Person:Benjamin Whitham (7)

From Obit in Ottawa Journal...20 years supervisor of purchasing and construction tor Famous Players Corporation, of Canada. ...Mr. Whitham was born In Val-leyfield. Que, but came to Cornwall when young and was educated here. He left home in 1913, going to Regina to accept a position with a film exchange. , He moved to Winnipeg in 1917 and was there connected with Allan's . Theatre Supply for three years, when he went to Toronto.. In 1920 he was employed by Famous Players, with which company he had since been connected. ,.,' Besides his father, who will be 83 years old in October; he leaves his widow, the former Lola Hop-son, of Massena, N. Y., and two daughters, Peggy and Darween, in Toronto; two - brothers and two sisters, A. V. Whitham, Mrs. Clarence G. Markell,-Mrs. Stanley G. Williams, Cornwall. George Whitham, Sarnia. Another sister, Mrs. R. H. V. McCartney, died here early last November.

1. ↑ Photo of original baptism record from Valleyfield Presbyterian Church.

   Shows father as James Whitham, mechanic and his wife, Naomi Fortis. Baptism witnesses are James Whitham and Levi Fortis.

2.   Canada. 1921 Census of Canada. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada).

   549 Broadview Ave. Toronto, Ontario