George Bruce "Bruce" Brown

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• _UID: 940EC97F253542E28E303764FCFC1F8C64B8
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Ashburnham, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1891, Dundas, West Flamborough & Ancaster Twp, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Dundas, West Flamborough & Ancaster Twp, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada; Commercial traveller, lodger with Harriett Bennett
• Census-Household Member: 1901, Smith Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1901, Smith Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada; commercial traveller

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Died:
?b?18. George Bruce "Bruce" Brown (1864-1923)?/b? (?i?Charlotte Gow?sup? 3?/sup?, Jennett Ferrier?sup? 2?/sup?, John Ferrier, Sr.?sup? 1?/i??/sup?) 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 26?sup?th?/sup? 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.
?i?The Cranbrook Herald, Cranbrook, B.C., 4 Jan 1924, page 1
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Name:?tab?George Bruce Brown
Gender:?tab?Male
Birth Year:?tab?abt 1864
Death Age:?tab?59
Death Date:?tab?31 Dec 1923
Death Location:?tab?Cranbrook
Registration Number:?tab?1923-09-341687
BCA Number:?tab?B13125
GSU Number:?tab?1927302