Curtis Earle Lang (January 20, 1937 – December 17, 1998) was a Canadian poet, artist, photographer, seaman, inventor and entrepreneur.
Lang persuaded Purdy to join him in seeking out the novelist Malcolm Lowry who was living in a shack on a North Vancouver beach.
[4][5][6] Lang was friends with many in Vancouver's creative community―poets Peter Trower, John Newlove, bill bissett, and Jamie Reid; artists Fred Douglas, Jock Hearne, David Marshall,[7] and Roy Kiyooka; and musicians Gregg Simpson and Al Neil[8] Under the influence of his friend, Fred Douglas, Lang took up painting.
In March 1960, Douglas and Lang were part of a group show in the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Exhibition of Geometric Abstract Painting and Sculpture.
Although his work garnered little interest at the time, in 2003 his photography was part of an exhibition at the Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver.
[14] He assembled a team of skilled programmers and engineers, including David Sloan, a physicist, who- while at MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates- was instrumental in getting the firm into the satellite business.
[17] BC Rail used a Range Vision system to inspect railroad tracks for wear and CIA bought one for detecting deformities in oil refinery coking tanks.
[19] Lang's business associate, Gordon Cornwall, took over Industrial Metrics and sold it in 2008 to the Holland Company in Crete, Illinois.