Bower Featherstone

Bower Featherstone was a Canadian civil servant who was convicted of espionage in 1966.

Featherstone was a lithographer who worked for the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.

A promising young officer in the RCMP Security Service, Gilles G. Brunet, played a significant role in his conviction, work for which he won a promotion. His handler was Eugen Kourianov. According to Nigel West, Kourianov was suddenly recalled to the Soviet Union, suggesting a mole had tipped off the Soviets. Decades later western intelligence learned that Brunet, the young officer who won promotion for his work in convicting Featherstone, had also been a mole.

The main document he was convicted of handing over to the Soviets was a confidential chart of two shipwrecks southeast of Newfoundland.

Featherstone received a 30-month sentence, and served 10 months—2 months in the maximum security Collins Bay Institution, and 8 months at a minimum security forestry camp, before he was paroled.