Month: December 2025

This week's Community Calendar - it's going to be a busy weekend in these parts!

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These Christmas Elves have used the North Pole Time Transport Special to travel from 2002 to remind everyone that the Aldergrove Christmas Parade is tomorrow evening! 🎄🎅🏻🤶🎄

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Okay long-timers it's quiz time. Who knows where this 1984 photo was taken?

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Today it's a little Aldergrove Community Secondary School Totem Basketball with some familiar names and faces.

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CFS Aldergrove won a prize for lighting up during the 1990 Christmas season.

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Starting the week off with a bit of Aldergrove Minor Hockey Association -AMHA history from the 1995-1996 season.

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Who was Walter Levy & why is the annual residential Christmas Light-up Contest named for him?

Walter was bigger than life. He was present in his community & a stalwart mentor when it came to giving back to community. I looked up to him & will always be grateful for the lessons he taught & the time he gave so freely. If something needed doing & Walter could help, he did.

Walter emigrated to Canada from Germany in 1951, working in Edmonton & then Clearwater. He came to Vancouver in 1953 & worked as a bricklayer. Walter met Afke Groenhof at the Alpen Hall in Vancouver & they married in December 1954, having 5 children: Henry, Bob, Walter Jr, Anny & Betty.

In 1961 they moved to a small chicken farm at Otter. Walter continued bricklaying & in 1966 they moved to acreage on 264th south of 24th.

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Fire and Ice at Aldergrove Hall 3 was spectacular.

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Candy Cane Lane was a very popular Christmas attraction in Aldergrove. This year, check out the contests that Christmas in Aldergrove & the Aldergrove Business Association are running - the Walter Levy Residential Light Up Contest and the Holly Jolly Business Light Up.

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Mixing the school timeline up a bit - County Line Elementary School, 1989-1990.

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A select group of Coghlan Elementary class photos, donated by Debra Haas. We are so grateful that friends out there donate photos to our archives, whether it's a digital donation or physical item, we appreciate every contribution because they help tell the many stories of #ourcommunity.

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169 Columbia - Royal Canadian Sea Cadets training at CFS Aldergrove in 1995 was a community affair, with benefits for both cadets and firefighters. The 15th Field Regiment Vancouver Artillery Association also made use of the training grounds that year.

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Here are two Christmas-y photos from our Betty Gilbert School collection. Not many of the photos are dated or annotated, so we're depending on those of you out there who can help add names and possible years. =)

#WelcomeDecember #ourcommunity #storiesmatter #localhistory #SD35 @bgmsraptors

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