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Object Description

Object ID

4570

Title

Langley High School Grade 12 class, 1943-44.

Date

[1943-1944].

Description

Langley High School Grade 12 class, 1943-44. Front row (l-r): Bessie Hurl, Ruth Ericcson, Kay McVicar (Kells), Betty Vanetta, Irma Nielson, teacher Roy Mountain, Doreen Peacock, Helen McDougal, Marion Craig, Betty Thatcher, and Erla Ward. Middle row (l-r): Violet Wrubleski, Verna Lightfoot, Andree Nordman, Penny Penzer, Fran Homan, Jean Kinderman, Vera Schatz, Val Wilson, Dorothy Devine, and Marg Greenfield. Back row (l-r): ?, ?, Bill Tickell, ?, Hugh Davis, Jim Skea, Morley Rosengrew, Maurice Mulligan, and Ben Granter.

People/Subject

Hurl, Bessie

Langley High School student (Gade 10 1941-42). Bessie was 1943's Harvest Queen.

Kells, Kathleen Laura (nee McVicar)

Kathleen Laura McVicar was born on December 29, 1925, in Langley, to Archibald and Ivy McVicar, nee Chatt. She married Frederick Ellis Kells (April 9, 1923 - ) in 1946, and they had twin boys in 1950 and a daughter in 1956.

Langley High School

In 1909 the first high school class was organized and held in rented quarters in Murrayville. From 1911-18, classes were held in Belmont Superior School (later Murrayville Elementary), but the school became overcrowded with elementary and high school students. The school board approached the Municipal Council, but their request for a new schol was turned down twice. The board resigned, but the next board was more successful and local contractor Owen Hughes was hired on a low bid of $11,900. The School Board temporarily found room for the overflow pupils from Murrayville in the downstairs portion of Milner Hall and by renting the Sharon Presbyterian Church Hall. In 1922, Langley High School moved from Murrayville to Milner School, where it remained until Langley High School was built on Yale Road in 1924. Langley High School opened in 1924 with two classrooms and one science room. It taught grades 9 to 12. Additional rooms were built in 1934. In roughly 1947 the new school on the current property (2005) was built, and it included Grades 11 and 12. In 1948, the old building on Fraser Highway became Langley Central Elementary, and the high school students moved to the current location (2006) at Langley SECONDARY School. In 1985 the school went from Grades 8-12.
See Also: Langley Secondary School
Term Source: History of Langley Schools" by Harry McTaggart, Maureen Pepin, and Norman Sherrit.

school portraits

Skea, James (Jim) (1889-1963)

James Skea (1889-1963) was born in Langley on December 28, 1889 to parents Elizabeth and John Skea. They had come to Canada in about 1887 and had homesteaded in Langley in 1888 on Telegraph Trail near Otter. James farmed in Langley all his life and served in Canada with the Canadian Engineers in World War I, enlisting in Vancouver on September 3, 1918 and being discharged on 30 January 1919. He married Ruth Victoria Sophia Hector on August 28, 1919. They had 3 children: Ila Ruth (19 October 1920), Rheta May (1 May 1922) and James Hector (30 August 1924). James served as a councillor of the Township of Langley in the 1930s into the 1940s and was a member of the Langley Advisory Planning Committee at the time of his death on January 5, 1963.

Vanetta, Betty

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-378/1142)

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