(died 5 Nov. 1889), farmer. Joshua Bowen sold his property in Williamsburg Township, Dundas Co. and bought the “Fraserfield” estate in GC about 1874 and established there what was regarded as one of Eastern Ontario’s better farms. The great barn Bowen built on the farm “was a source of wonder at the time” (Dunlop), and had a giant windmill built into it. A description in 1906 of the estate, which was then owned by Bowen’s widow but was available for sale, stated “The bank barn was built by the late Mr. Bowen on lines suggested by long experience, and is the largest structure of the kind in Canada,…” Joshua Bowen died at Fraserfield and is said to have been buried there. Rhodes Grant pays tribute to the large and successful dairying operation conducted at Fraserfield after Bowen’s death by Mrs Bowen and her sons and daughters. Her son Harry married a daughter of Dr Henry Hunt. See also Dr Donald G. McLennan. For Fraserfield, see also Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield and J. D. Bougie.

Glengarrian 8 Nov. 1889 * DTL Standard Freeholder 10 Nov. 1945 based on Cornwall Freeholder 8 Nov. 1889 * MacGillivray & Ross 408 * GHS Newsletter April 1995 reporting on an unpublished work (pp. 34; includes watercolours) by James Henry Bowen on the Bowens and life at Fraserfield * A.L. Dunlop, “54-Room Mansion West of Williamstown…,” SFH (ND) on Fraserfield, WSC 307 * Old Boys 1906 [141] * Rhodes Grant, i, 127 * SFH 30 March 1934: Miss Margaret Tryphena Frances Crang, 23, Edmonton alderman, recently admitted to bar, grandaughter of Joshua Bowen * obituary of Mrs J.H. Bowen, dau. of Dr Hunt, SFH 17 Nov. 1937