John Lee

John Lee was a Scottish - Canadian inventor and arms designer, best known for co- inventing a prototype bolt-action rifle with his brother James Paris Lee. The rifle they made led to the Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield series of rifles. Harrowing from Hawick, Scotland the Lee family emigrated to Ontario in Canada c. 1835. After John grew up he moved to a small town along the Sydenham River called Wallaceburg.