Harry E. Brown Biography
From The Book: The Gleichen Call. A history of Gleichen and surrounding areas, 1877 to 1968,
by Bolinger, Ralphene, page 253.
Gleichen: Gleichen United Church Women: 1967
Pages: 376, ills, ports.
Strathern number: 2893
Article written by wife, Florence (Eddie) Brown
Link to Book
HARRY E. BROWN
by Mrs. Florence (Eddie) Brown
Harry Brown came to Gleichen from eastern Canada in 1914. I came in July 1915.
We lived in a 2-room shack, where I was first introduced to bedbugs.
One night there was one crawling on the baby - Dorothy.
Harry was the proprietor of Brown's Transfer. He had the sole agency for Canadian Oil, White
Rose gasoline, just when the south country (Queenstown, Milo, Shouldice, Arrowwood and Mossleigh) was
being broken up and did a big business. He also had 7 drays hauling coal and freight around
town and elsewhere. Everyone had to cross the river on a ferry at Cluny. I remember
the old Delco plant that lit up the town and made such a clinking noise.
In 1918 we came to Arrowwood and later went to Cluny where Harry worked in a meat market.
One winter he worked for the Revelstoke Lumber Co. at Hussar and I spent the winter visiting in the east.
We moved to Arrowwood permanently in 1924 where Harry had the Post Office and the Revelstoke yard.
We raised a family of 2 girls and 2 boys - Dorothy, a missionary in Ecuador, Fred (Arrowwood),
Thelma (Mrs. Chuck Bannister, Arrowwood) and Bob who died in 1960.
Harry died in 1954. I am living in our farm house just south of town.