Educator, collection agent.
Born at Streetsville, Ontario on 19 December 1880, one of seven children born to James Barnes Beynon (1835-?) and Rebecca Manning (1848-1898), brother to Francis Marion Beynon and Lillian Beynon Thomas, and second-cousin to George William Beynon, the family moved to Hartney in 1889 and settled on a farm. After completing his education, he taught school for four years then went to Winnipeg where he worked for the O. W. Kerr Company. In the spring of 1909, he established the H. B. Beynon Company, the business consisting of buying of accounts, judgments, agreements of sale, etc. He later returned to teaching, at Victoria School (1928). He was a member of the Assiniboine Lawn Bowling Club and Strathcona Curling Club. He died at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital on 10 March 1977.
Ontario birth registration, Ancestry.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 26 March 1977, page 58.
“Frances Beynon and The Guide,” by Anne Hicks, pages 41-52 in First Days Fighting Days: Women in Manitoba History, edited by Mary Kinnear, Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1987.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 August 2023
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