Colonial Despatches

James Lowe, born in 1830 in Scotland, was a San Francisco based merchant who, along with his brother Thomas, extended his operations to Victoria in the mid-nineteenth century.1 He died on 2 February 1879.2

• 1. J. M. S. Careless, The Lowe Brothers, 1852-1870: A Study in Business Relations on the North Pacific Coast, BC Studies no. 2 (Summer 1969): 1-18. http://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i2
• 2. Death of Mr. James Lowe, Daily British Colonist (Victoria), 14 February 1879, 3. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t3b014c15

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