Author: AGHS

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Not surprisingly, most of the "Looking At Langley" features in the Langley Advance were, well, focused on Langley - but as we saw with yesterday's post, every once in a while we find Aldergrove stories.

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Starting in the mid 1980s, the Langley Advance ran a feature series called "Looking At Langley" which often featured photos from early editions of the newspaper, or even photos in their files that hadn't been published. I was happy to find a re-run of this aerial photo showing Aldergrove High School under construction as the original article from 10 October 1957 was blurry (the fault of whomever was doing the digital scanning at the time not doing a quality check).

I also discovered that a hard copy of the photo of Trevor Beggs had been put in the Fire Hall files a number of years ago with a note saying he was inspecting the building of the new fire hall. This was obviously not correct, and the photo has been moved to the proper file with the right information. =)

#storiesmatter #localhistory Aldergrove Community Secondary School @acsstotems

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With the Township currently undergoing a transit assessment process we thought it would be interesting to take a look back at one of the early transit options available to local residents. While the article doesn't mention the Hamre Bus Service or Blue Funnel, it is still an informative look at Langley's transit options in the early part of the 1900s.

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The Bradner Flower Show is in full bloom this weekend at the Bradner Hall. Today's post includes a report from the ASM News about the first show held in 1928, photos from the 1998 show and this week's 1944 Victory Garden installment.

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Friday photos from the Aldergrove Star Collection

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Today's offering from our Aldergrove Star Collection, complete with the original photo descriptions, which are often (not always) attached to the reverse side of photos but when they are, it makes things much easier for us. =)

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Over the next few days we'll highlight Aldergrove's 1990s kids and their activities. Photos are from the latest round of scans of the Aldergrove Star Collection.

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The statute of limitations has run out - time to fess up. 😉

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Another weekend is behind us, and that means a few hundred more Aldergrove Star photos have been scanned. Here are a few that were in an envelope on which the closest we can come to a time period is "October 31" for a development date...sometime in the 1990s.

Once the second half of our Aldergrove Star newspaper digitization project is online (and we have our physical newspapers back from Barber Learning Centre at UBC), we'll be able to start the long task of comparing the scans with the newspapers to get dates and (hopefully) names.

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We felt it only fitting that on a day when there will be a candlelight ceremony at our Royal Canadian Legion Branch 265 Aldergrove to commemorate our veterans and to mark the 107th anniversary of the battle at Vimy Ridge that we highlight the 1998 painting and dedication of the Memorial Mural which graces the south wall of the Legion building.

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4 October 1998 - the day Sheldon Kennedy skated into town during his cross-country tour to raise funds for a sexual abuse treatment centre in Radium. While his campaign raised almost 3 million dollars, it wasn't enough to get the treatment centre up and running, so he donated the funds to the Canadian Red Cross and became a spokesperson for the organization about sexual abuse awareness.

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Please note that we will be closing the museum at 3:30pm tomorrow (Sunday 7 April 2024) so that our volunteers can attend this ceremony. Regular 12-4pm hours will resume next week.

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The answer to yesterday's question:

BEAVER SCHOOL – from The Place Between Volume 1

The first school in Coghlan district was built in 1892-93 by James Skea, brother of early settler John Skea. John Knox, another early Coghlan Road settler, donated land for the school & assisted James Skea with the structure. It was located on the northwest corner of Coghlan & Roberts Road (SW corner of SW ¼ section 11 Township 11) and named Beaver School.

The original trustees were A.M. Richardson, Joseph Sherlock & John McDonald. The 20 x 34 foot wooden schoolhouse was valued at $700 & was also used for church services. Newly graduated Miss C. Shortreed was the first teacher when the school opened in 1893.

Douglas School was located 2 miles east, and in 1907 it was decided that one of these schools must be closed. With the coming of the electric train, the …

Pop Quiz - Coghlan/County Line - 1916. This building was first one thing, and then it was another.

PS - no asking your Mom, Ron Twemlow, lol. 😛

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Today's post isn't about Aldergrove, but it's still an interesting read. It's a feature on Fort Langley from the Sunday Magazine published by the Vancouver Sun on 30 August 1947.

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County Line School Class Photos 1967-1968 added to the photo album.

County Line Elementary - another old time school (albeit not in the original building) - that is no longer part of School District 35.

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Class photos for 1966 - 1967 have been added to the photo album.

County Line Elementary - another old time school (albeit not in the original building) - that is no longer part of School District 35.

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Another year of class photos has been added to the album.

County Line Elementary - another old time school (albeit not in the original building) - that is no longer part of School District 35.

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Dont' forget that there's a #seedysaturday event at the Community Garden beside Aldergrove Kinsmen Community Centre today, 10:30am - 12:30pm.

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Let's see what was going on in Aldergrove on the last weekend of March sixty-six years ago. Here's the Aldergrove & District News for 27 March 1958.

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If you're looking for something to do on Monday, head over to the Canadian Museum of Flight at Langley Airport to celebrate the Royal Canadian Air Force centenary.

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As we head into the Easter long weekend, here are some photos from our Aldergrove Star Collection. The box was labelled 1998, but some if not all of these photos are from 1993.

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Today we're headed to the beginning days of rail car restoration efforts at Fort Langley's CN Station, which is operated by the Langley Heritage Society. If you're curious to see what these cars look like now, you can visit the station when it reopens for the season on the May long weekend. In the meantime, here's their webpage with more information: https://www.langleyheritage.ca/cn-station/

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Today we're off to 1998 Murrayville courtesy of the Aldergrove Star photo collection.

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