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Object Description

Object Name

Picture postcard

Object ID

0732

Title

A class at the Milner School.

Date

1909.

Description

Landscape oriented black and white postcard depicting a class at the first Milner School. The photo has a white scalloped frame around the edge. There are 25 people (24 children and the teacher) standing in front of the white painted wooden school house with a wooden fence in the left background and a second small building in the right background.
People identified in the photo are as follows; Roberta Hutchinson is in the back row, fourth from left. Albert Percival (Percy) Mufford is in the front row, 11th from left. Leonard Hicks (Len) Mufford is in the back row, 11th from left. Kathleen Norris is in the front row, fourth from left. Lloyd Smith is in the front row, third from right. The teacher may be Miss Estey (Mrs. Medd).
A copy of this photo noted "1922", but another copy came in and said "1909 or shortly after that", which is likely correct.

Photo Inscription/Caption

Inscription in ink.

People/Subject

Children

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

Hutchinson, Roberta

Milner Elementary School

The original Milner School was built in the early 1900's as a one room structure located on Johnston Townline Road (216th Street) just south of Medd Road (64th Avenue). The Milner Elementary School as it stands in 2003 at 6656 Glover Road was constructed in 1914 by Mr. Owen Hughes. Changes through the years have included the addition of a principal's office, a gymnasium, a medical room, and a portable classroom.
The school closed in the 1980s due to declining pupils and was later turned into the Milner Education Centre.

Mufford, Albert Percival (Percy)

Albert Percival (Percy) Mufford was born November 4, 1901 to parents Elizabeth Ruth and Jonathan Hicks Mufford. He married Hilda Phillips in Milner on June 25, 1925. They had two children, Norma Ellen (Langley's 1944 Harvest Queen) and Barry. Percy died October 3, 1973.

Mufford, Leonard Hicks (Len)

Leonard Hicks Mufford was born March 1, 1896, to parents Jonathan (John) Hicks and Elizabeth Ruth Mufford (nee Harding). He spent all his life in Milner, and was a veteran of WWI. He was a member of the Milner Orange Lodge and the Milner Community Assoc., and was involved with the Thorndale Hatchery. He married Mary Fairweather (nee Hill) in Milner on December 23, 1925. They had two daughters, Mrs. D. Kier and Thelma. Len died on March 11, 1953, at the age of 57.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-352/1122)

Mufford, William Delbert Vernon (Vern)

William Delbert Vernon Mufford was born March 13, 1900, to parents William J. and Annie (nee Mufford) Mufford. He operated a dairy farm on the family's Milner property, the farm where he was born and raised. he appears to have never married. Vern died March 1, 1960, and is buried at the Fort Langley Cemetery.

Norris, Kathleen

school portraits

Smith, Lloyd

Lloyd William Swain Smith died Nov. 6, 1969.

Teachers

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

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