Newspaper Clipping from July 26, 1928 Montreal Daily Star. from Albert County Museum Collection
On this day July 3rd, 1870, 150 years ago, Richard, Bedford Bennett, the 11th Prime Minister of Canada was born in Hopewell, Albert County. This newspaper clipping shows Bennett’s 1928 campaign kick off at the Hopewell Rocks on July 24th, 1928. He would become Prime Minister of Canada in 1930 at the start of the Great Depression and serve as Prime Minster until 1935 when his government was defeated.
Bruce Hutchison from the Calgary Herald wrote in September 1935, "Mr. Bennett should write a book.... Then, perhaps, history would understand him, for his public record will not reveal him.... The interesting, the unique thing, is not what Bennett has done or not done, but Bennett himself. We may look on greater men, but not on his like again."