James Milne Bowrey died on April 8th, 1938, at the age of 59.
He matriculated in 1897, and for the following three years received his technical training at the Central Technical. College, South Kensington, where he obtained his Associateship Diploma of the City and Guilds Institute in civil and mechanical engineering in 1900.
He was engaged as a draughtsman in Pretoria in 1901, and later that year was engaged in a similar capacity by the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co. He returned to England in 1902 as an improver in Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers erecting and fitting shops in Kent, leaving for Canada in 1905.
After a few months with the Locomotive & Machine Co. of Montreal he turned to prospecting, and for six years, until 1912, he examined, sampled, and opened up prospects, mainly on his own account. For a year he was employed in various capacities by Dome mines, and for a short time he was sampler and assistant surveyor at McIntyre before becoming chief sampler at Hollinger.
During the Great War he served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France, Belgium, and Germany, and was twice wounded. For two years after the war he resumed his work at Hollinger, and later settled in Toronto.
Mr. Bowrey was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1922.
Vol. 48, Trans I.M.M. 1938-39, pp. 826-7
