George Bruce "Bruce" Brown

1864 - 1923  (59 years)

• Name	George Bruce "Bruce" Brown
  Nickname	Bruce
  Birth	14 Aug 1864	Otonabee Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Census-Household Member	1871	Ashburnham, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Canada
  	Role: Household Member
  Census-Household Member	1881	Peterborough, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Canada
  	Role: Household Member
  Census	1891	Dundas, West Flamborough & Ancaster Twp, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Canada
  Occupation	1891	Dundas, West Flamborough & Ancaster Twp, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Commercial traveller, lodger with Harriett Bennett
  Census-Household Member	1901	Smith Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Canada
  	Role: Household Member
  Occupation	1901	Smith Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	commercial traveller
  _UID	940EC97F253542E28E303764FCFC1F8C64B8
  Death	31 Dec 1923	Cranbrook, East Kootenay District, British Columbia, Canada   [5]
  	18.  George Bruce "Bruce" Brown (1864-1923) (Charlotte Gow 3, Jennett Ferrier 2, John Ferrier, Sr. 1) was born on 14 Aug 1864 in Otonabee Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada and died on 31 Dec 1923 in Cranbrook, East Kootenay District, British Columbia, Canada at age 59. He was usually called Bruce. He had no known marriage and no known children. Death Notes: Well known Figure in City Business Life Passes Away G.B. Brown Succumbs to Attack of Pleurisy. Interment at Vancouver On New Year's Eve there passed away at the St. Eugene hospital one of Cranbrook's old-timers in the person of Mr. George Bruce Brown. He had been identified with the business interests of Cranbrook for approximately twenty years and was well and favorably known among a large circle of friends in Cranbrook and the Crows Nest Pass. "Bruce" as he was familiarly known, was really a western pioneer. A native of Peterboro, Ontario, he was one among the many easterners making the rush to the Klondyke in the early days. Following his return to Winnipeg, where he worked as a traveller for the G.B.Wood Co.,for a time , going thence to Rossland, where he was employed. About eighteen years ago he came to Cranbrook and entered the employ of the J.D. McBride Hardware Co. About 1910 he spent a short time in Fernie as bookkeeper for the J.D. Quail Hardware Co., also with shepherd & Elliot of the same city. He returned to Cranbrook to work with the new firm of Wasson & Parks in 1911 and was engaged with that firm and its successor, F. Parks & Co., ever since. For the last fourteen years Mr. Brown had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. F. Wasson. He was of a quiet, retiring disposition, and did not take any active part in lodge or club affairs, but was a valuable member of the Cranbrook Retail Merchants Association, representing his firm, and acting for a time as secretary. He was taken ill on Christmas Eve, but it was Christmas Day before it was realized his trouble was serious. On the 26th he was removed to the hospital, and though it was thought his chances of recovery were good, he passed peacefully away on New Year's Eve at about 8 p.m., a victim of pleural pneumonia, which his system was too weak to throw off. The late Mr. Brown is survived by his father, who resides with a sister, Mrs Whitney, at Collingwood St., Vancouver. Colin C. Brown is one of two brothers also residing in Vancouver, and another brother, Jack, resides in Seattle. The funeral took place from the undertaking parlours on Wednesday, previous to the departure of the train for Vancouver, where the body was shipped for interment. Rev. E.W. MacKay officiated at the brief service held here. Deceased was a familiar figure in the business life of the city, and will be much missed in the counsels of the merchants when matters relating to their interests are brought up. He was in his sixtieth year and unmarried. The Cranbrook Herald, Cranbrook, B.C., 4 Jan 1924, page 1 Name:     George Bruce Brown Gender:     Male Birth Year:     abt 1864 Death Age:     59 Death Date:     31 Dec 1923 Death Location:     Cranbrook Registration Number:     1923-09-341687 BCA Number:     B13125 GSU Number:     1927302
  Burial	Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
  Person ID	I46527	Lanark County Origins | My Paternal Grandmother's Branch, This is my paternal Lineage
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	George Bruce Brown, Sr.,   b. Oct 1834, Otonabee Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada d. 26 Jun 1925, Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada (Age ~ 90 years)
  Mother	Charlotte Gow,   b. 31 Oct 1832, Otonabee Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada d. 14 Feb 1920, South Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	5 Feb 1862	Ashburnham, Otonabee Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F15769	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Census - Canada - 1891 - Dundas, West Flamborough & Ancaster Twp, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Commercial traveller, lodger with Harriett Bennett - 1891 - Dundas, West Flamborough & Ancaster Twp, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada Census-Household Member - Canada - 1901 - Smith Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada Occupation - commercial traveller - 1901 - Smith Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada Death - 31 Dec 1923 - Cranbrook, East Kootenay District, British Columbia, Canada Burial - - Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S256] Montana., USA, Montana, U.S., County Marriages, 1865-1987, ( Ancestry . ancestry.ca : 2017.), accessed 15 Jan 2022), George Brown, Sr; Year: 1901; Census Place: Smith, Peterborough (West/Ouest), Ontario; Page: 7; Family No: 71. (Reliability: 4). [S99] Book, History of the County of Peterborough, (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: C. Blackett Robinson, 5 Jordan Street, publisher, 1884.), accessed 15 Jan 2022), George Brown household; Year: 1871; Census Place: Ashburnham, Peterborough East, Ontario; Roll: C-9987; Page: 10., 971.363 H39 BR C.1. (Reliability: 4). [S164] Ontario., Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869, (Digital images., Family Search.org . https://www.familysearch.org.), accessed 15 Jan 2022), George Brown household; Year: 1881; Census Place: Peterborough, Peterborough West, Ontario; Roll: C_13241; Page: 22; Family No: 102. (Reliability: 4). [S178] ? Findmypast 2015, Australia, Queensland Deaths 1829-1964 Transcription, ((findmypast.com)), accessed 16 Jan 2022), George B. Brown; Year: 1891; Census Place: Dundas, Wentworth North, Ontario, Canada; Roll: T-6378; Family No: 188. (Reliability: 4). [S461] Christy Spezzano, USA, Laramie County, Wyoming, Naturalization Records, 1867-1920, ((ancestry.ca)), accessed 16 Jan 2022), George Bruce Brown death; Original data: British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency. British Columbia, Canada. British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency: P.O. Box 9657, Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, BC V8W 9P3. (Reliability: 4).