Attachment 8

Recommendation to name roads located in the Leger Neighbourhood as “Leger Gate”, “Lemieux Crescent”, “Lacombe Court”.

Administration

On February 27, 2004, the Administration received an application from Stantec Consulting Ltd. to name a road located in the Leger Neighbourhood as “Lemieux Crescent”, “Leger Gate”, and “Lacombe Court”. The names Lemieux and Lacombe were selected from the Names Reserve List.

Names Advisory Committee

On April 19, 2004, at the Names Advisory Committee meeting, the following motion was passed:

Motion:Brown, Dean

“That the Names Advisory Committee supports the naming of roads, located in the Leger Neighbourhood, as “Leger Gate”, “Lemieux Crescent”, “Lacombe Court.” The recommendation complies with Section 5.03 (b)(ii) of City Policy C480 which states the following:

“Where the road configuration does not lend itself to numbering by reason of inherent confusion arising from extreme directional variations in the road alignment”.

Roads in the neighbourhood have been previously named. To number the proposed roads would not, in the opinion of the Names Advisory Committee, provide added value to the future residents, delivery of services, and the public. There is no context or relationships with other numbered streets in the subdivision.

For the Motion:Cavaliere, Brown, Dean

Carried Unanimously

Biographies

LACOMBE, Father (1827 – 1916)

After arriving in Edmonton he learned the Cree language, then served the mission at Lac St. Anne for 8 years. In 1861 he founded the settlement of St. Albert (then called Big Lake) and helped teach agricultural practices to the Metis. With bison becoming increasingly scarce, he sought to improve the lifestyle of these nomadic hunters by encouraging them to take up farming. In 1877 he encouraged Blackfoot Chief Crowfoot to sign a treaty with the Canadian Government, and in 1880 he acted as a liason between the CPR and the Blackfoot when the natives obstructed railway construction on what they considered their lands. During the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 Father Lacombe persuaded Blackfoot chiefs not to join the uprising held by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont.

LEMIEUX, Raymond (1920 – 1980) Source: Alberta Inventors and Inventions Website

Dr. Raymond Urgel Lemieux devoted his life to education and research, and through his efforts, helped to illuminate the once obscure science of Lemieux was born in Lac La Biche, Alberta June 16, 1920. When he was six, his family moved to Edmonton settling in the Boyle Street area, "an Irish-French-Ukrainian ghetto where the main challenge was to avoid associations that could lead to reform school," writes Lemieux in his autobiography, Explorations with Sugars. A self-described "poor boy from the sticks", he was brought up mostly by his oldest sister. His mother died when Lemieux was seven and their father was often out of town doing carpentry work. Though his favourite subject in school was chemistry, the budding scientist had aspirations of playing in the NHL. After less than a season with the Edmonton Junior Hockey League, he gave up his dream in 1936.

His fallback was, not surprisingly, science, and four years after choosing a major in chemistry, he graduated with an honours degree from the University of Alberta in 1943.

Having received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from McGill University in 1946, Lemieux was awarded a post-doctoral scholarship to study the structure at Ohio State University. It was here he met his wife, Virginia (née McConaghie, with whom he had six children) and where he embarked on what would become the groundwork for his future career in research.

Lemieux then joined the University of Saskatchewan, working as an assistant professor for two years. While working at the National Research Council in Saskatoon, he and a post-doctoral fellow became the first scientists to synthesize sucrose, ordinary sugar, in 1953. A year later, he was invited to help build a new chemistry department at the University of Ottawa, and to serve as the Dean of pure and applied science.

He returned to Edmonton in 1961 to become a professor and chairman of the division of organic chemistry at the University of Alberta. Among other achievements, Lemieux was the first to synthesize oligosaccarides, a sugar that coats red blood cells. Throughout his career, Lemieux established several biochemical companies including R & L Molecular Research Ltd., which he founded with his brother in 1962. Jeffery I. Seeman, editor of Lemieux's autobiography wrote of his collegue, "Lemieux has three "likes". He likes to be right. He likes to laugh. And he likes to eat! Lemieux can do all three at the same time."

"The Gunning/Lemieux Chemistry Centre" was unveiled at the University of Alberta in November 2001.

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