Lawrence Johnstone Burpee[a] FRSC (March 5, 1873 – October 13, 1946) was a Canadian librarian, historian and author.

[1] Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he moved to Ottawa at an early age, where from 1890 to 1905 he worked as private secretary to three federal ministers of justice.

The following seven years he was librarian at the Ottawa Public Library, before becoming Canadian Secretary of the International Joint Commission in 1912, a post he occupied until his death.

On the latter he published a 1939 wartime article "Poland’s fight for freedom" in the Canadian Geographical Journal.

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