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William Budden Vennor was born in Montreal in 1848. He was the brother of the noted Canadian geologist and ornithologist, Henry George Vennor. William Budden moved to Alberta, where he worked as a bookkeeper and accountant in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Born in Montréal, Henry G. Vennor was educated at the Montreal High School and at McGill University. From 1865 to 1880 he was on the staff of the Geological Survey of Canada. In 1877 he published the first of his Vennor Almanacs in which he ventured to predict the weather. Apart from being a geologist and meteorologist, Vennor was also an ornithologist and his chief work was Our Birds of Prey (Montréal, 1876).