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English: The Canadian Men and Women of the Time (1898) page 573
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Seth Penn Leet, barrister, is the eldest son of the late George Washington Leet, Shipton, E.T., and was born there, April 26, 1851. Educated at the district school and at Danville Academy, he obtained a Model School diploma, and was a school teacher for some years. He graduated Bachelor of Civil Law at McGill University, 1879, was called to the bar in the following year, and practiced in Montreal in partnership with Dr. J. J. Maclaren and R. C. Smith. Since the dissolution of the firm, 1895, he has practiced by himself. Mr. Leet is a Liberal Party in politics, and unsuccessfully contested Compton, in that interest, for the House of Commons, general election 1891. He is a member of the Congregationalist Church, and was elected Chairman of the Congregationalist Union of Ontario and Quebec, 1895. He became Secretary, of the Canadian Sunday School Union, 1880, and was subsequently elected a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sunday School Convention, and one of the secretaries, of the 2nd World's Sunday School Convention. He takes great delight in work among the young, and has been for years a teacher in the Sunday School of his church, as well as an active worker in the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Quebec branch of the Dom. Alliance. He has lectured on "How We are Governed," and other subjects, before the Young Men's Christian Association. He married 1874, Catherine O. Colwell, daughter of the Reverend G. T. Colwell (Congregationalist). Mrs. Leet is Treasurer of the Provincial Woman's Christian Temperance Union — 36 St. Louis Square, Montreal.

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