Birth Date: 26 October 1862
Birth Place: Bridgeport, Dorsetshire, England
Death Date: After 1925
Death Place: Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada
Parents: George Browne EWENS, Susan Spittal MATHEWSON
Relationship to Val: 3rd Great-Uncle (through marriage)
Spouse: Eveline Bessie PEARSON
Marriage: 7 January 1886, Glendale, Manitoba, Canada
Issue: 8 children (all born in Manitoba)
Immigration to Canada: 1881, aboard the Marivian. Sailed with Frank PEARSON, Hugh Marshall DYER, and ? LOGGIN (Ned's son). The ship left Liverpool on 20th May. They arrived 10 days later in Quebec.
Occupation: Farmer.
Reminiscences Of An Old Timer. James' memoir of immigration to Canada, and of settling in the prairies in Manitoba (long).
The Story of Manitoba. A chapter on James from a 1913 book by Frank Howard Schofield (1859-).
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