Month: February 2026

January 1978 graduates of a hospitality course teaching employees how to make sure customers have the best experience possible when visiting local businesses.

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So much going on around town in the coming days - be sure to check registration or ticket requirements with the organizers.

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Aldergrove 68 years ago today 😳 Top news included a record-breaking budget for Langley School District #35, the town said good-bye to two early residents and Aldergrove Community Secondary School adopted the totem.

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In February 1995, the Aldergrove Minor Hockey Association Pee Wee A Bruins played host to the French All-Stars from Montpellier.

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Were you in the Aldergrove Community Secondary School choir in 1996?

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Yesterday (23rd February) was the 63rd anniversary of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #265, Aldergrove BC official founding meeting. Here's a 10th anniversary feature from the Aldergrove Star.

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The local election views and shenanigans from The Daily Columbian, 6 June 1890.

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I came across two interesting articles about the Aldergrove Hotel this morning, and for those who have debated as to when the name was changed to the Alder Inn, one of these articles has the answer. Whatever your feelings about the bar side of the hotel, you could almost always get a decent meal in the hotel's cafe/restaurant for a decent price. It's also nice that the 1967 article gives some background about the Frank family.

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Two more Scout photos for #ScoutWeek, one from 1967 and one from 1965. Unfortunately the 1965 photo did not have names to go with the news photo.

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Lots of great events coming up this week in #ourcommunity.

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We're coming up on Scout Week, so here's a look at the 1st Aldergrove Scout Troup, led by scoutmaster Ken Fletcher.

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While searching the Aldergrove News/Herald/Star for more food-related stories, this headline was a bit of an eye-catcher.

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How many of you have old instruction and recipe booklets that came with long-gone appliances in your collections? We're no different, for which we're thankful because these old booklets offer a glance into our social history, specifically entertaining trends, popular foods and which recipes got used the most?

We can tell by looking closely at the pages of this booklet which recipes got used more than once - food residue, sticky pages, they are clues. Putting all of the clues together from the information presented in this booklet and comparing it to other known sources about Hamilton Beach, we can safely put a date range of 1953-1955 on this item.

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A little Navy News from the Base for 8 April 1970.

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Were you in Mrs. Farenholtz's 1967 grade six class? Maybe you're in these photos. =)

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An important discovery pertinent to Aldergrove's history was made at the now Township-owned former Aldergrove Hotel site during the week of January 19th 2026. We are so grateful to Randy, a neighbour of the property, for reaching out to us about the find, which will be included in a soft launch today at the museum, along with other food-related vignettes in keeping with BC Heritage Week's theme of "Stir It Up".

The Aldergrove Star article states that we've cleaned some of the bottles, which isn't quite accurate. Jesse may have cleaned some of them up a bit, but any remaining dirt and debris that was on them when they came to us is still present, serving as a reminder that these bottles remained hidden deep underground for at least 100 years.

While a number of the bottles and other items found were not included in the collection that we have …

The 1996 AMHA Hockey season also saw the Pee Wee A Bruins Win the Fraser Valley Conference and head off to the Provincials being held at Trail.

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This week's community events bulletin.

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Here's a look at the 1996 Aldergrove Minor Hockey Atom C Division winners for the 1995-1996 season. The team was sponsored by Aldergrove Kinsmen.

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After you're done at the BC Farm Museum, take a walk across the street and see what's going on at Salishan Place By The River before ending your Family Day activities at Fort Langley National Historic Site, because they have some pretty fun activities planned as well.

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And after you're done visiting the CN Station on Family Day, head over to the BC Farm Museum where you can learn about local agriculture and its history.

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If you're looking for something fun (and educational) to do this coming Family Day, visit our friends at the history CN Station in Fort Langley. =)

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History Hive: A rare photo of unnamed students at South Otter Elementary from 1969. Do you know their names?

PS. We say rare because we have so few student/class photos for the school. We've had multiple requests especially for class photos; if you can help increase our photo collection for South Otter (even if it's a digital copy) please message us. Thank you =)

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1970s Aldergrove Rams soccer team collecting the hardware.

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CFS Aldergrove hosted an open house during Festival Days 1982. We found one of the original article photos, but the other photo wasn't in the same box.

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