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Object Description

Object ID

1278

Title

May Pole Dance Group of West Langley.

Date

May 1934.

Description

May Pole Dance Group of West Langley. Back row (l-r): Alice Watson, Andree Nordman, Dorothy Woof, Barbara Harris, Irene Bethel, Doris MacDonald, Mary Yurik, Linda ___. From row (l-r): Joan Bethel, unknown, Kathleen McVicar (Kells), Veronica Wood, Ivy Hardwick, and Doreen Hooker.

Photo Inscription/Caption

Writing on reverse in ink reads: "Teacher was Miss. Marion Freeman. May Pole Dance Group. West Langley. 1934. ; K. Kells".

People/Subject

Children

See Also: school portraits
Term Source: Sears List of Subject Headings (16th. Ed.)

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.

May Day celebrations

Fort Langley established its May Day in 1922, and it continues to be an annual tradition (2003). In Langley, May Day refers to the 24 of May, the date of the birth of Queen Victoria. The first May Day was held in Fort Langley, then the event moved to Langley Prairie from 1923-1957. In 1958 the Langley Kinsmen gave up the event, and it returned to Fort Langley where it was organized by the Community Improvement Society and the Fort Langley Lions club, and finally a community committee. May Day celebrations include the crowning of the May Queen and the May pole dancing.

Superbase See Also: May Day Celebrations - Langley Prairie
Term Source: Warren Sommer's "From Prairie to City", p. 154.

Worden, Joan (nee Bethell)

Daughter of Frank and Ada Bethell.

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