His father, Malcolm Ross Bow, was a medical doctor and Alberta deputy minister of health for 25 years.
[2] He was seconded by the British and posted to Myanmar[3] and India, eventually achieving the rank of major.
[2] Returning to Britain in 1945, Bow proposed to Betty Roberts, a British aeronautics inspector at a Lancaster bomber factory.
[2] After returning to Canada, Bow worked as a journalist for the Vancouver Province and completed his undergraduate degree.
[8] Bow considered his greatest accomplishment to be the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which he helped negotiate.