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6.7.57
1918-1936
A series of photographs of the Delong family of West Sechelt. Samuel "Sam"
Stanley Delong, the elder, was born in 1867 on Prince Edward Island and
died in 1939. He worked as a railroad engineer in Ontario before coming
to Vancouver in 1909, with his wife Johan Sutherland Delong, where he
worked for the C.N.R. and B.C. Electric and was known as a builder and
was very versatile. He pre-empted DL 4307 and his son Samuel "Stan" Stanley
Delong, junior, who married Edith Morgan, pre-empted DL 4310 in West Sechelt
in 1915. Stan was in WW1 but did not get to the front due to a serious
bout of flu. The Delongs moved from Vancouver to farm on Mason Road, in
West Sechelt, where they could grow food and keep cattle to feed their
family of seven. Sam Delong organized the building of West Sechelt School
which his children attended and where he was probably a trustee. The photographs
depict the Delong family farming, logging and with their bicycle, motor
bike, car and Oscar Niemi's Company logging truck.
Photographer
unknown, photographs probably from the Delong family album
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