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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