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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

1197

Title

The Blair family at their home on 216th Street.

Date

[189-?].

Description

The Blair family at their home on 216th Street. This house was built by Thomas Culbert. The right section was built first, it had two sets of stairs-one for each wing. Chinese laborers lived in the attic of the left wing. Left to right in photo (standing): George I. Blair, Elizabeth Blair (nee Culbert), Margaret (Nellie) Blair, Robert Blair, Jessie Blair (later Jessie Lee), Jessie Hunter (nee Culbert). The infant in front is Alice Blair (later Alice Greenwood).

People/Subject

Blair, Elizabeth (nee Culbert)

Elizabeth Blair (nee Culbert) was born in 1877. She married George Irvine Blair on March 24, 1897. The had children Robert George and Margaret Ellen.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-437/1193); HPC Record (HPC-439/1195)

Blair, George Irvine

George came to BC from the north of Ireland in 1886. He homesteaded a farm in Langley in the Coghlan area of Langley, but spent many years working in the Cariboo, running Hat Creek House and Hat Creek Ranch with his wife, Elizabeth Culbert, who he married in 1897. In 1902 George and Elizabeth returned to Langley and George purchased a farm on what is now 216th Street from his father-in-law, Thomas Culbert, and they developed a dairy farm. Culbert had purchased the farm in 1880 and the Blair family continued to own the farm until 2006. George was the father of William "Bill" Crozier Blair, later a mayor of the Township of Langley. George died in Milner on February 26, 1933 at the age of 69.

Blair, Margaret

Margaret Ellen Blair's nickname was "Nellie." She was the daugher of George Irvine Blair and Elizabeth Blair (nee Culbert).
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-440/1196)

Blair, Robert George (Bob)

Son of George Irvine Blair and Elizabeth Blair (nee Culbert). Robert George Blair was born on 25 April, 1898. He died on 9 November, 1977. Robert was interviewed by the museum in 1976. His interview can be found at SR-011 and SR-012 and SR-021

Greenwood, Alice (nee Blair)

Alice Greenwood (nee Blair) was the daughter of Elizabeth (nee Culbert) and George Irvine Blair.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-440/1196)

Hunter, Jessie (nee Culbert)

Jessie Hunter, nee Culbert.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-438/1118, HPC-441/1197)

Lee, Jessie (nee Blair)

Jessie Lee (nee Blair) was the daughter of Elizabeth Blair (nee Culbert) and George Irvine Blair. Married to Ormsby Lee.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-440/1196)

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