Mr. Ernest A. Pitt came to Lethbridge from Hereford,
England in the year 1901. He then went to Turin to his
uncle's ranch (Mr. George Arrowsmith) to recuperate
from fever contracted while serving in the Boer War, as
a member of the 9th Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry.
Mrs. Lillian Pitt came to Lethbridge in the year 1902
from Ilford, England. Mr. and Mrs. Pitt met in Lethbridge
where Mrs. Pitt was working for Mrs. Higginbottom.
They were married at St. Augustine's Church on
September 5, 1904. They had twelve children,
three died as small babies, the other nine are still living.
Mr. Pitt worked for a while in a butcher shop in
Lethbridge, then worked for the C. P.R. as a
brakeman working out of Calgary to Field, B.C.
The two oldest children were born in Lethbridge,
one in Calgary, three in Medicine Hat, three in
Coalhurst. Mr. Pitt operated a butcher shop in
Coalhurst, the building later became the Pentecostal
Church. He then went to work for the mine company
on the switch engine as a brakeman. They picked
up coal cars and took them to the main line for the
Canadian Pacific Railway to pick up. The nine
children all attended school in Coalhurst. Two of the
boys were active in sports, mostly hockey, soccer
and baseball. Two of the girls played softball on the
girls' team, several of the family helped plant trees out
at Park Lake. We learned to swim in the irrigation
ditch or the river near Nicols' farm at Kipp and
learned to skate on Abens' pond near Wigan. We
went to Sunday School at Pentecostal, United
or Anglican Church. The Anglican services were
held in the basement of the I.O.O.F. hall, the
ministers came out from Lethbridge and mother
played the organ. Mother also played the piano for
dances in the hall. We all remember when the schools
burnt down, the mine explosion and the fire in
McDermott's and Willis's store. " D" the Tailor
from Lethbridge would bring, out movie shows to
Coalhurst which we all enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. Pitt
moved to Lethbridge a few years after the mine explosion.

The oldest daughter worked for Mrs. Patton and Mrs.
Daley in Coalhurst. She married and had four children
They moved to a farm in the Pidgeon Lake area, and
then to Falun, Alta

The second oldest son worked for Dad delivering meat
orders after school. Later he worked for Dominic Tedesco
who owned and operated a General Store and meat market.
Part of his work was to go to Lethbridge by horse and
buggy to pick up groceries from the wholesaler. He also
worked for Tony Pavan who had his first grocery store in
Wigan and later moved into Coalhurst. He quit school
at the age of fifteen and worked in the mine 'gripping'.
This was pulling full loads of coal to the bottom of the
shaft and it was then hoisted to the top tipple to be
sorted and run into coal cars for the market.
During the depression he became a Beatty washer
salesman. Money was scarce, therefore he took
anything customers could spare such as; chickens,
pigs, eggs, cattle or grain as down payments.
Families were large so wives appreciated the
luxury of a new washing machine. He married and they
had four children. They moved to Lethbridge
and Ted started working at Sicks' Lethbridge Brewery
and worked there for forty-five years, was bottle
shop foreman before his retirement. He enlisted in
the Army, and served overseas for five years,
and was a Sergeant with the I st Division Tank
Corps and served overseas in England, Italy and
Sicily.

Another son worked in the mine office for several
years. He married they had three daughters. After
the mine explosion, they moved to Calgary where he
worked for the Unemployment Office for a number of
years.

A third son went to work on his uncle Arrowsmith's
ranch in Turin after he quit school. He married and
they had four children. They moved to Lethbridge
and Ernie worked at Sick's Brewery for a number
of years. He served in the Canadian Service Corps
for two years, but had to leave on account of his health

A daughter worked for Dr. and Mrs. Willard Haig
in Lethbridge for three years, then worked for Mr.
and Mrs. A. N. Green. She married and they have one
daughter. Her husband served in the Royal Canadian
Engineers and served in England, France, Holland,
Belgium and Germany.

Another daughter left Coalhurst at the age of fifteen
and a half to work for Mr. and Mrs. George Green of
Lethbridge. She married and had three children.
They moved to New Westminster, B.C. in 1942.

A son finished his high school in Lethbridge. He
joined the Army in 1940 in the Royal Canadian Corps
of Signals, 3rd Division. He served overseas in England,
France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, was made a
Sergeant and served overseas for five years. He returned
to England after the war to spend two and a half years in
Special Service with British Signals in England. He
returned to Canada and served in Northern Canada
with North West Territories Radio System and had
twenty five years Government Service in the Army.
He married and had four sons.

A daughter worked in Lethbridge for two years and
then married a man who worked for the C.P.R. They
moved to Medicine Hat and had five children.

Another son finished his schooling in Lethbridge.
He started to work for Eaton's in the Grocery
Department when he was sixteen. He worked for
Eaton's for forty-one years.He served in the Royal
Canadian Airforce from 1943 to 1945. He married
and had three children. They have six grandchildren.
He participated in minor, junior and senior hockey
in Lethbridge and also played fastball and baseball.

Several of the grandchildren are very musical.