Fonds 20-008 - Kathleen Bowley fonds

Fonds acquired from Gordon Bowley in 2019.

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See also Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Peterborough Club fonds and Robert Bowley fonds.

SERIES A:

Kathleen Bowley documents (1943-2010)

BOX 1

Folder

1. Photographs: Kathleen Bowley and family members, ca. 2003-2006
2. CDs (4); VHS (1): related to the Navy Wren uniform
3. Booklet: “A Wren Uniform from World War II, 1939-1945”; related correspondence and photographs (5), ca. 2005
4. Navy-related correspondence, research material, newspaper clippings, etc., ca. 2001-2008; also typed “Christmas Stories”, 1943, 1944
5. as above
6. as above; also large loose envelope titled “Pictures for Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War (1939-1945), 2005 – Second Edition, loaned to Carolyn Gossage”
7. “Compositions”: includes articles and talks by Kathleen Bowley, and related research material; titles include: “Glen Dhu”; “Lisgar Collegiate Assembly”, 1995; “St. Margaret’s Guild – St. John’s Anglican Church Peterborough”, 1997; “Interview with Ban Righ Centre”, 2000; “Tom Boddy of the Choir of St. John the Evangelist Peterborough”, 1978; “One of 6000 – Kathleen Bowley’s Wartime Story”, 2009; “The People’s Chimes”, 1991 [re John Butcher]; “Sarah Richmond: A Love Story”, 1999; plus various other articles
8. as above
9. Newspapers articles about Kathleen Bowley related to her service in World War II; curriculum vitae notes; miscellaneous documents of a biographical nature
10. Personal notes and documents, ca. 1981-2008
11. Glen Dhu Public School, Whitby, Ontario – opening event 1990; talk re Glen Dhu by Kathleen Bowley
12. United Empire Loyalists’ Association application and documentation certifying that Kathleen Bowley descended from United Empire Loyalist Bernard Frey, 1988
13. Queen’s University “The Clara Farrell Brooke Bursary”, 2002-2007
14. Records of gifts to Peterborough Museum, Lang Pioneer Village, Archives and to Art Gallery of Peterborough, etc., 1985-2010
15. Robert Bowley’s “Chinese Art Book”: donation of manuscript to Library and Archives Canada, 2002-2005
16. Ontario Genealogical Society project: Family Health Trees: speeches, publications, correspondence, notes, 1996-2009
17. Canadian Federation of University Women [CFUW] Peterborough Club: “Annus Aureus mcmlxxxvii: A History of the university Women’s Club of Peterborough, Ontario 1937-1987”; “Summary of Programs – March 1937 to May 2005, University Women’s Club of Peterborough”; “The Era of the Charter Members: Canadian Federation of University Women Peterborough Club 1937-2007”
18. CFUW Peterborough Club: guest speaker fabric artist Stephanie Ford Forrester, 2009
19. “CFUW Peterborough Club: The Corporate Memory” by Kathleen Bowley, 2010; “CFUW Peterborough Awards Fund: Awards Criteria as of February 2010”; “CFUW Ontario Council Annual General Meeting 2007: CFUW Peterborough Club Local Arrangements Committee Final Report 2007”
20. “Barclay Bowley personal CFUW papers 1972-2010”
21. Miscellaneous items: various including Royal Albert Hall program re Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, 1945; also, unattributed manuscript titled “Our Canadian Cultural Life”, ca. 1965

Loose in box: 2 rolled certificates from Queen’s University, 1948 & 1949

BOX 2

Publications related to women’s role in the military. It is apparent that Kathleen Bowley was involved in some of these publications: Smashing the Atlantic Wall: The Destruction of Hitler’s Coastal Fortresses / Patrick Delaforce, 2001

Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War (1939-1945) / Carolyn Gossage, 1991

Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War (1939-1945), Revised Edition / Carolyn Gossage, Foreword by Roberts Bondar, 2001

Props on Her Sleeve: The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman / Mary Hawkins Buch… with Carolyn Gossage, 1997

Double Duty: Sketches and Diaries of Molly Lamb Bobak, Canadian War Artist / edited by Carolyn Gossage, 1992

Also, CD of music titled “Gracie Fields: Favourites” (Fields was an entertainer who performed for troops during World War II)

SERIES B:

Barclay family letters (ca. 1900-1976)
The historical letters in Series B represent an Oshawa/Whitby area family over a period of 76 years. Topics of discussion include courting and marriage relationships; the nursing career of Marjorie Barclay (paternal aunt to Kathleen Bowley); and the service of three of Marjorie’s brothers in World War I.

Marjorie Gerogina Dow Barclay was the daughter of Lyman Theophilius (L.T.) Barclay (1855-1925) and Katherine Isabella Dow Barclay (1858-1953). Her siblings were: John Ball Dow Barclay, Donald Barclay, Helena “Squeak” Barclay, Robert George Barclay, Isabel “Issie” Barclay, and Frederick “Fred” “Freddie” “Barc(k)” Barclay.

The letters are comprised primarily of personal correspondence between Marjorie Barclay and numerous individuals. The majority is addressed to Marjorie from her immediate family, "beaus" and friends/acquaintances; other correspondence is from Marjorie’s extended family and friends to other members of her family or to acquaintances. Addresses from which the letters were sent include Peterborough, Oshawa, Whitby and Toronto, as well as Edmonton, California, England, France, etc.

