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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2005.051.003

Title

Springbrook School class portrait, Harmsworth BC.

Date

Sep. 1930.

Description

1 photograph ; sepia toned : of a class group portrait of young children sitting on the front stairs of the Springbrook School taken in September 1930. All of the children are sitting with their arms around the shoulders of those next to them.
An accommodating piece of paper identifies the students and reads, "Betty Gilders / [Teacher] / Back Row / Kathleen Keiller / Barbara Fee / Matilda Kelly / John Fee / George Keiller / Betty Fee / Middle Row / Dick Hamilton / Bill Keiller / Ben Kelly / Norah Johnston / Helen Sharko / Front Row / Bill Kelly / Jenny Grithenswaite / Ed Kelly / Billy Grithenswaite / Victoria Sharko / Grace Keiller / Springbrook School .. Harmsworth BC .... September 1930." The teacher, Betty Gilders, is only partially visible on the left side of the image.

People/Subject

Fee, Bette

Fee, John Frederic

John Frederic Fee was born in Vancouver to Charles Herbert and Dorothy Evelyn Fee, nee Brownridge. John has a twin sister, Betty, and an older sister, Barbara. John served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II on the HMCS Restigouche as a leading seaman. He passed away in 2004.

Springbrook School (Harmsworth Hall)

Springbrook School is now known as Harmsworth Hall. The school opened in 1923 and was purchased by the Springbrook Social and Improvement Society in 1935. The Hall sat on two acres which were donated by the Titmus family for the Springbrook School.
Marv Woolley recalls his mother and uncle, Bert Williams, both attended the school. Uncle Bert recalled going to that school as far back as 1896. Lawrence Alsager and the Marv Woolley removed the top layer of the fir flooring during the 1978 renovations and discovered the original school floor. They saw the patterns of the wood stove, teacher's desk, student desks, etc.

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