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Other Family Members
CA ETRC P006-006 · Series · 1801-[1999?]
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains primary source information related to different members of Minnie Hallowell Bowen's family. It consists mainly of correspondence and photographs, though each file includes a variety of material including a notebook, reports, prospectuses, lists, tributes, certificates, a deed, a Masonic text-book, and poems. It gives information mainly on a military campaign in the Indies in 1817, the Fenian Raids, mining, the Bowen family genealogy, World War I, and the Lennoxville Grammar School. The series is comprised of the following files: Henry Bowen (1818), Edward Bowen (1808-1915), Eleazar Clarke (1801-1915), George Fredrick Bowen (1855-1927), John Hallowell (1846-1876), Francis A. Bowen (1888-1935), Frederick Chamberlin Bowen ([189-?]-1923), Edward Hugh Bowen (1914-1923), Rose Meredyth (Bowen) Eardley-Wilmot (1893-1954), Charles Bowen (1860), James Hallowell ([1847-1858?], [188-?-1942]), Miranda Haskell Clarke ([185-?]-1910), Marjorie Bowen ([187-?]), Helen Maria Clarke Hallowell (1858-1909), Robert Hallowell (1834-1859), Meredyth Bowen Hallowell (1867-1893), Sara Jane Hall Bowen (1924-1925), Noel H. Bowen (1848), Carrie Ernestine Clarke ([188-?-1892?]), Charles Revell Eardley-Wilmot ([1895-1986?]), Barbara Rose (Eardley-Wilmot) Constable ([1917-1942?], [1962-1963], [1993-1996]), Minnie “Dadie” (Peyton) Smith (1954-1956, [197-?-1999?]).

Family History
CA ETRC P006-008 · Series · [1752?-200-?]
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains primary source information on the genealogy of the Bowen, Hallowell, Clark, Lloyd, Bethune, Haskell, and Eardley-Wilmot families from approximately 1801 to sometime in the 2000s. It consists mainly of handwritten notes, correspondence, biographical sketches, and family trees. The series if composed of the following files: Hallowell family history (1773-1934), Bowen family history ([1850?]-1995), Clark family history ([1801?-1995?]), Lloyd family history (1904-1929), Bethune family history (1933-1937, 1995), Haskell family history ([1987-1995?]), Eardley-Wilmot family history ([1893-1933], [1952-1954], [1996?]).

Lloyd H. Bowen
CA ETRC P006-004 · Series · 1865, 1902-1995
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains source information on Lloyd H. Bowen's education; sports activities; employment; financial situation; and involvement in scouting, debating associations, St. Peter's Church in Sherbrooke, and the Cadet Corps and Militia from the late 1910s to the 1930s. It also gives information on his daily activities during his sojourns in England and Winnipeg. The series includes mainly correspondence, certificates, photographs, press clippings, diaries, speeches, poems, booklets, and leaflets. The series is comprised of the following files: Education (1865, 1922-1925, 1939-1940), Scouting (1918-1928), Debating ([1922?]-[1924?]), Tuxis Mock Parliament ([1922?]-[1924?]), YMCA Junior Spokes Club (1925-1927), Military ([1921?]-1946), Sports ([1920?]-[1925?]), Correspondence with his Mother and Father (1940-1941), Religion (1902-[194-?]), Politics (1919-1928), Diaries ([191-?]-1929), Travel (1917-1928), Bequests and Securities (1929-1930), Employment (1928, 1976, [1984?]), Poems ([192-?]), Other Photographs (1904-1944), Correspondence with Rose M. Bowen (1940-1943), Other Correspondence (1922-1989), Obituaries (1995).

Bowen, Lloyd H. (1903-1995)
Miscellaneous
CA ETRC P006-011 · Series · [1835-1904?]
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The file contains primary source information on the lives of Minnie Hallowell Bowen and the people with whom she interacted, mainly from around Sherbrooke from 1823 to 1940. It consists of blueprints for a house, a handwritten prayer, an envelope with folded papers holding locks of Cecil, Rose, Lloyd, and Helen's hair, an advertisement for a private theatre show at Rockmount (1844), two seals of public notaries (“Daniel Thomas Lower Canada” and “E. Pellew Felton Province of Quebec”), and a piece of the Lone Pine with the inscription: "Portion of the Lone Pine from Rock in St. Francis River at Sherbrooke, PQ. Noted in Early History of the Eastern Tps. Destroyed in [violent] storm."

CA ETRC P006-010 · Series · 1840-1956
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains primary source information on friends and relatives of the Bowen family, as well as on the history of Sherbrooke from the mid-1800s to 1956. It consists of photographs, engravings, and one postcard. It is comprised of the following files: People (1866-1956), Photo Album ([185-?]-[189-?]), Landscapes and buildings (1840-[194-?]), Events (1919-1939), Military (1883-[194-?]), General Travel (1917-1925), Unidentified people ([187-?]-[194-?]).

