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 News was arriving at Circle about the gold strike on the Klondike River and Bowen watched his congregation dwindle again as miners left for the new strike. He received word from Bishop Bompas to take up duties back in his own diocese but in Dawson where he knew many of the men. He left Circle in early June and reached Forty Mile on 10 June 1897 where he met the missionary teacher Susan Mellett. Bowen arrived in Dawson on the 17 June 1897. His first chore was to move the previous missionary’s house out of the area chosen by Constantine for the Police Reserve and rebuild it at the current site of St. Paul’s Anglican church. Frederick Flewelling’s 20’ x 16’ log rectory, may have been the first house built in Dawson, erected in 1896. ((Richard Bowen, “Incidents in the Life of The Reverend Richard John Bowen.” Pages 164, 167, 169-170, 173-174, 183-184. Government of Canada, Libraries and Archives, 2025 website: Collection search - Richard John Bowen fonds [textual record])) News was arriving at Circle about the gold strike on the Klondike River and Bowen watched his congregation dwindle again as miners left for the new strike. He received word from Bishop Bompas to take up duties back in his own diocese but in Dawson where he knew many of the men. He left Circle in early June and reached Forty Mile on 10 June 1897 where he met the missionary teacher Susan Mellett. Bowen arrived in Dawson on the 17 June 1897. His first chore was to move the previous missionary’s house out of the area chosen by Constantine for the Police Reserve and rebuild it at the current site of St. Paul’s Anglican church. Frederick Flewelling’s 20’ x 16’ log rectory, may have been the first house built in Dawson, erected in 1896. ((Richard Bowen, “Incidents in the Life of The Reverend Richard John Bowen.” Pages 164, 167, 169-170, 173-174, 183-184. Government of Canada, Libraries and Archives, 2025 website: Collection search - Richard John Bowen fonds [textual record]))
  
-Hearing that Bishop Bompas was ill, Bowen travelled to Forty Mile where Bompas discussed his plan of having Bowen and Millet marry and stay at Forty Mile while Bompas took over the newly-established church at Dawson and get much needed medical care for his scurvy. However, Bompas condition worsened and he travelled back to Forty Mile where Susan Bowen cared for him until the boat arrived in the spring of 1898 with Mrs. Bompas as a passenger. At this point, Susan joined Richard Bowen in Dawson. ((Richard Bowen, “Incidents in the Life of The Reverend Richard John Bowen.” Pages 175-179, 182. Government of Canada, Libraries and Archives, 2025 website: Collection search - Richard John Bowen fonds [textual record])) Bowen was busy trying to get a church erected and furnished with the help of Mr. McLeod, a carpenter from Winnipeg. McLeod joined the mission as a teacher and Industrial Missionary and Bowen hoped he would start industrial classes for the First Nations. McLeod resigned the mission and took up mining but not before the church was erected and furnished in the fall of 1898.((Richard Bowen, “Incidents in the Life of The Reverend Richard John Bowen.” Page 189-190. Government of Canada, Libraries and Archives, 2025 website: Collection search - Richard John Bowen fonds [textual record]))+Hearing that Bishop Bompas was ill, Bowen travelled to Forty Mile where Bompas discussed his plan of having Bowen and Millet marry and stay at Forty Mile while Bompas took over the newly-established church at Dawson and get much needed medical care for his scurvy. However, Bompas condition worsened and he travelled back to Forty Mile where Susan Bowen cared for him until the boat arrived in the spring of 1898 with Mrs. Bompas as a passenger. At this point, Susan joined Richard Bowen in Dawson.((Richard Bowen, “Incidents in the Life of The Reverend Richard John Bowen.” Pages 175-179, 182. Government of Canada, Libraries and Archives, 2025 website: Collection search - Richard John Bowen fonds [textual record])) Bowen was busy trying to get a church erected and furnished with the help of Mr. McLeod, a carpenter from Winnipeg. McLeod joined the mission as a teacher and Industrial Missionary and Bowen hoped he would start industrial classes for the First Nations. McLeod resigned the mission and took up mining but not before the church was erected and furnished in the fall of 1898.((Richard Bowen, “Incidents in the Life of The Reverend Richard John Bowen.” Page 189-190. Government of Canada, Libraries and Archives, 2025 website: Collection search - Richard John Bowen fonds [textual record]))
  
 Rev. Bowen contracted typhoid malarial fever in May 1898 [1899] and he and Susan returned to England for his convalescence. Bishop Bompas promised not to call them unless he was desperate, and the call came within the year to build a church at Whitehorse. The Bowens came in on the second passenger train after the White Pass railroad was finished in 1900.((//Five Pioneer Women in the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: Women's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church, 1983: 1-5.)) Bowen held the first services in Whitehorse in a small tent, but construction of the log church still standing on Elliot Street was completed in October 1900. The chancel was partitioned off and the Bowen’s lived in it for the winter. Bowen also travelled to hold services in the railway camps of the White Pass railway. He described the work in Whitehorse as being the same as in all other places he had been stationed, being mechanical, educational, and ministerial.(( T.C.B. Boon, The Anglican Church from the Bay to the Rockies. A History of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land and it’s Diocese from 1820 to 1950. The Ryerson Press, 1962: 223.)) Bowen calls the Whitehorse church the fourth church he planned and erected.((Richard Bowen, “Incidents in the Life of The Reverend Richard John Bowen.” Page 183-184. Government of Canada, Libraries and Archives, 2025 website: Collection search - Richard John Bowen fonds [textual record])) Rev. Bowen contracted typhoid malarial fever in May 1898 [1899] and he and Susan returned to England for his convalescence. Bishop Bompas promised not to call them unless he was desperate, and the call came within the year to build a church at Whitehorse. The Bowens came in on the second passenger train after the White Pass railroad was finished in 1900.((//Five Pioneer Women in the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: Women's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church, 1983: 1-5.)) Bowen held the first services in Whitehorse in a small tent, but construction of the log church still standing on Elliot Street was completed in October 1900. The chancel was partitioned off and the Bowen’s lived in it for the winter. Bowen also travelled to hold services in the railway camps of the White Pass railway. He described the work in Whitehorse as being the same as in all other places he had been stationed, being mechanical, educational, and ministerial.(( T.C.B. Boon, The Anglican Church from the Bay to the Rockies. A History of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land and it’s Diocese from 1820 to 1950. The Ryerson Press, 1962: 223.)) Bowen calls the Whitehorse church the fourth church he planned and erected.((Richard Bowen, “Incidents in the Life of The Reverend Richard John Bowen.” Page 183-184. Government of Canada, Libraries and Archives, 2025 website: Collection search - Richard John Bowen fonds [textual record]))
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