I have one Bowles family story about the restaurant line. William Cochrane Bowles (my line) had been Chief Clerk of the Canadian Parliament when he retired in 1915. In 1916, the Parliament Buildings burned down. When William saw the flames from his home he rushed to the building but was not able to enter to fight the fire. He retreated to Bowles Lunch where he watched the building burn and where he helped to put together a crisis team to establish a new government center which got to work that same day. > > From: Randi Meetzen <meetzen@sbcglobal.net> > Date: 2005/07/02 Sat PM 04:52:53 CDT > To: BOWLES-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Bowles Lunch Question > > I have been reading a bit about a chain of restaraunts in Canada called Bowles Lunch. Are there any Canadian Bowles researchers ,maybe Mr. LaPorte, who have some info on this and which Bowles line were the owners? > > > Randi Bowles-Meentzen > > Tom LaPorte