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Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stamberg came from Alberta in May, 1914 with their children Joe, Jerry, and Anne, and nephew Jerry Raboch. Their eldest daughter remained behind in Alberta with her husband Frank Herman. Jerry and his son Joe had worked in the mines in Alberta before moving to the Trinity Creek area to try farming.

Jerry built a two-storey log house on Peavine Hill. Joe, like his father, was musical, and they both played in the Enderby Band until it folded when too many of the players joined the army for World War I. The family would work hard all day and rest in the evening. The father and the boys brought out their instruments, first to practise for the band, but also for their own enjoyment; and Mrs. Stamberg would sing with them songs of their homeland, while she and young daughter Ann would sew or knit. Sometimes their father would read aloud to them all sitting cosily beside the wood stove and coal oil lamp on the table.

They had a cow and chickens to get milk, butter, and eggs from; and groceries, including flour, were often carried home from Enderby on their backs, until they could afford a horse and buggy. They were poor and couldn't afford Christmas presents, but they always had a candlelit Christmas tree with candy and cookies hung on its branches.

Mrs. Stamberg passed away on October, 1923, and in 1936 Jerry sold his homestead to a man from Ontario. He built a cabin for himself near his son Jerry, and lived there until he passed away in 1954.

Joe, the elder son, left to serve in the Canadian Army Infantry Corps. When he got back in 1919, he took up a homestead, across the river near Trinity Creek. In 1927 he married Rosie Pechr, and they had two sons. Joe later passed away in Enderby.

Mary and Frank Herman came from Alberta and lived on part of Joe's homestead for a few years. They had two children, Helen and Jerry. Jerry attended school at Ashton Creek for a year before Trinity School was built, then he and Helen attended Trinity School before they returned to Alberta.

In 1930 Jerry married Mary Sheppit and managed the Fortune place before settling in a homestead in 1932. He began farming and milking several cows for cream shipping. Jerry also cut logs and poles. They had a son in 1936 whom they named Charles. In 1946, they moved towards Mabel Lake to have more acreage for the cattle. In 1963 they moved back to the Trinity Creek area. Jerry worked for Riverside Forest Products until he retired in 1969.

Charles was a bushman, and worked at Albert Canyon before returning to the Trinity Creek area. In 1957 he married Gail Mills. They had two children, Gerald and Penny. Charles was killed in a motor vehicle accident at Armstrong in 1966. Gail died in July of the same year. Gerald and Penny moved in with their grandparents and went to school at Ashton Creek.

The youngest Stamberg, Ann, did not go to school until she was seven years old, and knew no English except what her brother Jerry had taught her on the way to school. She stayed with her father for a period of time after her mother had died, then she went out to work. In 1925 she met Charles Cary from Alberta, and two years later they were married. They had a daughter who became a teacher after her graduation. She taught in Vancouver and Victoria before she married Dr. A. J. Taylor. After having travelled extensively in other countries they live in Chilliwack with their two children.

Mellissa Woloshyn, Ron Wiebe, Corey Davyduke
ALF School 1989