Davie Jones served as a school trustee for 14 years. He was born in 1905 in Wales, accounting for the soft lilt in his voice that he never lost. He moved to Pitt Meadows in 1944, living there with his wife Annie and three children, Robert, Marie and Carol. Davie Jones is also remembered in Pitt Meadows for the store he and his wife opened, naming it Davie Jones Locker. This sounds like a frozen meat store, but in fact it was classified as a confectionery store. As well as snacks and candy, it carried groceries and a line of giftware and ornaments. This store stood on Harris Road, not far south from the General Store that is now the Pitt Meadows Museum and Heritage Site. A contemporary advertisement pictures the low storefront with the home of the Jones family showing behind it. Store hours were a punishing 9 am to 9 pm daily.<\/div>\r\n
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Davie Jones was elected as the Pitt Meadows School Trustee for School District 42 Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows in 1952. He was re-elected each time he ran for the next fourteen years, until he retired from the school board in 1966. During those years he served as Chairman a total of five times. The people of Pitt meadows, led by the Parent Teacher Association, staged a Davie Jones Appreciation Night in February of 1967 at the Pitt Meadows Municipal Hall. At the time he was presented with three plaques, one for each school in Pitt Meadows, to be presented annually to the student showing the best qualities of citizenship. Davie Jones and the Pitt Meadows trustees who followed him worked very hard to further the educational needs of students. By the time Davie Jones Elementary was finally built, Pitt Meadows Elementary School, built to accommodate 350 students was coping with an enrollment of 640 by going on shifts. Alderman Ken Joyner helped circulate a petition urging the speeding up of building the new school. Davie Jones was still on the School Board to be part of the opening of Pitt Meadows Secondary in 1961 with Norman Finnegan as Principal.<\/div>","SEO_LINK":"davie-jones","VIDEO_LINK":"","SOUNDCLOUD_LINK":"","IMG1":"","IMG2":"","IMG3":"","IMG4":"","IMG5":"","IMG6":"","IMG7":"","IMG1_THUMB":"","IMG2_THUMB":"","IMG3_THUMB":"","IMG4_THUMB":"","IMG5_THUMB":"","IMG6_THUMB":"","IMG7_THUMB":""}X
Davie Jones
Davie Jones served as a school trustee for 14 years. He was born in 1905 in Wales, accounting for the soft lilt in his voice that he never lost. He moved to Pitt Meadows in 1944, living there with his wife Annie and three children, Robert, Marie and Carol. Davie Jones is also remembered in Pitt Meadows for the store he and his wife opened, naming it Davie Jones Locker. This sounds like a frozen meat store, but in fact it was classified as a confectionery store. As well as snacks and candy, it carried groceries and a line of giftware and ornaments. This store stood on Harris Road, not far south from the General Store that is now the Pitt Meadows Museum and Heritage Site. A contemporary advertisement pictures the low storefront with the home of the Jones family showing behind it. Store hours were a punishing 9 am to 9 pm daily.
Davie Jones was elected as the Pitt Meadows School Trustee for School District 42 Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows in 1952. He was re-elected each time he ran for the next fourteen years, until he retired from the school board in 1966. During those years he served as Chairman a total of five times. The people of Pitt meadows, led by the Parent Teacher Association, staged a Davie Jones Appreciation Night in February of 1967 at the Pitt Meadows Municipal Hall. At the time he was presented with three plaques, one for each school in Pitt Meadows, to be presented annually to the student showing the best qualities of citizenship. Davie Jones and the Pitt Meadows trustees who followed him worked very hard to further the educational needs of students. By the time Davie Jones Elementary was finally built, Pitt Meadows Elementary School, built to accommodate 350 students was coping with an enrollment of 640 by going on shifts. Alderman Ken Joyner helped circulate a petition urging the speeding up of building the new school. Davie Jones was still on the School Board to be part of the opening of Pitt Meadows Secondary in 1961 with Norman Finnegan as Principal.
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