Mary “Minnie” Bowden, James Cameron

Housekeeper Mary “Minnie” Bowden (Front – Left) w/ Lady Flora Eaton, John David Eaton, Florence Mary Eaton, Timothy Craig Eaton, Evlyn Beatrice Eaton. (Taken at Eaton summer residence “Kawandag” at Lake Rosseau, Ontario.)

Mary “Minnie” Bowden on Sir John Craig Eaton’s 9 hole golf course at Kawandag. Sir John had passed two years prior. (1924)

Mary “Minnie” Bowden at Canadian National Exhibition. Dufferin Gate West Entrance. Lake Ontario (1926-1929?).

Mary “Minnie” Bowden at “Kawandag” Estate. Lake Rosseau, Ontario. (1924?)

Mary “Minnie” Bowden (now Mary Cameron) with next door neighbour and new born son James Bowden Cameron in May 1929 while living in Coxwell Avenue, Toronto.

James Cameron Snr, Mary “Minnie” Cameron (nee Bowden) with family.

James Cameron Snr with baby James Bowden Cameron. Lady Flora Eaton’s horses at Kawandag. Lake Rosseau, Ontario. 1929

James Cameron Snr. Probably at Eaton residence at Kawandag on account of Italianate architecture? 1929.

James Cameron Snr. on S.S Duchess of York returning from Canada with James Bowden Cameron (son) to Northern Ireland. 24th June 1932

Return to Belfast on S.S Duchess of York from Montreal. 24th June, 1932.

Letter from Lester B. Pearson (then of the High Commission) to James Cameron Snr, RE: Enlisting to WW2. Had been of 4th Canadian Machine Gun Corp 1917-1919. Military No. 1030435. In the end he spent WW2 with British regiments RASC, RAOC and REME, achieving Corporal. 134617

Aubrey C. Jarratt Confectionary. 3288 Yonge Street, Toronto. Friend of Minnie while working for the Eatons.

Passenger declaration on S.S. Metagama. 17th May 1924. Minnie travelled 3rd Class to Toronto, docking in Quebec City having had her passage arranged by the Eatons using the Salvation Army Travel Agency. Her occupation is listed as “Housekeeper – Domestic”. Timothy Eaton was from Clogher, Northern Ireland.

Boston Post, 26th July 1917

Boston Globe, 28th June 1917

Boston Post. 14th June, 1917

Boston Sunday Post, 29th July 1917

Immigration into America. 12th December, 1912.

1st Feb, 1944. Letter from Canadian Importers Ltd in respect of work as Corporal with Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME).

James Bowden Cameron (left) with father James Clark Cameron on his first day signing up with army cadets aged 13. James Jnr would make WO1 with Royal Engineers.