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Robert Bowman fonds
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4 folders of textual records;ca. 1346 photographs : ca. 1330 b&w, 16 col.
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Robert Alexander Bowman was born in Aberdeen Scotland on June 15, 1916. He was a major in the British Army and was a prisoner of war during World War II. His German wife was killed while mountain climbing during their honeymoon. He left for Canada in 1957, working in Vancouver, then in Whitehorse as a section man for the White Pass and Yukon Route Company. Bowman left Whitehorse in June 1959 by train bound for Montreal and New York, then back to England. He returned to Canada again in 1960, settling in the Yukon where he worked in government liquor stores. Bowman died in Whitehorse on January 31, 1977.
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Donated from the Estate of Robert Bowman by the Public Administrator's Office in 1980 and 1981.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of the personal effects from Robert Bowman's estate. Included are diaries, collected ephemera, and photographs. The three bound, handwritten diaries are for the years 1957-1962. Bowman recorded his experiences travelling by boat to Canada, by train across Canada, working in Vancouver and Yukon, and his return voyages in 1959 and 1960. There is a folder containing Bowman's British driving licenses, letter of reference, ex-prisoner of war identity card, other identification cards, notices of appointment in Navy, Army and Air Force institutes, newspaper clippings, postcards, ship passenger lists, certificates and a German pamphlet. The photographs were taken or collected by Bowman and document his life in the north and his journeys to and from the Yukon.
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Restrictions on access
The diaries are not to be viewed until January 2015. One folder of photographs in PHO 271 may also not be viewed until January 2015. These restrictions were imposed because of the sexually explicit nature of some diary entries and photographs.