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Object Description

Object Name

Book

Object ID

1980.013.002

Title

Fodder & Pasture Plants.

Date

1913.

Description

A hardcover book titled, "Fodder & Pasture Plants." The cover is green with gold writing. The title on the front reads, "Fodder and Pasture Plants / Department of Agriculture Canada." The inside cover reads, "Dominion of Canada Department of Agriculture / Fodder and Pasture Plants by Geo. H. Clark, B.S.A. and M. Oscar Malte, Ph.D with watercolour illustrations by Norman Criddle / Published by direction of the Honourable Martin Burrell, Minister of Agriculture Ottawa 1913 / Available at the Office of the Superintendent of Stationary Government Printing Bureau, Ottawa / Price, 50 Cents." The book dates to 1913 and it has 143 pages. The back page has a stamp showing it comes from the "Revival School, Glenvalley, BC".

People/Subject

Glen Valley School

The first Glen Valley School was built in 1885 on the Gilbert McKay Farm on Jackman Road (272) and around 88 Avenue. The school was a typical one room building with no central heating, running water, indoor plumbing, or electricity. The school served the community until a new school was built in 1924 on land donated by John Cornock, an early settler to Glen Valley, on 272 Street.

At that time the students could start school in February or September. The first teacher was Elizabeth Anne McKay, niece of Donald McKay, who lived in Glen Valley. Emily MacMillan (nee Parkinson) and her daughters Kate and Pat also taught at the school. Ethel Probert attended the school and remembered there being around 25 students in grades 1-8. The Glen Valley school ran like any other school with books, games, sports teams, Christmas concerts and dances, until it was closed in 1935, and the students were bused to Fort Langley Elementary and Langley High.

McLellan farm

Farm owned by the McLellan family, just east of the Fort Langley bluff in Glen Valley.

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