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Object Description

Object ID

4562

Title

West Langley Public School Grade 6-8 Class with teacher Mr. Ewart U. Walker, 1939-40.

Date

[1939 or 1940].

Description

West Langley School Grade 6-7-8 Class with teacher Mr. Ewart U. Walker, 1939-40. Kathleen McVicar (Kay Kells) was in grade eight this year. Front row (l-r): David McLeod, Vince Treliving, Steve Rizun, Harold Hoffman, Harry Harris, Gordon Baker, Stan Davies, Bob Smith, Irving Barnes. Arthur Hawkes, Mary Cochrane, Bunny Martin, Annie Cochrane, Dorothy Allin, Bette Jaffray, Shirley Muench, Shirley Sneddon, Kathleen Plante, Peter Airth. Third row (l-r): Vitold Koziel, Andree Nordman, Valerie Wilson, Vera Schatz, Alice Watson, Kathleen McVicar, Dorothy Devine, Dale Botkin, Ben Granter. Back row (l-r): Don Smith, Milton McEachern, Henry Dyke, Howard McEachern, John Knudson, John Watson, Bill Tickell, Ray Stewart, John Yurik.

People/Subject

Kells, Kathleen Laura (nee McVicar)

Kathleen Laura McVicar was born on December 29, 1925, in Langley, to Archibald and Ivy McVicar, nee Chatt. She married Frederick Ellis Kells (April 9, 1923 - ) in 1946, and they had twin boys in 1950 and a daughter in 1956.

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Stewart, Vera (nee Schatz)

Vera Schatz was born in Delia, Alberta in 1926 to parents Simon and Alice Schatz. She had a brother, Jim Schatz. The family moved to the Willoughby are of Langley in 1931, and moved into a house on Lee Road (on the corner at James Road) built by Simon Schatz in 1932. Vera attended Willoughby Elementary School from 1932-37, Milner Elementary School from 1937-39, West Langley Elementary School from 1939-40, and Langley High School from 1940-1944. She was a member of the Willoughby United Church, Sunday School and Choir, the Murrayville United Church-Mission Band, and the Milner United Church Young People group. She was involved in the Langley 4H Jersey Calf Club, and at LHS was involved in the Hi Y club and in the John Leonard operettas performed. She married Andrew Stewart in 1955, and the couple had three children: a son, Glen, and daughters Laurie and Robyn.

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.

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