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Frances Alan Plaunt (fl. 1949-) was born to Alan Butterworth Plaunt and Dorothy R. Plaunt. Her father Alan B. Plaunt was a successful lumber and railway businessman in the Ottawa area and an important figure in the founding of the CBC and the Canada Council. Following the death of her father, her mother married Henry Alexander “Sandy” Dyde of Edmonton in 1959. H.A. Dyde was an important lawyer in Edmonton, partner in the law firm Milner, Steer, Dyde from 1924 to 1969. He was also Military Secretary to the Minister of Defense during WWII and a lecturer at the University of Alberta from the 1920s to 1940s. H.A. and Dorothy Plaunt hired architect Arthur Erickson to design a summer home for the family outside of Edmonton in 1960. H.A. Dyde and family later donated the land that became the University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Gardens, which include the Arthur Erickson designed Dyde residence. Frances Plaunt and her mother later established the Plaunt Lectures at Carleton University.