Betsy Dewar Boyce

Betsy Dewar Boyce (March 27, 1913—August 12, 2007) was a Canadian historian.

Biography

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Boyce graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton in 1933, with an Arts degree, winning a gold medal. She attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto for two years, until 1935.^[1]

Boyce was active in the University Women's Club in Toronto. When she moved to Belleville, she was active in the Belleville community as a New Democratic Party activist, as a member of Amnesty International, and as the picture archivist for the Hastings County Historical Society.^[2] Boyce died in Belleville, Ontario, Canada in 2007.

Major works

Her first major work was The Rebels of Hastings, referring to

ISBN 978-080-2059864

.

Her second major work was published posthumously, in 2017. This book, entitled The Accidental Prime Minister: The Biography of Sir Mackenzie Bowell (

ISBN 978-1-926529-09-7), is the first major biography of Sir Mackenzie Bowell, who served as Canada's fifth prime minister, from 1894 to 1896, as part of a 50-year parliamentary career. She had completed the work in 2007, but could not find a publisher; the book has been published in 2017 by Kirby Books of Bancroft, Ontario.^[3]

References

^ The Globe and Mail, obituary, August 2007
^ Globe, obituary
^ The Globe and Mail, December 29, 2017, p. A17: "The accidental prime minister, by Patrick White (article)

[1] The Globe and Mail, obituary, August 2007

[2] Globe, obituary

[3] The Globe and Mail, December 29, 2017, p. A17: "The accidental prime minister, by Patrick White (article)

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