The year 2020 marked the celebration of Bouchie Lake’s first “Century Family.” It was 1920 when George Wesley Victor Percival Armstrong (b. March 10, 1874) and Jeannie Bell (Johnston) Armstrong (b. June 19, 1894) travelled from Vancouver to the Cariboo and settled in the Bouchie District1 on the shores of Bouchie Lake (sometimes called Six-Mile Lake). Richard George Robert Armstrong, George and Jean’s grandson, who has lived his whole life on Bouchie Lake, isn’t sure what motivated his grandparents to move to the “bush.” Richard wonders if the move was also driven by George’s knowledge of the Spanish Flu pandemic, which killed between 20 and 100 million people between 1918 and 1919, including approximately 50,000 Canadians.
George Armstrong was a newspaper editor and worked for several papers in BC, including the the and the George andnewspaper.
