Excerpt from: "Hills of Hope" - Pub. by Carvel Unifarm, 1976
Reverend Thomas and Laura Bowen - by Cecil Bowen
My father, Thomas A. Bowen, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 27, 1867. He married Laura Brown in Kaye Stree Methodist Church, Nova Scotia about 1895. They had four children: Lillian, Cecil, Gladys and Ralph.
Our family moved from Gabrose, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to the Indian Mission at Wabamun or White Whale Lake in early 1907. We followed Reverend A. Hopkins at the Mission.
The railroad grade was being built past the Mission about 1907, and my dad purchased a team of horses in Edmonton and we drove out to Wabamun over the corduroy road. I went to Smithfield School with the Lent children and Mrs. Charlie Dunn's boys. I remember that I was a pallbearer for Muriel Smith, Butcher Smith's daughter, who had eaten some poison berries.
My mother was a tuberculosis victim and the doctors thought that by moving to Alberta, the drier climate might help her, however, they didn't realize how wet the Wabamun area was at that time. I think Mother must have been more sick than they thought and such a move was too much for her. My mother never realized that the Indians were her friends and she was scared to death of them. And not being used to living in the backwoods did not help. In June my parents went to Edmonton where my mother became very sick and was taken to hospital. On June 9, 1908, she passed away and was buried in the Smithfield Cemetery. After my mother was gone, Dad moved with his family to Blackfalds, and Reverend Clements took over the Mission. My Father, Reverend T.A. Bowen, died in Edmonton on April 25, 1935.
I lived in Alberta until 1929 and then I filed on a homestead at Montney, British Columbia in the Peace River countery, north of Fort St. John. I was married in 1945. Later I moved to Mission City, British Columbia, and have been here ever since.
Reverend Thomas and Laura Bowen - by Cecil Bowen
My father, Thomas A. Bowen, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 27, 1867. He married Laura Brown in Kaye Stree Methodist Church, Nova Scotia about 1895. They had four children: Lillian, Cecil, Gladys and Ralph.
Our family moved from Gabrose, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to the Indian Mission at Wabamun or White Whale Lake in early 1907. We followed Reverend A. Hopkins at the Mission.
The railroad grade was being built past the Mission about 1907, and my dad purchased a team of horses in Edmonton and we drove out to Wabamun over the corduroy road. I went to Smithfield School with the Lent children and Mrs. Charlie Dunn's boys. I remember that I was a pallbearer for Muriel Smith, Butcher Smith's daughter, who had eaten some poison berries.
My mother was a tuberculosis victim and the doctors thought that by moving to Alberta, the drier climate might help her, however, they didn't realize how wet the Wabamun area was at that time. I think Mother must have been more sick than they thought and such a move was too much for her. My mother never realized that the Indians were her friends and she was scared to death of them. And not being used to living in the backwoods did not help. In June my parents went to Edmonton where my mother became very sick and was taken to hospital. On June 9, 1908, she passed away and was buried in the Smithfield Cemetery. After my mother was gone, Dad moved with his family to Blackfalds, and Reverend Clements took over the Mission. My Father, Reverend T.A. Bowen, died in Edmonton on April 25, 1935.
I lived in Alberta until 1929 and then I filed on a homestead at Montney, British Columbia in the Peace River countery, north of Fort St. John. I was married in 1945. Later I moved to Mission City, British Columbia, and have been here ever since.
Excerpt from: "Hills of Hope" - Pub. by Carvel Unifarm, 1976
Reverend Thomas and Laura Bowen - by Cecil Bowen
My father, Thomas A. Bowen, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 27, 1867. He married Laura Brown in Kaye Stree Methodist Church, Nova Scotia about 1895. They had four children: Lillian, Cecil, Gladys and Ralph.
Our family moved from Gabrose, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to the Indian Mission at Wabamun or White Whale Lake in early 1907. We followed Reverend A. Hopkins at the Mission.
The railroad grade was being built past the Mission about 1907, and my dad purchased a team of horses in Edmonton and we drove out to Wabamun over the corduroy road. I went to Smithfield School with the Lent children and Mrs. Charlie Dunn's boys. I remember that I was a pallbearer for Muriel Smith, Butcher Smith's daughter, who had eaten some poison berries.
My mother was a tuberculosis victim and the doctors thought that by moving to Alberta, the drier climate might help her, however, they didn't realize how wet the Wabamun area was at that time. I think Mother must have been more sick than they thought and such a move was too much for her. My mother never realized that the Indians were her friends and she was scared to death of them. And not being used to living in the backwoods did not help. In June my parents went to Edmonton where my mother became very sick and was taken to hospital. On June 9, 1908, she passed away and was buried in the Smithfield Cemetery. After my mother was gone, Dad moved with his family to Blackfalds, and Reverend Clements took over the Mission. My Father, Reverend T.A. Bowen, died in Edmonton on April 25, 1935.
I lived in Alberta until 1929 and then I filed on a homestead at Montney, British Columbia in the Peace River countery, north of Fort St. John. I was married in 1945. Later I moved to Mission City, British Columbia, and have been here ever since.
Reverend Thomas and Laura Bowen - by Cecil Bowen
My father, Thomas A. Bowen, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 27, 1867. He married Laura Brown in Kaye Stree Methodist Church, Nova Scotia about 1895. They had four children: Lillian, Cecil, Gladys and Ralph.
Our family moved from Gabrose, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to the Indian Mission at Wabamun or White Whale Lake in early 1907. We followed Reverend A. Hopkins at the Mission.
The railroad grade was being built past the Mission about 1907, and my dad purchased a team of horses in Edmonton and we drove out to Wabamun over the corduroy road. I went to Smithfield School with the Lent children and Mrs. Charlie Dunn's boys. I remember that I was a pallbearer for Muriel Smith, Butcher Smith's daughter, who had eaten some poison berries.
My mother was a tuberculosis victim and the doctors thought that by moving to Alberta, the drier climate might help her, however, they didn't realize how wet the Wabamun area was at that time. I think Mother must have been more sick than they thought and such a move was too much for her. My mother never realized that the Indians were her friends and she was scared to death of them. And not being used to living in the backwoods did not help. In June my parents went to Edmonton where my mother became very sick and was taken to hospital. On June 9, 1908, she passed away and was buried in the Smithfield Cemetery. After my mother was gone, Dad moved with his family to Blackfalds, and Reverend Clements took over the Mission. My Father, Reverend T.A. Bowen, died in Edmonton on April 25, 1935.
I lived in Alberta until 1929 and then I filed on a homestead at Montney, British Columbia in the Peace River countery, north of Fort St. John. I was married in 1945. Later I moved to Mission City, British Columbia, and have been here ever since.
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