I thinkn WIlfred provided this information:

Frank Bouvette and his son Alfred worked on digging the main ditches for the Central Okanagan Land Co., from Mill Creek to the Rutland bench, using teams and scrapers. Later they took up residence on the west side, Bouvette buying part of Ed McDougalls' [sic] ranch, the younger children going to Mt. Boucherie school. Bouvette was secretery of the school board there in 1908-9.

Tragedy struck the family on Good Friday, 1910, when Mrs. Bouvette died. She was buried in the old Catholic cemetery near the Casorso Ranch, on Easter Monday.

Bouvette moved to Kelowna, started a dray and transfer business, and took over Blackwood's livery barn which they (Frank, Frank Jr. [sic] and Alfred) operated in 1911-12. The family began to scatter. Frank Jr. [sic] went to Kootenays, Alfred to Penticton.

In 1914 Bouvette remarried, his second wife, Miss Mary Agnew, of Vancouver, had been a nurse.

Bouvette returned to farming for a time, first in the Black Mountain district, then in Benvoulin, and finally retiring to a small place in the Five Bridges district, where he resided until the death of his second wife in May 1929. He lived for some years with his son Frank [sic] in Kelowna and later was in a nursing home. He died Dec. 4, 1950, in his 90th year, and was buried in the Catholic Cemetery, Okanagan Mission. Friends of long standing were his pallbearers, they were Leon Gillard, A. C. Berard, Anthony Casorso, Jos. Lanfranco, Bob Violett and D. Rampone.

Four sons, Frank [sic], Kelowna; Alfred James, Nakusp; Wilfred Sifton, Lillooet; J. C. Bouvette, New Westminster; and two daughters, Mrs. C. (Emmie [sic]) Armstrong, Detroit and Mrs. D. E. (Effie) Gray, San Mateo, California, survived him and there were also 27 grandchildren and several great grandchildren surviving.

Several of the sons served in the Canadian Army in World War I.

Wilfred S. Bouvette enlisted in the 172nd Rocky Mountain Rangers, C Company, serving first as a bugler, and later, in the 47th Battalion he took part in engagements on Vimy Ridge, preliminary to the main battle, and was wounded on March 31, 1917. The Kelowna Courier of Dec. 6, 1917 also carried a report of his still being in hospital in Britain and reffered to him as "Sunshine" Bouvette, a nickname that he had received as a messenger boy with the government telegraph service in Kelowna.

Alfred Bouvette joined the 49th Battalion at Calgary, but was transferred to the Forestry Corps for service in Britain. Later on he again joined the 49th, serving in France from August 1918 to the end of the war.

Robert Bouvette served with the CAMC and was with the Canadian General Field Hospital at Etaples, France.

The youngest boy, Joseph Bouvette, was too young to serve in the First World War, but joined up in the Second World War and was a sergeant major with the Forestry Corps in Scotland.

Wilfred Sifton Bouvette retired from the Government Telegraph Service, after 41 years service, in 1954. He spent the last 27 years in the Lillooet office, and stayed on there in retirement, building himself a motel.

Some descendants of Frank Bouvette still reside in Kelowna, they are three grandchildren, Frank Joseph Bouvette, Mrs. Pete Gravel and Mrs. Edward Fast.

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CHILDREN (info from Family Dated 1978)
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#1  William Francois BOUVETTE  1889 - 1962  Married  1912  Ada Alberta Beatrice LOCK 1895 - 1975  13 children, lived in Kelowna BC, canada  Scanned image of data re:13 children

#2   001Emma BOUVETTE

#3  Alfred James BOUVETTE  Married   first wife  Blanche FORD (had one JUNE Daughter, )  second wife  Beth ( had a husband FORSYTH, daugher CLARA, brother ROY)  died of old age & pneumonia  (had twin Don & DOUG Boys born in Vernon  doug's twin died from cancer)  live (who?) at Nakusp, BC, Canada

#4  Wilfred Sifton BOUVETTE  b. nov, 24, 1897  Married  Mildred Mitilda (is that last name?)  Had one son  Robert BOUVETTE  has two sons (written in 1978)  and lives in Lillooet BC  British Columbia Archives  Research Library Catalogue  Email: library@www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca  Call Number:    NW_971.1O_B782B  Author:         Bouvette, Wilfred Sifton  Title:          The Bouvettes  Imprint:        Lillooet, B.C. : [W.S. Bouvette], 1980  Descr:          32 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm  Subject:        Bouvette Family  Subject:        Okanagan Region (B.C.)  - Biography  Subject:        Okanagan Region (B.C.)  - History

#5  Effie BOUVETTE  Married  D.E. GRAY   3 children;  Maurice  Marilyn ( moved to Belgium, 7 children)  Frank (moved to England)

#6  Joseph BOUVETTE  Married  first wife  Zella  second wife KAY (5 children:)       Buddy       Betty       Mona       Kenny       Billie

#7  Robert BOUVETTE  died of TB at age 27

#8  Lulla BOUVETTE  married a sailor,  lkast heard of in San Diego, CA  and then Disappeared  had one Daughter; Genevieve  who married  first.. Andrianokos GEORGE  second..  G.LITTLE  they had 3 daughters