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Object Description

Object ID

2006.048.002

Title

Bible belonging to James Skea.

Date

1906.

Description

Softcover book "The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments . . ." inscribed "James Skea from his Sunday School teacher Douglas Symington for regular memorizing of verses of the Sunday School Lessons during the year 1905. Langley, B.C. 18th Feb'ry, 1906. Matthew IV.19." Includes "The Concise Bible Dictionary," "A Combined Concordance to the Bible, Dictionary of Proper Names and Subject Index," and maps with "Index to Nelson's Bible Atlas."

People/Subject

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.

Symington, Douglas

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