Reuben Wells Leonard member of Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission
Biography
Reuben Wells Leonard was born in Brantford, Ontario on 21 February 1860. He obtained a degree in civil engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and began working for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He joined the Corps of Guides in 1904. In 1905 he obtained mining rights to a productive claim in Cobalt, Ontario. Coniagas Mines Limited and Coniagas Reduction Company Limited were established by him to mine and refine the mineral, respectively.In 1911, he was named chairman of the National Transcontinental Railway Concern, the forerunner of the Canadian National Railways. He oversaw construction of the railway from Moncton, New Brunswick, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Leonard was the namesake of the train ferry S.S. Leonard, built in 1914 by Cammell Laird to provide service pending completion of the Quebec Bridge. During World War I, he served in Europe with the Corps of Guides. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1915.He was president of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1919-20. He served on the Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission and on the boards of several colleges and universities, including Khaki University, the University of Toronto, Wycliffe College, Toronto, and Ridley College.
In 1913 he gave $40,000 to his Church in Brantford Ont Canada to build the Belltower in memory of  his Parents
part of belonging to affiliated with associated with connected to