Bent Gestur Sivertz

Bent Gestur Sivertz OBE (August 11, 1905 – October 4, 2000) was a Canadian sailor, teacher, soldier, and civil servant.

[2] After World War II, Bent Sivertz entered the Department of External Affairs where his success in reorganizing and streamlining the Passport Office to a point where passports were issued in three days rather than the previous three weeks, led to him being drafted in 1950 into the new Department of Resources and Development.

Sivertz initiated a number of progressive and innovative policies in northern healthcare, education, infrastructure and corrections.

In spite of my difficulty with this Commission and my shabby treatment at its hands, my experiences in northern work have not been diminished where personal recollection is concerned.

"[2] Bent "Ben" Sivertz's oldest brother Henry George was a teacher until his enlistment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

and was later a well-known journalist in Vancouver where he wrote a periodic column called "Memoirs of an Old Sweat" about the War and veterans concerns.