{{Short description|Canadian businessman (1863–1931)}} {{Infobox person | name = Lawrence Solman | image = Lawrence Solman portrait (F1257 s1057 it4300).jpg | caption = Solman, {{circa|1930}} | birth_date = May 14, 1863 | birth_place = Toronto, Canada West | death_date = March 24, 1931 (aged 67) | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | occupation = businessman | spouse = | parents = | children = }} '''Lawrence "Lol" Solman''' (May 14, 1863 – March 24, 1931<ref>[https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/lawrence-sol-solman-24-1j39slq Lawrence Solman] ancestry.com</ref>) was a prominent businessman in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
==Biography== Born in Toronto, Solman was educated in public schools.<ref>[http://www.mountpleasantgroup.com:443/new/interest/filey/archives/solman Lawrence Solman]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Mount Pleasant Cemetery</ref> After attending the Mechanic's Institute, he began business in a mail-order operation in Detroit; operated a restaurant at Hanlan's Point; married Emily Hanlan in 1893, sister of noted rower Ned Hanlan and helped him advance in his business career; established Toronto Ferry Company, which held a monopoly on traffic to the Toronto Islands; owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball club; co-founder of the Tecumseh Lacrosse Club; managing director of the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Sunnyside Amusement Park, Hanlan's Hotel, the Hanlan's Point Amusement Park, Hanlan's Point Stadium, and Arena Gardens in Toronto; vice-president of Loews Canadian theatres.
Solman is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, while his wife, Emily Durnan Hanlan Solman, is buried at the Hanlan plot at Toronto Necropolis cemetery.
==Gallery== <gallery widths="165px" heights="165px" perrow="4"> File:Sunnyside Boardwalk Toronto 1931.jpg|Solman was Managing Director of Toronto's Sunnyside Amusement Park. File:Hanlon's Hotel, Toronto Island (ca 1908).jpg|Solman was Managing Director of brother-in-law Ned Hanlon's "Hanlon Hotel" on Toronto Island. File:Royal Alex 2009.jpg|Solman was a partner – along with Stephen S. Haas, Robert Alexander Smith, & Cawthra Mulock – in Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre, now a National Historic Site. Lol was the theatre's manager/impresario. File:Mutual Street Arena interior.jpg|Solman was partner in & managing Director of Toronto's Mutual St. Arena, home of the N.H.L.'s Toronto St. Patricks, who became the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1927. </gallery>
==Sources== * Bossin, Hy. "Stars of David: Toronto, 1856-1965". Canadian Jewish Congress, 1957 * "Lawrence Solman is dead following long illness," ''Toronto Star'', March 24, 1931, p. 1.
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