A world at war brought them together. Lois Cross met Canadian air gunner Ross Bowling while he was serving overseas with 422 Squadron. Lois worked in the payroll department at the Beighton Colliery at Sheffield, she loved to dance, (her future husband did not) and experienced her share of catcalls and whistles from American servicemen stationed in the city. She was not amused. Eventually she met Ross, a cousin of family friends. A whirlwind romance ensued, and they married on July 1st 1944.  (His sister-in-law, Christine Cross, has remarked this was the fastest decision she ever saw him make.) A large trunk inside the waiting room at Fort Langley CN Station tells the next part of the story: when Lois stepped off the train in 1946 she became the first war bride to arrive in Fort Langley. Some 48,000 young women met and married Canadian servicemen during the Second World [...]