Blacks--British Columbia

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Lawson Stroulger interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lawson Stroulger describes how he came from England in 1893 at the age of five with his father Arthur Stroulger; why they came to Canada; details on his family; their arrival in Mara and; what it was like; living there for two years, and then homesteading in Deep Creek which is eight miles away from Enderby; buying a ranch north of Enderby; how his father built roads while they lived in Mara; what he remembers about Mara at that time, including people who lived there and what the country looked like; details on the move to Deep Creek by wagon and details on their life there including the old timers there and what they did; animals that lived in the area and how as a child he would be scared walking home at night; what school was like at Deep Creek; more on what life was like; ;stories about the Black people there including Tom Patterson and his family; life near Armstrong; what Armstrong was like; moving to Enderby; and what Enderby was like. TRACK 2: Mr. Stroulger continues by discussing working on clearing land with his father and other jobs he worked at; a bad fire in 1919; more characters around Enderby; his marriage in 1912; what his early married life was like; and working in the bush.