OBITUARY — Douglas Bent

Douglas Bent, a prominent mining engineer in Timmins, Ont., and other North American camps, has died. He was 83.

Mr. Bent graduated from the Dalhousie University School of Civil Engineering in 1935 before taking a position in the engineering department at the Hollinger Consolidated gold mine in Timmins. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, assigned to the engineering corps in British Columbia. He returned to Timmins after the war, where he worked until 1947.

During the next two years, Mr. Bent held management positions in Copper Mountain, B.C., and Bourlemaque, Que. In 1949, he returned to Hollinger as mine captain.

In 1957, Mr. Bent served as mine superintendent with the Brunswick Mining & Smelting Company but transferred to the offices of owner St. Joseph’s Lead Company, in Bonne Terre, Mo., when that operation shut down. He later became the assistant manager of the Pea Ridge mine, near Sullivan.

In 1965, Mr. Bent, became the manager of the Cominco mine near Deer Lodge, Mont. From there, he moved to the White Pine Copper Company in Michigan, then to Stewart, B.C.

He finished his career at the Whitehorse Copper Company in Whitehorse, Y.T., where he served as director of the engineering department from 1971 to 1981.

Mr. Bent was a member of the Canadian Professional Engineers and of the American Society of Professional Engineers.

He is predeceased by his wife, Vivienne, and survived by his children Anne, Colin and Christine, as well as nine grandchildren and two

great-grandchildren.