Jack Layton
← People of the Society · on record 1967–1989
Everything the Society’s own records say of Jack Layton — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.
Also recorded as J.A. Layton
Standing
Life Member 1989
Branch
Belleville · recorded holding office in 1970
A founding member of the Belleville Leather Guild who joined the Society in 1965, he served on the Executive Council in 1967. He served as President of the Belleville Branch in 1970 and 1971 and on its Council and Executive Council through the 1970s. He designed the small maple leaf pin worn by nearly all C.S.C.L. members, and was made a Life Member in 1984.
From Summer 1965, page 1; and Spring 1967, page 4.
Served the Society as
- Executive Council 1967–1970
- Belleville Branch President 1970–1971
- Council 1977–1979
Honours
- Life Membership 1984
Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting by Membership Chairman Hilda Chynoweth, alongside May Corbett. His own newsletter profile (Summer 1984, p5) adds: took his first leathercraft lessons in 1955 or 1956, helped form the Belleville Leather Guild, joined C.S.C.L. in 1965; designed the small maple leaf pin worn by nearly all C.S.C.L. members (Al Stolman among those given one); turned 80 in April 1982.
Demonstrations given
- Bracelets, then 3D cuff links (Belleville Branch, October) 1973
Branch meetings, autumn 1973From Winter 1973–74, page 7.
- Constructing a leather and wood wall memo holder 1982
Belleville Branch meetings, 1981-82 seasonFrom Spring 1982, page 10.