Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Eekman, Leon John
Parallel form(s) of name
- Eekman, Leendert Jeens
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Description area
Dates of existence
1880-1954
History
Leon John Eekman was born Leendert Jeens Eekman on December 12, 1880 in Brussels, Belgium to Thomas Adam (1844-1917) and Ibeltje Eekman, whose family at some time lived in the house in Brussels where Victor Hugo wrote “Les Misérables”. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Leendert Jeen Van den Berg. He immigrated to Canada in the early 1900s, settling in Victoria, British Columbia around 1905, where he worked as a draftsman and building inspector for the city until the 1950s. He married London-born Marion Dean Holdcroft (1887-1957) on November 8, 1910 and had three children: Walter Gordon Eekman, Allison Leonie Eekman, and Marjorie Isobel Ekman. He enlisted in the Canadian Infantry in September 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, and had prior military experience in the Second Boer War. He died from bronchogenic carcinoma and pneumonia on September 25, 1954 in Victoria, B.C.
Places
Victoria, British Columbia; Brussels, Belgium
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UMASC
Rules and/or conventions used
Rules of Archival Description (RAD)
Status
Final
Level of detail
Minimal
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created by Samantha Booth (June 2015). Revised by Eunjung Park (February 2021).
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Obituary (Victoria newspaper?) in collection;
Registration of death (BC Archives): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/DisplayGenealogyImage?k=fa16df1f-93fd-4d7d-bab6-25060ddce362 (accessed by Samantha Booth 25 June 2015)
Wish You Were Here: Life on Vancouver Island in Historical Postcards / Peter Grant (2002);
“Genealogie van het geslacht Eekman” by F. Inniger (Amsterdam, March 1969; last updated on September 2, 2006)http://people.zeelandnet.nl/paeekman/genealogie_int_nieuw.htm#E1303 (accessed by Samantha Booth 25 June 2015);
“Great Canadian War Project” http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=168670 (accessed by Samantha Booth 25 June 2015)
Father’s death record (Utrecht Archives): http://www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/collectie/burgerlijke-stand/utrecht/overlijdensregisters/1917/09/14 (accessed by Samantha Booth 25 June 2015)