Lionel Gordon Bennett (b. 1875)

Lionel Bennett was a correspondent clerk for the Yukon Government in 1911-12.1) Bennett ran as a liberal in South Dawson during the 1912 election. At the time he was a well-known Dawson lawyer.2) Bennett enlisted in 1916 to serve as a Lieutenant in the First World War.3) Mrs. Bennett sold their house in Dawson to move to England as a war nurse.4)

1)
Rasmussen Library, Polks Gazetteers 1901 to 1912 index.
2)
Linda Johnson, With the people who live here: The History of the Yukon Legislature 1909 – 1961. Legislative Assembly of Yukon, 2009: 91, 108.
3)
Library and Archives Canada, Officer’s Declaration Paper WWI. November 28, 1916 at Vancouver.
4)
Daily Alaskan (Skagway), 24 April 1917.