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Catherine Elizabeth McLean Bower

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Birth	:	24 Mar 1858 York Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Death	:	30 Nov 1931 Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada
Burial	:	Red Deer Cemetery, Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Canada
Coordinate	:	52.2743200, -113.7859000
Plot	:	D 8
Description	:	Death of Mrs. James Bower Thirty-one Years a Farm Mistress at Red Deer For over thirty-one years Mrs. James Bower, Sr., had her home on the southerly outskirts of Red Deer before her call came on Monday morning in her 74th year, and no farm families have been more widely known and more highly esteemed in the district and in the province during the past generation than those of Mr. and Mrs. James Bower, the elder, and their sons and daughter. Mrs. Bower seemed to be in normal health earlier in the week, but on Thursday she was taken... Read More	Death of Mrs. James Bower Thirty-one Years a Farm Mistress at Red Deer For over thirty-one years Mrs. James Bower, Sr., had her home on the southerly outskirts of Red Deer before her call came on Monday morning in her 74th year, and no farm families have been more widely known and more highly esteemed in the district and in the province during the past generation than those of Mr. and Mrs. James Bower, the elder, and their sons and daughter. Mrs. Bower seemed to be in normal health earlier in the week, but on Thursday she was taken down with pneumonia, and she had not the strength to resist the weakening, passing away at 8 a.m. on November 30. The funeral takes place this afternoon from the United Church at Red Deer, of which Mrs. Bower has been a faithful member since her coming West. Mrs. Bower came of Highland stock, from Argyllshire, Scotland, and in earlier days had some knowledge of the Gaelic. She herself was born Catherine Elizabeth McLean, on the ninth line of King township, York county, Ontario, towards Newmarket, on March 24, 1858, and on February 21, 1883, she was married to Mr. Bower, whom she met when she was teaching in Mono township near Orangeville, Ont. Mrs. Bower's father handled the Caledon post office and store. Mr. Bower was an active builder and contractor in Orangeville, owning a sawmill and sash and door factory, supplying the town with electric light, building the High School and most of the big buildings of his generation in that town. The destruction of his factories by fire in 1895 and shifts in business sent them back to the farm. In 1899 Mr. Bower came West and bought the south half of 9-38-27W4th, adjoining Red Deer, from Mr. J. T. Moore, long the agent of the Saskatchewan Land and Homestead Co. at Red Deer, at $6 per acre, and established a purebred Shorthorn herd thereon, which became afterwards the nucleus of the G. F. Root herd. Mrs. Bower and the family came out in the spring of 1900, and settled on the farm, and from that centre the boys and girl established themselves on their own farms in this district. Mrs. Bower gave most unwearied and loyal service to her family, and sore blows fell on them in the drowning of their son John while with a survey party in Athabasca in 1904, and in the death of their son Arthur in the Great War in June, 1916, as well as the loss of an infant daughter. Mrs. Bower was an intelligent and faithful helpmeet to her husband, who carried a heavy care in business matters East, and in agricultural development in Alberta. He was for three years the first President of the United Farmers of Alberta, after the uniting of the two earlier groups of organized farmers, and his loss by death on May 21, 1921, was greatly lamented by his family and associates. The family surviving are: James Bower, Jr.; Hugh Bower; Don Bower; Mrs. Porte McKinnon; Charles Bower and Norman Bower. She leaves two brothers--Hugh McLean, Jr., Tonawanda, New York; and John McLean, Philadelpia, Penn; and two sisters, Flora and Grace McLean, at Bay City, Michigan. The Red Deer Advocate, Wednesday, December 2, 1931, pages 1 and 6. See also The Red Deer Advocate, Wednesday, December 9, 1931, for a write-up of the funeral of Mrs. Bower, page 1

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Catherine Elizabeth McLean Bower death on 30 Nov 1931 in Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada
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Latitude: 52.2743200
Longitude: -113.7859000

Family Members:

Spouse

James Bower

(1860 - 1921)

Children

John S Bower

(1885 - 1904)

James Alexander “Jim” Bower

(1887 - 1972)

Hugh M Bower

(1889 - 1980)

Aldon Douglas Bower

(1891 - 1969)

William Arthur Bower

(1893 - 1916)

D Grace Bower McKinnon

(1896 - 1976)

Charles Franklin Bower

(1898 - 1986)

Flora Bower

(1902 - 1906)

Norman John Sillars Bower

(1904 - 2002)

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Coordinate: 52.2743200, -113.7859000

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