B O W D E N

The community may take its name from Bowdon, Greater Manchester, in England. The most widely accepted version says that a surveyor named Williamson suggested that this siding on the Edmonton-Calgary Trail take the maiden name of his wife.
The Post Office opened on December 1, 1892.



YEAR
POPULATION
1901
12
1911
171
1921
222
1931
233
1941
234
1951
277


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