Month: March 2025

The 1973 Aldergrove Secondary School Awards Programme, again from the Aldergrove Agricultural Society collection. Like the previous two programmes, this is a catalogue scan, and the programme is stuck in an evil sticky page photo album.

As we work to get documents and objects online, better and flatter scans will be made and the items will eventually be transcribed and indexed. The speed with which collections are made available is directly related to the number of volunteers doing the work.

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Continuing yesterday's theme, here is the programme from the 1973 Aldergrove Secondary School Awards. Again, these are from catalogue scans, with the original stuck to an evil sticky photo page.

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Here is the programme from the 1971 Aldergrove Secondary School's Awards Presentation. Please forgive the scan quality, this is from an inventory scan and the programme's back cover is stuck in one of those evil sticky photo albums, so we can't remove it without possibly damaging it.

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There is a lot of stuff going on around #ourcommunity this weekend and beyond. Check out all of these events, and be sure to visit the event host's page or website to get more information, to register or buy tickets.

Your #communitymuseum is back to regular hours on Sunday, so stop by for a visit from 12-4pm.

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Bertrand Creek has been a topic of conversation over the past few days, especially in regards to water quality. Today we are recognizing the work that was undertaken by the Bertrand Creek Enhancement Society - BCES in the 1990s to clean and improve the creek's path through the downtown core, including through Aldergrove Kinsmen Heritage Park, where your #communitymuseum is located.

The landscape certainly looked much different 30 years ago. The photos on the second page were taken in 1994 and show the partnership between the Aldergrove Kinsmen, Bertrand Creek Enhancement Society and Alder Grove Heritage Society in cleaning and landscaping along the creek as well as building Aldergrove Kinsmen Heritage Park. You can see in the inset photo from Google Street how much ground has been lost since the museum's official opening.

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As local nurseries are gearing up for the spring planting season, we're looking back 30 years ago to the Aldergrove Community Secondary School Horticultural Programme in 1995, which was supported by the Rotary Club of Aldergrove. Rotary Park was officially opened one year earlier, in May 1994. Partnerships like these are what helps to 'grow' strong communities like Aldergrove.

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Leading Seaman Dmeytro Lesiuk of HMCS Aldergrove was a betting man, and in March 1960 he had a winning ticket.

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Old Style Seafood House - oh, how we miss that shop - went all out for Aldergrove Festival's 1996 Gold Rush Days and won the coveted Business Dress-up Trophy.

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Calling on the Patricia community folks - do any of you see a Mom, Grandmother, Aunt or maybe even a Great Grandmother in this photo? This article from the Aldergrove News offers not only a look at Patricia Women's Institute, it also contains important 'where did they go' information for those tracing family lines.

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