Fairweather Bay

Fairweather Bay (49˚20'00" 123˚23'00" S side of Bowen I, Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver). The Cowan family, early landowners at the S end of Bowen I, originally called this little cove Winnipeg Bay in 1907, to honour nieces visiting from that city. One of George Cowan’s daughters, Irene, married Ernest Rogers, a son of BC Sugar (now Rogers Sugar) owner Benjamin Rogers. Benjamin’s widow, Vancouver philanthropist Mary Isabella Rogers, bought land at Winnipeg Bay from George Cowan and built a...

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