Rick,
I'de look-up Stuart Bendelow, a former (?) poster on GCA. He wrote a book on Tom Bendelow, which I have at home. I'll take a look at it when I get home, and report back any information it may have on Northland CC.
It is no surprise that Tom Bendelow was not mentioned in the history, while it is pure speculation, clubs like to be associated with Donald Ross, and often, course design credit will start and stop with him. It may be hasty to assume Bendelow's work has vanished at Northland. At the time he was employed by Spalding Bros., and was criss-crossing the continent routing courses to help popularize the game, thus, enabling Spalding to sell clubs and balls to all the new golfers. Therefore, his design work was probably fairly rudimentary in terms of hazards and green contours, but the routings may still exist. I spent a lot of time researching the architectural history of Pine Ridge in Winnipeg, and similarly, Bendelow routed the course, and a decade or so later, Ross was hired primarily to bunker the course. He re-built a handful of greens, but left the original routing fairly intact, only amalgamating 4 holes into 2, allowing his to build two new par three holes.
TK