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Object Description

Object ID

0777

Title

Tennis Players in Langley.

Date

1915.

Description

Tennis Players in Langley (l to r), Clair Plaxton, Isabel Drew Marr (nee McIntosh), Ruby Coulter and Dadie Hope.

Photo Inscription/Caption

Inscription in ink: individuals names.

People/Subject

Coulter, Ruby

Ruby Coulter is the daughter of David Coulter. She was born March 31, 1893. She married Ralph Jonathan E. Taylor July 19, 1916, in Langley.

Hope, Ada Graham (Dadie)

Dadie was the nickname of Ada Graham Hope, born November 30, 1897 to parents Charles E. and Lily Dawson Hope (nee Mavis). She was the sister of Alex C. Hope. She married Henry William Poole in Fort Langley on September 1, 1925. They had four children: William Hope, John Kemp, Edward Graham, and Hope Mavis Poole. Dadie died in Kimberly on September 1, 1935.

Marr, Isabel Drew (nee McIntosh), 1895-1936

Isabel Drew Marr (nee McIntosh) was born in 1895, the daughter of William John and Catherine Hart McIntosh (nee Dalgleish). She married Dr. Benjamin Butler Marr. She holds the distinction of being the first caesarean child born in British Columbia. Isabel died in 1936.
Term Source: HPC Records (MARR-4/402), Fort Langley Cemetery pg. 33 (Hannay), Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C. pg 46 (Pepin), The Langley Story, pg258 (Waite).

Plaxton, Clair

Recreation

leisure, picnics
See Also: sports
Term Source: Sears List of Subject Headings (16th. Ed.)

Sports