Benjamin Parkyn Richardson

Benjamin Parkyn Richardson (22 July 1857 – 8 August 1910) was a member of the first North-West Legislative Assembly in Northwest Territories, Canada, from 20 June 1888 until 10 October 1891.

Samples of his correspondence with Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney are housed in the archives of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary (Alberta).

Other Involvement In the death of Benjamin Parkyn Richardson, the district of Grenfell has lost one of its early pioneers and the town one of its most prominent and active citizens.

As an active member of the Methodist Church, Richardson was vice-president of its Bible Society and the Lord's Day Alliance, a movement founded to combat Sabbath secularisation.

His funeral service was reported to be crowded at the doors of the local church, and the procession to have numbered over one hundred carriages and to be more than one mile in length.

Canadian prairie pioneer Benjamin Parkyn Richardson.
From 1868 to 1905, NWT covered much of Canada. Its first capital was Fort Pelly , followed by Battleford