Cyril Edel Leonoff

A civil engineer by profession, Cyril Leonoff's passion has always been for history. He has authored and edited a number of books and papers on engineering and historical topics. He remains one of the preeminent historians on Jewish history in British Columbia. In 1971 Leonoff became the founding president of the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia [1]. His 1985 publication The Jewish Farmers of Western Canada [2], was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Medal[3] of the Manitoba Historical Society [4]. In 2007, he received the Distinguished Service Award [5] of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies [6]. In 2007, the Cyril Leonoff Fund for the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia was established [7].

Cyril E. Leonoff was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1925. He is the grandson of Edel Brotman, a homesteader and rabbi of the Wapella, Saskatchewan, farm colony, 1889-1906.

Publication List

• Leonoff, Cyril E.; The Rise of Jewish Life and Religion in British Columbia, 1858-1948; Winnipeg: 2008
• Leonoff, Cyril E.; Bridges of Light: Otto Landauer of Leonard Frank Photos, 1945-1980; Vancouver: 1997
• Leonoff, Cyril E.; A Dedicated Team: Klohn Leonoff Consulting Engineers 1951-1991; Vancouver: 1994
• Leonoff, Cyril E.; An Enterprising Life: Leonard Frank Photographs 1895-1944; Vancouver: 1990
• Leonoff, Cyril E.; Pioneers, Pedlars and Prayer Shawls: The Jewish Communities in British Columbia and the Yukon; Victoria: 1978

References

Cyril E. Leonoff fonds [8], Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia [9]

Twig, Alan, BC Author Bank, BC Book World. available online [10], 2008

Lumley, Elizabeth, Canadian Who's Who 2004 [11], University of Toronto Press, 2004, ISBN 0802088929

Ferman, David, Cyril Leonoff: Building and Preserving British Columbia [12], The Scribe, Volume XIII, no. 2, Spring 1993, p. 4-5

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