The Leonard Foundation.

A Financial Assistance Program for students enrolled in an undergraduate degree program in a Canadian university or affiliated college.

About Reuben Wells Leonard

Reuben Wells Leonard was born in 1860 in Brantford, Ontario, where he attended public elementary and secondary schools. He then attended and graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, as a Silver Medalist.

After graduation, he began working for the Canadian Pacific Railroad doing survey and construction work. This was interrupted in 1885 when he was called upon to serve as Staff Officer of Transport during the Northwest Rebellion. At the conclusion of this military service he resumed his employment with the CPR which took him first to Manitoba and later, to Quebec, Nova Scotia and British Columbia.

Land Acknowledgment
The Leonard Foundation acknowledges that we live, work, meet, and travel on the traditional territories of many Indigenous nations who have lived on and stewarded the land now called Canada, since time immemorial. The Board of Directors meets annually in Tkaronto (Toronto). The City of Toronto acknowledges that we are on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. The City also acknowledges that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.

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