Canada's Magic: Lon Mandrake

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16 December 2024

2024 Inspirational Canadian Magician Showcase summary

This concludes the 2024 Inspirational Canadian Magician Showcase (ICMS)!

We hope you enjoyed reading about many of the talented magicians across the country. Thank you for joining us on the journey.

A huge shout out to everyone who submitted names and supporting text to us last month. Thank you for generously making the time to celebrate your peers!

We couldn't have done this without the help of:

Thank you for the thought and time involved in sending us your submissions.

Congratulations again to everyone featured. Keep up the great work!

Be sure to click on the links below to find out what makes each magician inspirational in their own right. The story isn't just about who was selected. Of equal, or perhaps greater importance, is why they were selected!


Review the submissions for the 2024 Inspirational Canadian Magician Showcase: Alex Boyer Chanelle Munroe Julie Eng Ken McCreedy Lon Mandrake Marc Trudel Matt Johnson Ryan Michael Scott McClelland Sean Watson Steve Valentine Tabraze Sheikh

12 December 2024

Lon Mandrake: Inspirational Canadian Magician

We're coming near the end of this year's Inspirational Canadian Magician Showcase. Today we present Lon Mandrake!


Lon Mandrake: Inspirational Canadian Magician.

Lon Mandrake has been a leader in the magic community as the former Regional Vice-President for Canada of the Society of American Magicians. Under this leadership, the Society expanded its membership and Assemblies. While some may think he had to live in the shadow of his famous parents - Leon (and Velvet) Mandrake the Magician, Lon carved his own path. A now retired educator, an award-winning science teacher and past President of the British Columbia Science Teachers’ Association. Lon is internationally recognized for his mentalism and magic but he is most appreciated as a generous and supportive colleague.

Submitted by Garnet Garven

Congratulations Lon! Keep up the great work!

To learn more about Lon Mandrake, visit his website at LeonMandrake.com, and follow him on Facebook.

Thank Garnet for your excellent submission!

To learn more about Garnet Garven visit his IBM Member profile.


2024 Inspirational Canadian Magician Showcase featuring (in order of publication): Matt Johnson Ken McCreedy Marc Trudel Ryan Michael Tabraze Sheikh Scott McClelland Alex Boyer Chanelle Munroe Sean Watson Steve Valentine Lon Mandrake Julie Eng

19 February 2023

Lon Mandrake in The Runner

From the February 12th article "Lon Mandrake brings magic to KPU TALK event" by Kyler Emerson in The Runner:

On Feb. 10 as a part of KPU’s Third Age Learning at Kwantlen (TALK) program, Lon and his wife, Linda, gave a presentation about Leon’s life, Lon’s experience growing up around magic shows, and performed one themselves.

Whereas his father started magic performances at a young age, Lon did his first show at age 38. Some of the students Lon taught at the time asked him why he didn’t do magic like Leon, and after he dreamt about performing magic that night, he performed some the next class.

“It really blew their minds because everything had worked really well,” Lon said. “They dropped a sledgehammer on me and I was doing various kinds of mental effects where you read their minds.”

He’s been performing ever since.

In 2018, Lon and his wife Linda collaborated together to write the book The Real Mandrake the Magician, a biography that describes Leon’s career through over 100 photos and text of behind the scenes stories.
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18 February 2023

SAM #95 award winners

Congratulations to all of the winners!

From the February 8th Facebook post by Rod Chow:

SAM #95 dinner and awards night tonight at Stefanos. Delicious dinner, wonderful company, great magic and well deserving recipients of all the different awards and recognition.

Congratulations to Simon Cassegrain and David Parker who received their SAM membership pins and certificates, Lorena Watters, who was awarded the Lottie Hemeon Award for best assistant, Rod Chow who was awarded the Leon Mandrake Award for Magical Entertainment, and Glen LaBarre who was awarded the Carl Hemeon Award of Excellence. All well deserving recipients.

Special awards of recognition was also presented to Lon Mandrake and Rod Chow by President Chris Yuill, for their years of service to the club. Rod Chow, National President of the SAM also presented a Presidential Citation to Lon Mandrake. Congratulations to everyone.

We were very fortunate to have in attendance tonight, Lon Mandrake, SAM Canadian RVP, Shawn Farquhar, Dean of SAM #95, Rod Chow, National President SAM, Billy Hsueh, International President IBM, and Chris Yuill, President of SAM #95.