Leslie Gale Saunders

Leslie Gale Saunders was born in London, England in 1895 and died in Victoria, B.C in 1968. He came to Canada in 1912 settling in Nova Scotia. After attending Truruo Agricultural college and MacDonald College he entered the Maltino Institute for Medical Parasitology and in 1925 received his ph.D. from Cambridge University. From 1925 to 1961 he was on the staff of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. During the years he travelled extensively in connection with his interest in invertebrate zoology, entomology and parasitology. He was an active member of the Saskatoon Art Association.