Lawrence (family)

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Stan(ley) Lawrence's father, Sheridan Lawrence, came to the Peace River country to live in Fort Vermillion with his parents, Henry & Margaret Lawrence in 1886. Sheridan Lawrence married Juey (Julia) Scott, daughter of Archdeacon Scott. They had 15 children, one of which was Stanley Burman Lawrence, born November 2, 1912 in Fort Vermilion. He was baptised at St. Barnabus' Anglican Church in 1913 by Bishop Edwin Robbins. After growing up in Fort Vermilion, he left to Edmonton in 1928 to take his Grade 9 education at the Edmonton Technical School and boarded at Alberta College. He was back in Fort Vermilion at the Fort Vermilion School of Agriculture for Grade 10 and by 1930, was working on the Lawrence family ranch, including learning to run the grist mill. He served in World War II in the Canadian Forestry Corps and was posted in Scotland and Belgium. He gained the rank of Lieutenant. After the war, he lived in Peace River and worked various jobs including agricultural, Peace River Milling, Horne & Pitfield, enumeration, brush cutting and others. He married Irene Raychaba (May 7, 1922-March 8, 1989) on Sept. 1, 1948 and they had 4 children. They moved to St. Paul in 1958 where he managed at the Horne & Pitfield, but moved back to Peace River in 1961. He also worked for various camps around northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

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