Monthly Archive: June 2026

The first time I met Laurie Bennett in June 1963 wasn’t anything at all like a good way to start a friendship. I’d been hired as a bell-hop by Britannia, a summer hotel on Lake of Bays. Laurie had been a bell-hop there the previous year and so had been made head bell-hop. He’d already been at the hotel a week so was taking a day off. The hotel had a nine-hole golf course where he was out playing a round. You can imagine his displeasure at having his game interrupted to he could come and meet me. But we...