Bowes, Sarah

BOWES, Sarah, teacher, temperance advocate (b 28 June 1834, Milton, ON; d 12 Sept 1911, Milton, ON). A schoolteacher and activist with the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), she moved west to VANCOUVER in 1886. She became a home visitor for the METHODIST CHURCH and a teacher at a church-run school for CHINESE people, as well as continuing her involvement in the WCTU. She was an organizer for the Union from 1889 to 1893, then its provincial superintendent of missionary work from 1894 to...

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