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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

0984

Title

Class of the Fort Langley school with their teacher Miss Mary Pack (far right).

Date

1927.

Description

Class of the Fort Langley school with their teacher Miss Mary Pack (far right). Back row (L-R): unknown, unknown, Frank Holding, Bert Hunter, unknown (could be Neil Primrose) and Jimmy Houston. Second row (L-R): ? Fillardeau, Phyllis Sailes, ? Fillardeau, Dorothy Houston, John Herrington, and ? Fillardeau. Third row (seated, L-R): Hazel Hunter, Muriel Medd, Katherine Marr, unknown (could be Gwen Bowling), Hazel Harper, Vimy Sailes, Joan Herrington, Isobel Carruthers, Annie Fillardeau, and Mabel Shepherd. Front row (L-R): Arthur Cordoni, Don Reid, and Willard Marr "Pete" Brown.

Photo Inscription/Caption

Inscription on front reads: "Fort Langley School. Div. III - 1927".

People/Subject

Brown, Willard Marr (Pete)

Willard Marr (Pete) Brown was born in 1920 to parents William Harvey and Ann Elizabeth Brown (nee Medd). He was married several times, his first wife being Lorraine Edwards. He had three children: Douglas, Marcia and Harvey. Pete died January 9, 1954.
Term Source: HPC Records (HPC-275a/1071)

Children

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

Fort Langley Elementary School

Fort Langley Elementary School was located in the Langley School District, later School District 35 (Langley).

Pack, Mary

Mary Pack was born in England in 1904 and came to Canada at the age of 18 to settle on a farm in Langley with her family. She was a teacher at Fort Langley School in the 1920s. In 1946 she approached a politician with 7000 signatures on a petition to urge the government to fund research on a cure for arthritis. The petition was unsuccessful but didn't stop her from trying to make a difference. In 1948 she established the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, which later became the Arthritis Society (the BC Division of CARS). She wrote a book called "Never Surrender." She earned numerous awards, including an honourary Doctor of Laws from UBC, the Royal Bank Award, the Order of Canada, and the Freedom of the City of Vancouver. The Mary Pack Research Fund was created to support arthritis research being done in BC. In 1990, the Mary Pack - Arthritis Society Chair in Rheumatology was established at UBC. She passed away May 11, 1992 in her 87th year.

Reid, Don

Don Reid was born in the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, 15 January 1922. His parents were Charles (born in Scotland) and Minnie Olive Reid (née Carter). Don attended Fort Langley Elementary School and then Langley High School in Langley Prairie. On leaving school Don worked on a farm, at a machine shop and then commercial fishing in 1937-38. In 1943 he bought his father's machine shop in Fort Langley. Don and his father helped start the fire department in Fort Langley with Don as a volunteer fireman and Charles as Fire Chief.

Sailes, Phyllis

Sister of Laverne Sailes. May Queen in 1937.

school portraits

Teachers

Term Source: Sears List of Subject Headings (16th. Ed.)

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