Marsh, Leonard Charles

MARSH, Leonard Charles, social scientist (b 24 Sept 1906, London, England; d 10 May 1982, Vancouver). An important architect of the Canadian welfare state, he went to Montreal in 1930. He directed a research program at McGill Univ and belonged to the League for Social Reconstruction, influential in formation of the CCF during the 1930s. He was a major contributor to the League's Social Planning for Canada (1935), a groundbreaking analysis of the need for progressive social reform. During WWII...

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