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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

1291

Title

Bethell family on raft during 1948 flood.

Date

1948.

Description

Photograph most likely taken somewhere on White Road, near the Bethell property. In front is the son of Frank and Ada Bethell, Raymond Frank Bethell (called Bob), behind him is his sister, Joan. Sitting to the left, beside the milk containers is Roger Melenchuk, son of Mike Melenchuk (son-in-law of Frank and Ada Bethell). In the rowboat is Mike Melenchuk and his daughter, Marilyn. The family is taking the milk (in large containers) to higher dry land to be picked up by Dairyland.

People/Subject

Bethell, Frank & Ada

Owned the Bethell Farm on White Road in West Langley (White Road ran between 200th and 208th Street, just north of the railway tracks - approximately where 102B Avenue is). Frank and Ada were married January 21, 1919 and they moved to the farm sometime after they were married. The couple had four children, three girls (including Kay and Joan) and one boy, Bob.

Bethell, Raymond Frank (Bob)

Raymond Frank Bethell (called Bob) was the son of Frank and Ada Bethell.

Boats

See also: paddle steamer, ships, steamboats, steamships, sternwheelers, canoes, models

floods and flooding

General subject term - see "flood of 1948" for more specific information on the large 1948 Fraser River flood.

Fraser River Flood of 1948

Refers to the large, Fraser River flood of 1948. Similar subject term, "floods and flooding" refers more generally to floods and flooding.

Melenchuk family

Kay Bethel was the daughter of Frank and Ada Bethel of West Langley. She married Mike Melenchuk, and the couple had three children: Roger (approx. 1941), Michael (1944) and Marilyn (1945).

Worden, Joan (nee Bethell)

Daughter of Frank and Ada Bethell.

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