Hamilton Jack Elise Latner and Albert Latner

Renoir Henry Moore: Canadian Business magazine has estimated the family current wealth at more than $1-billion, according to Globe and Mail. Albert Latner was born April 25, 1927, in Hamilton to Jack and Elise Latner. He also became a philanthropist renowned for his generous support of a range of causes, as well as a leading collector of art, amassing a collection of more than 1,000 paintings and sculptures that includes masterpieces by Picasso, Modigliani, Renoir and Henry Moore, among others. His father was born in London, to immigrants from what is now Lithuania. He had come to Canada as a teenager, crossing the Atlantic on the 1912 voyage of the RMS Carpathia that was diverted to pluck survivors from the ocean after the sinking of the Titanic, according to Mr. His mother, Elise, was born in Bucharest, Romania, but was living in London and visiting relatives in Hamilton when she met her husband-to-be. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.