CA ETRC P006-009 · Series · 1836-1943, 1978-1985
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains primary source biographical information on friends and relatives of the Bowen and Hallowell families from 1836 to 1943 and from 1964 to 1997. It consists largely of newspaper clippings of obituaries and special events regarding various people. The names present among the documents consist of: Strachan Bethune, Mrs. H.T. Bourne (nee Hallowell), Lt-Col. C.E. Montizambert, Mrs. Clement Hobson, Harry James Brooks Hallowell, Dr. William Austin, Sarah Hannah B. Hallowell (nee Geddes), Wyatt Galt Johnston, Sarah Louise Brooks (nee Clarke), Andrew Steele, Benjamin A. Haskell, Mrs. W.A. Hale (nee Ellen Derbishire) , Major Edmund H. Drury R.C.E., Mary F. Johnston (nee Wyatt), Elizabeth Frances Hale, Stephen Edgell, William A. Hale, Rev. Carew Hallowell, Harry Grundy, Colonel Morris Hayne Austin Drury, Helen Jane Bowen (nee Dingle), Archbishop George Thornloe, Pte. Cecily Eardley-Wilmot, and Gordon K.M. Montizambert.

History of Sherbrooke
CA ETRC P006-007 · Series · [1836?]-1967)
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains primary source information on the history of Sherbrooke in the 19th century. It consists of an engraving entitled "Sketch of Sherbrooke and its vicinity, Eastern Townships, Lower Canada", drawn by Joseph Bouchette or R.S.M. Bouchette, and published in "British American Land Company Views in Lower Canada" in 1836. It shows the different components of the village at the time: mills, churches, schools, parks, houses, and industries. The second document, by Lucia, a fifth generation member of the Felton family, is entitled "Belvidere". It consists of a 4-page history of the Felton family from 1780 to 1857. The third document entitled "Where Was the First Mass Said at Sherbrooke" is by Maurice O'Bready, a teacher at the Séminaire St-Charles-Borromée in Sherbrooke. It consists of the texts of three lectures given in 1932 and 1933 on the subject of the first mass and the involvement of the Felton family in this event. Another is a deed of sale to Thomas Evans It also consists of documents related to St. Peter's Church in Sherbrooke (including a partial plan of the St. Peter's Cemetery) from the 1930s and 1967; a notice of meetings for the Sherbrooke Assemblies, 1855-1856; documents relating the 53rd Sherbrooke Regiment from 1925 to 1935; a programme from the Provincial Senior League in Hockey, 1937-1938; a sketch titled "The Old Town Hall on Sherbrooke's Market Square at the turn of the Century" by Robert Vuillemin; a calendar with reproductions of photographs and sketches from Sherbrooke and the Townships; and a history of the regimental guidons of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment and the 117th Eastern Townships Battalion.

Cecil H. Bowen
CA ETRC P006-005 · Series · [1866?]-1935, 1986
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains primary source material on the involvement of Cecil H. Bowen in the development of railroads, the mining industry, in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and in Sherbrooke theatre. It also gives information on World War I, the Fenian Raids, the Knights of Columbus, and Cecil H. Bowen's trip to Europe on a steamship in 1906. The series is comprised of the following files: Railroads ([1898?]-[1902?]), Mining (1888-1910), Military (1878-1925), Fenian Raids (1866-1898), Photographs ([ca. 1866]-[193-?]), Travels and Theatre (1879-[1906?], 1986), Knights of Columbus ([1925?]), Boy Scouts (1922-1923), Biographical documents (1875-1935), Correspondence ([1891?]-1930).

Bowen, Cecil H. (1860-1935)
Personal Life
CA ETRC P006-003 · Series · [1863-1865]-1943
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains primary source information on the personal life of Minnie Hallowell Bowen of Sherbrooke, QC from approximately 1863 to 1943. It consists largely of correspondence, photographs, last will and testaments, obituaries and poems. The series is comprised of the following files: Biographical Details (1875-[1914?]), Correspondence ([1889?]-1941), Wills and Estate (1937-1942), Tributes (1911, 1942-1943), Photographs ([1863-1865?]-1941).

CA ETRC P006-002 · Series · [1887?]-1946
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains source material on the Canadian flag issue, on Minnie Hallowell Bowen's position on this question, and on the importance of flags in various countries. It includes mainly correspondence, press clippings, artefacts, drawings, and publications. The series is comprised of the following five files: Correspondence (1897-1934), Texts on the Flag Issue ([192-?]), Flag Designs (c.a. 1930), Press Clippings on Flags ([1897?]-1946) and Publications on Flags ([1915?]-[1922?]).

CA ETRC P006-001 · Series · 1883-1941
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The series contains texts on different topics such as human life, local events, the world wars, and Canadian politics. The series consists of poems, songs, stories, translations, plays, and texts on political issues all by Minnie Hallowell Bowen. They take various forms: original manuscripts; original typescripts; photocopies of press clippings from different newspapers and periodicals; yearbooks; and books and booklets. Some poems are in different versions.

The series is comprised of the following 16 files: Lists of Poems and Writings ([193?]), Baby songs ([1900?]-[1933?]), Individual Poems ([1921?]-[1937?]), Nonsense Verses ([1897?]-[1937?]), Patriotic ([1897?]-[1937?]), Poems and Lyrics ([1897?]-1941), Published Chap-Books ([1921?]-[1936?]), Sonnets ([1922?]-[1940?]), Stories ([1932?]-[1933?]), Translations of Poems by Paul Morin ([1930?]), War Poems ([1914?]-[1941?]), Plays ([193?]), Christmas Poems ([193?]), Other Poems (1883-1941), Yearbooks of the Canadian Author's Association, Montreal Branch (1927-1940), Texts on War Memorials and Parliament Buildings, and World War II ([193?]).