Note: the letters were received folded in their envelopes and loose within boxes in no apparent order. They were opened and filed as follows:
Chronologically by date
If there was no year on the letter:
Placed in one of the no date folders based on addressee/addressor
Some of the letters had a date/year written at a later time
If it was possible to combine the original date from the creator with the year, it was placed chronologically in the folder
If it was limited to a month/year it was placed at the end of the month/year range (i.e. March 1929 is placed after March 31, 1929)
If there was only a year, it was placed at the end of the year range (i.e. 1921 is at the back of the 1921 folder after December)
If there was an incomplete year, it was placed at the end of the decade folder (i.e. 193? was placed at the back of the 1939 folder)

Note: approximately 32 photographs were received together with the letters; they are located as follows:
With letter dated April 18, 1918
With letter dated October 8, 1918
With letter dated November 1, 1921
With letter dated November 2, 1922
With letter dated November 21, 1922
With letter dated September 25, 1923
With letter dated April 13, 1924 (2 photographs attached)
With letter dated March 26, 1925
With letter dated December 17, [1929]
With undated letter located in Box 3 Folder 13 (letter from Bertice to Marjorie)

In Box 6 Folder 1 (21 miscellaneous photographs)
One photograph is in an envelope with newspaper clippings; “Cas” is written on the envelope
These photographs were not associated with any letters. Any photographs originally held together with a rubber band/found together were kept together with a clip.

Note: miscellaneous information about the letters:
Fabric square with letter May 23, 1929
If a newspaper clipping was found in a letter, it was kept with the letter
Some letters include postscripts written by others
A folder of information added to the top of Box 3 about possible relationships between the correspondents; this information was gleaned from the letters by Archives staff

BOX 3

Folder

1. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Marjorie to Marjorie. One letter addressed to Aunt Kate and Marjorie)
2. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Henry H.H. Johnstone “Boy”)
3. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Charles)
4. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Art)
5. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Douglas)
6. Correspondence- No date(includes correspondence regarding Dad, Mate, and Mother)
7. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Helena “Squeak” Barclay, and Isabel “Issie” Barclay)
8. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding George, “Red,” and Barc/Bark)
9. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Mary Lou)
10. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Margaret, Agnes, Mary A. Dow, Auntie Mac, Dorothy Jane, Nellie Adams, and Margaret “Marg”)
11. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Helena, Kay, Nico and Brenda, Nico, Frances Mary, and Kim)
12. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence addressed to Marjorie from Charles, Mr. Lloyd Hanlley)
13. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence addressed to Helena, Ms. B— , Ms. Barclay, and Marjorie from various correspondents including Arnie J. Wellbourne, Olive Moore, Nancy, Maud Burrell, Mary, Isabel Nainby, Leona J Basselman, Ethyle, Elanor Driscoth, Iowa Jordan, Edith, Sue, Marion, Glad, Eurayle & Don, Dev, Myrtle, B, Carrie, Gertie, Ettie Miln, Bud, Bertice, Arnie, Art & Elizabeth B., no signature (x 3), Ruth L. Barnes, Rubus, Peg, Gerry, Harry, H.H Bingham, Katharine, Kelly, Luella D., Marion, Nan & Marion, Mary, Mary S. Bisset, Marlie, Arta, and Margaret.)
14. Correspondence- No date (includes correspondence regarding Louise Russell, Bark, Barcus, Jack, Tame, Rusha)
15. Correspondence- incomplete/ fragments
16. Keepsakes (includes Train Line time schedule for Southern Pacific Lines, a Southern Pacific Lines Map, Programmes, Balls, Postcards, and Exhibits)
17. Genealogy, Newspaper Clippings
18. Essays, forms, poems, songs, bills, prayers
19. Correspondence- 1900; 1904-1906; 1909-1910
20. Correspondence- 1911-1913
21. Correspondence- 1914
22. Correspondence-1915
23. Correspondence-1916
24. Correspondence- 1917

BOX 4

Folder

1. Correspondence- January to June 1918
2. Correspondence- July to December 1918
3. Correspondence- January to June 1919
4. Correspondence- July to December 1919
5. Correspondence- January to June 1920
6. Correspondence- July to December 1920
7. Correspondence- 1921
8. Correspondence- 1922
9. Correspondence- January to June 1923
10. Correspondence- July to December 1923
11. Correspondence- January to June 1924
12. Correspondence- July to December 1924
13. Correspondence- 1925

BOX 5

Folder

1. Correspondence- 1926
2. Correspondence- 1927
3. Correspondence- 1928
4. Correspondence- 1929
5. Correspondence- 1930
6. Correspondence- 1931
7. Correspondence- 1932
8. Correspondence- 1933
9. Correspondence- 1934
10. Correspondence- 1935
11. Correspondence- 1936
12. Correspondence- 1937
13. Correspondence- 1938
14. Correspondence- 1939
15. Correspondence- 1940- 1944
16. Correspondence- 1945-1949
17. Correspondence- 1950-1954; 1957;1959
18. Correspondence- 1960-1964
19. Correspondence- 1965
20. Correspondence- 1966-1967
21. Correspondence- 1968-1969
22. Correspondence- 1970-1971; 1973-1976

BOX 6

Folder

1. Miscellaneous photographs (21)

Loose in box:

a. bank book
b. three notebooks
c. Edmonton St. Ry. Dept. ticket
d. Sunday school Bible
e. The Gospel according to St. Mark
f. hymn book
g. mailing envelopes
h. index cards, 1965-1968, re people's birthdays, anniversaries, and gift lists organized by month
i. 1962 memory calendar