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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]by Britt Bowles<\/em><\/p>\n

For this story to be told it must start with a bit of history.\u00a0 I will attempt to be as concise as possible in order to keep this interesting.<\/p>\n

Mr. Arthur Haiseldean Noakes came to Paris, Ontario, in 1906 from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.\u00a0 Eveline Blanche Hobson who was to become Mrs. Noakes arrived the same year from Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, England.\u00a0 Eveline worked in the stocking mills in Paris, Ontario.\u00a0 It was while she was singing in the choir there that Mr. Noakes met her and decided she was for him.<\/p>\n

Arthur Noakes came to Balfour about 1908 and later sent for Eveline.\u00a0 Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Noakes were the first couple to be married in the St. Michaels and All Angels Church at Balfour.\u00a0 They later bought their own ranch at Balfour where they had 8 children.<\/p>\n

Their daughter Grace, our mother, married John Bowles in 1939.\u00a0 John had moved out from Alberta to find work and met Grace.\u00a0 A couple of years later after working on different jobs John joined the army and went overseas in WWII.\u00a0 I was born in 1944 prior to his return from the army.<\/p>\n

After our father\u2019s return he just wanted a quiet life in the country so they borrowed some funds from our grandmother and purchased the Balfour General Store.\u00a0 The store was the hub of the community and also had the telephone exchange and post office along with a gas pump.<\/p>\n

I mention this as dad delivered groceries to the residents of Queen\u2019s Bay once a week where the Attree\u2019s<\/a> and many other persons from the \u201cOLD\u201d country had taken up residence. \u00a0On occasion when the snow was too deep dad used a toboggan to pull their groceries anywhere from a few hundred feet to about a kilometer or more with one of us kids keeping the groceries from falling off.<\/p>\n

George Frederic Attree<\/a>, along with his wife Edith<\/a> and their 2 sons, Alec and Kenneth, arrived in Queen\u2019s Bay in 1908.\u00a0 Their 10 \u00bd tons of luggage and their Queen\u2019s Bay acreage constituted the major part of the Attree fortune.\u00a0 I would assume that the Brighton Clock was a part of this shipment.\u00a0 By 1910 George had a large apple orchard in place along with some soft fruits and a good-sized vegetable garden.\u00a0 In 1912 Mr. Attree shipped over 2 tons of strawberries and one of their busiest seasons occurred in the early 1930\u2019s when The Kootenay Fruit Growers Association shipped 11 box cars loaded with \u2018Cox\u2019s Orange\u2019 apples to England.<\/p>\n

When the Queen\u2019s Bay church was nearing completion George Attree did much of the finishing work.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Ross Attree<\/a> was born in Brighton on May 22,1892 and came to the Kootenays with his parents in 1908.<\/p>\n

Gladys Attree<\/a> was born in Sussex, England July 26th<\/sup>, 1885.\u00a0 She joined her family at Queen\u2019s Bay in 1914.\u00a0 Gladys ran several dance schools including one in Calgary, Alberta where she met her husband to be John (Jack) Hirst.<\/p>\n

Some time in the 1950\u2019s Kenneth Attree married Joyce Hirst<\/a>, his sister\u2019s step-daughter.\u00a0 Joyce died in the early 1970\u2019s and Kenneth about 1977.\u00a0 Prior to this when I was in my later teens they would ask me to house sit while they went on vacation.<\/p>\n

After Kenneth and Joyce passed away Joyce\u2019s niece came over from Venice to empty the house and put it up for sale.\u00a0 When the Hirst house was being emptied, a painting by Napoleon Bonaparte was discovered in the attic of the Hirst house and was subsequently confirmed as authentic.<\/p>\n

It was at this time that Joyce\u2019s niece offered our family any item in the house that we would like as a memento of her parents.\u00a0 Our parents were offered the mantle clock which they accepted and it sat on their mantle from the late 1970\u2019s until 2025 when our dad (John W. Bowles) passed away in 2019 at the ripe old age of 102.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”8526″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]The Brighton clock now sits on my son\u2019s table in Cooper Creek just north of Kootenay Lake and is still ticking away nicely.<\/p>\n

And that is the story of THE BRIGHTON CLOCK given to George F. Attree by the RINGERS in 1888 and how it ended up on our parent\u2019s mantle prior to my son lovingly taking it home.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”8527″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]PS: Information obtained from the book \u201cKOOTENAY OUTLET REFLECTIONS\u201d.<\/p>\n

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CHEERS TO ALL:<\/p>\n

Mr. Britt P. Bowles \u2013 brittbowles9@gmail.com<\/p>\n

#44 \u2013 6537-138th<\/sup> Street<\/p>\n

Surrey, B.C. Canada<\/p>\n

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