MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES
George and Jessie Black came from their native land,
With them were their two children, a son and daughter.
In 1924 they moved to the Crowsnest Pass, Coleman for
At this time, George became the ditchrider in the Coalhurst
Fauldhouse, Fifeshire, Scotland in the spring of 1920,
to the small mining town of Commerce, about a mile
north of Diamond City, Alberta.
George worked in the mines and also the construction
of the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District.
a short time, then back to Commerce and in the spring of
1926 to Coalhurst, a mile and one half north of the station.
section, for the L.N.I.D. for 26 years. Passing away on
the job, in the spring of 1952, he was known far and wide
as he rode with a horse and two wheeled cart. Jessie
passed away in Fort McLeod in 1975.
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