Bob McCowan was born November 9, 1917.  He is from the once small farming village of Scarborough, Ontario.  He saw a good deal of Canada during the Second World War years. Bob was an aeroengine mechanic, and spent his time in Canada in the Commonwealth Air Training Plan on a number of different bases. He did volunteer to go overseas and was on a ship proceeding to Britain when the war ended in Europe. He had been assigned to a Transport Squadron that had expected to go to the Far East. The war in the Pacific was still going on, but ended before the squadron ever got any farther than England. Bob was posted down to Torquay in the south of England to await ship back to Canada. He was in England for about six months and was free to travel, managing to get up as far as Inverness in Scotland. Back home, Bob worked for the Post Office in Toronto and Scarborough. In his spare time he fixed cars, something he had always enjoyed doing. He took a piece of the family farm which contained apple trees from Robert’s old orchard, and he built a house on it, facing onto McCowan Road. He married Marion Thomson, fifth generation member of the family of David and Mary Thomson, first settlers in Scarborough. Bob was a busy person, in charge of St. Andrews Cemetery, looking after a good sized garden, bowling in the summer and curling in the winter.  His brother Jack was interviewed for this project in 2019, and the McCowan family shared Bob’s interview in 2024, part of their ongoing commitment to remembrance.