Lett, Sherwood


LETT, Sherwood, lawyer (b 1 Aug 1895, Iroquois, ON; d 2 July 1964, Vancouver). Raised in the Ottawa Valley, he arrived in VANCOUVER in 1912 with his family. He attended McGill Univ College (the forerunner of UBC) from 1912 to 1915 and on graduation enlisted in the army, seeing action in France from 1917 to 1918. When he returned to Vancouver he began articling as a lawyer, then won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford from 1920 to 1922. He was admitted to the BC bar in 1922 and joined a...

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