1906-1907 Bowles' First Yangtze River Journey
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- 1906-1907 Bowles' First Yangtze River Journey See all items with this value
- Description
- Bowles was a member of the "Victoria Eight," graduates of Victoria College at University of Toronto who pledged to become missionaries in China. These six did so, several of them featuring prominently in Bowles' narrative. See all items with this value
- Location
- This event follows the journey of Newton Bowles from his graduation at Toronto, to his hometown of Whitby, Ontario, across Canada to Victoria, BC, where he boarded an ocean liner to Shanghai, and then traveled up the Yangtze River to Sichuan. See all items with this value
- Event Date
- 1906 - 1907
- Published In
- Newton Bowles' retrospective narrative of his first journey up the Yangtze River can be seen online at the link below, created by his grandson David Rutherford.
- Newton Bowles Memoires: Part 2: On to China
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01 Dangerous Rapids on the Yangtze River | Image |
02 Rapids Through the Yangtze Gorges | Image |
03 Yangtze River View Showing Sheer Cliff | Image |
04 Trackers on Shore Preparing for the Gorges | Image |
05 Bowles Wrecked on the Yangtze River | Image |
06 Bowles Yangtze River Party at Wreck Site | Image |
07 Drying Clothes at Bowles' Yangtze River Wreck | Image |
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