Prowse- William H. Prowse House
Collection Search
Description
William H. Prowse was a son of Senator Prowse, and left Murray Harbour as a young man to live in Alberta and Manitoba. He came back later in about 1913, and became a partner in Prowse and Sons with his brother Albert Perkins Prowse. He had this home built in Murray Harbour, but it was destroyed in a fire shortly after the end of WWI. Ray Brooks, who is one of the local participants in Dutch Thompson's Island Voices interviews, later owned the property.
In collections
- Title
- Prowse- William H. Prowse House
- Creator
- Subject
- Architecture, People, Industry
- Description
- William H. Prowse was a son of Senator Prowse, and left Murray Harbour as a young man to live in Alberta and Manitoba. He came back later in about 1913, and became a partner in Prowse and Sons with his brother Albert Perkins Prowse. He had this home built in Murray Harbour, but it was destroyed in a fire shortly after the end of WWI. Ray Brooks, who is one of the local participants in Dutch Thompson's Island Voices interviews, later owned the property.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Carmen MacDonald
- Date
- between 1913 and 1919
- Type
- Format
- Identifier
- cap:2024
- Source
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Murray Harbour Collection
- Coverage
- Rights
- The Island Narratives Program has gained permission to make the obtained data publicly available in electronic and/or print form and to disperse the information for the purposes of education and community awareness..