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Object Description
Object ID
0832
Title
South Asian farmhand, name unknown (far left), Robert J. Wark (middle) and Alexander Wark (right) milling logs.
Date
[ca. 1910].
Description
South Asian farmhand, name unknown (far left), Robert J. Wark (middle) and Alexander Wark (right) milling logs.
People/Subject
Agricultural Laborers
Indo-Canadians
Wark, Alexander Marshall, 1842-1932
Alexander Marshall Wark was born in Ireland on January 19, 1842. He married Isabella James, and after she died January 12, 1909, he married Fenwill H. Mitchell in Fort Langley on March 18, 1913. Alexander died January 13, 1932, at the age of 90.
Term Source: 1990 and counting, pg 67 (MacKinnon), The Langley Story, pg. 267 (Waite)
Wark, Edith (nee Kirkby)
Married to Robert James Wark. She took many of the pictures in the Wark collection according to Mary Wark Starr and Marshall Clair Wark.
See HPC Records, WARK-1 through WARK-11.
Term Source: HPC Records (WARK-8/804)
Wark, Robert James, 1874-1936
Robert James Wark was born in 1874, and lived in Londonderry, Ireland, before coming to Langley Prairie at the age of 16. Robert married Edith Kirkby, and the couple had two daughters, Mary and Dorothy. Robert was a Municipal District Clerk from 1901-1902, and the Reeve of Langley Township 1914-1918. He was known for owning the first car in the district. Robert died January 31, 1936, at the age of 61.
Term Source: HPC Records (WARK-8), The Langley Story pg. 267 (Waite)
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