Fonds F0287 - James Ernest Brown fonds

James Ernest Brown, 1885-1965, was a farmer near Oyen and later Castor, Alberta. In the First World War he enlisted in the 89th Battalion at Calgary and served with the 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion in France and Belgium. He wrote many letters home, especially to his mother and his sister, Marion, a nursing student in Edmonton, expressing his feelings about the war. In 1919 he married Bertha Cates of Oyen and they had four children, Merton, Margaret (James), Doris (Thomson) and Kay (Jones). He was very active with the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), eventually serving on the executive. For further information see James Ernest Brown : A Soldier for his Times / John Burge. -- Toronto : J. Burge, 1986, revised edition 2011.