Portrait of the Oates family.

Collections

salishan Place by the River currently maintains a collection of over 9000 photographs, 2000 archival documents, 9000 objects, 500 works of art, and 300 oral history recordings. This collection, spanning hundreds of years, is a wonderful window on the past and present life of our community.

Stay informed about our news, programs, and events by subscribing to eNews.

Enter a keyword below to search the collection. The search will find all records that contain the entered keywords. For example, if you enter "button", the search will return records that contain "button", "button card ", "button hook", etc. If you enter "buttons", the search will not find images that are described with only "button". If you would like to search for multiple terms, please try our Advanced Search.

Search

Search results - click each item for more information

Object Description

Share

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

5224

Title

Portrait of the Oates family.

Date

1952.

Description

Portrait of the Oates family, (l-r) Sylvia, Eardley, Anne, and Jennifer.

Photo Inscription/Caption

From donor's album: A studio picture of our family. By this time Sylvia would have been nine and I would have been seven. Sylvia learned schoolwork on the boat on the way over from India, and skipped Grade one, so at 9 she would have been in grade 5. I was in grade two - in Miss Cairnduff's class. She was my teacher for grades 1-3 - one of my favourite teachers. Sylvia had Mrs. Jamison for 3 years (gr. 4-6). Willoughby School had 2 classrooms and an outhouse.

People/Subject

Oates, Anne

Eardley Connors Oates married Anne Barnes-Cooke. They had two daughters born while the family lived in India: Sylvia in about 1944 and Jennifer (later Phipps) born on Oct. 9, 1945. The family moved to BC, and stayed with friends in New Westminster before buying a farm on James Road in Willoughby on January 13, 1948. Neighbours here were the Light family, and the Marsh (Margaret and Marie) family. While the family lived here, Anne's father, Lewis Barnes-Cooke, fell in a well. Granddaughter Jennifer found him and he was rescued (it was mentioned in the Langley Advance newspaper). The girls attended Willoughby School before the family moved to Burnaby in 1954.

Oates, Eardley Connors

Eardley Connors Oates married Anne Barnes-Cooke. They had two daughters born while the family lived in India: Sylvia in about 1944 and Jennifer (later Phipps) born on Oct. 9, 1945. The family moved to BC, and stayed with friends in New Westminster before buying a farm on James Road in Willoughby on January 13, 1948. Neighbours here were the Light family, and the Marsh (Margaret and Marie) family. While the family lived here, Anne's father, Lewis Barnes-Cooke, fell in a well. Granddaughter Jennifer found him and he was rescued (it was mentioned in the Langley Advance newspaper). The girls attended Willoughby School before the family moved to Burnaby in 1954.

Oates, Jennifer (Phipps)

Eardley Connors Oates married Anne Barnes-Cooke. They had two daughters born while the family lived in India: Sylvia in about 1944 and Jennifer (later Phipps) born on Oct. 9, 1945. The family moved to BC, and stayed with friends in New Westminster before buying a farm on James Road in Willoughby on January 13, 1948. Neighbours here were the Light family, and the Marsh (Margaret and Marie) family. While the family lived here, Anne's father, Lewis Barnes-Cooke, fell in a well. Granddaughter Jennifer found him and he was rescued (it was mentioned in the Langley Advance newspaper). The girls attended Willoughby School before the family moved to Burnaby in 1954.

Oates, Sylvia

Eardley Connors Oates married Anne Barnes-Cooke. They had two daughters born while the family lived in India: Sylvia in about 1944 and Jennifer (later Phipps) born on Oct. 9, 1945. The family moved to BC, and stayed with friends in New Westminster before buying a farm on James Road in Willoughby on January 13, 1948. Neighbours here were the Light family, and the Marsh (Margaret and Marie) family. While the family lived here, Anne's father, Lewis Barnes-Cooke, fell in a well. Granddaughter Jennifer found him and he was rescued (it was mentioned in the Langley Advance newspaper). The girls attended Willoughby School before the family moved to Burnaby in 1954.

Link to Search Results