MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES
Harry Black, born in Wales, immigrated to Canada.
Harry married Annie Gray shortly after the First World War.
Arriving at Coalhurst, he was employed as an engineer
in the Coalhurst Mine; while farming N. 1/2 S.E.10-9-22.
After the mine closed Harry Black worked for Fraches
Flowers firing boilers in Lethbridge. During the
Second World War he worked for No. 8 Bombing and
Gunnery School.
They had two children, a son who served in the war and
married a girl from England, eventually settling in Boston,
Massachusetts. A daughter, Alice Black married Dan
Wilson, Dec.19, 1932. Dan worked for the Lethbridge
Northern. Alice and Dan resided at Park Lake until
their deaths, when they both drowned in a boating
accident in 1940.
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