pg 385 Big Hill Country 1977
Alex Howes was born in Guelph, Ontario, and Eva Sivigny was born in Littleton, Vermont, U.S.A. Both their families moved to Success, Saskatchewan, where they homesteaded. Here Alex and Eva met and were married in 1921
In the fall of 1940 they moved to the Cochrane district where Alex started a sawmill up the Grand Valley. In 1950 Alex and his sons started a lumberyard in the village of Cochrane as A. Howes & Sons. In 1953 Alex passed away and his sons carried on the lumberyard as Howes Bros.
Alex and Eva had fifteen children. A baby son, Oscar, died in Success. The other sons and daughters are: James, Cochrane; Orville (Bud), Edgar and Alfred, Calgary;- Arthur, Strathmore; Earl, Revelstoke, British Columbia; Gordon, Ann Raby and Margaret Clarke, Cochrane; Mae Sauvey, Marie Briscoe, Calgary; Emma Pepper, Edmonton; Pearl Campbell, Oakville, Ontario; and Agnes Moore, Prince George, British Columbia.
Mrs. Howes now lives in Calgary.
Deep Dive
- Howes mentions on CHAPS Cochrane blogs
Sadly everyone mentioned in the article has passed on, except for Gordon, who still lives in Cochrane. My Uncle Jim, sold the Lumberyard to Dalton Gibson during the 70’s. Last I heard the Business was located in Crossfield.