Author, historian.
Born at Winnipeg on 8 October 1914, grand-daughter of Edward Lancaster Drewry, Benham was educated at Rupertsland School. She started writing for the Winnipeg Free Press during the Second World War, writing a column entitled “What Can I Do?”. After retirement, she wrote a number of biographies of famous Canadians for schoolchildren, as well as much local history, including a history of St. George’s Church in the Winnipeg neighbourhood of Crescentwood. She won a 1984 YWCA Woman of the Year Award. She died at Winnipeg on 26 January 1991. Her papers are held in the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
Whither the Weather
Manitoba Pageant, Spring 1971, Volume 16, Number 3
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 29 January 1991, page 32.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 December 2024
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