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Moved to Derby after he got work there. Later moved to Canada

Living with parents and family at Litchurch, Derbyshire. Engine Driver.

Worked for Darlington Railway as Engine Driver. ôHe incurred the displeasure of the railway owners who were Quakers by going on Sunday picnics to Eston Nab in the Chilton Hills. Was dismissed after 15 years with them.ö

The Eastern Daily Gazette on the death of Alderman Bowes, some years later, recalls this:
ôà.There was residing in this town along with Mr. Bowes, a very advanced political, social & moral reformer of the name of George Sunter. He was a man of unblemished character, of high intellectual powers, a fairly good public speaker and an exceptionally able writer. He was what Thomas Carlyle would have described as ôThe sworn enemy of all scoundrelism, bravery a Rascality: a true ævillage HampdenÆ, who never feared the face of men; no fiercer enemy of unveracity; veritable as old rocks; an unwedgable and gnarled block of manhood. He was greatly in advance of his age and suffered the fate of most advanced reformersà. No fault could be found with him in the discharge of his duty, but because he had given offence to some of his directors by his unpopular views, he received an official notice that his services were no longer required by the Stockton & Darlington railway. Mr. Bowes regarded this as a piece of petty persecution and summoned the meeting above mentioned above.ö