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Great Lakes marine history lost one of its giants with the death on Aug. 1 of Dr. Fred Landon. He died at the age of 89 in St. Joseph's Hospital, London, Ontario, after a brief illness. After sailing four years with the Northern Navigation Company, he came ashore and went on to become a newspaperman, librarian, professor and historian, not only of the Great Lakes but Ontario, western United States, slavery and Abraham Lincoln. Dr. Landon was graduated in 1906 from Western University and for the next decade was a reporter for the London Free Press, covering the Provincial Government in Ottawa. In 1916 he was named librarian of the London Public Library, a position he held until 1923 when he be- came Western University's first full-time librarian and associate professor of history. He was influential in the conversion of Western University into the | University of Western Ontario and served as its Vice President from 1946 until he retired in 1950. On his retirement, UWO conferred on him an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters and McMaster University gave him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Retirement failed to slow Dr. Landon down. It merely gave him more time at his typewriter and his historical contributions to the Lon- don Free Press flowed in a steady, and welcome, stream, a stream that the newspaper credited in large measure with the top Centennial Year award by the Canadian Historical Association in 1967. The Marine Historical Society of Detroit was privileged to count Dr. Landon among its early members and to receive historical articles from him for publication in the Detroit Marine Historian. Although Dr. Landon will be long r ibered as a q of his historical writings, he will also be remembered as a gentleman and a © friend. DON'T FORGET the meeting Sept. 27 at the Sarnia Public Library. Dan Cornillie will show color slides he made on a trip on Huron Cement's PAUL H. TOWNSEND, with additional slides from his large collections