While reading over some of the family names from Ruby Nobbs' Revelstoke History and Heritage book it occured to me (again?) Revelstoke had a wide variety of ethnic communities within a relatively small area. Apparentley there was a time when the various groups lived in their own sections of the Revelstoke area.... Little Italy was south of the tracks that led to Arrowhead, Scandinavia was in the Big Eddy, Chinatown was around Wong's Pool Hall, Little Scotland was near where the eastern access to town is now, the Ukranians lived at 12 mile or Mt Cartier, the German's also lived down south. However as multi cultural as our home was with it's various ethnic communities I never remember encountering an African-Canadian/American until a very special event. I'm not sure what year they arrived but I suspect it was in the early sixties. I can't remember if they played our local team or if they had brought a white team along with them, as they often did, but I do remember some of the tricks (ie - the bucket of water/confetti into the crowd) and their incredible ability to control a basketball. The evening the Harlem Globe Trotters (or was it the Harlem Clowns) came to the High School was some remarkable entertainment for our city.... dwarfed only by Barnum and Bailey in the Big Eddy a few years earlier.