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Catharine (or Cathrine) Ann Skea was the first child born to parents John and Elizabeth Skea in 1887, in Scotland. She emigrated to Canada with her parents when she was 17 months old. Catharine married Clifford M. Pearson in Langley on October 11, 1911. They had three children: a boy who died at nineteen; Harold; and Lorna (married to Cecil Shaw). Mr. and Mrs. Pearson ran a general store in Sardis, which they opened in 1919. In 1945 the general store was taken over by Lorna and her husband, and Mr. Pearson and son Harold began a hardware store in 1950.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-334/1105)

David Reid Skea was born in Langley on December 14, 1903 to parents John and Elizabeth Skea (née Scollay). He was married to Ethel Skea (née Johnston), and they had a daughter Marilyn and a son Don. David died in 1960 in Langley.

Elizabeth Reid Skea (née Scollay), born in April 1863, married John Skea. They had come to Canada in about 1887 and had homesteaded in Langley in 1888 on Telegraph Trail near Otter. Elizabeth was a school teacher in Langley. Elizabeth and John had 6 children: Cathrine Ann (b. 1887), James (b. 1889), Elizabeth Reid (b. 1891), John Scollay (b. 1894), Rhoda Violet (b. 1898), Jane Cooper (b. 1901), and David Reid (b. 1903). Elizabeth died in Langley on November 3, 1945, at the age of 82.
Term Source: HPC Records (SKEA-1/755)

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.

John Skea was born January 30 1863, in the Orkney Isles. He married Elizabeth Scollay (b. April 1863) in 1885 in the Orkney Isles. They had come to Canada in about 1887 and had homesteaded in Langley in 1888 on Telegraph Trail near Otter. They had seven children: Cathrine (Kate) Ann (b. 1887 in Scotland), James (b. 1889), Elizabeth (Beth) Reid (b. 1891), John (Jack) Scollay (b. 1894), Rhoda Violet (b. 1898), Jane (Daisy?) Cooper (b. 1901), and David Reid (b. 1903). John died in Langley on April 29, 1949, at the age of 87.

Rhoda Violet Skea was born in Langley on January 24, 1898 to parents John and Elizabeth Skea (nee Scollay).

The first overland telegraph system in the Canadian West was undertaken by the Collins Overland Telegraph Line, located and constructed through the lower Fraser Valley by Edmund Conway in April to May of 1865. The Telegraph line was commemorated with a cairn and plaque in 1958 in Northwest Langley. Telegraph Trail follows the original alignment of the trail at several places in the municipality; it is designated as a heritage site between 72 and 80 Avenues and 240 and 248 Streets. Telegraph Trail was not improved, and lost its main function when the telegraph line was moved to the Yale Road in 1880.
Term Source: Township of Langley Heritage Listing.