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Photo Title:	Marie (Smart) Penny (left) at a Fisheries related conference, Vancouver
Description:	Spencer G. Lake can be seen on the right.
Image No.:	PF-312.0829
Image Location:	Lake3/pf312_829.jpeg
Date of Creation:	May, 1968
Physical Description:	1 photograph : col. ; 15 x 10 cm
Biography/Admin History:	Marie (Smart) Penny (1897-1970) married George J. Penny in 1927. They has a daughter, Margaret, who later married Spencer Lake. After her husband's death in 1949, Marie took charge of the family business, John Penny and Sons, which had by then been converted to a frozen fish enterprise. In 1967 Mrs. Penny was elected president of the 400-member Fisheries Council of Canada, the first woman to hold the position. Marie Penny died in 1970. Spencer G. Lake (1916- ), son of Sarah Valetta (Spencer) Lake and Harold Bertram Clyde Lake, who was a businessman and politician and founder of the firm H.B. Clyde Lake, was born in Fortune, Newfoundland. He first married Alma Diamond, and later married Margaret Penny. He joined the family fish processing and exporting business and for several years he and his brother, Harold L. Lake, ran the Lake Group of Companies. Shortly after the company had been reorganized as the Lake Group, a restructuring of the industry took place and in 1984 its plants were acquired by Fishery Products International. Lake later moved to Boston.
Collector:	Harold L. Lake
Source Donor:	Donated by Mrs. Robin Lake, 15 December 1994
Collection Title:	Harold L. Lake Photograph Collection
Associated Material:	Harold L. Lake fonds
Restrictions on Access:	Copyright held by the Maritime History Archive. No image from the fonds may be reproduced for research or publication without permission from the archivist.
Copyright:	c-mha
Physical Condition:	Excellent
Notes:	Title based on contents of image.
Subjects:	Lake, Spencer G., 1916- / Penny, Marie (Smart), 1897-1970.