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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.

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File: '005358'

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Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

5358

Title

Hl-Y group from Langley High School.

Date

May 1943.

Description

Hl-Y group from Langley High School. Back row (l-r): Valerie Wilson, Vera Schatz, Margaret Greenfield, Ruby Hunt, Jean Crawford, Olga Maloff, Norma Dick, Miss Hind, Beverly Fergeson, Verna Lightfoot, Gail MacLeod, and Grace Crystal. Front row (l-r): Betty Bolten, Andree Nordman, Ruth Erickson, Doreen Peacock, Linda Rosen, Betty Slater, Bessie Hurl, and Helen Gladhill.

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Erickson, Ruth

Langley High School student (Grade 10 1941-42).

Gray, Betty (nee Slater)

Greenfield, Margaret

Langley High School Student (Grade 10 1941-42).

HI-Y group

Hurl, Bessie

Langley High School student (Gade 10 1941-42). Bessie was 1943's Harvest Queen.

Langley High School

In 1909 the first high school class was organized and held in rented quarters in Murrayville. From 1911-18, classes were held in Belmont Superior School (later Murrayville Elementary), but the school became overcrowded with elementary and high school students. The school board approached the Municipal Council, but their request for a new schol was turned down twice. The board resigned, but the next board was more successful and local contractor Owen Hughes was hired on a low bid of $11,900. The School Board temporarily found room for the overflow pupils from Murrayville in the downstairs portion of Milner Hall and by renting the Sharon Presbyterian Church Hall. In 1922, Langley High School moved from Murrayville to Milner School, where it remained until Langley High School was built on Yale Road in 1924. Langley High School opened in 1924 with two classrooms and one science room. It taught grades 9 to 12. Additional rooms were built in 1934. In roughly 1947 the new school on the current property (2005) was built, and it included Grades 11 and 12. In 1948, the old building on Fraser Highway became Langley Central Elementary, and the high school students moved to the current location (2006) at Langley SECONDARY School. In 1985 the school went from Grades 8-12.
See Also: Langley Secondary School
Term Source: History of Langley Schools" by Harry McTaggart, Maureen Pepin, and Norman Sherrit.

Lightfoot, Verna

Langley High School student (Grade 20 1941-42).

Nordman, Andree

Langley High School student (Grade 10 1941-42).

organizations

Peacock, Doreen

Langley High School student (in Grade 10 1941-42).

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