Jack Layton

The Society’s records

Everything the Society’s own records say of Jack Layton: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.

Also recorded as J.A. Layton

Standing

Life Member 1989

Branch

Belleville · recorded holding office in 1970

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).

Demonstrations given

• Bracelets, then 3D cuff links (Belleville Branch, October) 1973
  Branch meetings, autumn 1973

  From Winter 1973–74, page 7.

• Constructing a leather and wood wall memo holder 1982
  Belleville Branch meetings, 1981-82 season

  From Spring 1982, page 10.

Where this comes from

• Summer 1965
• Spring 1967
• Spring 1970
• Summer 1971
• June 1977
• Spring 1978
• Woodstock Branch of CSCL is host to annual meeting
• 35th Annual Meeting 1985: programme, The Continental Inn, Barrie
• Executive Council 1978–79: the officers as the Society listed them
• Society membership list, 1989