Mary Rowena Phillips (1872 - 1941)

Born 12 Jan 1872 in Cherry Creek, Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia

Ancestors

Died 26 Oct 1941 at age 69 in East Kootenay, British Columbia

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Biography

Mary Phillips was a Canadian First Peoples and member of the Metis Nation.

Mary was born 12 Jan 1872

Children of MARY ROWENA PHILLIPS and COLIN JAMES SINCLAIR (8)

• Colin Michael Sinclair 1894–1979
• James Wilton Sinclair 1895–1987
• Jessie Rowena Sinclair 1897–1987
• John Alexander Sinclair 1899–1970 [1]
• Frances Frank Sinclair 1901–1904
• Willie Cowan Sinclair 1904–1980
• Elizabeth Harriet Sinclair 1906–1979
• Richard Sinclair 1909–1983

Elizabeth Gravelle, the granddaughter of prominent European explorer Michael Phillips, and Rowena David, daughter of Tobacco Plains chief Paul David recalls:

"When I was little I used to come and stay with my grandparents at the village As soon as she could sit on a horse, Elizabeth went adventuring with her grandmother, Rowena. Elizabeth was 14, and Rowena was over 70. She remembers her grandmother wanting someone to travel up into the mountains with her, one last time."

Sources

Family source information courtesy of family descendant https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LWFC-8PW

https://www.redriverancestry.ca/SINCLAIR-JAMES-1811.php

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131682774/mary-rowena-sinclair?msclkid=d65c275eb16711ecb6070f9d8444d9c0

https://www.thegoldenstar.net/social-matters/past-present-and-future-of-tobacco-plains/?msclkid=1690d129b1ef11ec950c23f91f580d66

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