Month: September 2026

In the spirit of Cruise-In, here's a photo from the Aldergrove Star Collection taken during Aldergrove's first Christmas Parade.

Just a reminder that the museum will be open all day today, stop by and have a look at our 1954 Aldergrove Volunteer Fire Department Thibault Pumper, she'll be showing off her new shoes.

Enjoy yourselves today, #makesomememories #takelotsofphotos #becourteous

#storiesmatter #localhistory #ourcommunity

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It's Cruise-In weekend so there's lots going on this weekend. Skip breakfast at home and get your morning fuel at the Legion or the Veterans & Seniors Centre - or both. The museum will be open and we'll have our 1954 Aldergrove Fire Department pumper truck on display. There are also lots of upcoming events that you can get tickets for, be sure to check out registration information on the posters.

#makesomememories #takelotsofphotos #supportlocal #ourcommunity #storiesmatter

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One of the things that drives us batty is people saying that the mall was dead and empty by the 1990s. That simply is not true, as evidenced by this new bistro celebrating its grand opening.

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Here is the follow up article to Monday's figure skating post.

#storiesmatter #localhistory #ourcommunity #youthsports

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1994 - Australian hockey invades Aldergrove. Looks like some great memories were made.

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Legion executive from 32 years ago - sometimes matching the original photo to the news story is incredibly easy, especially when I know who is in the photo. 😉

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From our unidentified Aldergrove Star photo scans: do you recognize any of these young ladies? Know the event? Year? Please let us know. =)

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These documents, which are related to the Ladies' Orange Benevolent Association were found in a file of photos and documents brought to the museum in the early 1990s by Bertha Farquhar. They are just a small example of the many family history documents hiding in our family history and community history files. Eventually we will get them all properly catalogued and indexed so that they will be easier to find.

The Ladies' Orange Benevolent Association was the women's auxiliary to the Loyal Orange Lodge. The LOBA was founded in 1894 and supported many charities as well as a local orphanage.

#storiesmatter #localhistory #ourcommunity #volunteeropportunities

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Aldergrove's downtown shingle mill. The top photo is an awesome find in our boxes o' stuff because it shows another perspective of the mill with the water tower in the background. Photo 1 shows the east side of the building, while the bottom photo is the west side with the shingle pond on the lower left, and one that we have seen many times.

#storiesmatter #photoshelptellthestories #ourcommunity #localhistory

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The last long weekend of the summer is already upon us, but never fear, there are some great events to keep you busy while supporting local groups. Next weekend is Cruise In, with the Legion and the Veterans & Seniors Centre both serving breakfast. With careful timing, you can get first breakfast AND second breakfast!

#makesomememories #takelotsofphotos #supportlocal #storiesmatter

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While preparing for last weekend's Community Heritage Day, we found this photo reprint in a 'new to us' file - meaning it was in a box we hadn't yet gone through. A notation on the back of the photo reads "1932 - Art Ross". Another treasure for our Ross Bros Motors file.

#storiesmatter #photoclues #localhistory #ourcommunity #volunteeropportunities

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Yes, we usually do our military posts on Tuesday, but today is #MerchantNavyDay, so we decided to have a look way back in Canada's naval history and found this article in the Vancouver Daily News Advertiser for 13 December 1893 as well as a feature article from 1941 in the Vancouver Daily Province. Did anyone in your family serve in the Canadian Merchant Navy?

#storiesmatter #wewillrememberthem

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Over the years we have collected many family stories. Most were sent in for The Place Between Volumes 1 & 2, others were donated so that a record of the family was in our archives.

Many are basic stories with just a few facts (that may or may not be correct). Here is the story that was submitted for Book 1 by George Thrower of Jubilee community. We like to work on stores, adding more documented facts & possibly more pictures because as you can see, there are many holes in the Thrower story, which appears on pages 343-344 of Volume 1.

An important point to remember though is that this story was written back in the late 1990s or early 2000s, when it was much harder to conduct any type of research with so little information available online. Thus, many of the family stories were written from memory & …

Good morning, Happy September! It is only 60 days until Hallowe'en! We will be hosting a fun afternoon for kids at the museum on Saturday 31 October with activities and treats. More details will be announced soon, in the meantime, here's a costumed group of youngsters having a party at the Base in 1968.

#spookyseason #storiesmatter #localhistory #ourcommunity

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