Month: July 2025

We found a few Navy and retired Navy men amongst the Aldergrove Elks membership applications - there are probably more. These applications are such a wealth of information. We will be creating a names database that will be searchable for those conducting research; hopefully it will be done by year's end.

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Scanning of the Aldergrove Elks membership applications was completed yesterday (unless there are more to be found in another unopened box), and among them we found two belonging to long-time north County Line residents William McRae and William Twemlow. Document such as these help to add details and confirm facts in our heritage timeline.

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Road Trip! This is the 1939 Shell Oil Road Map. It's very interesting to see how many interior roads we take for granted these days didn't exist in 1939. There are also many towns that no longer exist as well as those that didn't yet exist. Kids today will never know the joy of trying to refold that map so that it fits neatly in the glove box.

To get the best view, it's recommended that you open the map image in a new tab, click the + to enlarge it and then download it to your device.

#highwayhistory #storiesmatter #localhistory #ourcommunity #mapsarefun

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Baking cakes when ingredients were rationed during WW2. Here are some recipes that you can try, and if you do, let us know the result. =)

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Today we'll check in on the town gossip from September 1959.

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With the recent news about School District expenditures and expansions, we thought we'd look back at the 1920 estimates for school buildings. According to an inflation calculator, $63.500.00 in 1920 is equivalent to about $904,560.53 today.

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November 1915 - a Mr. JH Simpson opened a new general store at Aldergrove. Too bad the article didn't give the store's location. 😉

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Happy Canada Day! Come out and visit with us at the @Royal Canadian Legion Branch #265, Aldergrove. We'll be there from 11am - 2pm along with lots of other great community groups and entertainment.

#CanadaDay2025 #makesomememories #ourcommunity

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