Bamboo swagger stick with silver ferrules on both ends.

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Object Description

Object Name

Swagger Stick

Object ID

2006.046.001

Title

Bamboo swagger stick with silver ferrules on both ends.

Date

[between 1914-1918].

Description

Bamboo swagger stick with silver ferrules on both ends. Distal end ferrule is plain. Proximal end ferrule is embossed with crest of the "CANADIAN ENGINEERS NORTH VANCOUVER B.C." that is stamped with "Birks." Owned by James Skea. According to Langley military collector Fred Hazell on 17 January 2008, swagger sticks such as this were popular accouterments used by "gentlemen" in the army.

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.

World War, 1914-1918

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