[1] The site grew and Henry Sandham Griffith designed a major addition to the hospital in 1903.

Born in Peterborough, Ontario, son of Colonel J. R. Benson and Catherine Lee, he studied medicine at Louisville, Kentucky during the United States Civil War.

Returning to Canada he received a Canadian medical diploma at Toronto, and practised at Peterborough and Lindsay, Ontario.

Born at Peterborough, Ontario in March 1849, he returned to Winnipeg around 1881 and began a dental practice.

He was a Conservative, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the board of trustees of Grace Church from its inception.