John Turner: Give R.B. Bennett His Place on the Hill
[John Turner was Canada’s 17th prime minister.]
As a boy growing up in Ottawa in the 1930s, it was my good fortune to meet Richard Bedford Bennett, Canada’s 11th prime minister, on many occasions. I recall a friendly man with a booming voice who gave me chocolates once in a while.
A man with progressive views for his time about women, he was responsible for bringing my late mother, Phyllis Gregory (later Ross), into Canada’s public service during the Great Depression. She soon rose through the ranks, a single woman with two young children to raise, and became the senior-ranked female public servant in the land....
This was a prime minister who left solid accomplishments in his wake, many of which are still being felt positively by Canadians today. It was Bennett, to name just one priority of his, who created the Bank of Canada. He also ensured that Canada would forever have a voice on the airwaves by founding what soon became the CBC.
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As a boy growing up in Ottawa in the 1930s, it was my good fortune to meet Richard Bedford Bennett, Canada’s 11th prime minister, on many occasions. I recall a friendly man with a booming voice who gave me chocolates once in a while.
A man with progressive views for his time about women, he was responsible for bringing my late mother, Phyllis Gregory (later Ross), into Canada’s public service during the Great Depression. She soon rose through the ranks, a single woman with two young children to raise, and became the senior-ranked female public servant in the land....
This was a prime minister who left solid accomplishments in his wake, many of which are still being felt positively by Canadians today. It was Bennett, to name just one priority of his, who created the Bank of Canada. He also ensured that Canada would forever have a voice on the airwaves by founding what soon became the CBC.