Langley Centennial Museum's History Group interview conducted by Warren Sommer on 10 Jun. 2008.

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Object ID

SR-236

Title

Langley Centennial Museum's History Group interview conducted by Warren Sommer on 10 Jun. 2008.

Extent

1 audio cassette; 2 cds.

Date

10 Jun. 2008.

Description

SR-236 is a recording of an interview with LCM History Group conducted by Warren Sommer.

Track 1 - Introduces the interview and the members of the Langley Centennial Museum History Group involved in the interview.
Track 2 - Discussion of rationing during World War 2. Mention of the quality of tires and lack of stockings.
Track 3 - Discussion of the relationship between students from different communities at high school. Mention of transportation, driviers education, and working after school. Discussion of First Nations students and students of other nationalities.
Track 4 - Discussion of the reputation of Fort Langley for being a rough and wild place. Discussion of the reputation of Willoughby for being left wing, mention of communists.
Track 5 - Discussion of the consumer revolution - new technology and household appliances.
Track 6-7 - Discussion of the groups children and being a parent in the 1950's.
Track 8 - Discussion of the groups children and being a parent in the 1960's.
Track 9 - Discussion of a memory after the war when everybody went downtown.

People/Subject

Baker, Shirley

Shirley Ann Marjorie Burdett was born in Vancouver on March 10, 1936. Shirley was a granddaughter of the pioneering Burdett family who settled in West Langley on McClughan Road (88th Ave.) near the Surrey border in about 1920. She married Roy Baker on May 12, 1956. Roy came from a pioneer family in the Willoughby area, and the pioneering Treliving family of West Langley. Roy and Shirley had two children, Linda and David.
In 2006-07 Shirley received recognition from the Fraser Health Region in the category of Service Delivery for more than 30 years as the coordinator of baby clinics in Langley. She volunteered or was a member of many other organizations including the Willoughby Women's Institute, Willoughby Hall Society, Arthritis Society, Langley Seniors Society, TOPS, Langley Heritage Society, Langley Centennial Museum's History Group, the 1952 Langley High School grad Class Reunion group, and early morning swim groups. Shirley passed away June 11, 2009.

Cox, Betty

Betty Jean Hathaway was born March 19, 1924 in London, Ontario. She met Frederick J. J. Cox, the Langley Advance master printer publisher when he was serving in the RCAF. They married at the First United Church in St. Thomas, Ontario on December 28, 1945. They left to make their home n Langley Prairie in January 1946. The couple had two children, Linda and Kevin. Betty passed away on September 6, 2013.

Fort Langley (village)

Kells, Frederick Ellis

Frederick Ellis Kells was born to parents Sarah and Frederick Kells April 9, 1923. He married Kathleen Laura McVicar in 1946. They had twin boys in 1950 and a daughter in 1956.

Kells, Kathleen Laura (nee McVicar)

Kathleen Laura McVicar was born on December 29, 1925, in Langley, to Archibald and Ivy McVicar, nee Chatt. She married Frederick Ellis Kells (April 9, 1923 - ) in 1946, and they had twin boys in 1950 and a daughter in 1956.

Langley Centennial Museum

The Museum is located within a designated Heritage Conservation Area in the village of Fort Langley, Township of Langley. Community collecting began in the 1920's with a Native Sons of BC exhibit located in the last remaining Hudson's Bay Company fur trade era structure (circa 1840). A decision by the Canadian Parks Services to actively interpret Fort Langley prompted the provincial and municipal governments to cooperate in the construction of a new museum adjacent to the National Historic Site.

The Township-owned museum opened July 1, 1958 and housed a majority of the Native Sons collection. It was operated by volunteers until 1974 when it was selected by the Federal government as a site for one of 22 National Exhibition Centres across Canada. The physical plant doubled in size, its mandate was extended to include art, history and science traveling exhibitions and the first staff person was hired. Federal NEC operating funding was eliminated in 1994 but the museum has continued to respond to that expanded mandate. In 1991, the Museum became the core facility of the Community and Heritage Services Department, Planning, Development and Stewardship Division, Township of Langley.
Term Source: BCAUL

Native Peoples of North America

Willoughby

Worrell, Ellen (nee Monahan)

Ellen Monahan was born on May 18th 1929 at Mrs. Spears Nursing Home in Langley. She married Jack Worrell, and the couple had three children. She worked for the Royal Bank.

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