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Authority record- CA QUA10111
- Person
- 27 May 1867-27 Mar. 1931
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films.
- CA QUA01883
- Person
- 1870-1947
Richard Bedford Bennett was born at Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick in 1870. He taught at Douglastown for three years, 1888-1890, before studying law at Dalhousie University, 1890-1893. Upon graduation he became a partner in the law firm of L.S. Tweedie in Chatham and in 1897 moved to Calgary as a junior partner of Senator James Lougheed. After the partnership dissolved in 1922, Bennett established the firm of Bennett, Hannah and Sandford of which he remained a member until 1937.
In 1898 Bennett was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories and to the Alberta Legislative Assembly in 1909 and 1911. In the House of Commons Bennett represented Calgary, 1911-1917 and Calgary West, 1925 to 1938. At the first convention of the Conservative Party in Winnipeg, 1927, Bennett was elected leader. Following the defeat of the King government in 1930 he became Prime Minister. Bennett also held the offices of Minister of Finance, 1930-1932 and Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1930-1935. After the Conservative defeat in 1935, Bennett served as Leader of the Opposition until 1938 when he retired from active political life. In 1939, he moved to England and settled on an estate in Surrey where he lived until his death in 1947. In 1941, he was created Viscount Bennett of Mickleham, calgary and Hopewell. he never married.
- CA QUA02155
- Person
- 1901-1996
Born in 1901, E. Dorothy Benson, a member of the family that owned the St. Lawrenece Starch Company, was educated at "The Study" in Montreal, where she was Head Girl. A Canadian champion figure skater, at the outbreak of the Second World War, she joined the 'Wrens' -- the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service -- and saw active duty. Following her honourable discharged, she pursued her photographic hobby by studying for a year at the Vermont School of Photography. Prior to coming to Kingston, Ontario, in the early 1970's, she was a member of the Montreal Camera Club and later joined the prestigious Toronto Guild of Photography. Dorothy Benson, who would photograph anything and everything, "ships, churches, people, ice skaters, birds that lit on her balcony railing, close ups of flower and table arrangements ... you name it!", travelled widely throughout North America, with Algonquin Park being a favored destination. A print maker, as well as a nature photographer par excellence, she competed both nationally and internationally, winning many awards along the way. After her arrival in Kingston, she joined the Kingston Photographic Club, and devoted much time to helping other members improve their own techniques, both personally and through her regular column in the Club's newsletter 'Camera Capers'. She was also very skilled at preparing and presenting phtoto essays. A Girl Guide Leader, Ms. Benson would take her troop, along with her favourite cameras, up the Rideau waterway each summer for a two-week camping trip. She was also an avid fisherman, who spent many summers in among the Thousand Islands. E. Dorothy Benson died, age 91, at Kingston, Ontario, in April 1996.
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