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Blanche Wilhelmina Blair was the sister of former Township mayor W. C. Blair. Their parents were Eliza and George Irvine Blair. Blanche married Clement Finlaison, known as "Jack." Blanche was born in Milner on February 23, 1907. Jack and Blanche were married on July 30, 1932. Blanche died in Fort Nelson on August 15, 1968.

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-443/1199); British Columbia Genealogical Society research, 2019.

Elizabeth Blair (nee Culbert) was born in 1877. She married George Irvine Blair. The had children Robert George and Margaret Ellen.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-437/1193); HPC Record (HPC-439/1195)
Superbase Authority Serial Number: 1451

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.

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)

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.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-440/1196)

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

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)