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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Chapters: R. B. Bennett, Arthur Ryan Smith, George Hoadley, David Milwyn Duggan, John Percy Page, Alexander Mcgillivray, A. E. Cross, Thomas Tweedie, James Ramsey, Nelson Spencer, Cornelius Hiebert, Hugh Farthing, Paul Brecken, Alphaeus Patterson, Fred Davis, George Douglas Stanley, Albert Ewing, Harold Mcgill, Edward Michener, Samuel Bacon Hillocks, William Ernest Payne, Ernest Watkins, John Smith Stewart, Herbert Crawford, Thomas Blow, Harold William Hounsfield Riley, Andrew Gilmour, Robert Campbell, Albert Robertson, Conrad Weidenhammer, John Kemmis, George Leroy Hudson, James R. Lowery, William Wallace Wilson, John Irwin, Fred W. Archer. Excerpt: Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, PC, KC (July 3, 1870 June 26, 1947) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930, to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years. Following his defeat as prime minister, Bennett moved to England, and was elevated to the House of Lords. R. B. Bennett was born on July 3, 1870, when his mother, Henrietta Stiles, was visiting at her parents' home in Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick, Canada. He grew up nearby at the home of his father, Henry John Bennett, at Hopewell Cape, the shire town of Albert County, then a town of 1,800 people. His father was descended from English ancestors who had emigrated to Connecticut in the 18th century. His great, great grandfather Bennett migrated from Connecticut to Nova Scotia c. 1765, before the American Revolution, taking advantage of lands vacated by the Acadians during the Great Upheaval. R. B. Bennett's family was poor, subsisting mainly on the produce of a small farm. His early days inculcated a lifelong habit of thrift. The driving force in his family was his mother. She was ...
