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Object ID
4564
Title
West Langley School Grade 6-8 Class with teacher Miss Nancy B. MacLeod, 1937-38.
Date
[1937 or 1938].
Description
West Langley School Grade 6-8 Class with teacher Miss Nancy B. MacLeod, 1937-38. Kathleen McVicar (Kay Kells) was in grade six this year. Front row (l-r): John Watson, Bill Tickell, Ray Stewart, John Knudson, John Yurik, ?, Vince Treliving. Second row (l-r): Stan Davies, Harry Harris, Jean Sneddon, Andree Nordman, Joan Bethell, Isobel Dinsdale, Doreen Hooker, Dorothy Woof, Kathleen McVicar (Kells), Joyce Milner. Third row (l-r): Johnston Dickson, Lorraine Doucette, June Oklund, Irene Bethell, Katie Rizun, Nelson Wood, Milton McEachern, Bernard Muench, Harvey Smith.
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Kells, Kathleen Laura (nee McVicar)
Kathleen Laura McVicar was born on December 29, 1925, in Burnaby, to Archibald and Ivy McVicar, nee Chatt (1903-2002). She married Frederick Ellis Kells (April 9, 1923 - ) in 1946, and they had twin boys in 1950 and a daughter in 1956. She worked for the Income Tax office between 1944 and 1946. She was interested in local history and wrote about the Port Kells area. She volunteered at the Langley Centennial Museum. Kathleen passed away in 2012 at the age of 86.
Muench, Bernard
Bernard Muench (1925-1995) was the son of Bernard Henry (Dutch) Muench (1902-1966) and Florence Armishaw (1902-1950), and a great-grandson of Edward Muench, who homesteaded in West Langley in the mid-1860s. Bernard was married to Mina McIntosh. They had three children: two boys and one girl. Bernard died in 1995.
Term Source: Fred Braches, Whonnock Notes No. 10
school portraits
West Langley Elementary School
West Langley School started out as a one-room school at 208 Street and 96 Avenue. More classrooms and other rooms were added to the school at various times including 1924, 1948, 1957 and throughout the 1950s and 60s. A fire destroyed the building in 1978. A new building was erected in 1981 at 9403 - 212 Street.
Worden, Joan (nee Bethell)
Daughter of Frank and Ada Bethell.
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