Author: AGHS

For the long-timers - here's a memory test with a 1989 Flashback - Fraser Highway just west of 264 Street, looking north. =)

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HMCS Aldergrove Navy Log for May 1964 and a look back at construction progress in 1943.

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We would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, especially to our very small band of volunteers who give of their time and talents to keep your #communityarchives moving forward.

Today's post, although it's from December 1943, seems to offer some positive food for thought as we move into the 2024 holiday season.

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We love it when someone has identified the people in photographs. As many of you already know, the first telephone office was located inside Nan Gillette's Confectionary Store. Garland was a telephone agent/operator in Aldergrove for a short time, but then moved to the Abbotsford exchange.

Iola was daughter to Miles & Jessie Walker. Miles was a bookkeeper at the Otter Shingle Mill, where he also ran a small store. Verna Hamre was daughter to Goodman Hamre, jitney operator and service station owner.

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It's Victory Garden Saturday, but unfortunately there wasn't a Victory Garden column for 12 October 1944, so instead we'll jump through time back to 1918 and have a look at the recommended budget for a Canadian family of five.

While ours was a community of productive, working farms, even the farmer's crops were governed by the rationing laws and the War Time Prices & Trade Board of Canada. All citizens were reminded that food was needed for the troops, so everyone was expected to do their part.

The original copy of this booklet is held by Library and Archives Canada.

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#CommunityEvents for this Thanksgiving long weekend.

Note that Saturday is the final day of the season for our friends over at the Fort Langley CN Historic Station, so be sure to stop by and see all of the wonderful things that the @Langley Heritage Society has developed this year.

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This photo was found in one of the hundreds of digital file folders on one of the museum's old computers. Sadly, there is nothing to identify the school, the people or who may have donated it to the archives. Maybe we will get lucky and find more information in one of the 'donations' files, as it doesn't appear to have been used in either of our books. We did, however, notice all of the bare feet and that two of the girls in the front row appear to be sisters, maybe even twins.

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Another digital file found on one of the old computers in the museum is this detailed map of Fort Langley. While we don't know how this copy was acquired, the map is very useful to our researchers because a lot of the time we'll have a name but no location, and this map lets us see if the person perhaps lived in Fort Langley, not Aldergrove. We often reference area maps looking for information on people and places.

Maps such as this are also useful in showing where the businesses were located, because for many years, Aldergrove residents would trek to Fort Langley to get supplies and merchandise.

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We've been scanning our way through the files, with Teresa and Sarah working on the hundreds of family history files that were gathered for our two Aldergrove & Communities history books, The Place Between volumes 1 and 2, while I've been scanning the many binders and "outlying" file folders. Scott's been working on a searchable cemetery burials database and Andrew's been working on researching and documenting our community's veterans. All will eventually culminate in searchable digital files that will be available to researchers and those interested in #localhistory.

Many of the pages that we come across have a photo negative attached. Many are of photos that are available in the two books, but there are also many that were not included in the books. This is one such photo, but the documentation included adds more information to the overall story of our community and also points to other stories that …

Today we're taking a look at the HMCS Aldergrove swimming pool and its addition to the Base's amenities - and traditions, which involved the CO going for a dip.

The lower right photo is from 1984, featuring outgoing LCDR Poole and incoming LCDR Stanley.

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Found on the interweb, original source not confirmed - the Aldergrove Rock Festival programme.

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Carrying on from yesterday's post, here's two more pages from the Coghlan Booklet put together by the late Mary Twemlow.

Haying season was always a busy time with incredible lunch spreads as haying crews moved from farm to farm bringing in the hay crops. It was also a time of sore backs, aching arms, sunburns, persistent sneezing and itchy skin, but it was an experience that highlighted the importance of community and co-operation in those of us who grew up on many of Aldergrove's working farms.

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Welcome to the weekend, here is this week's 1944 Victory Garden article that looks at the value of home gardens, along with another page from the Coghlan Booklet. Tomorrow we'll have a look at some older haying practices, and those of us who grew up on working farms will definitely be able to relate. =)

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Look at all of the great events happening in our community (or near our community) this weekend. Check out full details on FB Events.

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Here are two more pages from "the Coghlan booklet", courtesy of the late Mary Twemlow.

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We've had a few requests for the names of the bands that played at the 1969 Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival. Here are a few articles and reviews that name a good many of the musical acts.

There was a programme produced for the festival (included with the price of admission) and if anyone out there still has one, we would love to be able to scan and return it to you (unless you want to donate it to our archives). =)

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Another Aldergrove history nugget - this postcard was sent from Aunt Carrie (Anna Caroline Jackman nee Wadel), who was the wife of Philip Jackman Jr, to one of her nieces, Emilia Lehmann. While we haven't yet placed Emilia in the Settler Family Tree yet, we have some great clues as to which branch she belongs.

The note in blue ink was added at some later date, we don't know when or by whom. We also now know who took the photo of Philip Jackman Sr's first house in Aldergrove. For years we thought it was FJ Hart when in fact it was well-known photographer W T Cooksley.

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Aldergrove's RCSCC Columbia was keeping busy during the summer of 1963, let's have a look at what they were accomplishing in this week's Aldergrove News columns.

This week's featured photos are large logs used for very tall radio reception masts.

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Two different photos put together - looking north from the Lynden side of the Aldergrove-Lynden Land Port, possibly the spring or summer of 1963.

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Gardening season is starting to wind down, except for harvesting the late Autumn crops. What have you harvested this year? Show us your garden photos in the comments. =)

With today's 1944 Victory Garden article we're sharing a WW2 dietary poster. Factories needed their workers able to function at top capacity every day, so the Health League of Canada produced this healthy eating poster.

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What's happening around our community this weekend. More information about these events can be found on their FB Events pages.

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We've posted about the William Parish family in previous years, but this photo wasn't included in The Place Between but was in our collection of photo negatives. It looks like Ralph brought home dinner. Just for fun, I colourized the photo using the AI photo enhancement feature on MyHeritage.

Also included in today's post is a recipe for Hare Soup that I came across. I can't find the original book where I first saw it, there was a recipe for Lark Pie on the same page. That said, Mrs. Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management has the same recipe and is available on Archive[dot]org for those who are interested.

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A very rare item has been gifted to our museum and archives by J. Hockin - a poster advertising the May 1969 Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival.

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Another treasure - scanned from a negative, this photo is actually quite blurry so wasn't used in The Place Between, but we still think it's awesome. One day we'll get these people properly identified, it just takes a lot of photo sleuthing, which takes a lot of time.

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