and 1870. In the 1870s she also wrote a romance novel “Spicy”, several Christmas annuals, and articles on a wide array of subjects for Harper's Magazine and other periodicals. She also edited The Homes of America. She published “History of the City of New York: Its Origin, Rise, and Progress” (2 vols., 1877, 1880). Lamb was elected to membership in fifteen historical and learned societies in the United States and Europe. She was twice invited to the White House; President Grover Cleveland gave a dinner in her honour in 1886 and in 1889, President Benjamin Harrison recognized her contributions to the centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration.

In 1852, she married Charles A. Lamb (1830-). The marriage ended in divorce around 1866. She died on January 2, 1893, in New York, New York.

Lamarche, Gustave, 1895-1987

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  • 1895-1987

Gustave Lamarche, a Montreal-born Roman Catholic priest, is best known for the huge theatrical pieces he composed and directed, and which have been compared to medieval passion plays. He was educated by the Clerics de St. Viateur in Montreal, beginning in 1913, and later at the Université de Paris and the École des sciences politiques de Louvain. On his return, while teaching at Collège Bourget in Rigaud just outside Montreal, he soon became a prolific writer of essays, poetry, and above all drama; his six-volume Oeuvre théâtrale (1971-1975) contained 34 works, sone of which were performed outdoors and attended by thousands. He created the Ligue de théâtre québécoise and the Corporation d'art dramatique, and founded and directed several periodicals including Carnets viatoriens, Les Cahiers de Nouvelle-France and Nation nouvelle; he also contributed essays to Le Devoir, L’Action nationale, L’Ordre and Notre temps. He is widely regarded as one of the early promoters of the idea of Quebec independence.

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