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The Robert Owen Foundation was begun in 1932 by Henri Lasserre, with the goal of promoting cooperative enterprises in Canada. Taken from the name of the eighteenth-century English social reformer, the Foundation was modeled on a similar body that Lasserre had established in his native Switzerland in 1928. The Foundation offered financial support to co-operative ventures in Canada and the United States, including the Llano Colony of California, the Columbia Conserve Company, Work Togs, the Fellowship for a Christian Order, the Co-operative Rural Community, and other groups and businesses. In addition, Lasserre established the Canadian Fellowship for Cooperative Community, a study group which investigated the manner of operating co-operatives in modern society. Lasserre died in 1945, but the Foundation remains active in the 1990s.
Lasserre was born in Geneva, Switzerland. Son of a Swiss lawyer, he studied in Berlin and Paris, and practiced as a notary in Switzerland before emigrating to Toronto, Canada. He married music educator and fellow Swiss, Madeleine Boss Lasserre, and taught French at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He also performed as an amateur cellist.
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2015/08/13 C. Falls: updated birth and death dates; added biographical details; added source.